Page 30 of Hawk's Sapphire

“It’s possible.Though I don’t know what she would have to bargain with.”I add.

“All right.Hawk, I want you to start digging into Vincenzo.Find out if there are any other connections between him and Sadie and anything that could come back on the club.I’ll see if I can arrange a meeting with our new Italian friend.Declan, get Wyatt to find Kayce.I want to have a word with the son of a bitch.But first, I want to know who’s paying his bills.Everyone else, go about your business.Keep shit on the up and up.I don’t want to give the Feds anything else to come up in here digging around for.”He slams the gavel and adjourns church.

I swipe up my laptop, heading out the door, when a warm body crashes into mine.Candi’s standing chest-to-chest with me purring at me.“Hey baby.You look a little tense.You want some company?I can help work that off for you.”

“Hey, Candi.”Cash says, his head popping up over my other shoulder.“I have a question for you, darlin’.”

“What’s that?”She smiles as Cash turns up the charm.I figure he’s about to ask her to suck him off or something, which would be great at the moment since all I want to do is get back to my room and start hunting for information.

Color me stunned when that’s not what Cash does at all.Instead, the bastard asks, “Do you like your face the way it is?”

“Excuse me?”Candi huffs, standing back a little with one hand on her hip clearly irritated at his question.

“Well, I was just thinking that if you didn’t stop touching Hawk, here, his ol’ lady is going to rearrange your face and then lodge something very large and uncomfortable up Hawk’s ass to prove her point.”

“What ol’ lady?Hawk’s single.”Candi snaps not buying what Cash is saying while I groan knowing exactly where this is going.

“Actually.”Cash draws out the word in that high pitched, extra sweet tone of his.“He claimed Sadie a few nights ago.”Candi gasps, dropping her hands from my body.And taking a step back.If I wasn’t so pissed at the asshole, I might actually thank Cash for getting her to back off.

“If I’m not mistaken, Sadie doesn’t much like you.Like,at all.And as much as we all know Hawk is into pretty much everything in the bedroom, I don’t see him being too excited about Sadie breaking off one of your arms and using it to fist his dumbass until he realizes his mistakes.”Suddenly, Cash turns to me and with the most serious expression I’ve ever seen on him asks, “Wait.Are you into that sort of thing?No disrespect if you do.I just thought…”

My eyes narrow and I flip him the bird making his grin widen.

The fucker.

Candi spins on me, both hands on her hips now.“You claimed her?You claimed that spoiled little bitch as your ol’ lady?What the fuck, Hawk?”

“Watch how you talk about Sadie.My ol’ lady or not, she’s still club royalty and you’re still just a whore.”Candi’s mouth is hanging open, fury flaming behind her eyes.I shrug.“You chose that life.Let’s not glamorize it for your feelings sake.”

“I can’t believe you would do this!”She screams.“After everything I’ve done.We’ve done.I thought you were finally coming around to see how good we could be together.That you were going to claim me as you ol’ lady soon enough.And all this time you were pining for an ungrateful, pain in the ass, brat?Aren’t you the one who’s always saying what a child she is?I don’t get it!Help me get it Hawk, because it doesn’t make sense!”

Everyone’s gathered around watching this shit go down now.I’m just about to put Candi in her place and tell her how fucking wrong she is, when Gabe steps up surprising the shit out of me with his next words.

“Say one more one to disrespect Sadie Jay, and you’ll be packing your shit and headed on down the road.Got me?”

Candi’s eyes fill with tears.She nods, but is smart enough not to argue with the Pres.I take a step back and turn to head to my room, when I hear Cash over my shoulder, call out, “Ah, come on Candi.Don’t be like that.Let’s go to my room and you can show me what a great babysitter you are by swallowing my would-be children for me.”

I swear someone is going to shoot his ass one of these days and I’m almost certain it’s going to be a woman.

13

SADIE

It’s been five days of this bullshit, and I’ve just about had my fill.Every morning Marta wakes me up at five o’clock to get dressed and eat breakfast.By six o’clock, Asha meets us in the dining room and escorts me to the gym where we do an hour of cardio followed by an hour of strength training and another hour of self-defense moves.

Then we break for lunch.

As soon as lunch is finished, Sergio sneaks me out of the penthouse garage and drives me to a huge mansion outside of Dallas.I’ve never been to Texas, and it seems I’m not going to get to see much of it this trip either.

When we get to The Mansion, we are taken in through an underground parking garage and immediately escorted to a basement arsenal.Sergio chooses our weapons of choice, and then we practice.Everything from knife throwing, to axes throwing, to shooting and my personal favorite -whatever you can get your fucking hands on to use as a weapon,do itand let’s see what you’ve got.

We do this same routine for hours.By the time we get back to the penthouse, I’m exhausted.I’m beginning to think is Matteo’s plan, since after dinner we work on our special training and I’m often too tired to argue or verbally spar with anyone.

Sneaky bastard.

But tonight is different.

Tonight, Matteo had to leave town and won’t be back until tomorrow evening, which means our lessons were canceled and I have the evening to myself.So, instead of wine, I asked Marta to make me an espresso.Matteo has been strict about letting me have too much caffeine, but since we aren’t training and I haven’t had any yet today, I convinced Marta to let me have it.

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