Dangerous Encounter by Riley Edwards

Author:Riley Edwards [Edwards, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951567255
Publisher: Rebels Romance

15

“Calm the hell down,” Wilson clipped.

Calm? Fuck calm. Sloane had been picked up by an Uber and left to go to the club over six hours ago. Six fucking hours of her being alone with Lorenzo—calm was not an option. My head was so full of the multitude of vile, disgusting things that motherfucker could’ve been doing to her, I had no room left to think about anything else—not Elise, not the effort I’d made to look deeper into her friend’s disappearance, not the side-eye I’d caught Sloane giving a shirtless Cole, not the jealousy that spiked, not my reaction to Sloane’s stubborn denial.

I thought Sloane would’ve been relieved she could quit the club. Hell, I was relieved at the thought of her quitting the club and cutting ties with Lorenzo. I needed her far away from the motherfucker so I could keep my eye on the prize—taking him down. Not keeping one eye on her and the other on the scumbag who offered to sell me some poor woman’s virginity.

Fuck!

I could get her fired.

I continued to drum my fingers on the table as I contemplated the option. It would be easy—a total dick move, but easy. Club Joi valued their members over their employees. A simple complaint about Sloane and she’d be free from danger. She’d also be pissed as fuck.

“Whatever it is you’re over there thinking about,” Cole began, “it’s a bad idea.”

I turned to look at my friend and asked, “Why would you say that?”

“Because you stopped the tapping and now you look constipated.”

I flipped him an obscene gesture before I announced, “I’m gonna get her fired.”

“Who are you gonna get fired?” Cole slowly drawled.

“Uh… Sloane.”

“Yeah, that’s who I was afraid you were talking about.”

“It’s the perfect—”

“Way to get your ass kicked,” Wilson finished my sentence.

“Lorenzo is—”

I was again cut off by Wilson. “Going to be taken down.”

“You don’t—”

“Understand?”

My annoyance sparked and I snapped.

“Stop fucking cutting me off.”

“Then stop thinking crazy, calm the fuck down, and go get ready to go to work.”

The cool ocean breeze coming in from the open French doors did nothing to calm me. Nothing to settle the riot of nerves bundled in my chest. Nothing to soothe the worry.

After months of working at the club, we finally had a lead. But it was just a start and there was no telling how deep it went. Was Lorenzo acting on his own, selling girls on the side, or was his father involved? Were there other members who went to Lorenzo to sate their perversions? And there was Elise and the girl who reportedly ran the grounds naked. The woman none of the staff had seen.

I pushed back from the table and stood looking at Wilson. “We need to dig deeper into the staff members who were questioned by the police?”

“We did. They came up clean,” Wilson reminded me.

“Then we missed something. After the club closes a cleaning crew comes in,” I told him something he knew. Not only was the club’s schedule in my reports but Wilson and Cole had both watched the mansion overnight.

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