Page 54 of Slayin Villain
I stared down into the thick liquid.“What’s there to say?I gave Villain everything.My heart.My body.Hell, I gave him grace when he didn’t deserve it.And he gave his dick to someone else.”
Eve leaned closer.“Is he the baby’s daddy?”
“Yeah,” I croaked.“But he doesn’t know what to do with that.I told him, and he thought I was trying to trap him.Like I’m some club bunny lying about a piss stick to get a patch.”
“That’s bullshit.You’re not just any girl around here.”
I looked up.“Ain’t I?”
“No.”Her tone turned sharp.“You’re the only woman that man lets close enough to hurt him.That counts for something, even if he’s too damn stupid to see it.”
I laughed bitterly.“Or he does see it, and that’s why he keeps running.”
Eve slid her water away.“So what now?You gonna wait around until he figures his shit out?”
“No,” I said, firmer than I expected.
“No?”
“I’m not gonna raise a baby hoping some man grows into a father.I’m not doing that to myself.Or to my kid.”
Eve nodded, serious now.“You thinking about leaving?”
I looked around the bar, the same walls that had once made me feel invincible.Now they just made me feel stuck.
“I’m thinking about telling Kingpin first.”
Eve blinked.“You sure?You know he might flip.”
“He deserves to know.I’ve kept this quiet long enough.Those are the rules.The rules Villain had a hand in writing.A member has to take care of his obligations.”
Eve didn’t argue.Just nodded like she respected the hell out of that.
I found Kingpin in his office, counting stacks of cash with a cigar burning in the ashtray like some kind of outlaw CEO.He glanced up when I knocked, then did a double take when he saw my face.
Yeah, I’d been crying hard.
“Well, hell.Rachel.”
I stepped inside and shut the door behind me.My palms were sweating.My heart thumped like a war drum.
“I need five minutes.No bullshit.”
He leaned back, eyebrow raised.“You in trouble?”
“Depends on how you look at it.”
He gestured to the chair across from him.“Sit.”
I did.And for a second, I thought about chickening out.About walking back out and letting time just run its course.
But then I thought about the baby.
And I thought about Villain still standing in the middle of two women and doing nothing about it.
“I’m pregnant,” I said.
Kingpin didn’t flinch.“Yours?”
