Page 126 of Between Desire and Denial
Chapter Forty-Seven
DIMITRI
I’d waitedthree minutes outside that bathroom door before I called her and when she didn’t answer, my gut rolled in fear.
It wasn’t a new sensation with her, but one I knew I would have always now. My greatest risk and my greatest reward. I’d fear for her and care for her in a way I’d never done with anyone else.
Now, I knew something was wrong with the mother of my child. Before I could barrel in there though, Jameson stepped in front of the door. “Your brothers are on their way, and Olive and Knox are safe. If you want it to stay that way, you’ll follow me out of the airport.” There was no hesitation. My hand went to this throat as I shoved him into the brick wall. He wheezed, “You kill me here, you’ll be arrested and not find your girl, Dimitri.”
So, I’d gone. I drove my car, following him back to Paradise Grove and up to the Seymour Hall where we waited to have a garage open up. As it opened, I saw the floor underneath it open, too, and our cars, along with motorcycles, swerved to follow Jameson down into a secret tunnel with brick roads that led to parking and then opened up to sliding glass doors.
If I hadn’t been worried about Olive, I would have been impressed. Instead, I called Dom first who’d told me, “Yeah, I’m on my way. Dex said he’s already there. Don’t do something dumb. Bastian, Cade, Dante, Declan, and I will be there within an hour. Everyone’s safe, Dimitri.”
“She’s not safe if she’s not with me,” I threw back.
“Clara left early this morning too,” he growled about his wife. “She woke up and was texting and texting and then she said she needed to meet with the girls. Cade let me know Izzy is gone, so are Kee, Evie, Pink, and Lilah. They’re together with Olive.”
“Whose idea was this?”
“I mean—”
“Know what? Never mind.” I hung up on him as I got out of my car and followed Jameson through glass doors and down two brick hallways before it opened up to a huge conference room of ornate furniture and men dressed in black suits. Some had helmets resting on the large oak table. Others were walking around fixing their cuff links while they stared at the expensive art on the walls.
I saw my brother Dex immediately get up to move to my side. “You made it.”
Jameson turned and smiled at us. “He did. He was actually quite nice once—"
That’s when I punched him in the face.
The first blow felt good. Cathartic almost. My knuckles hit his cheekbone hard enough that I felt the sting up my elbow. The man had had it coming since the day I met him. He’d been eyeing up my girl like she wasn’t mine for a long time, and now he’d orchestrated her disappearance.
“Fuck, man.” He spit blood onto the floor. “I know you’re mad, but you realize none of this is my fault. Olive went willingly. So, you get that one hit.”
“That so?” I cracked my knuckles and stared at him. “And who do you think is going to stop me from hitting you again?”
He glanced at Dex who looked at me and nodded slightly like he was giving me the go ahead and chanting silently, “Swing, swing, swing.”
So, before he answered, I swung again, and he barely even tried to dodge.
“God damn it. Okay, I deserved those two.” He wiggled his jaw. This time a few men at the table stood, and I saw Bane Black out of the corner of my eye, moving forward. I didn’t give a fuck. I’d punch and kill whoever I needed to get Olive back.
“Where the fuck is the mother of my child?” I stepped up to him and bellowed.
This time, he cracked his neck and smiled in my face slowly. “You know what?” He sucked on his teeth and wiped the blood from his chin. “Go on. Hit me again.”
“Yeah.” Dex saw how Jameson smiled, and I think we were all ready to come to blows. My brother crossed his arms over his chest and said, “Hit him again. Harder this time because you’re losing it, bro. Didn’t even knock him out after he kidnapped your girl.”
“I’m going to kill you,” I growled. But just as I swung, Bane shoved me back and Dex sighed as he did the same.
“Go sit down and cool off,” Bane told me, his tone not leaving room for argument.
“I’m not sitting down anywhere.” I turned my fury on him. “How long have you been a part of this?”
“I told you, since I was fucking born,” he said without any remorse in his haunting pale-blue eyes as he stared at me. The only thing I saw was a darkness in them about what he may have experienced. “And it wasn’t as nice as the Paradise Grove community over on this side of the country. So, watch what yousay in here,” Bane grumbled to me like he was trying to help me out.
The men in the room were already mumbling. “What? You all offended?” I yelled out. “You think I give a fuck, Bane?”
He’d done a deal with Dex and me on the Vegas resort and casino. He knew he should have disclosed his dealings with societies then.
