“I want a list of any families we’ve crossed.”

  “That is a long list,” Elijah cuts me off. “Do you just want the list of families in England, or all over?”

  "Every family. I have a gut feeling, that's all," I say.

  "Your gut has never taken us on the wrong turn before, my dad says.

  I turn towards him.

  "Warren and I will work on a list,” he says. “Elijah will talk to the Carter family in America, and keep a connection with them at all times."

  "Max called me to say he’s left an envelope at the club, photos of William."

  Time to see if he has been talking to the Young family, so I can get a plan ready to kill them.

  “I will call the Carter family now.” Elijah walks away from us.

  "I have to go to the club, and then I will start on a list." Warren looks between us all. "What is the plan once we have a list?"

  I have two plays in my head. One, kill all the families, or torture them all. I will decide which one I will do once I see them. It will depend on what mood I’m in.

  "Let's see when I get that list," I say and walk away, wanting no more of this conversation. I light my cigarette and walk over to the girls.

  Hearing a little of the conversation as I get closer to them, I realize Alice is begging them to go dancing with her. It doesn't look like anyone wants to do that.

  “As long as it’s my bar,” I add in.

  Alice turns around to face me. “Where else would I go?” She leans in closer to me. “Do you dance?”

  “No.” I’ve never danced in my life, and I don’t plan on starting.

  She stands in front of me and my hand moves to her ass. Alice turns back to the other girls and asks, “Are you two going to come or not?”

  “I work at that place. If I don’t have to spend my nights there, I’m happy,” Drew says.

  "I'm a no too. It's a little hard when I have my brothers watching my every move to get a guy to dance with me." Ellie locks gazes with me. "And thank you, brother, for adding the extra two men to my security. The other five just weren't doing their job, I suppose." Ellie glares at me, but I just stare at her.

  “I have a lot going on at the moment, Ellie. I need to make sure you’re safe. I don’t want to worry about where you are,” I say.

  With O'Reilly, the guard, and now Alice, I have a lot happening at the moment. I don't want to be worrying about who is getting close to Ellie. Her security knows what they have to do. They know they have to call Elijah or me at the end of the night even if there isn’t anything wrong. A problem would warrant an immediate call, no matter what.

  “Alice, I have to go to the bar.” I pull her closer to me.

  I have plans to work up. I've been staring at a fucking chess board that hasn't moved a piece. My grandad always said it's a game about patience, and you have to work slow, watch what the other player is doing. How can I do that when I don't know who my player is?

  “Can you take me home? What am I really going to do at the bar?” Alice asks.

  "I have a few ideas on what we can do." Grabbing the back of her neck, I give her a kiss. "Shall we go? I have things to do." I look over at Pike standing by the car. "Come on," I say as I walk towards the car.

  “What you want to do about Vinny?” Pike asks as I lean on it, inhaling in the smoke of a cigarette.

  “Has he said anything?” I ask.

  The cops arrested him the night Alice went away, and have had him since. Pike said they have beat him up pretty good and tried everything for him to talk, but he's not saying a word. I look over at Alice. She's smiling in front of her friends, but I know she is worried about Vinny. She's been like that all night. The sparkle in her eyes isn't there. The only thing I see is worry, but I still don't understand why she would be so worried about him.

  “Not a word. Time to let him go?” Pike questions.

  "Yeah, let him go," I reply as Alice walks over to us.

  “Loving the car,” Alice says as I hold the door open for her.

  “Glad you like it, especially since you will be getting the same one, so…”

  "It's bulletproof, isn't it?" She places her hand on the top of the car.

  "It is. Now, can we go? I really have things to do," I say. Placing my hand on her lower back, I give her a nudge to get in the car.

  Closing the door after her, I walk around the car and get in, ready for my night of planning.

  ***

  I walk over to where Alice is talking to Amy and Luke, and tell her I just needed a moment to make a call. I don't really want her knowing how much of the devil is really inside me. At the moment, she plays with the idea of the devil. If really she knew how bad it can be, she might not look at me the same.

