"Don't touch me," I warn her as her hand stops mid-air.

  “Not good enough for you?” she purrs.

  “No,” I deadpan.

  After having a taste of Alice, no one will ever be good enough.

  This is a well thought out business, but I want to know if the boss is the man behind the door, or the one protecting them.

  “Boss will see you, but your guns stay here.” The guy stands in front of me with a tray. Elijah and Warren start laughing. I just hold the guy’s gaze. “It’s what the boss said,” he adds.

  “Well,” I say as I take a step closer to him, “tell your boss that I said that’s not happening. Not when he has five men out here with guns, and we don’t even know how many are in the back. So, he has five seconds to see us, or we start a fight that I think we both know you won’t win tonight.”

  I’m not here to play tonight. I want a name, or at least to scare them enough to come to me themselves.

  The door opens, and the guy nods us in. "Can we kill someone?" I hear Pike ask from behind me.

  "No." Tonight is not about killing; it's about creating enough fear to draw out the family protecting them.

  I don't look around to see who else is in the room, that's Elijah and Pike's job. Warren's job is to make sure if a gun is shot, that it's his first. Mine? Mine is to make sure that the Frost name is the only name they’re scared of, maybe not tonight, but soon.

  As we reach the table, Pike pats my shoulder three times to let me know that three of the men are armed. I place my hands in my pockets and stare at the man sitting behind the desk.

  “Mr. Frost, how was your time in the big house?” he asks as his chair swirls side to side.

  I don’t answer as I get a feel for him.

  "So who is the boss?" I ask, because it's not him. He doesn't have the arrogance or balls to be running this business. There is fear in his eyes, but his body is staying firm, knowing that his protection doesn't fear me.

  I do think the real owners fear the Frost family, otherwise, they would be the face of this, not hiding behind this pathetic loser.

  “I am.” He stands up and walks around the desk. “Name is Ste O'Reilly.” He offers his hand, but I don’t shake it.

  “Now listen here, little boy. We both know you’re the middle man. So tell me which family thinks they can sell guns in my town?” I get straight to the point, knowing that the moment we leave, every detail of his life will be used against him.

  “No family is selling guns in your town. I’m selling guns in my town,” he says, and I have to laugh.

  "This is our town. Every town in London in ours. You have two choices now. One, stop selling the guns and tell the boss to show his face so I can kill him. Two, keep selling and find out what will happen." Taking a step closer to him. "You have twenty-four hours, and to make sure my point gets across, let the boss know we came by with a warning," I say, then turn around to leave the office. I've learnt that sometimes coming to things like this, fewer words spoken is always more.

  “What’s the warning?” he asks.

  Without answering him, we all leave the office.

  “Now?” Warren asks.

  “Go have some fun, little brother,” I tell him as Pike and I make our way to the car. “Elijah, you want to get in on it?” I turn to face him, and he gets his gun out.

  The smile on his face is eager. "I just can't kill them, right?"

  I nod as he walks away from me. Warren will burn the drugs, and Elijah will put a bullet in one or two legs, knees, or arms, where ever he likes as long as it gets the point across to the family hiding behind this stupid group.

  "I want everything on this O'Reilly guy. Something doesn't feel right," I tell Pike as we get to the car, and wait for my brothers. I light up a cigarette.

  I’ve always followed my gut, and something is telling me this is going to be one long fight.

  “I felt it too. What are you thinking?” Pike asks.

  "Nothing yet. Without really finding out who is behind this, what can I do?" I turn to him. "All we can do is fish them out until the cowards show themselves. Until then, I will have Elijah on them."

  I will have Elijah and Warren find where they are selling guns on the streets and shut them down one by one. The family behind them has to come out sooner or later.

  "I will see what I can find on him, and have it on your desk in the morning," Pike tells me.

  I watch Elijah and Warren walking to the car with a smile. It's like watching children coming out of a toy shop.

