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“Gentlemen.” Her voice was sultry and held a hint of amusement in it.

She was sexy as hell and completely overdressed for the occasion, in a silk maroonish dress that hugged her curves and stopped just under her knees.

On her feet were a pair of sleek heels that had her pretty ass painted toes on display.

As my eyes traveled back up her body, she tossed her long, jet-black hair over her shoulder, giving me a full view of her cleavage, and I lost my train of thought until she cleared her throat, bringing my attention back up to her face.

“Who the fuck are you?” my uncle spat, having a completely different reaction to the beauty in front of us.

While I was just a little confused and taken with how sexy she was, he was disgusted and full of irritation.

It took me a second to realize his ass should’ve known her, considering that he’d made the deal, but when I did, I shook off my lust and pulled my gun from my waist. Her guards instantly moved to protect her since they’d given up their guns at the door, but she placed a hand on each of their shoulders and shook her head slightly.

While her level of fearlessness would’ve normally impressed me, in our current situation, I was unmoved.

“Fuck you mean, who is she? You did the deal, you don’t know this broad?”

“I look like I’d do business with a woman?

” He said the word like it tasted terrible, and I side-eyed him.

Like a lot of niggas in our business, he felt like women didn’t belong, and clearly, the sight of one had his mind fucked up because the bigger issue was lost on him.

Now I knew the real reason my pops was going so hard for me to take over.

His incompetent ass brother was out here selling guns to motherfuckers without doing any research on them. Stupid ass nigga!

Shorty let out a hearty laugh, and my eyes shot back over to her.

“Y’all are kinda cute, but as you can see, I’m dressed for a special engagement, so I’ll wrap this up for you.

” She tilted her head mockingly as she looked at my uncle.

“I’m sorry to break it to you, Julio, but yes, you do conduct business with women.

You didn’t know that because you didn’t do your homework.

If you had, you’d know Don was simply an employee of mine?—”

“Okay, and who the fuck are you?” I cut her off, torn between enjoying how fucking good she looked bossing up on us and being annoyed by how long it was taking her to get to the point.

She lifted a perfectly arched brow at me and twisted her red lips.

“Welllll,” she dragged. “I was getting to that. Y’all don’t have to keep being so damn rude.

I’m Raya Morales-Caine. Now, can we get down to the real reason I’m here?

Are these the muthafuckas responsible for my shipment being short? ”

“Yeah, but—” I nodded, about to explain that they hadn’t admitted to it, but she cut me off, pulling a gun from her cleavage, and emptied the clip in them niggas, making my dick twitch.

That was some of the sexiest shit I’d ever seen a woman do, and I knew right then I was going to be fucking her fine ass.

I should’ve been concerned about how she’d even been able to sneak that shit in, but that was the farthest thing from my mind.

Julio, on the other hand, wasn’t feeling that shit at all and immediately aimed his Glock at her while screaming profanities in Spanish. “Man, chill the fuck out.”

Shorty seemed unfazed, putting her gun in the little bag she was carrying, she rolled her shoulders back with a shrug, but I still placed myself in front of my uncle with my back to her. “Move, I’m about to kill this lil’ bitch!”

“For what? We was gone kill them niggas anyway!” I hissed lowly, like I was scolding a child, and the way his ass was pouting, I might as well have been.

I really didn’t know if he was more pissed about her being able to get the gun inside or that she’d gotten to them niggas before he had a chance to, but he needed to calm down.

He had to know whose daughter and wife she was after she dropped her last names, and if he didn’t, it was my job to stop his goofy ass from making a mistake that would have us in a war.

“Nah, fuck that?—”

“Dead. This. Shit,” I ordered through my teeth.

“This is already your fuck up! How the fuck you think my pops gone react when he find out you iced the Rico Morales’s daughter and Dex Caine’s wife?

” Either the mention of my father or of her peoples had him thinking shit over, and he finally tucked his gun back away.

“Excuse me, fellas, but I did say I had a previous engagement, and we haven’t even gotten to my reimbursement yet,” Raya chimed in from behind me, and I turned around with a smirk once I was sure my uncle was going to keep his cool.

“What you have in mind, baby?”

Raya’s expression matched my own as she tilted her head coyly.

“Well, first, I’d like an apology. You two got off quite a few too many broads and bitches for my taste.

” Her nose wrinkled a little as she spoke, and Julio cursed behind me.

“Also, I would like my guns replaced and maybe a couple extra for the inconvenience, along with a discount on my next order.”

“ Sobre mi cadaver! ” (Over my dead body!) Julio spat, and Raya leaned to the side so she could see around me.

“That can be arranged, Julio. It’s not like you’re very important to the organization. Aren’t you just filling in anyway?” Her words had him jumping to get past me, but I shrugged him off.

“No need for all that, shorty, you got it. I’ll get you the pieces you’re missing plus five and a 10 percent discount.”

“Hmmm, make it 20 percent and you got yourself a deal,” she countered, and I ran my tongue across my teeth. Normally, I would have continued to go back and forth with her until she reached a number I was more comfortable with, but we’d already wasted too much time.

“Cool.” I didn’t even acknowledge Julio’s bitching as I hit up my men on the walkie-talkie to bring out her shit. “I’ll walk y’all out.” My feet were already moving, and I fell in step with Raya, whose men trailed behind us.

“You know your uncle’s a liability. If my father or, hell, even my husband had been here, he’d be bleeding out with those muthafuckas back there,” she said once we made it to the black SUV she’d rode in.

“Aye, you fine and all, but keep your mouth off my uncle, shorty. Just to keep shit smooth though, I’ll handle all our business going forward.

” I was surprised she didn’t have some smart shit to say, even though I could tell she was thinking it.

Instead, she shrugged indifferently and held out a business card to me.

“Well, that’s a relief, I suppose, but just in case you want to further discuss…

business. I’m always available, even after hours,” she hinted, letting me know she was on the same shit I was.

Nodding, I tucked the card in my pocket and held the back door open for her, getting a glimpse of her buttery soft-looking thighs when she slid inside.

I couldn’t care less that she was a loose cannon or that her husband was connected.

I was definitely going to see what she was about.