  "Max dropped off pictures of William. Looks like you were right. The Young family," Pike says. He hands me the photos and I look through them. "You want William brought in?"

  I take a closer look at one of the photos. "Who is this?" I point to the man in the suit.

  When Max came to prison to visit me, he told me some new players we're trying to come on the scene, knowing that the Frost family was one man down. But he told me the family got rid of them.

  Pike takes the photo. “I’ve never seen him. You think this is the big man behind your attacks?”

  "If it is, why? We've never seen him before. Why would a nobody want to attack us?" I ask. I continue to look through the pictures to make sure he's not in any of the others.

  This is all I fucking need, another question mark in my life.

  “Is it a nobody? I mean we don’t know who he is or what the relationship is between him and the Young family,” Pike says.

  I walk back over to my desk. The Young family’s main business is the drugs they sell through their casinos. I need to work on a list of every family who sells drugs.

  “Knock knock.”

  I look over at the door and see Alice walk in.

  “Still talking business?” she asks.

  I look over at Pike, letting him know he can leave. "Pike, call Elijah and Warren to see what they've found out."

  He nods.

  I watch Alice walk over to me. She leans on the desk as I push my seat back a little.

  “Are we here all night?” Alice moves closer to me, slowly sitting on top of me. “I’m bored.” She starts untying my tie. “You promised me something.” Leaning in closer to me, she begins undoing one button at a time.

  “Did I? What was that?” I ask, grabbing a handful of her hair and pushing her to look at me.

  “You were going to keep me very busy tonight, and I plan on getting a taste, first,” she whispers against my lips. She runs her tongue across mine, playfully, before biting my lower lip and tugging on it.

  Her hand moves down to my trousers, opening my belt and button. She slides her hand in and grabs my very hard cock. “Happy to see me?” she whispers in my ear, then softly blows in it.

  "Always," I tell her, and she moans a little as I bite her neck.

  As she begins to stroke me, I lift up off the chair just enough to pull my trousers down for her.

  "Much better," she whispers again.

  Her hand begins moving up and down. Slowly her grip tightens around me. Her lips softly kiss my neck. I feel her legs moving, and I watch her as she moves lower down my body. Her lips are suddenly an inch away from my dick. Alice's other hand plays with my balls for a moment, then she licks her lips. When her eyes lock with mine, she starts sucking on one, and my cock twitches in her hand. The movement makes her pump me a little faster. Her tongue and mouth work on my balls and, fuck, was it pushing me to blow. Leaning my head back as my eyes close, Alice works her beautiful mouth on me.

  The moment her mouth moves away from my balls, I look down at her. Her hand stays, massages my balls. The coy smile and devilish look in her eyes meets mine. I know she can see that I want to fuck her mouth so bad.

  Alice's tongue licks the pre-cum off the tip of my cock and, before taking me, she gives the tip a kiss and a small gentle suck, making sure all the pre-cum is gone. Fuck, it makes my cock twitch even harder in her hand. It's eagerly waiting to feel her mouth.

  Just as I think she is going to suck my cock, she instead takes my balls in her mouth and then lets them go. Each time a loud popping noise escaped her lips.

  As she pops my balls out of her mouth, she licks my cock from base to tip, swirling her tongue around the tip like she’s licking a lollypop. I moan out her name as my hands move to her hair. Her head moves further down my cock. Bobbing her head up and down, my hand takes a tighter grip around her hair. She begins to move faster and, each time, I can feel the back of her throat.

  My head falls back on the chair as her name leaves my lips. She takes my cock out of her mouth for less than a second, to take a breath, but it’s hitting the back of her throat again almost immediately.

  “Alice,” I moan out her name as I start to feel my balls tightening. Alice starts bobbing faster, sucking harder, her hands playing with my balls. My hands push her face deeper, wanting my cock to hit the back of her throat over and over again.

