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nowhere near the size of Chad or Tom. As he turned to survey the room, I saw he had a large scar running down his right cheek.
    This was the man who held my future in his hands.
    I set my drink on the bar and moved away from Teresa, heading straight for Victor. Before I could reach him, my path was blocked by a tall Nordic-looking man.
    “No, you don’t, honey. Victor’s busy tonight.”
    I looked up at his face, ready to give him hell. I’d been waiting long enough to see Victor, and I wasn’t going to wait any longer. But as my eyes reached his face, the words I’d been about to say trailed away.
    His intense blue eyes looked down at me, and a trace of a smile played on his lips. His features were so even and perfect, he looked like he had been carved from marble.
    “You don’t understand,” I stammered. “I’ve been waiting to see him for days.”
    He raised an eyebrow. “I’m sure he’s been looking forward to seeing you, too. But he’s got business to attend to.”
    The way he looked at me told me he thought I was just one of the girls at the bar who had some kind of designs on Victor. His hot gaze traveled down my body, slowly drinking in my curves.
    I flushed and took a step back. I had to keep in control of this situation.
    “You don’t understand,” I said again. “I’m not who you think I am.”
    He leaned close to me, so close I could smell the scent of his cologne. My heart was racing in my chest.
    “I know exactly who you are, Ella.”
    He laughed at my shocked reaction.
    “Who are you?”
    “I’m Jackson, honey. Victor’s second-in-command.” He winked at me. “It’s nice to finally meet you.”
    Suddenly, Nick was between us. His hands rested on my shoulders, possessively. It seemed as if every muscle in his body was tense as he glared at Jackson.
    Jackson’s blue eyes glittered coldly as he surveyed Nick. “Steel.”
    Nick inclined his head slightly. “Jackson.”
    Nick pulled me back towards him. “I can take it from here,” he said.
    Jackson gave us an amused smile. “I can see you have things under control. She can talk to Victor later. He has business to attend to first. In fact, you might want to get Ella out of here for the next half an hour. There’s a particularly nasty case coming up.”
    Nick gave a short nod. “Fine.”

5

    Nick
    As soon as Victor had entered the room, I watched Ella head straight for him. No matter what I said, she didn’t trust me. Not that I could blame her. Jackson arrived out of nowhere to block her path. I didn’t trust him. He’d come too quickly up the ranks to take his place as Victor’s number two. Damien resented him, and so did most of the other men in the crew, but Jackson didn’t seem to care. He wasn’t out to make friends.
    I didn’t like the way he looked at Ella, like a predator.
    I had no right to feel jealous, but I barely managed to quench the fiery desire to knock Jackson out for looking at her that way.
    I led Ella away from him as he watched us in the cool, calculating way he had.
    “Nick, this is ridiculous. You said I was here to see Victor, and now you won’t even let me see him.”
    I looked down at her. “I will. We just have to get out of here for a while.”
    “I’m not leaving.” She folded her arms across her chest and looked so determined that for a moment I was at a loss for words.
    “It’s for your own good.”
    “My own good? I think I’ll decide that thank you very much.”
    “It’s going to get heavy in here. It won’t be pleasant.”
    I reached for her arm, but she pulled away from me.
    “Why? What’s going to happen?”
    Before I could answer, there was a loud cry from behind us. I wrapped my arms around Ella, pulling her back away from the men who were dragging someone into the bar.
    It took three of them to hold him still. The scrawny figure wasn’t much to look at. He still had teenage spots, but I knew he was Darren Mills, and twenty-one years old. He worked at the gas station in