Total pages in book: 70
Estimated words: 69759 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 349(@200wpm)___ 279(@250wpm)___ 233(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 69759 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 349(@200wpm)___ 279(@250wpm)___ 233(@300wpm)
I exhale. “Yeah, I know and to be honest, I think Stefan wants to be part of the club. He hasn’t had a sense of belonging and I think that’s why he was doing drugs in the first place. The problem is Giorgio isn’t going to accept it.”
“Yeah, that’s a fuckin’ big problem. I don’t want to mess with your family, but at the same time, I can’t let him go around runnin’ this place into the ground. I’m goin’ to need your help, something I can use to pull him up. If we can’t find anything, I guarantee he’ll bring this club to its knees and I’m not about to let that happen.”
Great.
Now I get to choose. My brother or the club.
“There has to be another way. If I give you something, I’m going against my family. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want any of this...but it’s my family, Riggs.”
He nods. “Know that. Don’t plan on doin’ anything that’ll hurt him. I just need something that’ll make him stop and let it go. Everyone has a skeleton, I need to find out what his is and use it to pull him up.”
“Giorgio is perfect. I’d be very surprised if he had something useable in his secret stash.”
Riggs grins. “You’d be shocked to know just how much the perfect ones have. He’s too controlling and stuck in his ways. He’s like that for a reason. Far as I can see, your dad ain’t that way, so it isn’t genetic. It’s because of something and I’m going to find what that something is.”
I bite my lip.
Riggs takes my shoulders and pulls me close. “I won’t hurt him or his career, I swear that to you. But I am going to find out what I can use to stop him from destroying my club.”
“Fair enough,” I say, and quite frankly, Giorgio needs to be knocked down a few pegs. He’s been a real dick and I’m tired of it. Maybe he needs to be reminded he isn’t perfect.
“Find out what you can for me and I’ll get the club onto the rest. Let’s see what we can dig up.”
Well.
This should be fun.
“HE’LL KILL YOU!” RAMONA gasps, eyes wide. “If he finds out what you’re doing, he’s going to flip a switch.”
I just told her what we plan on doing regarding Giorgio. It’s safe to say she’s not on board with the plan. She thinks he’ll find out and it’ll blow up, tear the family apart and we’ll be back to square one...times ten.
I think she’s wrong, I think Riggs is smart enough to do this undetected and get enough of Giorgio so that he can just have him back down without anyone else finding out. I just hope my brother has a secret big enough that he doesn’t want to risk everything for it.
“He won’t find out I was helping,” I say. “Trust me, Riggs is onto this. He’s just going to act like he found out through Stefan and figured out a way to stop him. He’s not going to drop me in the deep end, and besides, Gg had no problem coming in and threatening us. It won’t hurt to him have a little back in return.”
“I just think you need to be careful. You know what kind of temper your brother has, you don’t want this getting out of hand.”
I smile at my best friend. “It won’t, I swear. Now, tell me something interesting. How’s it going with Adan?”
She rolls her eyes. “Do not even get me started on that giant pain in the ass. If I knew being a nurse was going to be this big of a problem, I would have picked a different career path. He’s angry and moody and doesn’t sleep. He can’t do bloody anything on his own because both his hands are bound. It’s like a god damned nightmare.”
I smother a smile.
“Do not laugh at me, woman,” she warns, wiggling her finger in my face. “I’m hanging on the edge and we’re not even a week in.”
“You’ve got this,” I say, grabbing her shoulders. “You are not going to be beaten by some sexy, angry biker. Look at Riggs and me, anything is possible. Just think of the experience this is giving you. Not every patient is going to be nice.”
She purses her lips.
“Do you have to wipe his bum?”
She snorts so loudly customers turn and stare at her. Then, with wide eyes, she yells, “Eve!”
“Well do you?” I laugh.
She chuckles. “No, he simply will not allow me in there if he’s using the bathroom. It’s his hard limit. I don’t know how he manages, but he does. I can’t say I’m sad about that fact. He’s so gorgeous, I feel like it would take away from that if I had to...”
“Wipe his bum?” I giggle.