  "I'm coming," I tell her.

  She stops hitting the back of her throat and starts pumping me with her hand as she sucks half of my cock. My body starts to go limp as I fire load after load into Alice's mouth. She swallows every drop. Just when I think I’m done, she sucks me again, and another load shoots down her throat.

  Her hands on my thigh, she sucks one last time before letting my cock escape her mouth. And, fuck, it’s the most perfect mouth I’ve had. Alice does things to my fucking body I’ve never experienced before, and I want her to keep doing it.

  Licking her lips, she sits back on top of my lap. I lift up a little to pull my trousers back into place. Alice plants a kiss on my lips then jumps off me and straightens out her dress. "Can someone take me home? You still have work, and I want to sleep." She turns around to face me, and I start laughing.

  “You use…”

  “Use you? Mr. Frost, I think you got off and…”

  "Well, Miss Fair, I think you walked away before I could even get you off, and I want to taste you." I walk over to her, pull her against my body, and kiss her hard.

  “You need to move faster, Angel.”

  I look behind me as Pike knocks on the door.

  “Work is calling, big man.”

  "If you really want to go home and sleep, Pike can take you. His print will open the door, and I will tell him to log yours into the system, too." Pike knocks on the door again. "Come in," I shout.

  "I'm tired, and I'm working tomorrow. Are you coming over tonight?" she asks.

  "Not sure. I can't promise if I can't fulfil it," I say. I can't make promises to her and then break them. She is the last person I want to think badly of me. "Pike, can you take Alice home?"

  “Yeah.”

  “Oh my god!” Alice runs out of the office.

  I look out the window and see her running towards Vinny. She rushes up to him and gives him a hug. Alice cups his face, and he tells her something that leads them into a conversation.

  “Are you letting Vinny in?” Pike asks.

  That is a question I’ve been asking myself since they took him in.

  “Alice hates the whole security idea, but we both know she needs it. If having Vinny on her will save me a fight, then Vinny is hers,” I tell Pike.

  “Like I said to you weeks ago, Vinny won’t let anything happen to her,” Pike says. “I will ask her when she is ready to go home.”

  “Tell Vinny I want a word, too,” I say as he walks over to the door. My gaze is still locked on them both. The relief in her eyes at seeing Vinny safe is obvious.

  Alice looks at me as Pike tells Vinny I want a word. I give her a small nod letting her know there is nothing to worry about.

  My phone starts ringing, and I take it out of my pocket. “Yes,” I answer.

  "The American said they get their drugs from a family in America. They will find out where they get them from. Warren and Dad are still working on the list, and I'm still writing one here, too," Elijah says.

  I look over at Alice once more.

  "Elijah, what do you make of all this? Do you think I'm over thinking it all?" I ask. I don't know why, but prison has made me doublethink what loyalty we do have. Someone crossed the line by attacking me in there, and now I don't trust anyone.

  "No, someone is playing a game with us, and we are going to find them," Elijah says. He is the only one who will tell me the truth and that I'm not crazy. "Angel, this family sticks together. You have a gut feeling. We are going to follow that feeling. Together."

  “Let me know when we have the lists ready to look through,” I say then end the call. I look back down at Alice and Vinny.

  Pike gives me a nod letting me know that he is taking Alice home, and I watch Vinny making his way to the office. I walk back over to the desk, and Vinny walks in a moment later.

  "What have you told her?" I ask with my back to him.

  "Nothing. I said some asshole came to the bar and started a fight and, once the bar closed, a group of them attacked me."

  I turn to face him.

  "The police wanted to question me, and it took longer than I thought," Vinny says.

  I watch him for a moment as I take a seat. “You will protect, Alice. She is your only priority. I don’t care about anything else. Your life is Alice and nothing else.”

