Curvy for Him_The Botanist and the Biker by Annabelle Winters

Author:Annabelle Winters [Winters, Annabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rainshine
Published: 2019-10-20T23:00:00+00:00

6

HAWK

“Me,” I say again, blinking away the last bits of shock from hearing Carl’s low, deep voice on the phone. I always knew Carl was a crafty, conniving motherfucker, more than just a street-thug. Cold like a snake, but smart like a goddamn wolf. I underestimated him. He doesn’t want a war with the Hounds. Not yet, at least. Not until he knows he has an advantage that will guarantee he wins the war.

And I’m that fucking advantage.

“He wants me to join the Vipers,” I say in a whisper, grinning and shaking my head at how Carl seized the opportunity to flip this thing on its head, to jam me in a fucking corner, to trap me like an animal. “He says it’s the only way I can pay back the blood-debt for killing one of his crew. The other option is war with the Hounds, and he knows as well as I do that a war will be bloody, no matter who wins. A lot of us will die in the fucking streets if there’s a war. And the twist is that Carl says he can fix it so that if there’s a war, I won’t be able to stand with my brothers. He got rid of the bodies of the drug-dealers he killed. But he’s got the guy I killed on ice. And with his connections, he can make it so I’m right smack in the middle of a murder investigation anytime he wants. If I say no, I gotta disappear while my brothers are dying in the fucking streets because of something I did! Fuck! He’s got a fucking gun to my head, Helen! What the fuck do I do?”

“Join him,” Helen says, the reply coming so fast I raise my eyebrows. I can see the intelligence blazing behind those brown eyes of hers, and somehow I know that her sharp mind has processed all the options with lighting speed and she’s blurting out the answer. The correct answer, as fucked up as it sounds, as angry as it makes me. “That’ll give us time to figure out what to do next.” She blinks, her eyes darting to the left like she’s thinking. “You said Carl got rid of the guys he killed, right? Which means I’m not in danger any more for being a witness. No bodies, no crime, right?”

I nod slowly, my heart filling with a creeping sense of relief that’s slowly driving away the dread that took root, the sickening feeling of being trapped. She’s so fucking smart, I think as I blink and nod again. And she’s on my side. She’s mine!

I almost break into a smile even though my world just got way more fucked up than I ever imagined. Somehow I know we’re gonna find our way through this together. We’re a team, and she’s got some fuckin’ smarts too. Carl isn’t expecting that. He wants me on his side because I know everything about the Hounds—hideouts, safehouses, weapons stashes, where we keep drugs and money, even where every Hound lives and works.

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