Page 52 of Easy Steal

“It’s Livie,” Sam corrected before I could open my mouth.

“Oh, sorry,” she said, looking around the back of the shop.

She handed the keys to Sam.

“Can you drop me back at work, Sam?”

“Uh, sure,” he said.

“Oh, no,” I smiled, pulling him closer, “you’re so busy today. I’ll do it.”

“You sure?” he frowned at me, his eyes darting between us both.

“Course,” I chirped, snatching the keys from his hands.

I raised myself up onto my tiptoes and planted a kiss on his lips, and for a moment I felt his hands on my waist before they fell again.

Larissa cleared her throat.

I jingled Larissa’s keys in my hands and walked towards her car.

“Come on, Marissa,” I called, hopping into the driver’s seat of her car.

“Larissa,” she corrected as she slid into the passenger seat.

“Hmm?”

“It’s Larissa,” she snapped once the door was closed and we were no longer in earshot of Sam.

“True?” I smiled sweetly at her.

The fury was radiating off of her, I could feel the heat and hatred that she was exerting from the passenger seat. She expected Sam to drop everything to accommodate her, and of course, he would have if it were not for me.

I didn’t understand him, or why he let this chick have such power over him.

He was a powerful guy. Last night I watched him kill a man without blinking.

Maybe he really was head over heels for this girl.

“So,” she huffed as we drove through the city, “you work at the shop full-time now?”

I shrugged, “for the moment. I’m just helping Sam with some tech things.”

“Where do you usually work?”

“Lilith’s,” I said. “I work with Rome.”

“Ah,” she laughed, “so you’re a stripper?”

I chuckled, and knew that it was meant as an insult.

“Yeah. I am,” I smiled at her.

I had never been ashamed of my job, and I wasn’t going to let some mafia heiress make me feel that way. This girl had no idea what it was like to need to work, to have to do anything for money.

Sure, she worked at that store with Sam’s sister - but it was a hobby job for her. I had no doubt that she could quit at any time and not have to worry about money.

“I’m surprised that Sammy is okay with that.”

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