Page 6 of Monster
I didn’t need the flashy lights and fake tits of Las Vegas. Although I wouldn’t have said no to the tits right then. Scanning the crowd for a club girl, I came back empty-handed. It was a family only event. There wasn’t one club whore in sight. But I could always get my fill when I headed back to the clubhouse. The night was young and so was I.
A snort laugh followed by a giggle caught my attention, breaking the chilled vibe. I turned my head to find Iris sitting with the other old ladies. Sylvia had her phone out and everyone was huddled around it. Their gazes flicked from the screen to me and then back again as they tried to smother their giggles with their hands.
My eyebrows shot into my hairline. What the hell was going on now? Something obviously was because they were acting like schoolgirls and I would put money on it having something to do with me with the way those eyes kept darting back up and down.
“Something you want to share ladies?”
Darcie shook her head. Sylvia hid her phone in her lap in an effort to act innocent. Iris laughed again, her snort even louder than before. They looked guilty as all hell.
“Can I…?”
I was cut off as Fang slapped a hand down on my shoulder. “We should probably go inside and talk….” He frowned and his eyes narrowed. Turning my head to see what had caught his attention, I frowned. Blue lights, flashing as they made their way down the street.
“What do you think they want?” I wasn’t worried about the police. We had run-ins with them for sure but for the most part, they left us alone. “The neighbours wouldn’t have complained, this is the most chilled get together we have ever had,” I added with a smile in Gypsy’s direction. She was chewing on her lip as she stared back at us. Her phone held loosely at her side.
My frown deepened. What was it with everyone having their phones on them all the time?
“Looks like you’re famous, Monster.” Someone boomed out a laugh from the back. Whoever it was lost in the shadows. “You have your own website and everything.”
“I think they might be here for you.” Fang said tightly, and my attention was drawn straight back to him.
“Me? What the fuck did I do?”
“Oh, I don’t know, videotaped a police chief's daughter and leaked the pictures to the press?” Fang's voice dripped with sarcasm.
I grinned. “Oh yeah.” Standing up, I rolled my shoulders. “Looks like I’m going to meet daddy dearest.”
And when it was over, I wanted to know why everyone was so entertained by their phones.
5
MONSTER
The manin front of me was everything I expected him to be. From the combed over silver hair to the perfectly pressed creases in his pants. Steel blue eyes glared at me from across the table. I was under no illusion that men broke under that stare.
But I wasn’t most men. And I sure as hell wasn’t about to back down. Meeting his death stare with a smirk, I leant back on the chair, crossing my legs at the ankles. For a second, his eyes flicked towards my boots, and then slowly, as if to intimidate me further, he let his eyes drift up higher, lingering on the patches of my cut.
“Monster? Is that the name I should call you? Or…” he flicked open the file on the worn tabletop, “should I call you…”
“Monster is fine, Mr Monroe.” I grinned. I was getting under his skin far quicker than he was getting under mine. I could already tell. “How can I help you today?” I kept my voice even, friendly almost. Like I wasn’t stuck in an interrogation room. My only crime? Banging the old man’s precious daughter. If that was a crime I would have been in prison years earlier given the number of precious daughters I’d had in my bed, and out of it.
“You have quite the record.” He carried on, pretending that he hadn’t already memorised everything in my file. I knew his type. Control freaks. Unluckily for him, I wasn’t the kind of man that could be controlled.
I had met men like him before, several times. Hell, I had been in rooms like this before. It was all so familiar it was boring.
“Is that why I’m here? Because of a misspent youth?”
His eyes narrowed. I had him and he knew it. There was no reason I had been hauled in. Absolutely none. I hadn’t broken any law. At least, none that they knew of anyway, and his daughter was an adult. A very beautiful, very flexible adult.
The memory of the way Angela’s back arched as I lost myself in her made me grin and his frown deepened.
“I am going to level with you MONSTER. I am talking about a crime you committed just last week.”
Leaning back further, I met his eyes. Scratching at my chin, I flashed him the smile that had charmed his daughter straight out of her panties. “Last week? I was away last week. In Vegas.”
For a man who had climbed so high within the police department, the old guy had absolutely no control over his emotions. They warred over his face.
No mask, that was his problem.
