Page 37 of Mafie Trials

I hug him to my chest and then push back, getting up to take my plate to the kitchen. Damien reaches out to take it for me, but I pull it back.

“That’s about enough babying for one day, thank you very much. We need to have some fun before we leave. While normally that means going a few rounds with the bag at the gym, I’m not there yet and won’t pretend I am. So, call the calvary because we are having a movie night. I don’t care where, but I want popcorn and I want laughter. Lots of laughter.”

Damien smirks as he pulls out his phone, and I grin from ear to ear. He can be in charge during sex, but we both know who’s in charge outside of that scene.

Me.

Chapter 15

I really need to stop thinking that things can’t get worse around here. Alexi set up a room in the library with a huge screen while Arrow and Havoc moved couches into it so we could all have a movie night. Nessa came too. Laney sat tucked under Arrow's arm the whole time while Havoc was on her other side acting like one of us was going to come for her. It’s weird to me that Havoc wants to protect her after what she did, but maybe he understands it better than I do.

Either way, the tension between her and Evie eases as we watch a chick flick about two people who randomly got married in Vegas and had to find a way to split the jackpot money so they could get a divorce. The girls burst out laughing every time her friend gets trigger-happy and punches guys in the dick while every man in the room winces and groans.

But we all still sit through it. Even Alexi, who loathes chick flicks. It might have had something to do with Evie’s head in his lap the entire time though.

Damien orders pizza half way through the movie for everyone, and I prepare myself to endure the wrath of Evie over the pineapple on mine.

“I still can’t get over the fact you eat that,” she says as she takes a bite that should be way too big for her mouth.She’s so cute.

“I can’t be the only one in this room that can appreciate pineapple on pizza! This shit slaps!”

Arrow chimes in, coming to my aid. “Dude, that stuff is delicious. I would have gotten it myself, but I knew this little brat would have had a fit.” He nudges Laney and Havoc lifts a brow at him.

“That’s because it’s disgusting.” Laney throws her arms out in exaggeration.

“I don’t think I’ve ever tried it,” Havoc says.

I hand him a piece and mentally highlight Arrow as a man I’d like to get to know because he clearly knows good food.

Havoc takes a bite and shrugs. “It’s not that bad, but I also wouldn’t order it myself.” He hands the rest of the piece back to me. “E, you’ll eat nearly anything, but you won’t eat that?”

Evie sets down her plate, her face serious. “I have literally been beaten and starved for days on end, and I would have thrown that out of the window before eating it. It’s an abomination.”

“I agree,” Alexi says. “I would rather drink wine out of a red solo cup than eat that trash.” He looks at the pizza like it personally offended him.

“You all have immature palates,” I say to them.

Havoc barks out a laugh and nearly rolls over in hysterics. Evie joins him and soon, we are all nearly choking on our food. Then, Boris walks in, and the room goes deadly silent.

“Care if I join you?” he asks, looking out of place. I’ve never seen him look anything less than a hundred percent confident.

Everyone looks around, and then our eyes land on Evie. She swallows her bite and assesses him. “On one condition. Help us settle a little debate. Does pineapple belong on pizza?”

He smiles then sits on the floor with us. “Of course, it’s delicious.”

Alexi shakes his head at him. “And here I thought we were related.”

Boris actually seems bothered by that, but I don’t let it linger. Instead, I offer him a piece of my superior pizza, which he happily takes. I don’t know how, but everything seems to fall into place after that. It all seems easy, like we were always meant to have this with each other.

When we get back to the suite, I throw things together to finish packing. Entering the closet, I go to the safe in the back to grab the hard drives to take them home and secure them. However, when I go to place my hand on the scanner, the door flops open before the lights even graze my pinky finger. Dread pools in my stomach the moment I realize the safe is completely empty.

My fingers dig into my white hair and pull as I take a breath.This cannot be fucking happening right now. I pace my closet floor, trying to think of any way I can protect that information now that it’s been stolen. I secured it the best way I knew how, the only ones who’ve ever really gone up against my hacking and happened to circumvent my skills were Laney and Evie.

My hands start to shake, knowing that they have everything they need to destroy us. Everything we built our lives preparing to take over and make better.Everything.

“Dammit!” I yell without really meaning to.

Damien comes in less than a minute later, clearly having heard me from our shared wall. He takes one look at me, then sees the empty safe and all of the tension that had left us during the movie, sitting on the couch and getting to share our girl, comes back tenfold.

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