Page 141 of The Kingpin's Call Girl

She gazes up at me as Bender gurgles out his last breath. “You came.”

“Of course.” I kiss her lips. I kiss her nose. I kiss her cheekbone. “Let me see.”

She holds out her hand.

I trail my fingers over the back of her hand, her fingers. “Make a fist, baby.”

She slowly makes a fist.

“Good. Now straighten.”

She straightens her fingers. “Ow.”

“No, that’s good. Keep it moving,” I say.

She repeats the motion. She rotates her wrist and moves it every which way while I run my hands over every inch of her—head, shoulders, hips, legs and back up, ferally fixated on consuming her with all my senses—touching her, breathing her in, knowing she’s there.

“You came,” she whispers again, tears glistening in her eyes.

Mary comes up and sets her hand on Edie’s shoulder. “Frittata. Hey.”

Mary has the same sparkle in her eyes—that Edie sparkle.

“Nice job,” I say to her.

“I was aiming for his head,” she says. “But I’m good with how it worked out.”

Edie pulls away from me and looks me in the eye. “How did you find us?”

“What kind of badass criminal can’t find his girl?”

She blinks. “But... what about the DNA test? Did you somehow get into the lab and switch it already?”

“What the fuck do I care about a DNA test?”

“You’ll care when the results might make your own guys kill you!”

“Let ‘em try.”

“You let the tests go through?”

“First things first. We’re in a basement with a dead cop. Come on.”

“What should we do?”

“You nurse that hand,” I growl. “We got this, Mary, right?”

“On it,” she says.

Mary and I get shit from the kitchen and wipe the place down. I find his home surveillance setup, because of course he has that, and destroy it.

We fill a trash bag with everything that might tie us here, scolding Edie to leave it all to us, but of course, she tries to do random little things.

I flip on the gas in the basement, and once the sisters are safely in the car down the block, I throw a hastily improvised Molotov cocktail through the window and get the fuck away. A blaze lights up the sky.

We drop Mary off at Edie’s place. Edie’s roommate, Odetta, is going to take Mary out to eat and buy her clothes.

I leave behind a stack of bills with strict orders to spend it all or else.

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