by Eden Rose
“Fuck you,” I grunt and walk out.
He chuckles. “She's like the sun. You want to be in her glow, but she has darkness. Her darkness will swallow you up whole. Get out while you can. Lucian will eat you whole and you will never escape.”
I turn to look at him. “Then why are you still fucking here?”
“Because I have shit to finish.”
He turns to walk out from me. This fucking asshole.
Why does everyone think I’m not good enough for Lucian? Or that I’m not right for her? I get she’s something more than what she’s letting on, what else could it be. I don’t get it.
Do I need to go around picking fights with people in hopes of proving I’m tough? I’m a fucking chef. I cook. I don’t fight.
“You know what, Raul?” I bark at his back.
He turns to look at me momentarily. “What do you want, little boy?”
“Stop trying to get into my business. I don’t need you in my shit trying to tell me what I am and what I’m not. I don’t need it.”
Raul smirks. “You got something else to say? Back in my neighborhood, we didn’t fight with words, pussy. We fought with fists.”
I don’t know if I could take him. I want to.
“Fuck this. Fuck you, Raul,” I mumble under my breath and walk past him. I need to get out of here before I get myself killed.
Plus, I have a date to get ready for.
Walking home, I think hard on what I’m going to do. Should I just let this go? I don’t want to be. I don’t want to be a fucking pussy who lets others dictate my life.
And I really like the feeling I get with Lucian. She truly is the sun.
I’m just waiting to get burned.
Chapter 25
Lucian
Ralf circles me and touches my hair making me cringe. I’m not used to people openly touching me and I don’t like it. “Such a pretty girl. I’ve always liked you best, Lucian. How’s your club doing?”
I shrug him off as much as I can in hopes of throwing him off. “We’re good. How’s your sector doing?” I ask with fake politeness.
He smirks then grips my hair tightly in his hand. He tugs my head back, cracking my neck as he does it. “We’re good, too. Luca, we’ve been waiting for you to come back to our side.”
Three years ago, I split off from 3-1-3 and started my own sector of the gang. I wanted to focus more on pushing more product across the state and country lines then focus on pedaling flesh like Big Heavy does.
I shake my head bravely. “No, Ralf, you don’t want me like that. Remember? I got in the way too much.”
Ralf chuckles breezily. “With that fine ass pussy of yours, yeah you did.”
I jerk my head back and hear Katie groan. I know she’s in pain as I’ve had a beat down like this before. The pain gets worse after the first day when your muscles get stiffer and your body seizes up.
“I’ll make you a deal, Lucian.”
Katie winces in the back.
“What’s the deal?”
Part of me already knows I’m not going to like the deal. He’s always going to try and put me in my place and that’s not in his way. This fucking asshole is ruthless. He’s killed people for defying him and that’s all I keep doing.
Ralf is the front man for Big Heavy’s side of 3-1-3. He’s the one that stalks the night and finds his victim when they least expect it. He’s the one who would kill his own grandma if it meant he got more money.
He’d kill Katie or I in a second.
I don’t dare take my eyes off of Ralf. The minute I let me guard down, he’s either going to kill me or violate me again and I would fucking kill him. After I kill him, I would be tortured endlessly. Big Heavy would make a show out of it.
“You come back to me and I will tell you who’s stealing from you,” he says it so nonchalantly.
“Excuse me?”
He smirks. “Baby girl, go take a look at your books. You’ll find out that there’s money being skimmed from the top. And you’ll never guess who’s doing it, either.”
I feel my stomach tighten and bile rise up my throat. If word gets out that I’m allowing someone to steal from me, I’m finished. I might as well kill myself or turn myself into the cops for the four murders I’ve committed this year.
“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
Ralf pats my arm. “As a sign of good faith, I will let you and Katie go unharmed. Untouched.”
Katie’s anything but unharmed or untouched. The woman needs to go to a hospital as soon as possible but I doubt she will do it. There are too many questions that get asked at the hospital. They would call the cops and a formal investigation will take place.
“What do you want in return?” I need to know who’s stealing from me even if that means I have to bind myself to Big Heavy again. I know I still owe them some kick-up dues from all the money I’ve made since I have gone my own way, but I don’t want to pay in my own flesh.
His lips curl in a dangerous smile which only promises me I’m not going to like it. “I want you to go on a run.”
“I go on a run and you’ll tell me who’s stealing from me?” I ask incredulously.
“You can’t go on the run. Your new boy-toy has to do it. You’ll pull too much attention to yourself with that sexy body of yours.”
I about gag. How the fuck does he know I have a new sub? I don’t advertise my lifestyle and there’s no way he should have found out about it. Unless he has spies in my club.
“Who told you?”
“The same person who’s stealing from you, Luca. It’s lonely at the top, isn’t it?”
Chapter 26
Mason
I received a text message from Lucian asking me to meet her here twenty minutes ago. It’s been an hour and a half since she sent me the message and I’m nervous as hell. I don’t know what to expect but I’m so excited about what could be happening, it’s ridiculous.
