Page 54 of Forever Filthy

“What do you mean?” Vivi pushes.

Ez looks at me and I give him a subtle nod. “When we left you, we have been spending every minute trying to figure out what the fuck is going on and how the fuck they bugged your house.”

“I was hoping you would understand what I was trying to do. When you spoke the rules of the Filthy Few, I knew then that you understood and would fill the others in,” she admits.

Ez smiles comfortingly. “The fact you had cameras in the house means whoever the fuck is behind this knows who we areand that we are the Filthy Few.” The undercurrent of worry in his tone is valid, rumors had spread amongst The Brotherhood that there were some psychos going around wearing masks and targeting some of the brothers. Those whispers quickly disappeared when we stopped hunting them and focused our attention on Nova. If whoever is behind these attacks is a brother, then they would be able to connect the dots and know the rumors weren’t bullshit.

We could be blackmailed.

“I promise you, nothing will happen to the four of you, I made sure of that.” Her tone is filled with confidence and I start feeling like she has done something to make what she says true.

“What did you do, Vivi?” Archer asks as he leans forward and stares directly at her.

“What I had to. Now, can you explain why you wanted to be here instead of staying away and don’t say it was because you’re worried about your identity,” she throws back at him.

“The truth is, I couldn’t give a fuck about anyone knowing who I am beneath the mask. I couldn’t stay away from her any longer and it wasn’t like those three fought me on the idea of coming back,” Vox says as he runs his fingers through Nova’s hair. Vivian melts into me further and I suddenly forget about the shit we are up against. This girl is a distraction and I can’t find it within myself to be mad about it, because she is the best fucking distraction.

“What about your schooling and football practice?” Vi asks.

“Turns out the bitch ass friend you made at CHU has some pull,” Ezekiel grits out. When I called Coach to tell him we had some personal shit to take care of and that we lost a close family friend he was all for us taking as much time as we needed. I thought it was fucking weird but then he told me that Dawson vouched for us and said we didn’t need the extra training like some of the others.

“Dawson is sweet.” Vi defends the fucker and all she gets in response is growls and scoffs from the three of us.

“Why was The Butcher here, Vivian?” Vox asks.

“Honestly? I don’t know, after I met with him at the prison?—”

“You did fucking what?” Archer shouts.

“You best be fucking joking!” Ez snaps.

“Are you out of your fucking mind?” Vox snarls.

“Baby, are you on drugs?” I ask.

Vivian leans forward and shoots us all a scathing look that has me worrying she may take her anger out on my dick. No, that’s a lie I would really love to angry fuck her, she looks like she would be wild in bed when she is pissed off.

“All of you can kiss my ass! I know what I am doing and it’s about time all of you stopped doubting me because it’s fucking annoying. Yes, I met with Alexander. At first I thought he was the one behind the letters and the…packagesbut after meeting with him, I learned he isn’t the monster he was painted out to be. He’s actually helping me!”

“How does he know who we are?” I ask.

“Apparently my hacking skills aren’t as good as his guys and he was able to figure everything out on his own.” The fact she sounds more put out about her lack of hacking skills rather than a murderer knowing our identity is grating on my nerves.

“You can’t trust him!” Vox snaps.

“Why? He’s proven to me he can be trusted and if he is offering his help to take down Nexus and Thomas, I will gladly accept any help he is offering because we haven’t been able to locate either of them. I am done looking over my shoulder wondering if Thomas is going to come and kill me because I took his spot…” Vivian clamps her mouth closed but her eyes widen to the size of dinner plates as she stares at Nova. What’s more unsettling is Nova looks at Vivi with the same look, she slowly pushes away from Vox and stares directly at Vivian.

“You thinking what I am?” Nova breathes out.

“Yeah. Yeah, I think I am.”

“Me and you?” Nova says.

“Just us, it has to be,” Vivian replies. The guys and I all share a confused fucking look, these two were pissed at each other a minute ago and now they are staring at each other with varying looks of triumph and speaking in code.

“How?” Nova pushes.

“We wait,” Vi replies.

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