King (The VIP Room 3) - Page 20

“Neither. It’s a shipment of black tar heroin. Ramos has a buyer, but the drugs accidently ended up in Queen City when the dumbass carrying it had to drop and hide it before he got arrested. Now Ramos has to come to town to sell it or take a loss, and Ramos doesn’t like to lose money.”

“Where does King come into this? No one sells drugs in Queen City without his approval and giving him a slice of the pie.”

“Ramos doesn’t give a fuck about doing either,” Rabbit answered. “He’s going to sell the drugs then leave without giving King his cut, which means the shit is going to hit the fan.”

“What if King just ignores Ramos, lets him slide under his radar?”

“Ramos has been trying to branch out from New Mexico. He’s testing the waters, so that wouldn’t be a smart move.”

“Dammit.” This was not what she’d wanted to hear. “What’s he going to do?”

“No idea. Maybe you should roll over and ask him tonight.”

Evie ignored his smart-ass comment. “Who’s buying the drugs?”

“A man named Morin.”

“Where’s he from?”

“No one knows. He’s the wildcard. He’s dealt with Ramos before, but that’s all the information on him I could find.”

Evie nodded her head, biting her lip.

“Anything else?” Rabbit started to stand.

“No, I think that will do it. If you hear anything else…?”

“You’ll be the first to know. Bye, Evie.”

“Bye, Rabbit.”

Evie watched her old friend leave, sick to her stomach. King was so close; Evie hated that this one deal could wreck it all. She had to stay to make sure the deal went through without a hitch, and if not, that King didn’t have a new enemy at the end of the day.

She paid her ticket then got up from her table and went outside. She then walked the three blocks back to Penni’s apartment, making sure no one had followed her.

She waited until she was inside the apartment and was certain Penni wasn’t home before she called Shade. He wasn’t going to be happy with what she had learned. She was going to have to buy King some time to clean this mess up.

Shade answered the phone on the first ring.

“Can you talk?”

“Hang on.” She heard him talking to Lily in the background before the sound of a door opening and closing came across the line. “Go ahead.”

Evie explained everything she had learned. “He’s getting out of the business, Shade.”

“Then what’s wrong?”

“There’s a deal going down that could go bad. I have to see how it ends to know if he can walk away clean.”

Silence came from the other end.

“Shade, he’s not involved in the deal; someone’s trying to piss on his doorstep.”

“If he cared about Lily, he’d let them piss then hose the door down after they left.”

“Give him a chance. He’s trying.”

“Evie...”

“Please, Shade?”

“What do you care?”

She didn’t say anything for a minute. “I don’t want to see Lily hurt, either, and losing her dad would hurt her, Shade.” She had played the only card that would work to save King’s life and that was Lily. If that didn’t work, she was out of options.

“Let me know when the deal goes down and what happens. Do you need me to send a couple of brothers down as backup?”

“No, I’m good.”

“Tell me the truth.”

“I’m good, I swear. If there’s any trouble, I’ll call.”

“Okay, you better. I won’t be happy if you get hurt.”

“I won’t.”

“Later.”

“Bye, Shade.” Evie disconnected the call, running her hand through her thick hair.

Going to the computer, she researched Ramos and Morin for two hours. When she was finished, she cleared the computer of all her searches.

She and King had started rotating apartments. They usually stayed at his penthouse, but when Penni was out of town with the band, she preferred to stay at her apartment. Both of them were more relaxed with their guards lowered on neutral ground.

Evie went to take a shower, dressing in jeans and a t-shirt. She wasn’t going to the club tonight; he would have Henry come by to pick her up after it closed.

She had settled on the couch with a movie she had rented when Penni came in all smiles. “What are you doing tonight?”

“I was staying in until later tonight when King got off. Why?”

“Because Vida, Sawyer and I are going clubbing tonight. Want to go?”

“Yes. Where are we going?”

“Flying Champion.”

“I’ll get changed.” Evie started to go to her room.

“Evie? Can I borrow an outfit?” Evie stared at the blushing woman. “I don’t have anything like… I mean…”

Evie held her door open. “Come into my room, the spider said to the fly,” Evie joked. “I have just the outfit.”

It took them over an hour to get dressed between trying on different clothes and doing their hair and make-up. When they were done, they stared at themselves in the mirror.

“Are you sure this is decent?”

“I never said it was decent. If you wanted that image, you sure as fuck shouldn’t have asked to borrow my clothes.” Evie was wearing her red leather skirt that was even shorter than her black one, which was on Penni. Both wore high heels, but Evie wore a black sequin top that flashed every time she moved while Penni wore a white leather halter top that left a V of flesh bare between her breasts. They had glued the material down so she didn’t have to worry about her breasts popping out. Evie could just imagine men’s horny gazes on the beautiful girl, hoping for a flash of tit they were never going to see.

Evie grabbed both their purses from their closets to swap them out. Dumping the contents of them into the smaller ones wasn’t easy, though.

“Why do you carry so much shit around with you?”

“I forget to clean it out.” The girl shrugged. Evie counted five fingernail files, six polishes, three checkbooks, four packs of gum, and two granola bars.

“You could live out of that purse.” Shoving Penni’s wallet and keys into the smaller purse, she was about to close it when she hesitated and opened her own again, taking out a small package and placing it in the one she was lending to Penni.

“Was that a condom?”

“You never know when you need to be prepared.”

Penni burst out laughing, stopping suddenly when Evie tossed her work purse to the side. “Be careful.” As the gun Shade had let her have slid out, Evie barely caught it in time.

“Penni, you were supposed to keep it close in the apartment, not pack it around with you everywhere.”

“It makes me feel safer.”

“It doesn’t me. You would have to dumpster dive to find it in that purse of yours. I’ll put it over here for now.” Evie placed it under the couch cushions.

Penni looked down at her phone. “Vida and Sawyer are downstairs. Ready?”

“Let’s go have some fun.”

Chapter 17

King picked up his ringing phone. “Yes.”

“She’s at the Flying Champion with Vida, Sawyer, and Penni,” Lou informed him. He was one of his best men, handpicked to keep an eye on Evie while she was in town.

“She’s having a busy day.” Lou had also called him earlier that day to tell him of her meeting with Rabbit before she went back to the apartment she shared with Penni.

“They’re drawing attention.”

“What kind of attention?” When his phone pinged, he took the phone from his ear, touching the screen. He gritted his teeth when he saw how Evie was dressed. His hand clenched around the phone when he put it back to his ear. “If anyone touches her, you’re fired.”

“How in the fuck am I going to do that? You told me not to let her see me.”

“I’m on my way

.” He motioned to Henry to get the car. She had texted him two hours ago, saying she wouldn’t be able to see him tonight. However, he had thought she had a headache or wasn’t feeling well.

“Going somewhere?”

King hadn’t noticed Jackal coming down the steps from the VIP room until he spoke to him. Jackal had used him to book an hour of Juliet’s time. Hell, the woman had been begging to give it to him for free for the last six months. Instead, Jackal had paid for his pleasure so the woman wouldn’t get any ideas that there was anything more to it than just sex.

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