Gabriel Fallen by Nina West

Author:Nina West [West, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

10

Gabriel

“Are you cool, Caleb?”

“Yeah, yeah,” he mutters dismissively.

“Really? Then why are you pacing like a caged lion?” Back and forth in front of the panel of windows, his gaze hard and far away, looking ready to pounce at the first opportunity.

He pauses midstep, as if only realizing what he’s doing now that I’ve called him on it. With a deep breath, he heads to the wet bar to pour himself a vodka.

Jesus Christ. I can’t remember the last time I saw Caleb frazzled. This doesn’t bode well for this meeting and the Perris haven’t even made it up the goddamn stairs yet. “No repeats of what happened with Vic, huh?” I warn him. From what Stan dug up on Merrick and Vince, my guess is that neither of these guys would be as easy to subdue as our cousin, despite their sparkling baby blue eyes.

The two of them are a lot like us, enjoying what life has to offer with fast cars and party weekends. Expect of course for those few years Vince spent in a state pen in his early twenties for a weapons charge—he got off on the violent assault that would have seen him locked up for another decade. And Merrick may be younger and leaner, but he’s been heavily into MMA fighting since he was twelve. He also likes dick as much as, if not more than, pussy, a fact that seems to be under wraps on account of Camillo Perri being a homophobic asshole. According to Stan, Daddy has no idea.

I don’t know what’s more shocking to me—that Camillo hasn’t heard through the grapevine or how the fuck Stan finds this shit out.

Caleb smirks, his tongue darting out to test the cut he earned from our cousin for his efforts. “There’s no pool here. And, hey, I’ve shown restraint before.”

“Oh, you’re right,” I say with mock appeasement. That time we caught a guy in here, trying to crack the Winchester in the wall? Caleb was angling to launch him through the window. I reminded him what a corpse on a crowded dance floor would do for business, and he held back.

He broke both his arms and then threw him down the stairs instead.

I sigh. “Pour me one of those, will ya? And maybe bring a few empty glasses over here, for our guests.” They did agree to fly back here with only a day’s notice, after all.

“Can’t wait until this is over,” Caleb mutters, dumping several crystal tumblers on the edge of the desk.

“Me, too.” The sooner we’re done here, the sooner I can get back to Mercy.

I should have known she’d see the T-shirt this morning. I honestly didn’t think anything of it. But if I had hidden it, we wouldn’t have had this tension. And I wouldn’t have felt compelled to tell her about the illegal fighting ring with the prison in order to explain myself. The very thing I told Caleb I’d never do. He’ll lose it if he finds out. It

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