I sit here in the penthouse above the club, wearing my nice pair of pants and loafers as I wait for whatever is about to happen.
Before I have time to freak out anymore, I hear the door open and then shut. Lucian walks through the room wearing a tight pencil skirt with button down shirt. Her patent heels are shiny in the lights from the afternoon, but she looks otherworldly.
Holy shit.
She may look sex on legs, but she sure as hell looks pissed as well.
“Lucian-”
Lucian stops in front of me and does this move with her finger to have me stand up. I’m at my full height when she slaps me across the face, and I fall over. My cheek stings from the slap and I feel tears form in my eye sockets.
She walks past me and then into the closet. When she’s walking back, my heart jump starts in my chest. In her hand is a tarp and something else that looks kind of like a belt. “I’m tired of playing on the playground. Today, we are going to jump start you a little bit. Is that something you are willing to do?”
When I don’t answer her, she steps into my space and places her hand on my chest. “If I wanted a mute, I would pull out my vibrator.”
Wait, she has a vibrator? I thought Lucian didn’t like sex.
“That’s a common misconception. I like sex. I just like it a very particular way.”
I watch in horror as she spreads the tarp out on the ground and then steps out of her shoes. When she’s flat on her feet, she holds her hand out to me. “Remember what I said. I don’t want a mute. Do you want to me here or do you want to be another disappointment?”
I nod, and then shake my head. Jesus! I don’t know how to answer. “I want to be here, but I’m not afraid to admit I am kind of scared.”
She smiles and it lights up her full face. “Good. It means you have some self-preservation. Now, I want you to take off your clothes and step onto the tarp.”
***
“Why can’t I fuck you?” I ask and circle around her as she’s fingering herself. She’s shuttling her fingers in and out of her pussy
and I’m watching like a pervert.
My dick is already hard again after I came all over the tarp but I’m ready to go again. I’m ready to fuck Lucian so hard she can’t stand up for a fucking week. Hell, I want to feel her from the inside and know what she feels like as she’s coming around my dick.
She moans slightly and then dips her head back so she’s looking at me. When she comes, her hand is tucked against her pussy and her thighs are hugging her hand. I watch as she comes down and I tug on my cock carefully.
“Sub… did I say you could ask me questions?” Lucian murmurs and then sticks her two fingers out for me. “Lick my fingers clean and then tell me thank you for allowing you lick my come off of my fingers.”
I fall to my knees like a slave and do as she asks me to. I stick her fingers in my mouth and suck her come like she asked me to. She tastes like honey and I can’t get enough. Only after I’m sure I have licked her fingers clean, I take her fingers out of my mouth and say, “Thank you for allowing me to lick your come off of your fingers,” I murmur timidly.
“Good boy. You may jerk yourself off or we can call Trina up here.”
***
I’m breathing heavy as I wake up from the oddly erotic dream. It’s been years since I last had a wet dream but I’m dreaming dirty things now? Am I really that hard up?
Lucian’s sexy and dominating personality has me about to bust during a dream? I’ve never thought I would do that again.
Chapter 27
Lucian
My blood boils. I can’t believe Ralf is extorting Mason like this in order to get me to do something so dangerous and against everything I have been trying to get away from.
Ever since I was given the run between Chicago to Canada for drugs, I haven’t bothered anyone. I haven’t given anyone any attitude and I’ve kept to myself.
Now, I’m back on their fucking radar and so is Mason.
How did Mason get on their radar? How the fuck did they find out about him? I don’t understand how Ralf would have found out about him unless he’s been following me.
Or… does he have a spy inside my club? Does he have a spy inside my syndicate? Does he know what I’ve been doing inside my club and syndicate because if that’s the case... someone’s going to die.
The only people who know anything about my club and syndicate are Raul and Trina.
It’s time to call an emergency meeting. I need to know what the fuck is going on and I need to put a stop to everything before it gets too late.
I help Katie off the floor, she limps along with me out of the hotel room. I know she’s struggling with everything going on and around her especially since she can’t do anything to help herself.
“What are you going to do, Luca?” She questions.
I shake my head with my arm around her waist. My heels clack against the tile flooring of the sleezy hotel. I don’t know what I’m going to do. The only thing I know is the fact I have to figure it out soon. The sooner the better or someone’s going to die, and it could be me.
Death has always been around the corner since I was jumped into the 3-1-3 Gang and I knew it was a matter of time before I was behind bars or pushing up daffodils.
“Katie, wait until we get to my car. Once we get to the car, I’ll talk to you about everything.”
She nods.
It’s been three years since I saw the woman who tried to save me from the initiation from hell. I had been there the night she sold herself to Big Heavy to save another girl from being jumped into the gang because she didn’t know what else to do with her life. Her mom and dad were both pieces of shit.
People always wonder what gangsters, gangsters. It’s simple. We don’t have anything else to get out of the shitty situation of our home life. In my case, my brother is a piece of shit.
She limps along with me and holds onto me as much as she can.
