“Your last period? I need to know to determine how far along you are.”
“I don’t know, maybe a month and a half ago? It ended…” I sigh. “Like the day before I met Cutter.”
“Any unprotected sex before Cutter?”
“Are you kidding me?” I shuddered to think about that. Talk about a group of disgusting men. “I hadn’t had sex in like a month before I met Cut.”
Dusty drops her hand to my shoulder. “You have options, Aja. Let me take you home. Talk to Cutter. You two can decide how you want to proceed.”
I nod because what choice do I have?
14
CUTTER
“This is a bad fucking time to have to babysit some chick who wants revenge,” Vlad says. He sent Danni out of the room about five minutes ago after talking with her, finding out what she knows about that damn psychopath Bible Belt Killer.
“We don’t help her, she’s going out on her own. I can’t have that on my conscience.Fuck–” I rub my hand over my face. “I never used to have a conscience. What the hell has happened to me?”
Rough laughs. “You met a damn woman.”
“Thoughtyousaid you weren’t closed off to it?”
He shrugs. “I’m not. Doesn’t make it any less true. I meet a woman, she’ll change me, too.”
“He’s not wrong,” Dark says. “Met Rae, spent time with those kids, they made me want to be a better man than I always was. Now I’m a goddamn family man and I wouldn’t change a fucking thing.”
Vlad keeps himself noticeably tight-lipped on the subject of old ladies, or more to the point,myold lady.
“So what did we miss?” I ask. “What makes this worse than any other time?”
“Got a call while you two were heading home.” Sarge drops his hands on the table in front of him, leaning forward. “Green got himself in some trouble.”
“What now?” Reaper asks.
“Driving drunk. He ran a light and T-boned a car. Driver is in the hospital, messed up.”
“Fuck.” Damn Green. Vlad’s right. We don’t need this shit, but it doesn’t change the fact that Danni needs help. “He’s doing some time. I don’t see how we’re getting out of that. But I just can’t leave her to fend for herself.”
“Vote,” Vlad says. “All in favor of helping Danni, upping our involvement in finding that damn killer…”
“Yes,” I answer first because they all already know my vote.
“Yes,” Reaper answers next.
It takes the other brothers a little more time to decide, but Dark says, “He almost took Rae from me. He needs to be found.”
“He needs to be dead,” Rough says.
That leaves two more. “Sarge?” I ask.
“I got a wife who went through hell and two kids who need their dad to make the world safe for them to grow up in. I’m in.”
“Then it’s unanimous,” Vlad says, surprising the hell out of me. I thought for sure he was voting against us. “We’re diving deeper into the hunt with our sidekick,Danni.”
Vlad brings his hand down on the table, ending the meet. I need a drink. The brothers can hash out a plan of attack. It’s time for sexual healing. Aja needs to get her ass back her A.S.A.P.
“Bourbon,” I shout over to Horace over at the pool table while rounding the bar to take a seat. He scrambles to pour my drink. I’d never want to go through prospecting again, but it sure is nice to have them at my beck and call.