Page 30 of Merciless Obsession

“I heard you been showing your ass around here.”

Grinning, I brought my glass to my mouth. “What makes you say that?”

River gave me a knowing look. “Kidnapping, holding the girl hostage, stalking.”

I tittered. “Looks like my big brother’s been running his mouth a bit too much.”

“It’s my job to know if there’s any potential threats to you guys.”

“Trust me, my Bumblebee is a lot of things, but a threat to me isn’t one of them.”

Digging into my pocket, I pulled out two phones. The first one was mine, which I tossed on my lap. I unlocked the other one.

“Ezra.” Lifting my head, I gave him my attention again.

River’s face grew serious. He looked around then back at me. “Do I need to be worried?”

“I don’t get what you mean.” The phone in my hand vibrated.

I glanced down at the screen. It was a text message from Inaya to Ziora. While I had her phone, I had a guy I knew clone it for me. Whatever messages or notifications she got on her phone I would get too.

“You know what I mean, Ezra. Do I need to be on standby?”

“Everything’s good. This is different than before.”

I scrolled up through the messages between Ziora and Inaya since she had her phone back. It’d been three days since I released her, but that didn’t mean I left her alone. Ziora had been locked in her house since then.

“Okay. I just don’t want you to go off the deep end again.”

“That was a long time ago and a different situation.”

“A’right I’ll let it go.” He stood. “Your brother needs me, I’ll see you later.”

I nodded and kept going through the texts. Seemed like Ziora planned on going to speak with a girl’s family she was recently sent information about. Apparently, this wasn’t anything new for her. She often went to speak to the victims’ families after hearing about their daughters going missing.

“Hey Ezra, long time no see.” I glanced up. Star, one of my favorite dancers here, was standing in front of me in nothing but a bright pink G-string and silver pasties on her nipples.

“Star.” I licked my lips and ran my eyes over her body. Normally seeing her would indicate a fun night for me. Nazai didn’t allow sex in his clubs, but sometimes I would dip off withStar. It had been a minute since the two of us did anything close to that though.

“You came here for some fun?” She batted her lashes and tucked her bottom lip into her mouth with a sultry look in her eyes. Before I finally got my hands on Ziora I would have taken her off on her offer. Too bad for Star my attention had been stolen and never given back. The only woman who could wake The Prince up now was the freckle-faced brainiac across town.

“Not tonight ,Star.”

She poked her bottom lip out. “You sure?” She slid down on my lap and wrapped her arms around my neck. Her hand ran down the front of my chest. Her full breasts pressed into me. I waited to see if my dick would react, but nothing.

“I’m sure, sweetheart.” My attention went back to the phone.

Inaya was telling Ziora to not go talk to the girl’s family alone, but Ziora assured her she would be fine.

“How about a dance then?”

“What?”

“A dance? Let me dance for you?”

“Yeah okay, sure.”

The weight of Star’s body lifted off me. I clicked out of the text and went to Ziora’s emails. According to my guy, anything encrypted that came over would still be encrypted unless I had the information needed to decrypt them. Her main email was accessible but her blogger account was what I couldn’t get into. Anything connected toShadows of Silver Stonewas locked up tight. I planned on having Emmet take a run at it, but according to him, he had other things to handle at the moment.