Page 15 of Pike

“That poor girl? She stole from about twenty of us, Van. Poor girl, my ass.”

“She’s just a nurse,” he adds.

“No shit. A nurse who probably just walked off with at least ten thousand dollars.”

“You carry that much on you?”

“A couple thousand, yeah. You never know when you might need to pay someone off,” I remind him. He nods his head before glancing around at the others.

“You guys, too?”

“Yeah.”

“Well, she just made a haul,” he tells us.

“I’m gonna get it all back, too. Might even take a little interest out of her ass.”

“Or you might take her ass. I know how you were lookin’ at that girl in the hospital,” Mask reminds me. They don’t know about our time in my room. I left that part out on purpose.

“Lookin’ at her like what?”

“Like you wanted to sink your cock in her.”

“Why were you lookin’ at me that closely?” I ask him, raising an eyebrow.

“You’re a sick fuck, Pike. No one was lookin’ at you like that. We all have eyes, though.”

“And that means what?”

“I don’t think you’re gonna get shit back,” he states with a smirk.

“Like hell, I’m not. I bet you that I come back with all of our shit,” I tell him. I have no doubt she took it all. The question is how she did it. That’s one thing I don’t know, but just like everything else, I will find out.

“I bet you come back after fuckin’ her.”

“What’s the difference in how I get our shit back?” The guys burst into laughter and yell as they point their fingers at me.

“I knew it. I knew you wanted to fuck her.”

“Never claimed I didn’t, but that doesn’t mean I’m gonna do it,” I remind them. The guys keep laughing as I shake my head. They don’t know what I would do.

“You know you’re gonna do it. You want me to send someone else?” Mask asks me. My hands ball at my sides at the thought of anyone else getting near her. That’s not an option.

“Fuck no. I said I got this.” He nods his head and slaps a hand on my shoulder.

“If she outsmarts you this time, I’m sendin’ someone else in there.”

“Come on, Mask. Have a little faith in me.”

“I have faith in you, Pike. I have faith you’re gonna fuck that girl senseless.”

“And that’s a problem?”

“Not if you get our shit back,” he tells me. I nod my head. I’ll get our shit back one way or another.

“I said I got this,” I remind them once more. I can handle Feather. There is no doubt about that.

“What if she lives with her man?”

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