And that’s what I did for the rest of the weekend.
Chapter 14
Devi~
My entire body was sore, but I wasn’t about to complain. The past two nights have been spent with Cassius in my bed, and the man was insatiable. He was also attentive and hell on details, and there wasn’t a single inch of my skin that the man wasn’t familiar with now.
I still haven’t been able to wrap my mind around his claim that we’re a couple, but I wasn’t going to fight it. I wasn’t so self-righteous that his extracurricular activities bothered me, because, let’s face it, if it hadn’t been for those extracurricular activities, I wouldn’t have been able to help my brother. I wasn’t about to be a hypocrite about it.
Though, I will admit, when Cassius had placed his gun on the coffee table that first time, it had been a sharp, quick reminder of who I was getting in bed with. But it hadn’t been enough to make me stop where we were going.
“Are you ready to go?”
I shut my employee locker and looked over at Kim. “I am,” I told her. “Thanks again for-”
“Stop it,” she chided. “You’re on the way, and even if you weren’t, you’re my friend.”
I let out sigh. “I know, Kim…I just…I refuse to ever stop being grateful for you.”
“Awwweee,” she cooed before throwing her arms around me. “I love you, chick.”
I hugged her back. “I love you, too.”
Making our way out the back, we exited the restaurant, and headed for Kim’s car. “So, not that I mind driving you, but I would have thought your man would be here to pick you up.”
I could feel my face warming. “Well, since he was…busy all weekend, he had a lot to catch up on.” Kim gave out a whoop and a holler, and I laughed. “Plus, they’re still taking statements from employees about your claim. That’s why I came in a half hour early today, so I could give them my statement.”
“Well, I heard Hugh was put on leave, pending the investigation.” She looked relieved. “I can’t say I’m upset about it either.”
“I hear you,” I replied. “Though he never hit on me, someone like that doesn’t need to be in a position of power.”
Kim let out choked laugh. “Oh, my God, could you imagine if he had hit on you? Your new boyfriend would have probably flayed him alive.”
I thought about that, but Cassius didn’t strike me as hotheaded. He struck me as the calculating type. I mean, if was going to flay anyone alive, it would have been Alvin Fischer, right?
“I doubt he’d be back,” I said, half-agreeing.
“No shit,” she remarked as we came upon her car.
I looked down as I reached for the door handle, and that’s when the unthinkable happened.
The problem with complacency was that it wasn’t always a matter of complacency. It was five in the evening. Though beginning to set, the sun was still out. We were not far from the restaurant. We had walked together. We were doing something we’ve done a million times before.
This wasn’t a ten at night, shadows lurking everywhere, creepers lingering in the alley type of situation. Of course, if it were dark outside, we’d have been more vigilant. Of course, we would have stayed underneath the streetlights. Of course, we would have been better prepared.
But it was goddamn five in the evening.
My head immediately snapped up when I heard Kim’s shocked cries, and I was just in time to see her body slump against the driver’s side door before sliding into a heap on the ground.
Racing around the car to get to her, I was brought up short as arms of steel wrapped around me, slamming me back in a hold I knew wasn’t good.
“Shhhhh,” said a voice I prayed I’d never have to hear again. “If you want her to live, I suggest you come with me quietly and willingly.”
“Live? Wh-”
Just then, I saw some guy I’d never seen before, stand over where Kim’s body had fallen, a gun pointed towards the ground. His dark eyes weren’t even looking down at her. They weren’t looking at me, either. They were looking at the man standing behind me. They were waiting for his signal. Whoever this guy was, I was positive he would shoot Kim if given the order.
In this moment, I became that stupid, stupid, stupid person in the movies who didn’t scream out. That stupid character who didn’t fight. The idiot who agreed to go with the villain.