Ralf comes running after us with a pissed off look on his face and fire in his eyes.
“What did you do?” I demand to Katie.
“I might have stolen his car keys and wallet!” She winces.
“Are you fucking kidding me? Are you trying to get me killed?”
She groans.
“Run as quick as you can into the bathroom. I need to call someone to come get us.”
I push us through the lobby into the bathroom available that’s closest to us. Once inside, she slumps over in the corner and begins to wheeze from the pain setting in from running.
I pull out my phone dial Raul. Once he answers, I demand for the help that I need. “I need the driver you’ve been using now.”
“Luca! Are you sure?”
“Did I ask you to ask me questions?”
“It’s Mason. We’ve been using Mason.”
“You’ve been using my new sub?”
“Yes.”
“Fuck off. Call him right now and tell him to get his ass over here right now.”
“Okay.”
He hangs up and I hang my head against my hands. I know what’s about to happen and that is the fact I’m going to have to tell Mason about myself.
“So, you got yourself a new sub, huh?” Katie mumbles from the corner.
I laugh a little under my breath. “This is what you want to talk about right now? You want to talk about my new sub when Ralf is outside and about to kill us?”
“Beats the alternative and that’s wondering when he’s going to bang down the door and rape us.”
I’ve already been raped by Ralf. He’s not gentle and he’s not kind about it either. The whole time, I thought I was going to die.
Chapter 28
Mason
I’ve been home for about twenty minutes when the burner phone begins to ring, and I wince. After Raul and I got into our fight, I didn’t think he would be fucking calling me again. I’m just a cook. I’m not some wannabe gangster who’s going to come out guns blazing or some shit.
I contemplate letting the phone go to voicemail. If I let it go to voicemail, what will that mean for my job and whatever it is I have going on with Lucian? Would he tell her I’ve been doing the runs this whole time? What happens when I’m no longer needed? Are they going to kill me off or some shit?
What are they doing?
Out of panic, I answer the phone on the last ring. “Hello?”
“You weren’t going to answer the fucking phone, were you?” Raul’s pissed off voice grumbles on the other end of the line.
“No, I wasn’t.”
“We need you at the address I’m going to text you as soon as possible. You need to enter from the back door. Come alone. Get there now.”
He hangs up before I can ask any more questions.
What the fuck is that about?
I groan, shoving my feet back into my shoes and wait for the text message to pop up on the phone. Once it does, I grab the keys to Andrew’s car and take off. Whatever it is that’s going on, must be serious. I know that Raul hates me and he’s going to want to try and make me look as bad as possible.
I speed the whole way to the address on the text message. I look at the address and then at the hotel again.
This is where I need to be?
The hotel looks run down, a piece of shit.
ME: Where am I supposed to go?
UNKNOWN: First floor bathroom.
ME: Man or Woman?
UNKNOWN: Woman.
Getting out of the car, I stroll through the front lobby until I see the bathrooms off to side. There’s a big man who’s waiting outside of the man’s room.
He’s glaring at me and then glaring at the door my hand is hovering over. I knock on the door to let whomever know I’m standing outside and wait for whatever is about to happen.
The door pops open and I about swallow my tongue.
Are you fucking kidding me?
It’s Lucian.
My eyes widen as I stare at her and she looks at me with wide eyes and redden cheeks.
“Get in here!” She demands as she
grabs my hand.
This is one of the first times she has touched me openly.
There’s a shock and awe feeling that jolts through my body. I wish I could just grab her and kiss her. I want to kiss her so fucking bad and then I want to fuck her.
I want to know what it feels like to have this woman completely under me.
“What is going on here?” I demand as I’m dragged into the room. There’s a woman in the corner who looks severely hurt. I point at her and look at Lucian. “Who’s this?”
She shakes her head. “We don’t have time for this. I need you to do me a favor.”
“I’m not doing fucking shit for you unless you tell me what the fuck is going on,” I snap.
Her secrets and everything she doesn’t tell me, it’s beginning to piss me the fuck off more than I want to admit to myself. She drags me out into the middle of Detroit to do who-knows-what and won’t tell me why I’m here?
Oh fuck no.
We’re not playing this game.
“You’re going to tell me why I’m here or I’m leaving,” I explain.
Lucian’s eyes look like they are about to pop out of her head. “I don’t have time for this!” She yells and looks at the woman on the ground. “This is why I don’t get my subs involved in anything I do outside of the club.”
The woman on the floor winces. “I don’t want to tell you what to do, but we need to get the fuck out of here before Ralf busts that door open!”
“Why would Ralf bust the door open?” I implore.
“What happened to you?”
I’m too confused to be nice and ask her the questions I should be asking her. I should be asking she needs to go to the hospital or something instead of standing here like a dumb ass.
The woman on the floor groans and rolls into a tight ball. “We need to get out of here before it’s too late!”
Lucian looks at me and then looks down at the woman on the floor. Her eyes are wide, and she almost looks scared. “I will explain everything to you, I promise.”