Page 57 of Bombshell

“Blaise know the sick fucker in charge has underage girls here he’s pimping out?” Gage asked.

“Yes, I gave him all the info I could pull off their private servers,” Levi replied.

“Then, if I slice his neck open, he’ll understand,” Gage said.

The massive man built like a damn brick wall, Huck Kingston, turned his head to look back at Gage. “You’re not slicing anyone today. We came to get the fucking money. If Boss wants us to stop the underage shit, then we set that up and come handle it.”

“If my blade slips,” Gage drawled.

Huck shot him a warning look before turning back to the door.

“Nine, five, three, F-R-S, seven, pound,” Levi told Huck.

He pressed the code into the keypad at the door. I didn’t question how the fuck they knew it. They seemed to know everything.

The door clicked, and Huck pushed it open.

We all filed in with Levi being the last one inside. We had come in through some back entrance, seeing as there would have been no way they’d let us in the main door without bloodshed. The room we were in looked like a cellar.

“Through there,” Levi instructed. “Huck, you go first. I don’t trust Gage not to kill some fucker.”

Huck moved in front of Gage, who smirked as if he found it amusing. I wasn’t sure anyone could keep that psycho from killing if he wanted to, but I didn’t know them all that well. Maybe they knew how to handle him.

The beat of the music was faint, but the farther we walked down the dark hallway, the closer it seemed. I knew that the plan was that we were all going to go in as undetected as possible, find Canyon and surround him.

Motherfucking pink roses had been outside Tink’s door this morning. I’d found them and dropped them off outside Mrs. Mildred’s door on my way to get Tink’s caramel doughnuts before taking her to work.

Admitting that I was more pissed about him still going after Dolly, like he had a chance, than the fucker owing the club a hundred grand was something I tried not to focus on. The past three days and nights with Dolly had been perfect. I couldn’t remember a time I had ever been this fucking happy.

Pepper wasn’t speaking to me after I had the lock changed on Tink’s apartment and refused to let her inside. But she’d get over it. We’d get it worked out soon. I had just wanted some time with Tink before I dealt with my sister. Explaining to her this was different for me was going to be difficult, considering I didn’t have a real understanding of it yet either.

I just knew I missed Tink when she wasn’t with me. I thought about her all damn day, and I wasn’t even freaking out about it.

“Up those stairs, to the left,” Levi instructed behind me.

“How do you know your way around this place?” I asked, amazed.

“He’s lethal when it comes to finding out shit. Give him an hour, and he will have every secret you’ve ever had printed out and in a file,” Gage said, then chuckled.

The music was louder now, pumping heavy behind the door. Huck opened it and moved slowly into the main area of the club while we filed in behind him. He glanced back at Gage and nodded once. Gage grinned and walked toward the bar as if he owned the place. No fear. His hand wasn’t even on the gun tucked away at his side.

“There,” Levi said, pointing to the booths to the right of the bar. “He’s alone.”

Huck walked off in the opposite direction, and Levi looked at me.

“Let’s go get the money,” he said, then started toward Canyon.

I’d never been in this place, but from the money I knew these fuckers made with their illegal shit, they could afford to keep the place clean. It looked like it hadn’t been updated in twenty years. I fell into step beside Levi, who was acting as if we’d come to get a beer and watch the stripper onstage.

The closer we got to Canyon, who was leaning back in his booth, staring down at his phone, the more agitated I got. He’d kissed and touched Tink. She’d liked him. Had she thought she was in love with him? The thought made my stomach turn. I hated the sight of the fucker, but the idea of him having any hold on Tink caused rage to build with each step closer to him I took.

We were almost to him when his head snapped up, and his eyes locked on us. He reached for his gun, and I watched his entire body tense up.

Levi shook his head at him. “I wouldn’t do that,” he warned.

Canyon’s eyes shot from me and back to Levi, and then they scanned the room. I could tell the moment he spotted Gage. There was a slight pale color that came over his complexion. I enjoyed it immensely.

Levi slid in the booth across from him, and I sat down beside him.

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