Page 89 of Easy Steal

“So how did you get all the way out here without your car anyway?”

I shrugged, looking out the window.

Lately I had been communicating more with nods and shrugs rather than words, and I realised that I had been hanging out with Sam far too much.

“Okay,” Rome said slowly, the irritation thick in her voice.

I knew that she already knew anyway.

She knew how I got here, who I was with.

It was very rare for her instincts not to be right, and she knew that.

“Have you spoken to Toni?” I asked after a while of silence.

“Yeah, a while ago,” she nodded.

“What are they going to do?”

“About the workshop?” she asked, raising an eyebrow.

I nodded.

“I don’t know, Liv,” Rome sighed. “First things first, we need to deal with these fucking bikies.”

I nodded again.

“After tomorrow, we can worry about it, okay? Sam will be fine.”

“Okay,” I said, wringing my hands together.

“Home?” she asked, putting on her indicator to turn onto the road to my place.

It was the last place I wanted to be.

“Can I stay with you tonight?”

She tore her eyes away from the road and looked over at me with a frown.

“Why? What happened?”

“I just-” I considered telling her everything about Evan, and Sierra, but didn’t feel like it was the right time. I just wanted to go to a safe, comfortable place, and forget that this day ever happened.

But I knew that if I told Rome about what had happened, we would not be resting until she had found Evan and tore both him and Sierra to shreds.

“I just don’t want to be alone tonight,” I sighed finally, sensing that she was growing suspicious with every beat between her question and my answer.

“Of course you can, Liv. But you know if something’s wrong, I would really like to know.”

After a while, we pulled up in the driveway of Rome and Antoni’s house, and I saw that Toni’s car was already parked by the front door. I was surprised that he was home, and thought that he and the boys would still be preparing for tomorrow.

The whole driveway was littered with cars, and I figured that they were doing exactly that, except they were doing it here.

I couldn’t understand how Rome lived like this, with her house being always full of people - people that she barely even knew at times. It was always used as a point of operation for The Family.

It was an office for Antoni.

I wondered if she ever got any time with him all to herself.

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