Bow Down(175)
“Tell me.”
“I spoke with Arturo this morning. He wants information, and he doesn’t care if you have it or not.”
“How does that help?”
“We know what we need to get you out of this. If we get Arturo some information, we can exchange that for your freedom.”
She was quiet for a second, chewing her lip and staring at the window. “We can’t,” she said finally.
“What are you talking about?”
“We can’t help them, Rafa. We can’t do that to the Spiders.”
“Fuck the Spiders. I don’t give a fuck about them.”
“I do. I care about them, and I care about the women in this city.”
I sighed. “Cassidy, we can’t help anyone if we’re dead.”
“True, but we’re not worth anything compared to the Spiders.”
“The Spiders are my fucking enemy.”
“Are they?” She stood up. “I’m not so sure. You’re not involved in human trafficking, are you?”
“No,” he said, “I’m not.”
“Then they aren’t your enemy.”
“The mafia is my fucking family. I may not agree with everything, but I’m loyal. I don’t go against my family.”
“Your family is wrong, and you know it.” She paced toward the living room. “I can’t give them up.”
“We don’t need to give them up. We just need something.”
She sighed, shaking her head. I got up and moved toward her.
“I don’t even know how to contact them.”
“You contacted them before. You can do it again.”
She bit her lip. “They messaged me.”
I paused. “When?”
“Recently.” She looked at me. “But you knew that, didn’t you?”
“I suspected it.”
“They offered me protection. I turned them down.”
I nodded, not surprised. The Spiders would definitely want to protect someone like her.
What surprised me was that she had chosen me over them. She seemed to think that the Spiders were good guys and that my people were all bad. She didn’t really know the Spiders, and yet she still had chosen me.
Maybe she realized that I was the only person who gave a fuck about her in all this. The Spiders would probably ship her off to China and hide her in some fucking rat’s nest. They didn’t give a fuck about her.
“If we can contact them again, maybe we can explain. They can give us something.”
She frowned. “What do you mean?”
“We tell the Spiders what we need. They feed us information. We give it to my bosses.”
“Wouldn’t that be lying?”
“Who the fuck cares? The Spiders could lie, or they could give us something real. Either way, we need something.”
She stared at me. “Why are you doing all of this?”
“I don’t know,” I said honestly. “You’re carrying my baby.”
“Maybe, but I wasn’t before.”
“True.” I walked over to her, getting closer. She took a step back. “Maybe I’m tired of all the violence for no reason. Maybe I want a reason.”
“Why am I your reason?”
“You know why.”
“Because you want to sleep with me.”
“That’s a big part of it.” I got closer to her, inches away. I took her by the small of her back and pulled her roughly against me.
“You just want to keep fucking me.”
“You’re damn right I do,” I whispered in her ear.
And then I kissed her hard. She kissed me back, our lips moving together as my hands held her against my body.
Desire erupted through my skin. Everything disappeared except for Cassidy and her perfect body pressed against mine. I could feel my cock getting harder and harder as we kissed.
Slowly, she pulled back and looked at me. “I don’t know what to do,” she said.
“Trust me. You’re right. The Spiders aren’t my personal enemy. If we do this right, we don’t have to fuck them over.”
“Okay,” she said. “I’ll trust you.”
“Good.” I went to kiss her again, but she squirmed her way out of my grip.
“Let me get my laptop from my bag,” she said.
“We can do that later.”
She smiled, shaking her head. “Let’s do it now before I change my mind.”
She disappeared into the bedroom and I was left there with a hard dick and some serious frustration.
Which I fucking loved. I could handle a little teasing.
Mostly because I knew I was going to get what I wanted in the end.
21
Cassidy
I slowly got my laptop from my bag, willing myself to calm down. My pussy was soaking wet and I was breathing deeply. I wanted to go out there and get down on my knees until he gave me exactly what I wanted.