Chapter 65
We’re about to leave the gym when Harley comes running into the building.
“Violence?!”
A series of growls come from Tony and my Puppies. Hayes pushes be behind the group who stand around me now, swallowing my height within
theirs.
“Guys! He’s a friend, move!” I push my way through them and launch myself at Harley for a hug.
“Where the hell have you been? You just dropped off the face of the Earth!”
Tony clears his throat, and I remove myself from Harley.
“Oh, uh, Harley, this is Tony, one of my fiancés, Tony, Harley“. They shake hands but I can feel the tension rolling off them in waves.
“Fiancé, huh?”
“Yeah it’s a long story. It all is.”
“But we were just leaving.” Tony states.
“I just got here though, Coach told me you were back in the ring.”
Tony grabs my hand, and my puppies start to close in on me.
“I’ll be back, maybe tomorrow? We can catch up then.”
“Yeah, alright…It was really good to see you, Violence.”
I give a wave just as the guys sweep me out the door.
“I don’t like him“, Hayes says as he opens the door of the car for me.
“Me either.” Tony grumbles out as he pushes in after me.
“Well thankfully for you guys, you don’t have to be friends with the people like.”
Theres a series of grumbles around the car but I block them out. I want friends.
Luciano.
We’ve been questioning this guy for weeks now and he still won’t tell us shit. He’s barely holding on and I’ve had to pull back on our methods of getting information out of him just so he stays alive.
“Anything?” Luca asks as he saunters in for the day.
“Nothing. Not a word, not a trace from our tech team, not a single fucking clue.”
“Well shit. What are we going to do?”
“For now? We need to finish the last bits of organizing the funeral for tomorrow and the family’s lawyer needs Ariana’s signature on their wills.”
We finish up what we need to do just as Ariana and Tony arrive home.
“Angel, welcome home“, I give her a kiss and ask that she comes with me to my office.
“It’ll just take a couple minutes, love.”
Luca bounces up for a hug when she walks in and then pulls her onto his lap.
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