  “Can we kill at least one of them?” Warren asks.

  "Start a war with a family we don't know and Dad will have my head," I tell them. My next stop is to talk to my dad about this.

  I’m hoping he’s heard something during the night. Dad still has a few connections with men who have come out of this world. Some have gone deep underground, and we only call them when we really need them. I know dad won’t ask them just yet. He’ll only ask when we have no other choice.

  “Fine, can I at least have the next guard?” Warren asks.

  As we get in the car to head back, I turn to Warren. “Sure, take your time with him. You want Craig to get him, or…”

  "I will get him. You want me to tell you who it is?" he asks.

  I hear Elijah saying that he wants to torture one as well.

  "Yeah. I want to say hello to them first, and tell them why they're there. Elijah, you can be next," I tell him as I take a drag on my cigarette.

  I know my brothers want to make them pay, make them live in fear, make them feel pain for what they did, so I’m not going to say no to them for it. They didn’t just mess with one Frost. They messed with the whole family.

  ***

  My meeting with my dad got us nowhere. He said there is no new family that has come out. His friends are saying that it's an old family that is trying to get back into the game, or it's someone wanting to push us out of the city.

  Dad said the friends will keep an ear on the ground for us, and my dad made it very clear that we do nothing until we find out who it is, or they come to us. We're not starting a war, and I agreed with him. I want the same thing. At the moment, there is only one war I want to end, finding who paid the guards.

  "How long are you planning on standing there watching her?" Pike asks.

  He knows I've been watching her since her shift started forty minutes ago.

  “So what did you find about O'Reilly?” I say, not answering his question.

  “The file’s on your desk. I’ve got more security on for the week. They might come to get revenge on last night,” Pike says, his voice flat. “I told Elijah and Warren to stay close. If they are going to come here, Craig is ready, and I’m thinking of hiring Vinny as more than a bouncer.”

  “Will he keep his mouth shut?” I ask.

  If you work in the Frost family, you can’t tell a soul about what we do. With Vinny being in the army, I’m not so sure he will be able to do that.

  "We will find out. I will call him up in a bit to ask." Pike stops, and I look over at him. "Vinny, get the customer away from Alice," Pike says into the radio.

  I turn back to her and my fists ball up. It's the same guy from the other night.

  "Tell him to bring him to the office," I tell Pike, and he does. I watch Vinny grab the back of his shirt and walk up the stairs. I look over at Alice as she looks up at me. My eyes move to her lips. Just thinking about kissing her last night makes me want to kill the guy for touching her.

  As the door opens, I turn to face him. The surprise on his face when he sees me makes me smile.

  “Mr. Frost…”

  “Why are you always here, and following my staff?” I ask, taking a step closer to him. Vinny looks behind me, then walks out of the office.

  “She...she said she’s single,” he stutters, “so I thought…”

  I grab the back of his neck, and slam his face on the desk. His hand pushes on the desk to help him to get up, but I push his face harder into the desk and move my mouth closer to his ear. “You talk to her, or even look her way again, and I will make sure you will never be able to fuck another woman again. Do I make myself clear?"

  "Yes...yes. I won't look at her," he pants, then screams when I punch his hand with all my force.

  That doesn't get out all the anger of him touching her. So I do it again.

  "Angel, I think you've broken his hand. He knows not to touch her," Pike tells me, sounding pleased.

  I take a step back from the table, straightening my shirt. “I don’t want to see you in my bar again.”

  Without looking at me, he holds his hand and runs out the office. I make my way to the window as I watch Alice when she sees him running out the bar. His friend jumps up to follow him. She doesn’t look happy. She looks up at me for a moment then starts serving another customer.

  She leans closer to the customer and whispers something to him. What is she doing?

  "Shit," I hear Pike say as I walk out of the office and down the stairs.

  I get to the bar and grab the guy from the back of his neck as I pull him away from Alice's lips.

