Ride or Fall

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AARON
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"Dragon."

Has she applied enough sunscreen today?

"Hello?"

Why the fuck are those men still staring at her?!

"Dragon!"

She's so fucking beautiful.

"Hey!"

I blink and snap my gaze at an angry Jackson.

"What?" I mumble, keeping my gaze on my girl.

"You keep zoning out on us. We've got a serious problem here, Dragon. What's got you acting like this?" He throws his arms up in frustration and I cast Summer one last glance before giving him my attention. "It's Summer."

"No." I shake my head in denial, but my best friend can see right through me. The corner of his mouth turns upward, and he places a firm hand on my shoulder.

"I love you, bro, but you've gotta remember she's moved on. She's with somebody else now." My nostrils flare at his words, and I shake my head again. "What?" Jackson furrows his dark brows.

"She isn't. I know she isn't."

"You don't think she has somebody else?" Jackson removes his hand and turns his head to look at where she lies on the beach.

"Don't look at her." I grit my teeth and his head snaps to me again and he tilts his head.

"I wasn't looking at her in that way and are you forgetting I'm happily married?" He kisses his teeth and shakes his head in disbelief, mumbling how much of an idiot I am underneath his breath. "Look, Drag, accept the fact that she has moved on."

"No!" I snap and his eyes widen at my sudden outburst and I try to take a deep, calming breath. "She hasn't moved on."

Jackson slowly nods his head. "Okay. Why do you say that?"

"I just know. She's like my sixth sense."

"And what will you do if you find out she actually does have a boyfriend?" He lifts a brow with slight amusement in his eyes because he knows what I'm about to say.

"I'll kill him." I shrug, tucking my hands into the front pockets of my jeans.

"Insane motherfucker." Jackson chuckles before his face hardens again. "But onto more pressing matters. I don't want to get Em and Niko involved because they're busy with the wedding and all, so you're the next one in charge." He walks over to his bike, lifting his seat to pull out some folders and walks back to hand it over to me.

"What's this?" I frown.

"Open it."

I open the folder.

"Who the fuck was able to steal five million from the offshore account?!" I bark out, causing everybody else to go silent and I watch as Shadow makes his way over.

"Somebody skilled." Jackson shoves him with a warning look, knowing I'm seconds away from lashing out.

First, I've got the only girl I've ever loved telling everybody she's with another man, and now I've got to deal with this shit on top of that.

"I've got some of the guys working on it already, but I'm going to say I don't think it was an accident and that we might have a hit on us." I run my hand along my beard and curse under my breath.

"Has anyone made any fucking enemies lately?!" All the men shake their head at my question and I analyse every single one of them. I know Nikolai and Emerson haven't. They've been so loved up recently that I feel like I've already taken Emerson's place and become president of The Devil's.