Page 76 of My Brother's Best Friend

“Piece of business?” Imani offered.

I watched Carter exit the café with two coffees and grabbed my keys. “Come on, girls. We have business to take care of.”

CHAPTER47

MADDIE

“Maddie and the girls want to start a gang,” Vera whispered into the phone.

I arched a brow at her, wondering why the hell she was whispering when we all could hear herandwhen she had put Blaise on speaker so—in Vera’s words—he could convince us that it was a bad idea.

“A gang?” he repeated. “What kind of gang?”

“Like one where we beat people up.”

“We’re planning to kick Carter’s ass!” I added while following behind Carter’s car.

“Damn, sounds like fun.” Blaise chuckled. “Does Poison know that you’re competing with them for business? Because if you’re not careful, Sunshine, they’ll wipe you off the board. Anyway, let me know how it goes. I’m proud of you.”

“Blaise?!” she exclaimed. “Did you not hear Maddie?! We’re going to beat up Carter.”

“Heard her loud and clear. Make sure you punch him real hard, like I showed you.”

Vera’s cheeks flushed, and she mumbled a good-bye to Blaise and shut off the phone. She slipped her phone into her purse and pursed her lips. “I still don’t think this is a good idea. What if we get into trouble?”

“Don’t worry about that,” I said. “My parents have money.”

“Mine too,” Allie, Imani, and Nicole said in unison from the backseat.

“Where do you think he’s going?” Nicole said, glancing out the windshield from the backseat of my car.

Vera sat up front with me, but the other girls were cramped in the back, wondering where the hell we were going.

Carter lived on the good side of town, but not in Alec’s neighborhood.

My stomach twisted as I watched Carter park three houses down from the Wolfes’. He flipped up his hoodie and walked with the coffees on the side of the road to Alec’s house. If this asshole was planning to visit Mr. Wolfeagain,I swore to fucking God …

That was definitely something that I didn’t want Alec to walk in on again. Carter and Mr. Wolfe had some nerve, meeting up after what had happened last night, and this close to hockey practice ending too?!

“Let’s go!” I said, grabbing something from my glove box. “And be quiet.”

“Grab the duct tape!” Nicole whisper-yelled to Imani.

All the girls crawled out of the car and shut the doors quietly behind themselves. We hid behind some bushes on the neighbor’s property as Carter walked closer to the Wolfe residence, completely oblivious to us.

“Maddie,” Nicole whispered, “what is that in your hand?”

“You’ll see.”

“Shh!” Allie whispered. “He’s coming.”

I glanced around the corner to see him feet from us now. And just before he could walk onto the Wolfes’ property, I leaped out of the darkness.

“Now!” I said, watching as the girls mobbed him, our hands pushing and shoving and gripping on to him.

Hot coffee spilled all over Carter, hopefully burning off his dick.

Once we tackled him to the ground, we taped his mouth with the duct tape that Imani had had in her car, probably from a job that she had done with Poison at some point. I wasn’t going to question it.

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