“Oh. My. God.” Megan returned to the table where she’d been sitting with Kendall. “Did you want Christopher to shoot Johnnie and Brooks?”
“Of course not, you little idiot. All I’m saying is he loves to make fucking threats. He’s not carrying through on any of them.”
Holding onto his temper by a thread, Christopher reminded himself that this bitch was pushing him to provoke a response. He couldn’t let her win. Maybe, she had made Daphne fuck with him for this very reason.
“Leave Christopher alone,” Megan demanded. “Everything is right where he wants it to be. The club’s running smoothly again. We’re all safe and happy. He doesn’t need to kill people.”
“In your head, he’s a veritable saint,” Kendall said with disgust.
Fee rushed to the table and laid her hand on Kendall’s shoulder. “Please, stop. Meggie hasn’t done you anything. Neither has my brother. You’ve had too much to drink and you’re saying a lot that you’ll regret tomorrow. Johnnie is looking angrier by the minute. Don’t do this.”
Kendall shrugged Fee’s hold off. “Who are you to tell me what to do?”
“Your friend,” Fee answered. “You love Meggie like a sister, so stop being so mean and hurtful. You need to let this all go tonight. Cash has apologized, so let’s go back in the other room and talk about the christenings.”
“You’re right, Fee,” Kendall said softly. “I adore Meggie. That’s why I’m trying to get her to see reason about Daphne. I’m sticking up for her the way she never did for me and my job.”
“Fuck, here we go,” Zoann said on a groan. “How about you join our healthcare company? You already have a small percentage, Kendall. I’ll put aside my need to fuck you up for putting both Val and Christopher’s lives in danger. We can all work together. You’ll be using your legal expertise and we’ll get to have Fee working for us as we’d intended.”
Fee started in surprise. “What do you mean?”
“We were talking about hiring you,” Megan explained. “Kendall beat us to it, though.”
Flushing, Kendall looked away, not wanting anyone to guess the real reason she’d offered Fee the job.
“I like Zoann’s idea,” Megan said. “What do you say?”
“No,” Kendall gritted.
A buzzing noise resounded in the room and Cash sighed, pulling his phone from his pocket. He glanced at his screen. “Fuck, motherfuckers need to keep their cock in their pants.”
“That can’t be you talking,” Stretch said.
“It sure the fuck is,” Cash responded. “When I have to find fucking pills to take care of unwanted pregnancies.”
“You peddle abortion pills, asshole?” Kendall snapped. “You can get into all kinds of trouble. You need to tell whoever to just go to a fucking clinic before you’re sued.”
Cash shoved his phone back into his pocket. “It sounds as if you need a case, Kendall. You’ll be the first attorney I call.”
“I’d tell you to go and fuck yourself.”
“Enough, Kendall!” Johnnie shouted. “We’re going home and you’re sleeping the vodka off.”
She grinned at Johnnie, her mood flipping yet again. “I’d prefer to go home and fuck you.”
Cash turned to Christopher.
Before the motherfucker said fuck-all, Christopher shook his head. “Don’t, assfuck. You fuckin’ lucky you still fuckin’ walkin’. Let this be a fuckin’ lesson learned and call it a fuckin’ day.”
“Thank you, Outlaw. I promise I’m getting to the bottom of what’s going on with Daphne.”
“We’ll see, fuckhead,” Christopher responded, ready for the evening to end so he could get into Megan.
Let’s meet at my house. 9:00PM.
Caught off-guard by Cash’s text as she drove Kendall to a meeting, Fee contemplated the message. One hand on the wheel and the other on the phone, she wondered what prompted the text after five days of radio silence.
Kendall had made it a point to call Fee over the weekend to apologize for her behavior at the get-together at Christopher’s house. Yesterday, she’d accompanied Fee to another naked yoga session. According to Kendall, she’d cancelled a dinner date with Johnnie to spend the evening with Fee, all with Johnnie’s blessings.
Stretch sent Fee a quick hello that she’d responded to in the same manner. Their exchange had been brief. Yet, it let her know he’d forgiven her for trusting their secret to Kendall and it showed he’d been thinking about her. Beyond hello, she hadn’t known what else to say, serving as a painful reminded that she hadn’t bothered to discover a lot about him.