Reign A Romance Anthology - Nina Levine Page 0,55

Wren.”

“Wren,” she cooed. “Tell me more.”

“What more is there to tell?”

“Loads, Bane. Seriously. You’ll bring her, then?”

“Yeah.” The thought of Wren meeting Bianca actually made me smile a little. They were similar in many ways, and in others, completely different, so we were either going to have fucking fireworks or a fucking campfire where we all sang Kumbaya together. “We’ll see you at seven.”

I hung up the phone then drained my drink. The Dollhouse was closed due to it being a Monday, but I always seemed to come in anyway. Call it habit or call it fucking pathetic, but I lived and breathed this club. Grabbing the bottle of whisky, I poured myself another and sat back in my office chair. I hadn’t told Wren about dinner tonight. But she would come, I knew she would.

“Fuck.” I stood, rearranging my erection that was insistently pressing against my zipper. I had to do something with this energy battering my body. Otherwise, I was liable to skip dinner and just take Wren back to my apartment to fuck. Pocketing my phone, I stalked from my office to downstairs, where the cleaning crew was working hard. A couple of them nodded to me as I passed, then I was stepping outside.

My car was by the curb, and I got in.

“Where to, boss?” Andy asked.

“Take me to the gym. I need to beat the shit out of something.”

We drove in silence, and by the time we pulled up at the boxing gym, I was ready to knock someone the fuck out. So much energy was under my skin, making me fucking jumpy.

“I’ll be about an hour. Come back then,” I told Andy, then walked into the grimy gym. After getting changed, I shut my locker, wrapped my hands, and pulled on my gloves. I went to one of the bags first, hitting it with a combination of jabs, hooks, and uppercuts until my upper body was screaming.

There were other patrons in there, but none of them paid me any attention. At the back of the room, two men circled each other in the ring. I let myself go on the bag, letting out all my frustrations in the hope that when I finally saw Wren again, I wouldn’t unleash my dark side on her too strongly. There was no way I could avoid showing it to her, but I had to do it slowly.

With each combination I worked through, I thought about my little problem with my dealers, wondering what I could do to find out more. Dagger had exhausted his contacts, but I still had one more ace up my sleeve. Bianca’s husband was a cop in LA. Surely, he’d know something about dealers being shot at. I made a point to ask him tonight.

By the time I was done, sweat had poured off me. Outside, it was in the nineties, but in here, it was nudging one hundred. Pulling off my gloves and the wraps, I drank an entire bottle of water, then threw it into the trash. Back at my locker, I grabbed what I needed for a shower, then moved to change rooms taking a peek at my phone while I was at it. It was only a little after twelve.

After showering quickly, I then went back outside. Andy drove me back to my apartment, where I would stay for the rest of the day.

Just as I opened my apartment door, my phone rang.

“Boss?” Dagger said when I answered.

“What is it?”

“Another one of our guys has been taken out.”

Squeezing my eyes shut, I let out a deep breath. “When? Who?”

“That kid, Santiago. In his apartment. Cops are crawling over the area right now, but I managed to get the drugs out before they got there.”

“Fuck!”

“What do you want to do?”

I ran a hand through my hair, thinking about my options. We still didn’t know who it was, and going around killing either Manzetti’s or Sanderson’s men was a bad fucking idea. We needed concrete proof of this.

“I’m going to get in contact with a potential source and find out what the fuck is going on.” I hung up the phone, then stalked to the wet bar. After pouring myself a drink, I drained the amber liquid. What the fuck was happening? One of those fuckers was fucking with my business, and I couldn’t not retaliate. Weakness was a disease I had no intention of catching. “Fuck!” I threw the crystal tumbler at the wall, where it smashed. My breath was

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