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“Excuse me!”
“You heard me, drop ’em. Now.”
“What the hell is going on now?” Jack asked, stepping in behind us.
“This motherfucker wants me to drop my drawers!” Mimic shouted, appalled. I knew he was worried. I squeezed his hand, and when he looked at me, I mouthed,Pants only.
“I wouldn’t mind seeing what he’s got in those pants.”
“Get the fuck out of here, Brandy!” King roared.
“Why does Jackass get to stay?”
I turned and looked at Brandy, who winked at me.
“Because what’s in his pants does nothing for me,” Jack stated.
“Drop them. That’s an order,” King demanded.
Mimic glared at King before finally unbuckling his pants and dropping them in front of his president.
“Son of a bitch. Jack, go find Cash and tell him Kytten is locked down. She’s not allowed to leave the club and then tell him I need to see him. Mimic, you’re locked down too. You’re grounded.”
“What the fuck for?!” Mimic roared. “I didn’t do anything.”
“Bane, what’s the plan here? I can’t keep Mimic contained for long. The little shit is already a pain in my ass.”
King was quiet as whoever Bane was spoke to him. His eyes never left Mimic.
“You’ve got twelve,” King clipped before disconnecting the phone. “You don’t fucking leave.” King pointed his finger at Mimic, who stood beside me shaking with rage as he buckled his pants.
We sat at the bar, and I tried to calm Mimic down. King’s order didn’t make sense, but he clearly knew something we didn’t.
Cash came in and went straight to King. “What’s going on? Kytten’s not here. She went to see Val.”
“Tank, Big Ben, take Mimic downstairs and lock him up.”
“What the fuck?” Mimic shouted as the two men dragged him from the room.
Chapter Thirty-Four
Kytten
I came downstairs, and all I wanted to do was snuggle little Rosie. The last few days had been rough. Learning Magyk was working jobs behind Val’s back, was a shock in itself. But to find out Syrena was the only Nyght Nymph allowed to pull girls and boys from the Trick Pony had my stomach bottoming out. Especially after what she’d said to Thorne about the children she had‘helped.’
The emotions I had been going through in the last few days were intense. Cash was at my side every minute. He never left me to deal with it on my own. Except for when I called Dr. Dunaway, who helped me process what I was feeling and what I now suspected.
She’d known all along what Syrena was doing.
I hadn’t told Cash. I wasn’t sure he wouldn’t leave and hunt Val down. Thorne had killed Syrena. Cash was with me, but he confessed he felt cheated not being able to take her down for me.
I knew what he meant. But Thorne needed it more than Cash did, and Cash agreed. Knowing there was someone else complicit in my abuse meant Cash would go on a rampage, and I couldn’t let that happen.
Finding Indie in the arms of Sam, crying, I knew she was here to stay. There was something about Sam that just pulled you in. She was a mom. And for those of us who no longer had a mom, it was everything.
I’d thought of Val as a mom. She’d raised me from the time she’d picked me up off the streets. I thought she loved me. I always knew Amber would come first, but I had no idea she would throw me to the wolves.
My phone rang, and when I saw that it was her, I went outside before I answered.
