Page 150 of A Lick and A Promise
“Why are you here?” Clarice lashed out.
“Because Shanti wanted me to talk to these women about what to do in a stalking situation,” he fired back.
I hadn’t had the time to ask her, so…
Good call, Shanti.
“Do it, and go,” Clarice returned.
“I’ll do it then state very clearly, these women should stay far away from that mess that’s leaking north from Tucson,” Jayden retorted.
All the Angels on the couch were turning our heads back and forth like we were at a tennis match, and this didn’t stop when Clarice rejoined, “They are not in that.”
“They better not be, because it’ll be on you if I have to console Aunt Tandi after I carry Shanti’s casket into the church,” Jayden replied.
Yikes.
Clarice opened her mouth, but I got in before she could say anything.
“Do you know about the feud?”
From his place behind the couch, Jayden looked down at me. “What feud?”
He didn’t know?
It also seemed Clarice didn’t know.
Was the Chambers family keeping it under wraps?
Could two, essentially, gangs keep something like this under wraps?
Or maybe it hadn’t escalated very far.
Should I tell the cops (or this cop) about it?
I made a decision, because if the cops didn’t know, they should.
“Gypsy and Rocco have broken off from the dad and brothers,” I shared.
Jayden’s face got hard.
It made him no less hot, in fact, it made him more so.
I sallied forth beyond what his expression did to my nipples. “They’re at war. I don’t know what it means?—”
“I do,” Jayden said heavily.
I kinda, sorta did too, in the sense that however that came about it’d be bad, or worse, considering we already had one dead-by-execution guy.
“So? Stalkers?” Clarice prompted.
Jayden moved around the couch so he could take a position leaning against the side of the desk.
Clarice glared daggers at him as he did it.
Though, I didn’t miss the quick peek her dagger-shooting eyes grabbed of his behind.
Seriously.
