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“I am.” Colton looked down at his phone when it started ringing. It was his brother, and so he answered. “Yes?”

“Where are you?” Nate asked in English.

Ze sat up when he heard Nathan’s voice over the speaker.

“Still at Zaire’s home, we have a plan.”

“Well, I’m at your home, still waiting for you to let me in. See, this is why I need access, Tiger.”

Colton smiled to himself for several reasons. One being how frustrated he knew his brother was having to wait. And secondly, because his brother had decided to help them after all. “I’ll be there shortly. I’m leaving here soon. Wait for me.”

“You owe me,” Nathan said.

“I know.” Colton ended the call and winked at Ze. “Having my brother on board will really help us.”

“I’m not going to argue with that, although I might want to give him a bit of payback for the bullet he put in my arm,” Ze said.

“Let it go, we’re past that,” Colton said.

“Fine,” Ze huffed.

“Okay, let's get downstairs and get you in that box. I’ll wait until they have you in the van before I leave.”

Ze frowned. “Wait, aren’t you going to follow?”

Colton shook his head. “If your plan is to sneak out of here to my home… me following will defeat the purpose, especially if he’s watching us. I trust your club will get you to me safely.”

“And you’re going to make sure he sees you leaving here,” Ze said.

Colton nodded. “Hopefully, he’ll think that I’ve finished the job. It may buy us some time. But more importantly, it will give you all a chance to get to my home. We need to get there using different routes.”

“All right then, let’s go.”

Together, they made it back into the clubhouse the same way as before and Ze went to the bathroom to remove the fake bullet holes from his forehead and chest, then he washed the blood off his face and when he looked up in the mirror, he saw Jimmy standing in the doorway glaring at him. “I know you’re pissed off at me, Prez. I really did think this was something I could handle.”

“Thing is, you probably could have. You managed to kill a senator on live TV without getting caught all the while dodging and surviving multiple run-ins with a professional assassin. If anyone could handle themselves, you can. But that’s not the fucking point. We’re a family, Ze. Club watches out for Club,” Jimmy said.

“I know, I’m sorry,” Ze said.

“We’ll talk about this more later. You just better kill this other assassin if he still comes after you if our plan fails,” Jimmy said.

“I will,” Ze said.

“Box is ready,” Raven said. His long, dark brown hair was in a braid now, which was what he did when he went into enforcer mode. His pretty brown eyes stared at Ze, urging him to get a move on.

“Looks uncomfortable,” Colton said as he examined the box.

“Oh, it will be,” Raven said, smirking.

“Be careful,” Ze told Colton, then kissed him.

“I will. You too, cub,” Colton said.

“Oh shit, you gave him a pet name already? Jesus,” Wolf commented. “I guess it is serious between you two.”

“It is,” Colton said.

“Box is waiting,” Romeo reiterated.