Page 7 of Who Wants Pie

“I’m not fucking bragging about it. That ‘gift’ was about you.”

“What?”

“And I don’t spend the weekend picking up topless dancers at the local bars. I was at The Glittery…,”

I cut him off, “I don’t want to know…,” And then he cuts me off.

“My sister works there.”

“What?” I am stunned for a second before reality sinks in, “You’re an orphan. You don’t have a sister.”

“Yes, I do! She was in the system too. My birth mother gave her up like she gave me up. She’s about as old as you and I went to the bar to find her and get her the hell out of there. We have different fathers.”

“Oh,” I'm not certain I believe him or not, but why would he lie?

“Aaron gave me the package and when I opened it there was a card in it with only two sentences and an address on it.” He scrunches his face up like he’s trying to remember. “We have your girl. If you want to ever see her again, come to 1415 Warf Street, that’s all it said.”

A chill runs down my back as memories come back to me. Going into his house and seeing someone standing in the living room. Turning around but not fast enough to keep the woman behind me from sticking something in my arm.

“I didn’t need to know anything else but that. It was addressed to me and I only have one female that would ever be close enough to me to even be considered my girl, and that…is you.”

At his words, the door to the room pops open and in steps the woman I remember and the man that was standing in the living room of Gray’s apartment. Terror courses through me and thoughts of all that could happen in a situation like this have me shaking with fear.

Gray pushes me behind him as the woman’s words catch my heart and make it lurch. “Let’s have some fun with you.”

Oh God! What’s going to happen to me? Why the hell was I ever against being with Gray to start with if this is how everything ends?

Chapter Seven

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Gray

As soon as I see Courtney, I realize shit is about to get nasty. This bitch can’t do a thing without making a mess wherever she goes. The address on the note was a familiar one. It’s down around the docks and has a bunch of houses that the department uses for training. So, without even thinking about it, I go to get what’s mine - my girl. Tinsley.

But before I could step out of my car, I’m get tased by a guy and out of the corner of my eye, someone comes up and jabs a needle in my arm. It must have been Courtney.

“So she’s the reason you won’t fuck me?”

Tinsley’s arms go around my waist and she plasters herself against me like she is trying to hide from all of this.

“She’s the reason you won’t even date me!” This time it’s not a question. Apparently, Courtney can tell how tightly Tinsley is holding on to me too.

“What do you want, Courtney?”

She gives me a vapid smile, “Revenge, Grayson. I want revenge.” Her smile reminds me of a shark grinning, all teeth and no warmth. Hell, I would trust a shark more than this unhinged woman standing in front of us. At least with them, they can’t help it - it’s their nature. She’s just…crazy.

“You see the two of you are in the demo house that’s set to be torched in,” she looks down to check her watch, “five hours. And both of you are going to be front and center for all of the fireworks.”

Tinsley squeezes up around me.

“But first we’re going to have a little fun with you.”

Anger rises up inside of me, “Fuck off! No one wants to have fun with you, Courtney. It’s why I turned you down every time.” I point to the man who is a lot smaller than me, “And if you even think of touching her, I’ll kill you!”

The chicken shit would have never gotten the upper hand on me if he hadn’t snuck up on me and I hadn’t been so focused on getting to Tinsley. But if he even looks at Tinsley, I will rip his fucking eyeballs out. He realizes it too because he worriedly looks to Courtney after he stops moving towards us.

“Fine!” Once she realizes her flunky isn’t going to try to help her, she gets pissy. “Then spend the next couple of hours thinking about what’s going to happen…what you’ve led her to!”

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