King(40)
Going to the computer, she researched Ramos and Morin for two hours. When she was finished, she cleared the computer of all her searches.
She and King had started rotating apartments. They usually stayed at his penthouse, but when Penni was out of town with the band, she preferred to stay at her apartment. Both of them were more relaxed with their guards lowered on neutral ground.
Evie went to take a shower, dressing in jeans and a t-shirt. She wasn’t going to the club tonight; he would have Henry come by to pick her up after it closed.
She had settled on the couch with a movie she had rented when Penni came in all smiles. “What are you doing tonight?”
“I was staying in until later tonight when King got off. Why?”
“Because Vida, Sawyer and I are going clubbing tonight. Want to go?”
“Yes. Where are we going?”
“Flying Champion.”
“I’ll get changed.” Evie started to go to her room.
“Evie? Can I borrow an outfit?” Evie stared at the blushing woman. “I don’t have anything like… I mean…”
Evie held her door open. “Come into my room, the spider said to the fly,” Evie joked. “I have just the outfit.”
It took them over an hour to get dressed between trying on different clothes and doing their hair and make-up. When they were done, they stared at themselves in the mirror.
“Are you sure this is decent?”
“I never said it was decent. If you wanted that image, you sure as fuck shouldn’t have asked to borrow my clothes.” Evie was wearing her red leather skirt that was even shorter than her black one, which was on Penni. Both wore high heels, but Evie wore a black sequin top that flashed every time she moved while Penni wore a white leather halter top that left a V of flesh bare between her breasts. They had glued the material down so she didn’t have to worry about her breasts popping out. Evie could just imagine men’s horny gazes on the beautiful girl, hoping for a flash of tit they were never going to see.
Evie grabbed both their purses from their closets to swap them out. Dumping the contents of them into the smaller ones wasn’t easy, though.
“Why do you carry so much shit around with you?”
“I forget to clean it out.” The girl shrugged. Evie counted five fingernail files, six polishes, three checkbooks, four packs of gum, and two granola bars.
“You could live out of that purse.” Shoving Penni’s wallet and keys into the smaller purse, she was about to close it when she hesitated and opened her own again, taking out a small package and placing it in the one she was lending to Penni.
“Was that a condom?”
“You never know when you need to be prepared.”
Penni burst out laughing, stopping suddenly when Evie tossed her work purse to the side. “Be careful.” As the gun Shade had let her have slid out, Evie barely caught it in time.
“Penni, you were supposed to keep it close in the apartment, not pack it around with you everywhere.”
“It makes me feel safer.”
“It doesn’t me. You would have to dumpster dive to find it in that purse of yours. I’ll put it over here for now.” Evie placed it under the couch cushions.
Penni looked down at her phone. “Vida and Sawyer are downstairs. Ready?”
“Let’s go have some fun.”
Chapter 17
King picked up his ringing phone. “Yes.”
“She’s at the Flying Champion with Vida, Sawyer, and Penni,” Lou informed him. He was one of his best men, handpicked to keep an eye on Evie while she was in town.
“She’s having a busy day.” Lou had also called him earlier that day to tell him of her meeting with Rabbit before she went back to the apartment she shared with Penni.
“They’re drawing attention.”
“What kind of attention?” When his phone pinged, he took the phone from his ear, touching the screen. He gritted his teeth when he saw how Evie was dressed. His hand clenched around the phone when he put it back to his ear. “If anyone touches her, you’re fired.”
“How in the fuck am I going to do that? You told me not to let her see me.”
“I’m on my way.” He motioned to Henry to get the car. She had texted him two hours ago, saying she wouldn’t be able to see him tonight. However, he had thought she had a headache or wasn’t feeling well.
“Going somewhere?”
King hadn’t noticed Jackal coming down the steps from the VIP room until he spoke to him. Jackal had used him to book an hour of Juliet’s time. Hell, the woman had been begging to give it to him for free for the last six months. Instead, Jackal had paid for his pleasure so the woman wouldn’t get any ideas that there was anything more to it than just sex.