Page 56 of The Secret's Out

“I’ve got Cameron’s number in my phone. We call him, get him to meet us at his dad’s office. Got a deal to make. Nigel gets Cameron to stay away from our woman or else you go public with the shit he did. We also get to tell Cameron just what kinda dad he has.” He pauses to get my reaction. It was fuckin’ brilliant. A smile lit my face as he continued, “Then, give it time, we take Nigel out.”

“He needs to stop breathin’,” I snapped.

“And he will,” Billy stated.

“By my hands,” I vowed.

“Done.”

“Make the call and get to bed. You got beauty waitin’ for you,” I said and stood from the couch.

“Brother, you need to sleep easy, you take the bed.”

“’Preciate the offer, but I’d be shit company tonight and Josie will sense something is up. I ain’t ready for questions.”

“Pick, she knows about your past.”

“Yeah, but she doesn’t need to know I’ll be killin’ the last fucker soon.”

Billy sighed loudly. “As long as you’re sure.”

“I am. Night, Eli,” I said quietly and walked off to the hall.

“Night, Cade.”

That actually made me smile.

Even when my past just surfaced, I still grinned because I had two people in it worth smiling for.

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Eli

Josie was asleep when I got in the bedroom. Not that I minded. Watching her sleep was surreal. It was like I was imagining such a beauty in a bed I was about to climb in. Her fiery hair was splayed out on the pillow. She was on her side facing my way, her hands tucked up under her cheeks.

Fuck. She was heaven.

I felt like a prick though, as I was in there with her when I thought Caden could do with her sweetness, her closeness.

Then again, I knew where his head would be, and he was right. He wasn’t in the right place to be next to innocence. Even though Josie lost the choice of giving her body freely, she still had an innocent air surrounding her.

Pullin’ the tee over my head, the one I put on when we were eating dinner, I threw it to the floor and then shuffled outta my jeans, leaving my boxers on. I gently shifted the blanket back and climbed in. Josie seemed to be totally out of it. I scooted over closer to her, facing her. My arm rested on her naked waist.

Wait, naked?

Holy shit. What was she wearing?

Of course, being a male, I had to take a look. I lifted the blanket up to take a peek and found our girl in panties and a sports bra.

Jesus, she was trying to kill me with her perfect body.

Groaning, I let the blanket drop. Now my dick was perkin’ up thinkin’ it was time to play. Down boy, down, not yet you mongrel.

I ran a hand over my face and then to the back of my neck. Think of something else, anything else but about the glorious warm body next to you.

I forced myself to focus on Cameron and the phone call I made before bed. It was easy. He’d picked up after the second ring, answering with a chirpy, “Hello.” Then, he fell silent when I told him who it was and what I wanted him to do. He said he had an appointment with his dad tomorrow for lunch. Caden and I arranged to meet them at the restaurant across the way from his father’s firm.

I couldn’t fuckin’ wait. What I also couldn’t wait for was the time to come for Caden to get his retribution.

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