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“We can't be in here together,” he said right off.
“Why is that? I did what you wanted me to. I lied for Sky. You were there. And Hallow thinks all is well.”
“It's not just that,” Kingpin said, his hand raking through his short hair.
“Yeah, Paisley knows something. For one thing, she knows for a fact Hallow never raped me. She was there. And she knows he and I hadn’t done it before then, not for some time.”
“Did you tell her that?” Kingpin asked.
“No. Must’ve been Hallow.” I didn’t mention the fact he had probably been having sex with her.
“He told me that too.”
I remembered Kingpin asking about it, back when he spoke to Hallow for me.
I was hung up on Paisley. “What takes the cake, that whore seemed certain he and I weren’t together after we broke up, either. Which is true, but how would she know?”
Kingpin held his finger to his lips.
“What?” I all but shouted. It was loud enough out in the bar, we could speak freely. Dimple and my band were playing, “Sweet Child of Mine”. Rome was singing, not Elvis.
“I ain’t going to say anything,” Kingpin explained, his eyebrows high.
My hands flew to my hips. “Why not?”
“Would it even matter to you if Hallow was with Paisley?” Kingpin said, saying it all.
Flying to him, I punched his chest. It was a surprise, but it shouldn't surprise me. “You knew?”
“There's not much I don't know around here.”
“Tell me who else. How many?” Hallow acted like there were too many to count. I knew it but I couldn’t handle it.
Kingpin took a hold of my arms, softly. “I ain’t going to guess or tell.”
I wanted to kill Paisley. She's the one who originally told me he was having sex with the sweetbutts. And come to find out she was one of the whores he was fucking, all along. At least one of them. But I told Hallow I forgave him, so I shouldn’t think about who he was with. I tried to focus on the reason I came to speak to Kingpin in the first place.
“Like I said, Hallow came over tonight. I wish you would have warned me.”
“Warned you? Why? He didn’t hurt you?” Kingpin let go of me.
“No. He said that you made him an officer. Now we have to stay here.”
“I already told you, I need you to stay at Royal Road. You're carrying my baby. I ain’t about to let you leave with that, that, detective.” Kingpin said the word detective like that was the worst thing in the world. “That pig,” he added for good measure.
“Why not? This was all your idea. Hallow thinks this baby is his. And we're back together now.”
“That was quick,” he remarked, scornful.
“What did you expect? He's gone right now to break things off with Steph. He's moving in with me tonight. I'm sure in no time he'll want to go through with the wedding. Again.”
Kingpin backed away. He leaned back on his desk. His face twisted, like he hadn’t expected me to go through with it. The biker seemed more than taken aback.
What the fucking hell did he expect? “And why did you tell him I couldn't have sex?” I asked.
Kingpin closed his eyes.
“Why would you do that?”
