“This is my best friend,” I say as I nod to Maz.
“Hey there,” Maz says.
“She needs a drink,” I say. “You’re going to get her a drink, got it? And if you fuck around with her drink, I will cut your balls off and glue them to your forehead. Understand.”
“Yes,” he says.
I let his shirt go and he hurries toward the kitchen to get Maz’s drink.
“That was kind of neat,” Maz says.
“I might as well just lean into this thing,” I say. “I’m anHeir. I don’t really care right now about my family. I’ve figured it out, Maz. I’m in a winning situation here. Cullen is kind of obsessed with me. And he’s nice about it. He moves slow.”
“Too slow though.”
“But I’ve got that figured out,” I whisper with an evil smile.
“You’re really hooking up with Archer Amatti, aren’t you?” Maz asks.
“Something like that,” I say. “But it works. It makes sense. And they kind of know about each other. They haven’t killed each other over me.”
“Yet.”
“True.”
“Look, Jaci, I think this is awesome,” Maz says. “It’s hot. It’s fun. It’s crazy. But at some point you have to realize just how deep this all goes.”
“The mafia thing?”
“Yes.The mafia thing. This isn’t two guys fighting over a pretty girl.”
“Aw, Maz, you think I’m pretty.”
“Jaci, listen to me,” she says. “You need to know that-”
“Here’s your drink.”
We both look at the guy I ordered to get Maz a drink.
“Take a sip of it,” I say.
“What?”
“You heard me, asshole,” I say. “Prove to me you didn’t fuck with her drink.”
The guy takes a sip.
I make him show me the liquid in his mouth before he’s allowed to swallow it.
“I would never do anything to someone’s drink,” he says. “I’m not like other douchebags around here.”
“Do you think Maz is hot?” I ask.
The guy looks at me. “Hell yeah.”
I get closer to the guy. “Do you want to touch her? Naked? Do you want to fuck her?”
“Yes,” he says.