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“We’ll see about that,” Carter murmured.

Lily let Carter bring her closer as his hand skimmed up her exposed back. All the while, she swore she could feel someone watching her.

Someone who wasn’t Carter.

CHAPTER FIVE

“Oh, come on, Tommas,” Abriella said, her cheeks pinking. “You’re such an asshole. How is Lily having a little fun any different than—”

“Stop it, Ella,” Tommas snapped. “It’s entirely different. I keep a damn eye on you when you’re out.”

“Because I come here,” Abriella replied hotly. “And I do it for you. I brought her here so what is the fucking problem?”

“And you shouldn’t have done that, either!” Tommas growled.

“You—”

“Enough, Ella.”

Abriella glowered at her companion.

Damian acted like the two weren’t glaring daggers at one another. In fact, he wished he didn’t know anything about his cousin’s relationship with Abriella Trentini. Tommas was going to get himself killed over that shit someday—Damian was sure of it.

“Adriano took Eve home, then?” Damian asked.

“A few minutes ago,” Tommas confirmed.

“Is he going to keep his mouth shut about the girls being out at a club without supervision?”

Tommas nodded. “Of course, he will. The kid is golden, you know.”

“Fun suckers, the lot of you,” Abriella said with a huff.

“No, we’re keeping you out of shit with your fathers and grandfathers,” Tommas said with a frown.

Abriella sneered. “Right, that’s what you’re doing. Where am I going tonight, Tommy? With you or to Granddaddy’s? How do you plan on explaining that when you drop me off, huh? Maybe you’ll take me back to my apartment where the stupid enforcers are waiting for me like always. I’ve been drinking, right? I can’t drive. God knows you don’t trust a soul around me, so you’ll have to take me home … or maybe we’ll go back to our place and—”

“Stop, Ella. You’re drinking and I don’t want to deal with this nonsense. Do you know the kind of position you put me in tonight?” Tommas asked.

“Like the kind you put me in?” Abriella asked back sweetly.

Tommas’ jaw fell slack. “Ella!”

Ouch.

The girl had balls, anyway.

Maybe Damian could understand why Tommas was doing the crap he was with Abriella—whatever it was. Tommas always had liked his women a little rough around the edges and difficult. Abriella sure fit that bill.

Damian cleared his throat. “All right, enough of this. You two fight or fuck it out. I don’t care. Where’s Lily?”

“On the floor somewhere,” Tommas said, not moving his piercing gaze from Abriella. “She was dancing the last I saw.”

“Thanks,” Damian said.

“No problem, man. It’s only ten; Dino probably hasn’t starting flipping his shit that Lily didn’t show up home, yet.”

Damian waved his cousin’s statement off. No way in hell would Damian be able to take Lily home to her brother without Dino finding out what happened. Especially if Lily was drinking like Tommas said when he called earlier. Dino would not be happy about that bullshit. Better for Damian to get Lily to a safe place for the night and excuse it in the morning when he did get her back home.