Landon followed the grey car through the streets of Carrion, keeping a careful distance, but not daring to let the car out of his sight. He trailed the car clear across town and as it wound around the corner, Landon halted, not daring to follow, as the car came to a stop. Sitting in the dark of the car, Landon watched as the three men climbed out of the car and approached the curb. Gravitating towards the pulsing music of Destiny Nightclub, the three men vanished through the red front door, a sly smile creasing the face of Nunzio.
Pulling the car around the curve, Landon slowly maneuvered up the street, slowing as he approached the club. He couldn’t see inside the windows, the club was dark except for the strobe lights and the dim lighting above the bar. As he was about to pull off, the club door opened again as a group of excited people poured out onto the sidewalk. Landon rolled his eyes as he quickly recognized them. His cousin, Sonora, shot her arm up into the air, waving excitedly as she called out his name. Raine, his sister, looked decidedly more chipper than she had earlier that day as she wrapped her hands around a new guy. Landon watched, not saying a word as his relatives rushed towards the car. Rumor and Ruin trotted hand in hand. As they approached the car, Ruin pulled Rumor close to give her a sly peck on her lips.
“Hey, Landy!” Rainey said in a high pitched voice. “Mind giving us a ride back to the house, I’m waaaaay too drunk to manage myself…”
“Us too!” Sonora yelled out as she raced ahead, teetering on her stiletto heels.
“Yo, Cap! Mind if we ride along? We walked over from my place on Royce Avenue.”
Guess I’m a fucking cab service now, Landon thought.
Without even a nod of approval, Landon found himself with a carload of people, each of which reeked of alcohol and perfume. Sonora, who had hopped in the front passenger seat in her silver glitter mini-dress, was getting glitter all over the interior of Dustin’s car.
“He’s gonna fucking kill me,” Landon griped quietly. “Now I gotta get the inside of his car detailed because princess has to wear a fucking bag of glitter as a dress.”
“Landy!” Sonora squealed, clearly not hearing Landon’s complaints. “Take us to see Uncle Mikey!”
“Uncle Mikey, huh?” Landon said with a laugh. She made him sound so cuddly.
“Yup, let’s go…” Landon said wearily as Sonora cranked up the radio in Dustin’s car. As “Buffalo Stance” began to play, a groan ripped from his throat.
Before he pulled off, Landon pulled out his cell phone. Texting Letty, Landon typed, “Tell me you have him with you.”
Not thirty seconds later, Letty replied, “Yup. I got him. Safe and sound.”
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
MILES WRAPPED HIS bath towel around his waist as he pulled a comb through his soaking wet black hair. Giving himself a once over, Miles walked out of the bathroom, towel wrapped tightly around his waist. Pushing open the door to Letty’s bedroom, he positioned himself in the doorway with a smoldering smile growing from his lips. Letty, who had cleared off the bed, peered down over her reading glasses at Miles as a bellowing laugh ripped from her mouth.
“Well look what the cat drug in,” Letty said from a pair of pursed lips as she glared at Miles. The look in her eyes was a lethal mixture of sex and scorn. Rage and redemption. Letty peered up at Miles with a pair of expectant eyes. Wearing an elegant white satin nightgown, Letty was even more beautiful than Miles remembered. Miles stared down at her, a look of pure need in his gaze.
“Miles Capadonno… Mmmmmm…Mmmmmm…. Mmmmmm. Blast from my fucked up teenage past,” Letty said to Miles, eyeing him up and down, drinking him down like a delicious glass of chianti.
Letty is saucy. I like that in a woman. Letty doesn’t look anything like the sweet teenager I left behind. She is so much more now.
Moving her magazine off her lap, she placed it carefully on the nightstand beside her. Pulling back the covers, Letty patted the bed, and waved Miles on with a crook of her finger. Miles had a cocky look on his face as he crossed the room, not breaking eye contact with Letty.
“You have no idea how long I’ve waited for this moment,” Letty said as she pulled Miles in bed with her. Curling her arms around his neck, Letty planted a kiss on Miles’s lips, taunting his animalistic nature out of its cage.
A growl resonated from Miles’s throat as he laughed, “I think I have an idea.”