“To what home?” I heard Scarlet mutter. Which was a good point. There were only so many places we called home, and two of them had been destroyed. And the safe house definitely wasn’t safe anymore.
“We don’t really have a home to go home to,” I said for her. “Maybe we should look into acquiring some new real estate for our girl here? Somewhere off the grid, somewhere she can feel safe and make her own?”
“Doable. But nowhere is going to be safe until this shit with your family is put to bed,” Tristan said, looking at her with his eyes full of worry. I fought to roll my own. With her father dead, at least, we all hoped he was dead. I aimed for his heart, and I was a good fucking shot. With her father dead, her family was going to be much easier to get under our thumb, in my opinion.
“I’m sure there was a lot of dissent amongst the ranks,” Elliot said, leaning his head back on the chair and staring at the ceiling. “There always is in an organization like that. It’s just going to come down to how Motshan decides to play it.”
“Let’s hope he decides to play on the winning team and not the losing.”
Scarlet turned her head at Tristan’s words.
“I still think there’s something there that we can use. I just have to…get inside his head. I need to meet with him again.”
All three of us burst out laughing at her declaration.
“As fucking if we would let you meet with him again,” Elliot said.
“Seb and Finn both almost died, your best friend had to be fucking tranquilized to get her to calm down, and you were almost kidnapped. Not fucking happening,” Tristan chimed in.
“And you promised me…no walking into the line of fire,” I reminded her.
Scarlet moved and rolled away from me, climbing down off the bed and making her way to the door. Both Tristan and Elliot were on their feet in seconds.
“Don’t follow me. I’m going for a walk, and then I’m going to see Finn. You three can discuss how you plan to keep me so far under your thumb I can’t see fucking daylight while I’m gone. That way I’m not tempted to punch any of you.”
She slammed the door behind her, and all three of us flinched.
“That went well,” Elliot murmured.
I knew they were both spinning possibilities in their heads as to how we were actually going to keep her from running off to face Motshan again.
But all I could think about was how horny that sassy fucking attitude made me. Even with two bullet wounds and a tube coming out of my dick. That girl had us all by the balls, and none of us was complaining.