Page 156 of Shattered Pieces

“No more. You’re going to turn into a fucking marijuana leaf soon. No point being sober if you’re just going to smoke pot all the damn time. You’re close to me chaining you up somewhere to detox you again,” Hunter bit out, making Marco roll his eyes.

“I’m fine. You’re the one that needs rehab. She kissed your neck and you almost fucked her in front of everyone.”

“Eat shit.”

“I’d rather not,” he grinned, nudging Tyler. “You’ll let me eat your girl for dinner, right?”

“And breakfast, if you ask nicely,” Tyler joked, earning a sharp swat from me. “I was kidding! Sort of.”

“I think you should just come back to the house tonight,” Caden muttered, and Marco snorted.

“Bad idea. If your mom sees those bruises, cops will be all over it. Your mom cares, and I’m glad she does, but it makes things hard for the rest of us. You guys are known associates of ours now, so they’d start nosing into our business.”

“Why should we care about that?” Caden asked dryly.

“Because if they start digging into our business, they’ll start finding things about Aurora that will get her in trouble. She’s my new murder sidekick,” he said brightly, his arm coming around me as he smacked a kiss on my cheek. “Right, babe?”

I made a strangling motion with my hands and Tyler winced.

“Too soon to make strangling jokes.”

“You’re still on the clock,” Hunter reminded him, turning as a girl called out to him as she approached. She was pretty, her body covered in tattoos and a leather mini dress on with insane heels.

She stopped beside him, her eyes finding Marco beside me. “Fancy seeing you here.”

“I’m surprised the boss let you off for the night,” Marco chuckled, making her shrug.

“Violet’s training a newbie and gave her center stage tonight. She’s doing pretty good,” she answered, flicking her eyes to me before looking back at him. “Did you want company tonight?”

I didn’t mean to tense, but I did. She had no idea who I was, but it was obvious she was trying to brush me off and thought she held some kind of possession over Marco.

“Sorry, babe. I have my hands full tonight. Ocean, Rory. Rory, Ocean,” he introduced us, Ocean’s entire attitude changing towards me in an instant.

“Oh, you’re Rory? Lexi talks highly about you,” she smiled.

“You’re friends with Lexi?” I asked, and Marco chuckled.

“Ocean’s a stripper at Wet Dreams.”

Ocean giggled like it was funny, and I realized girls really did trip over their feet for a piece of Marco. He was hot, sure, but I wasn’t going to fake giggle at him to get his attention.

“One you regularly pay, I bet,” I muttered, making Ocean huff.

“He’s a tight-ass. He only likes to fuck me off the clock.”

I rolled my eyes, not really wanting to picture them in bed together.

“If you’re happy to stick around until late, you can keep me company,” Faris offered, Ocean moving towards him with a smile.

“I’d like that.”

We stuck around for a few more hours, Tyler almost passed out as he made it his mission to drink the damn house dry, and Marco sighed as he helped me carry him out to his car.

“There goes the three-way I was hoping for,” he stated, earning a dirty look from Caden.

“Keep dreaming.”

“Hey, I probably have a better chance than you, asshole,” Marco scoffed, and I opened the back door so Marco could put Tyler inside, buckling him in. I motioned for them to stop arguing, my throat really hurting and telling me I’d overdone it tonight.