Page 55 of His Last Will

Maybe I’ll even think about you when your cock is inside me next time instead of your brother’s.

The way I am going to absolutely destroy her tonight when we get home.

Aiden:

What did I say about lying, little venom? You’ll pay for that.

Ari:

We’ll see.

Reese walks over as I’m pocketing my phone and claps me on the shoulders. “Captain, how feral are you going to be during the playoffs? What are we thinking? Come out swinging or wait a little to show your crazy?”

“Trying to hedge your bets?” I ask as Grant and Hunter follow him over. Reese, with his bad-boy looks and disarming grin, was hard to resist. His well-worn leather jacket is slung over his shoulder, and the helmet hanging loose in his hand meant he rode here on his bike. He lived in the house for his first two years of college, and this year decided to move in with his girl. From what I heard, that blew up, and he was now crashing on the couch when he didn’t have another place to stay, planning on moving back in for his senior year.

Reese had an air about him that drew you in. But he let very few people get close to him. Hell, I only knew a handful of things about the man. People are always following him around and wanting to get his attention. Girls fawn over him. And guys want to get under him. If he doesn’t make captain next year, I’ll let Bosco pee on my face.

Grant and Hunter were Reese’s shadows. Wherever he went, whatever scheme he was in on, they weren’t far behind. Those two had ties to the mafia, though, so they were fine if they got into trouble, but Reese’s background was on a different level. Even from me.

Reese nudges my shoulder and pulls out his smokes. “Maybe, but I’ll never tell.” He winks at me as he lights up. Bumming a smoke from him, I discuss the upcoming playoffs. The first team we are playing is a rival town about fifty miles from us. City slickers who think they can play hockey because their daddies said they could. That will be an easy win. As far as the rest of the playoffs are concerned, we’ll have to wait and see how it shakes up. We wouldn’t play Bishop U until the finals.

Ari:

See… You can follow directions.

I look over and find her eyes on me, and I give her a lazy smirk.

Only for you, little venom.

Well, and maybe one other person. But that’s not an option anymore.

I glance down at my phone and begin typing my response when sudden movement from Reese has me glance up. Reese throws the butt of his cigarette to the ground and is across the room before I can blink, slashing Ari’s red cup from her hand onto the ground. I’m off like a shot. “What the actual fuck, Reese?” Ari is in my arms before she has time to react.

Reese has a firm grip on a blonde girl who is trying to shake him off. Katie, if I remember her correctly. I think Reese hooked up with her at the start of the year. Reese’s tone cuts like ice. “Do you want to tell them, or should I?”

Katie looks up at Reese with terror in her eyes and stumbles over her words. “I don’t know what you’re talking about?”

Reese gives her a hard look. “Oh really, care to explain that?” He nods toward the puddle that formed on the ground from the spilled liquid. In the middle of the puddle is a half-disintegrated white pill. Ari blanches. There are only a few reasons you would put a pill in someone’s drink, and none of them are good.

I bend down and snatch the pill before it can dissolve completely, drying it with my T-shirt. “Katie. You better explain yourself right now.”

Katie rolls her eyes in response. Oh, Katie, you have no idea who you are messing with.

I take hold of her other elbow and gesture to Reese. “Thanks for the assist. Help me get her outside to my car, and then you can go back to the party.”

Reese looks at me like I’ve lost my mind. “Absolutely not.”

“Excuse me?” I say in a deadly tone. This girl is not getting away without answering my questions, and Reese is smoking something other than nicotine if he thinks this girl he fucked once gets a pass.

Reese shakes his head. “Listen. I know what you do.”

I step back, and I feel Ari tighten her hold on me. “What did you say?” I ask him.

“I know more than you think. Your connections might be vast, but mine are bigger and better.” What the hell was this—a biggest dick competition? I highly doubt this man knew what I did with my extracurricular time, even with the power he holds. “Stop looking at me like you’re shocked. I know, Reaper. That’s all you need to know. And after this display, I have some questions of my own that need answering. So, I’m coming with you,” he says, leaving no room for interpretation. Apparently, Reese is coming whether I like it or not. I’m a little amused by his boldness and the audacity that he would know what goes on in my morgue, but I decide to play along. After all, he did save Ari. Plus it will allow me to find out exactly how much he actually knows.

With a tight grip on Katie and my other arm around Ari, I start heading to my car. “Fine, follow me.”

After dropping off Ari at home under the watch of Gage and three other bodyguards, we make our way to my morgue. That was an entire argument that I am sure I will pay for later. Not only did I want Ari safe, I needed to make sure Katie actually lived through an interrogation. Ari might be hot as sin when she’s cutting someone’s limbs off, but questioning a civilian takes a little more finesse and my little venom hasn’t mastered that yet.