  "Okay. Do I-"

  "No, you're fired as a bouncer. The only thing you need to worry about is Alice." There is nothing else he needs to do but protect her. "You will live in her apartment building, there will be a car outside her apartment when she is home. When she leaves, you are to be her shadow. When she is with me, you will be with Pike. This week, you will talk to him and he will fill you in on the ins and outs."

  Vinny stands there silently and looks at me as my phone rings.

  "Pike," I answer.

  “Our shipment got hit.”

  “How many?” I ask.

  “Our men lost one box. They saved the rest. They killed one, and the other is in bad shape, but breathing,” Pike says.

  I look at Vinny.

  “Vinny is on his way to Alice’s. The moment he walks in the door, you get here and tell them to bring that fucking asshole here.” I end the call. I look over at Vinny and stand up. “Anything happens to her on your watch, I will kill you.”

  "I would never let anything happen to her," Vinny promises.

  Not saying anything to him, I call Elijah and Warren to let them know about the guns. When I look over my shoulder, Vinny isn't there.

  “Angel.”

  "Our shipment was hit. You and Warren go pay O'Reilly a visit."

  I end the call before he can say anything to me. That fucking family is pissing me off now. They think I'm going to sit here and let them take my fucking guns? I call Elijah again.

  “Yeah?”

  “See what they say, then burn the fucking drugs,” I order. If they think we’re just going to sit and take it, they are wrong. The fucking pussy hiding will come out of his hole eventually, and when he does, I plan on making them all suffer.

  "It will start a war," Elijah says.

  "We're in a fucking war already. Maybe this will make them come out so we know who we're fucking having the war with," I shout. All I want is a fuckin name.

  “We will let the pawns know that tomorrow night they burn them all.”

  “Elijah, I want a fucking name.”

  "You want me to get one of O'Reilly’s men so we can torture them?" Elijah asks.

  “No. One of the guys who went for the shipment. We have him,” I reply.

  "Okay. I will call you once I leave the strip club," Elijah ends the call, and I look at Pike walking in to the office.

  I like the fact Alice only lives a few streets away. If I'm here at the bar, and something does happen to her, Pike and I can get there fast. It took everything in me not to empty her apartment and move all her stuff into my house.

  That is a conversation for another day. Not too far, though.

  “What do we know?” I ask him. I know he has been on the phone to everyone he knows who might give us some information.

  "What I know is that it was just by luck that they stopped our truck. They seem like a bunch of no ones. Little people…"

  “Little people? Every big man has a bunch of fucking little people. Look at us! We have pawns everywhere,” I interrupt.

  Every family has men behind them. Every family has loyal people they can count on.

  “I really do think they are lone wolfs. I mean, this guy is high as a fucking kite, and I bet when doc checks the other guy out, he will be the same.”

  Slamming my hands on the desk, I let out a sigh. “They hit our truck by fucking luck?” Taking out my phone, I call Elijah. “Cancel the plan. When you and Warren are free, come to the bar.” Ending the call, I throw my phone on the desk.

  “You need to fucking sleep, Angel. You’re—”

  “I’m nothing. I know there is something big being planned…”

  “Angel, look at me.” Pike stands on the other side of the desk. “I know that more happened to you in prison than you’ve told me. I know you’re hiding something from us, but you need to remember that you’re home and you have a team now. You’re not alone. You need to sleep.”

  He’s right. More than the scars happened to me in prison, and I will admit that it fucked with my head. One day, I know that shit will get me.

  I look away from him. "Go to Alice and get some sleep."

  I hear Pike move from behind me. I take my jacket off the back of the chair. "Elijah and Warren will be over. Tell them what happened."

  “You shouldn’t leave alone!” I hear Pike shout as I reach the bottom of the stairs.

  I wave my hand at him. Alice only lives a few streets away. I think I can shoot anyone who comes close to me.

  I take in a deep breath as I shake the thought of one of the nights in prison. The family thinks the scars are my nightmare. They were fucking heaven compared to the other things they did. When the time comes to get William, he will relive some of what he did to me. The only difference is, he will die at the end of it.

 

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