Page 147 of Clean Slade
“What’s going on, Wyatt?” Joey set his spatula down and approached the circle we’d created.
“It’s Duke. He’s found something major. If it’s real, we have a chance of taking down Salieri and his organization.”
“What? What did he find?”
Wyatt shook his head.
“I’ll tell you later. In the meantime, we need to find a way to end King’s relationship with Salieri without putting him in danger.”
I shrugged.
“The contact hasn’t been in touch since King pushed him to meet Salieri. I don’t think we’ll have to worry about him.”
Wyatt rubbed his chin and stared at the floor.
“This tech you developed. Do you think we can use it to hack into the contact’s phone?”
I nodded.
“We can. But it’s not quite ready yet.”
“That’s fine. Keep working on it. It might make all the difference. If we can find every accomplice…”
I nodded. I planned to do just that. My code might work, but it still had a long way to go before I could use it to take down an entire syndicate.
“What about Duke? Do you need someone to help him out or to protect him? Because I’ve got more free time now.”
Wyatt shook his head.
“No. I’ll take care of that. I’ve got someone else in mind.”
We all stared at Wyatt, but he didn’t care to elaborate just yet.
I wondered what was happening, what he wasn’t telling us. What had Duke discovered? And who could possibly do a better job protecting the young resident saint than us all?
THIRTY-FIVE
SLADE
Istretched out on the bed, limb to limb, and waited for dopamine to hit me, but it never came.
Strange.
Why isn’t King sucking my dick?
There hadn’t been a morning when we hadn’t shared our glories. Was the grace period over?
Damn it. I should have enjoyed it while it lasted.
I opened my eyes and confirmed that, yes, indeed, King was not warming my cock in his mouth or sucking me off at all.
He wasn’t even in bed.
I reached for my phone and checked the time.
It was barely nine in the morning. Why on earth would he get up so early when he was on vacation, and what would he even be doing without me?
Rubbing the sleep from my eyes, I got out of bed, slipped my underwear on, and threw a robe over my naked body before I left the room.
