Page 31 of Allegiance

The devil you knew.

“Well, if you guys are done playing touch the titties,” Zayn began, “we still don’t have a solution for our big PROBLEM.”

Well, someone needed to be a bit more specific.

They had ninety-nine problems, and Chevy and his sex trade were two of them.

Only followed up by the biggest issue.

Dakota.

It was a sad day when one of them was the bigger problem than a man who was in hiding as he sold women into the sex trade.

Someone was making them work for it, and it wasn’t as much Chevy, as another Hunter.

When she heard Zayn starting to bring up work, Jinx went around the table to pour some coffee for them. She knew what he was talking about, and he didn’t mean the asshole hiding from them.

No.

He meant their asshole.

Three days ago, Eve had called her in a panic, and she’d gone to her place to make sure she was okay. She found her sister snake on the bathroom floor in tears.

SOBBING.

And pregnant.

To say it was shocking…

That was an understatement.

Snakes were super careful when it came to birth control, and that Eve had an issue…

Well, it was shocking.

When she finally calmed Eve down and talked her down from the ledge, she and Maura had helped her get a doctor's appointment—which was tomorrow.

Then, it took an hour to convince her that everything would be okay.

Only, no one was sure it would be.

Dakota was eventually going to find out, and that meant a meltdown, freak-out, or mental breakdown.

It was anyone’s guess how he would react.

To make it worse, Eve made her promise not to tell Dakota, putting all of them in a very precarious situation.

Dakota, while a pain in the ass, and a hot mess, was family. He was their brother, just like Eve was their sister. Now, everyone was straddling a line that was eventually going to get them killed.

Without a doubt.

And not telling him?

At first, she believed it was because Eve Knight was going to terminate the pregnancy. That was what they all expected, but she’d surprised them all.

Again.

Yeah, she wasn’t.