The gangleader and me

Chapter 4

"What the hell did you do to her ?" I ask worried. I caress her cheek and push a few of her hair out of her face.

"We got her in the car and she just blacked out" Nate explains while driving "Must be the alcoohol and emotions she just got"

I nod looking at her sleeping with her mouth lightly opened. Her skin is pale and I can tell that she's cold because she is shivering. I take off my jacket and put it on her. I can still feel the pain in my balls...

" Well after that kick, I kinda get how she could be tired. It must have taken all of her energy to do something as bold as that." I smile a bit and look in the rearview mirror at Nate's amuse look and Tyler is trying to repress a laugh. " Ok you have 2 minutes to make fun of it and then I never want to hear about it again" They nod and I start my watch timer before telling them GO.

" You got beaten by a girl ! Not even a gang member kind of girl ! That was so funny !!" starts tyler before laughing his head of. I roll my eyes at his comment but an amused smile starts playong on my lips as I rethink the moment. I look at Nate and ask him if he as anything to say since there still is like 1 minute on my timer and he says that he's good.

" I didn't think she had it in her. After following her and her friends around tonight, I got to know her a little. I could have said she was sweet, joyful and all but a fighter never crossed my mind !" finishes Tyler turning around to look at her sleeping. "I think I'll call her Tiger " he adds with a smile.

We both look at her before Nate breaks the silence.

" Friends ?" he asks

" Yeah she was at the club with two girls and a dude." replies Tyler looking at Nate.

I pump my fist at the thought of her with a guy but I remenber her pictures with Derek and I know that "dude" was not her man. Derek is or at least was.

"Maybe we should text them with her phone to inform them that she's home. Or else, they will start looking for her and that is probably not a good idea" he adds in a serious tone.

I nod and start looking for her phone in her purse. That is why Nate is my right hand; he always thinks about the details. I unlock the phone and find a picture of her and Derek as her lockscreen. I contain myself from smashing her phone and start writting a text to the last person she texted which was a girl named Alex. I put the phone back in her purse. I look out the window.

When we arrive, I pick up Cassie and carry her to my bedroom. I take her shoes off and put her stuff on the nightstand. I throw a blanket on her. I watch as she sleeps. Then I go to my closet to put my jacket back in, it smells like her now and that makes me smile.

I leave the room and get downstairs. I spot Chris and Derek being back from their little mission. I glare at Derek who looks everywhere in the house. Probably looking for Cassie. I know he recognised her in the alley and I saw his look of anger when I told him to stay with the man.

" Everything went right ? You got the money out of him ?" I ask not leaving Derek with my eyes

" Yeah" Chris answers handing me a white enveloppe. I open it and look at all the money in it.

" Good. We're done for the night. Derek can you come with me to the office ? I need to speak with you."

He nods and follows me up the stairs. I walk to my safe and put the money in it. I turn back at him. Anger is boiling in me. I was about to speak when he cut me off.

" So where is the girl we saw earlier ? " he asks with a concerned look.

I walk to my desk and sit on it. I look at him straight in the eyes and answer.

" She's in my room. Sleeping. She passed out in the car" I reply very calmly not breaking eye contact.

He stands in front of me embarassed and passes a hand in his hair before speaking again.

" Look bro, I didn't want you to find it like this but - "

" She's your girlfriend" I cut him off showing him a picture I got from her file showing her and him hugging yesterday.

" WHHATT ??? No NO NOOOO ! She's my sister ... "

Relief builds in me. She's single. But wait ! Her brother ? That wasn't in her file. And Derek's mom is dead so they can't be related by her. Which means that ...

" We have the same dad." He says as if he could read my mind. I was about to speak but he cut me off. "And no she doesn't know what happened to him or what I do for living ... We hadn't seen each other in five years. When her mom left my dad with her, he erased every link to him and didn't talk to her anymore. To protect her from his ennemies." He paused for a moment "Look, I love her with all my heart and I don't want her getting hurt."

" I like her too and don't intend to hurt her" I say very honestly

" I hope so because if you do, I will have to kick your ass" he says.

We both laugh and I nod in understatement. We leave my office and head to our bedrooms. It didn't seem to bother Derek that I was going to sleep next to his sister. I climb the stairs and entered my room to change in a pair of jogging pants. I lay next to her in my bed. I look at her chest geting up and down due to her breathing and I fall asleep listening to that smoothing sound.