Part 22 (2/2)

”Nothing I just missed you. Mind if I hang out for awhile?”

”Not at all.” Jonah said pulling me into his side as he walked me towards his office.

In the hall leading to the offices Jonah and I pa.s.sed several people some I'd seen at the house, others I hadn't but with each person Jonah became so angry his arm tightened around me to the point of pain and when he did speak it came out as a growl. ”Give me a minute Olivia.”

I didn't even get to answer before Jonah was pus.h.i.+ng me towards his office. Going into Jonah's office, as I wasn't left a lot of choice I heard Jonah stomp into Denny's office slamming the door shut with a loud bang.

”Nice of you to invite me to the meeting.” Jonah yelled his voice so loud I could hear it clearly even with the door shut.

”You're not a part of what we were discussing so there was no need to invite you.” Denny replied harshly.

”The h.e.l.l I am.” Jonah shot back at the same time the sound of a gla.s.s smas.h.i.+ng against the wall had me jumping back.

”You said you didn't want to be a part of it.” Denny shouted.

”I don't but Vinnie's not giving me a lot of choice. Where the h.e.l.l were you last night? If I don't help you kill Mika's boy Vinnie's going to kill Olivia.”

Oh G.o.d.

”I'll make sure Vinnie never knows you weren't there.”

”How do you plan on doing that Denny?”

”I don't know,” Denny's screamed, ”Just give me some time.”

The sound of feet walking towards the door had me flying into Jonah's office even thought I felt so numb I couldn't feel my legs moving against the ground.

Jonah was going to kill someone to keep me safe.

No, no, no.

That couldn't happen not only would it ruin my relations.h.i.+p with Jonah it would also ruin Jonah and Denny's.

It would ruin everything.

I didn't want to use the information Shark's brother had given me but I now had no other choice nor did I have time to seat around and wait.

I waited for Jonah to fall asleep before I carefully slipped out of bed with Miss Daisy.

We hadn't gotten home till after three, I spent the whole night stuck to Jonah's side after what I'd heard him and Denny talking about. I knew Jonah wouldn't tell and I honestly didn't want him to. So this was my way of offering him comfort, holding on really freaking tight. But even with me holding on to him he was distant, he wouldn't look me in the eyes and he barely talked.

After we got home and into bed Jonah held me but it wasn't like I was used to. Since we started dating Jonah would pin my body to the bed with half of his body, his arms around me holding me tightly, tonight he held me with one loose arm around my stomach his body not even touching mine. It took him at least two hours to fall asleep. It was now five something, I had a killing headache and I was bone dead tired, scared for Jonah and a little hurt that he was pus.h.i.+ng me away.

Creeping down the hall I knocked on Mason's door lightly, there was no answer so I opened the door as quietly as I could. I'd taken half a step inside the room when a lamp came on; Mason was half way off the bed with a gun in his hands pointing at me.

What was it with these boys and their freaking guns?

”Olivia what's wrong?” Mason asked his voice alarmed as he lowered the arm holding the gun.

Putting my finger to my lips I shook my head and used my other hand to point to downstairs.

Giving me a chin lift and thankfully losing the gun Mason followed Miss Daisy and I silently down to the kitchen.

We had barely made it into the kitchen when Mason started talking, ”What's going on Olivia?”

Flipping on the lights I took a deep breath and turned to Mason, ”Yesterday I meant with Shark who took me to see his older brother.”

”You did what?” Mason shouted.

”Chill!” I screeched lunging to Mason and slapping a hand over his mouth. ”You can yell at me after you've heard the whole story.”

Curling his fingers around my wrist Mason pulled my hand away from his mouth and growled at me, ”Talk Olivia.”

”I went to see him because Shark said his brother could help me find dirt on Vinnie so I could get Jonah and Denny away from him.”

”That was not smart Olivia.” Mason bit off so angry with me now I could feel it rolling off him.

”I'm not done. Sharks brother told me something. I wasn't going to do anything with it cause well it's bad but last night I went to see Jonah at the club and I overheard Denny and Jonah talking about how Vinnie wants them to kill Mika's boy and if Jonah doesn't do it Vinnie's going to kill me.”

The air in the room spiked to boiling as I watched Mason's body go so tight I thought he was seconds from exploding.

Taking a deep breath and opening and closing his fist Mason pushed his anger down enough to speak, ”Tell me you got something we can work with.”

”I do but it sucks.” I whispered causing Mason's eyes to snap to my face, ”Vinnie killed Jonah's parents and sister because Jonah's dad was working with a cop to bring Vinnie's whole business down.” The air left Mason's lungs in a whoosh and his hand fell back to grip on to the counter. ”I need your help to meet with the cop to find out what they found that would make Vinnie kill them just to keep him quiet.”

”Do you know who the cop is?”

”Officer Owen.”

Taking another big breath Mason covered his face with his hands muttering the f-word over and over.

”I need this meeting today Mason I can't let Jonah become a killer.”

Pulling his hands away from his face Mason looked at the clock on the wall, ”Give me an hour for my contacts to find him.”

”Thank you Mason.”

Nodding at me I grabbed Miss Daisy off the floor and tip toed back up to Jonah wondering what the h.e.l.l I was going to tell Jonah to get out of the house with Mason.

Chapter 23.

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