Semua Bab Minus: Bab 21 - Bab 30

MinusThe office’s decor, like the rest of the pool hall was over the top and ultra-modern. The walls were adorned with framed movie posters of Scarface and the Fast and the Furious, along with murals of Che Guevara, and Pancho Villa.Only one person now occupied the office. A man in a purple suit, standing in front of an oversized mahogany desk. He was wiping blood off a large bowie knife. On the desk sat a brass name plate that read Viper – Chief Executive Officer.“Gentlemen, please come in,” he said, before setting the knife down and coming over to shake our hands. “I’m sorry about all the mess and the noise. We had a bit of a housekeeping problem, but it’s all cleared up now.”Viper was young, handsome, and looked nothing like any MC president I’d ever seen. Hell, he didn’t look like any kind of biker I’d ever seen. He looked more like a telenovela star, playing the role of a drug lord. His jet-black hair was slicked back, and he spoke with a thick Mexican accent.“My name is Vip

CricketI had a proposal due to Jeremy Marville, the owner of the company, no later than two this afternoon and I’d been staring at a blank computer screen for the past twenty minutes.When Maisie had sold her multi-million-dollar sex toy company, she’d made some provisions for me. Firstly, she’d promoted me from her assistant to Marketing Director, then elicited a promise from Jeremy that I’d have one year to prove myself. If I couldn’t make myself indispensable to him, I was on my own.But here I was, a few years in, and all was well; unchallenging, boring, and predictable, but well. I mean, who wouldn’t want the chance to test out every new sex toy coming on the market and figure out which demographic to sell it to? And considering I hadn’t dated anyone seriously in almost the same amount of time I’d been working for the company, I needed anything new that could ease my pain, so to speak.“Christina?” my assistant knocked and peeked her head into my office for the third time in an

MinusI felt like an idiot. Tomorrow I was going to have a sit down with one of the area’s most violent gangsters, and I was more nervous about dinner with a woman tonight. Then again, I wasn’t about to try and fool myself into thinking this was just some dinner with any ordinary woman. This was Cricket, and we had some serious shit to talk about. I knew everything I needed to tell her, but had no idea what I was gonna say, which was probably bad news for me, considering how bad I’d screwed things up last time we’d spoken.I was so hellbent on making a good impression tonight, I’d even worn a jacket and tie. Of course, I hadn’t packed any nice clothes, not that I had many in my wardrobe anyway, so I had to hit a store, with minutes left to change before we were set to meet. I felt like I was back in my Catholic school uniform. Fortunately, I didn’t have to stand there squirming in my new duds for long, as Cricket’s Uber car pulled up minutes after I’d walked down to the hotel’s front

Minus“No choice? A chance to move up in the ranks comes along and you take it, but you’re telling me you had no choice?” she hissed.I frowned. “What the hell are you talking about?”“I know all about why you moved to Savannah. Cutter offered you a deal and you, took it, regardless of what it cost me.”“Cricket, I’m not sure what you think you know, but you’re wrong. I was forced out by Cutter, mostly because of your brother.”“I know you were forbidden to see me, but if you’d really loved me you would have told me you were leaving. You would have called me once you were there. You would have asked me to come with you,” she said, tears once again forming.“Baby, I don’t think you understand how being exiled works. If I had disobeyed Cutter, he would have taken my patch. I was given direct orders to stay away from you and leave my life here behind.”“So, you just went along your merry way? How could it have been so easy for you to walk away from me?”“Easy? You think any of this has b

Minus“This was a mistake. I shouldn’t have come up here with you, please let go of me,” Cricket protested as she wriggled.It took every ounce of strength I had to let her out of my arms, but the last thing I wanted was for her to feel unsafe in them. I grabbed a blanket off the floor, wrapped her up, and sat down with her on the edge of the mattress.“I can’t believe I let myself do this,” Cricket said. “I’m so stupid.”“What exactly was so bad about what we were just doing, baby? Personally, I was having a great time, and from where I was, you seemed to be enjoying yourself just fine.”“That!” she snapped. “All that baby, baby, baby crap, and romantic… shitty… shit talk.”“Shitty shit talk?” I laughed.“I’m serious Jase,” she protested. “Stop joking about this.”“I’m sorry, Cricket, but you’re fuckin adorable when you get all worked up like this. I can’t help it if your pouting turns me on.”“Pouting?” Her tone sharpened.“That’s not what I meant. I’m sorry, it was a poor choice of