  “Angel, let him go.” Pike tries to pull me off the guy as I punch his face. “Angel!” I hear him shouting, but I don’t care.

  An arm comes around my neck, cutting off my air. I feel my body giving in.

  "Angel, let him go," Elijah shouts as he pulls me off him. Pike stands in front of me. Vinny holds one of my arms as Elijah loosens his grip.

  I push them all away from me, turning to face Alice. "In my office, now," I shout at her. What the fuck did I just do? I hear Pike shouting to the crowd, I hear a few words as I look down at my hands, now covered in blood.

  I turn to see Alice standing behind the bar. "In my fucking office, now!" I shout, making her body jolt. She starts walking towards the stairs.

  “Elijah has this, come on.” Pike pushes me towards the stairs.

  The office door opens, and before I even look at Alice, Pike hands me a drink. I take the whole drink in one go, then look at her. I grab a towel from the side table and wipe the blood away.

  “You can’t do that, you have no—”

  "Stop!" I shout and see her jump a little.

  "Get out," I tell Pike. He stands there for a moment, making me look at him again. "Now!" He's never stood his ground when I've told him to do something, and it pisses me off.

  He looks at Alice before turning to leave, but I know he’s not gone far.

  I continue to wipe my hands. "What did I tell you last night?" I ask her as I fill my glass again.

  “You can’t stop me kissing or dating anyone. You might be this legend around here, but—”

  “But nothing. I told you, no man will touch you. I get rid of one—”

  "You broke his hand," Alice cuts me off.

  I stalk over to her, and see her body tense up.

  “You’re lucky he walked out of here at all. Then you kiss that guy while I’m watching. No man will touch you ever,” I say.

  “I can’t work under—”

  She stops when I start laughing. "You quit and I will make sure no one in London gives you a job. I'm going to make this easy, Alice. No. One. Touches. You." I say each word slowly, making sure she understands what I've just told her.

  She licks her lips, a big mistake considering that my gaze is on her tongue. Her breath gets harder.

  "Did you hear me, Alice?" I close the gap between us and she takes a step back. I take one forward. "I didn't hear you, Alice," I say as the backs of her legs hit the desk.

  “I’m not with you…”

  I place my finger on her lips to stop her from saying anything else. Sliding my finger down to her bottom lip, I move until my body is only centimeters away from her.

  “I think everyone knows you’re with me, so get used to the idea.”

  Her mouth opens a little, and I place my finger over her lip, waiting to see what she does. My cock is rock hard, and it only wants to go one place. It will get there, maybe not tonight, but it will.

  Alice looks up at me through her eyelashes as her mouth closes around my finger and she sucks slowly. Fuck, she is sexy as hell.

  Her tongue slides along my finger and her teeth scrape lightly against my skin.

  My hand moves to her trousers, undoing the button. I begin to bring her zipper down slowly. She stops sucking on my finger suddenly. Instead of retracting my finger, I bring my index finger to her lips, and she opens. As she sucks my finger harder, I lower her trousers slowly. I pull my finger out as I kneel, using both hands to pull her trousers and lace underwear down.

  I close my eyes as her scent hits me. I push her legs open and open my eyes. Her lips are so fucking kissable.

  One thing is for sure, I will be worshipping this woman until my last breath.

  I look up at her watching me.I bring myself back up to stand in front of her, moving to stand between her legs. I'm going to take my time with her, because she's worth it. I lean closer to her, hoping she will lie down, but she stays firm. She won’t say a word to me, but if this is the game she wants to play, I'm ready to join in.

  I slide my hands up her thighs, intent on pushing her legs open wider. She’s tries to resist me, but my strength is too much for her. I kiss her thigh softly and my hands rub gently up her thigh. Her skin is so soft, so perfect. As I continue to kiss up her thigh, her legs relax under my touch, letting me open them wider.

  As I get to her center, I lick my lips. I kiss her clit, making her legs quiver and drawing a gasp from her lips. Fuck, she tastes perfect.

