Page 115 of Vegas Daddies

“And what about you?”

“I want my girlfriend back.”

Anger boils my face. I know he’s not bluffing this part.

I turn to Alice. Her eyeballs stare at the screen. Hard.

“After what I did,” continues Levi, “Peter will never approve of me and Alice. He wants my head on a spike.”

“And you want his?”

“Not on a spike. I just never wanna see it again.”

Alice squirms, lip quivering slightly.

The conversation with her father before wasn’t pleasant, from how she described it.

She did the right thing, putting herself first, but at the moment her deflated posture and tired eyes tell me that she’s still full of regret.

The curse of having a kind soul.

“And those bikers,” Levi says. “Those three Venom Vultures. They deserve to be buried under sand too for slaughtering several members of the syndicate, don’t you think?”

I narrow my eyes. Look over at Brander and Match and see them do the same.

“Okay.” Vlad rises from his seat.

“Okay?” Levi tilts his head.

“Da. Yes.”

“Okay,” Levi says. “Meet me tonight at Ursula and Hook. We’ll get Alice center stage. I’ll lure Peter there. He’ll lose his shit when he sees his daughter a wardrobe malfunction away from being publicly naked. You can kill him then.”

Vlad stands from his chair and issues another “okay.”

Then he walks out of the room.

Levi hops off the chair as soon as the door shuts behind Vlad. He closes the live stream down, and the screen cuts to black.

Match strides forward. Smacks the laptop lid down a little too hard. “How can we be so sure this is gonna work?”

“We can’t.” Brander lifts from his chair. “But all we need to do is ensure that Peter, Vlad, and the three of us are all in the same room. Lifesaver and Match, you defend. I’ll scald the Russian.”

Alice slides off the couch, rubs her eyes, and makes for the stairs.

“Sweetheart?” I call.

She turns around.

“How are you feeling?”

I don’t know why I asked the question, to be honest. It’s obvious that the girl isn’t doing well. It shoots a pain through my chest seeing her like this.

Fuck, falling in love with a woman like her is all I wanted from life.

I could die a happy man tonight.

But I can’t.

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