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“I’m trying not to. Anyway, what’s the word with the Creeps?”
“They’re going to try to hit us. We need to watch our asses with them, Marco. They’re dangerous. Worse than we are.”
“I know that. And I sure as shit don’t need a shootout around here with her and Davey that close,” I say, nodding toward her apartment. Not that I don’t think she can handle herself, I know she can. I’ve seen her fight. But bullets are another story. Bullets kill faster than her fists would.
“You really do care about her, don’t you?”
“Yeah, I do. And I’m not sure that’s a good thing,” I admit to him. I’m nothing good. I’m nothing she needs in her life. I’m onlygoing to bring out the bad in her, and I don’t want that. I want more for her.
“So we hit them first,” Tony suggests just as shots ring out. I pull my gun out quickly, as does Tony, and a few of our other members come rushing toward us.
“Where’s that coming from?” Hock yells as we glance around. That’s when I see them. Shit. They’re already hitting us. I aim and fire as the others do the same, but we didn’t realize anyone was coming up behind us. I hear laughter, and just as I turn, a fist lands on my face. I stumble back and nearly fall, but I catch myself. My gun fell from my hand when he hit me. Now it’s nothing but my fists that are going to save me.
I swing back at him, and it’s all-out chaos. I can hear the yelling, the fighting. When we can handle things without guns around here, we do, and that’s exactly what we’re doing right now.
I can hear the sirens in the distance, but that doesn’t stop us. We keep fighting until the cops arrive and pull us apart. That’s when I hear her.
“Marco!” I turn my head right before I’m slammed into the side of the cop car. Luna comes racing toward me, shoving a cop on her way.
“You want to go next?” He roars at her. She flips him off and rushes toward me, only to be grabbed by another cop. Our eyes lock from across the street, and all the air leaves my lungs. The sadness in her eyes kills me. The look of fear. She’s never looked like that. Not since I met her. And that shit kills a piece of me.
“I’m going to get you out! I’ll figure it out!” She yells as she’s dragged back across the street. I give her a small smile, but I know these charges aren’t going to be cheap. They never are. And Ravens don’t have that much saved up right now.
“I’ll come, Marco! I will!” She keeps yelling. I can’t do anything but stare at her. She has the biggest heart of anyone I know, even if she doesn’t see it. Fuck, this girl is messing with my head in ways I never thought she would.
I’m shoved into the back of the police car and read my rights as if I needed them read to me again. I know those motherfuckers by heart.
Once the scene is cleared, the car starts to pull away, and I see her still standing there with her arms wrapped around herself, watching me. She brushes away a tear, and that shit hurts. I don’t want her crying over me.
I’m thankful as fuck when the car pulls off and I can no longer see the hurt in her eyes.
“You’re going down for this one, Vasquez,” the asshole cop taunts as we drive. Fuck him. I don’t care what he has to say.
“You think so? You just happened to show up, and only the Ravens get taken down? Someone has you in their back pocket, right, asshole?” I growl at him. He reaches back and slaps the partition between us as if that’s going to scare me. All it does is make me laugh.
“You thought you wouldn’t go down, didn’t you?”
“I always knew I’d go down, just not like this.”
“And I’ll see to it that you don’t make it out,” he adds. I laugh now. With the right amount of money, I’ll be out. It’s just going to take some time to get that money.
Chapter 13
Luna
I’m in a fucking panic right now. I could ask Damion to lend me the money, but there’s no way in hell I’m going to do that. I just got the job, I can’t ask for more.
Kim has been stuck up my ass since they were taken, and I want to snap her stupid little neck.
“Looks like it’s going to be a girls’ night,” she says.
“What’s that mean?”
“It means we get our guys back in any way we have to. We need money.”
“And?”
“And don’t be stupid, Luna. You’re going to go out there and whore yourself out just like I am.”