  Flicking my tongue over her clit a few times, Alice weakens, and lies back on my desk. The motion telling me she wants this too.

  I begin licking from her entrance to her clit. When I flick her clit, she shivers under me. The moment Alice stops fighting me completely, I bring my lips to her clit and suck. Her breathing quickens and her hands move to my hair, pushing my tongue down I push it into her. Alice moans louder.

  She tastes so divine, and she’s all mine.

  As I continue to push my tongue in and out of her, her grip on my hair tightens. I pull away from her for a moment and push two fingers inside and suck on her clit at the same time.

  “Angel,” she moans.

  Fuck it’s perfect. It makes me suck her clit a little harder and push my fingers deeper.

  Alice’s back arches off the desk and my fingers move faster, pulling away from her as I let my fingers work on her. I watch her for a moment, panting as I continue to pleasure her. Her moans are intoxicating.

  I want her to come around my fingers. I brush her clit with my lips, placing a kiss, then take it into my mouth. Sucking and playing as my fingers move in and out.

  Alice screams my name as I softly bite her clit, and her breathing quickens.

  I feel Alice’s walls tighten around my fingers. Her moans fill my office and I know she’s close.

  I push my tongue against her clit and she pulls my face closer. My name passes her lips over and over again.

  “I’m coming,” she screams.

  I drink her up as she spasms around my fingers. My fingers move slower inside her as I wait for her to come down from her rollercoaster.

  As Alice's breathing becomes steadier, I give her clit a kiss and pull my fingers out of her. Slowly, I stand back up the lean down to plant a kiss on her lips.

  As I stand up fully, her cloudy eyes watch me suck her cum off my fingers.

  Alice sits up and pushes me away as she grabs her trousers and puts them on. “You...you,” she stutters.

  Her flustered response makes me smile.

  "You're mine, Alice. Nothing else to say," I tell her.

  She turns around, her gaze shooting daggers at me.

  Alice walks towards the door, but when she tries to open it, I shut it and bring my lips closer to her ear.

  “I can’t wait to taste you again,” I whisper.

  She turns her lips so close to mine.

  "Fuck you." Yanking the door open, she leaves my office.

  I make my way to the window with a smile and watch her fill a glass and down it. When she looks up at the window, our eyes lock for a moment. She breaks eye contact when Drew starts talking to her.

  "Well, she looked...annoyed," Pike says, standing next to me suddenly.

  I turn to face him.

  "But you sure look pleased with yourself," he adds.

  Turning back to Alice, who’s still talking to Drew, I see that Alice has changed. Her body language is tenser. I realize the conversation isn't about me. It must be about something else, but what?

  “You spoke to Vinny?” I ask.

  "Vinny," Pike shouts.

  I turn to face him, needing to get my business mind on. I need to get my mind away from Alice for a moment. She will fight me, but I won’t let her touch another guy, or let another guy touch her.

  “What’s Pike said to you?” I ask.

  "A job within the family?" Vinny looks between Pike and me.

  "Do you know what the family does?"

  Vinny nods his head slowly, clearly not wanting to say the word out loud.

  "If you were a witness to something, or if I told you that you needed to take care of something, what would you do?"

  I look over at Pike, when Vinny doesn’t say anything. Why the fuck does Pike think I can trust him in the family?I turn back to Vinny.

  "I will make my questions simple. Will you kill someone for this family? Will you take a bullet for this family? Last, but most importantly, will you go to the police and tell them?" I ask him.

  If he gives the wrong answer to the last one, he knows he’ll get a bullet in his head.

  “Yes, yes, and no,” Vinny answers.

  I’m not sold on him just yet, but there are things we can do to see if he is telling the truth. Pike will start that game soon enough.

  I nod, and Pike tells him to go back downstairs. As the door closes, I look over at Pike. "Give him a guard. I've underlined his name. Then a few days later, you know what to do," I tell him.

 

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