Little White Lies (editing)

Lynn Street

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——Boston, Massachusetts——

James smiled at Carol's sleeping figure in his bed. He always held back before with her because he thought she and Vincent were together.

He kissed her bare shoulder before heading out. James was always in charge of underground so only he would check on business while Vincent stayed low.

It's been a week of underground and things have gone smoothly. Last he heard from Vince was 4 days ago to let him know they made it to California. He didn't fail to tell him that he was suffering because Iris wanted to stop having sex until their wedding night, which made James laugh.

In all honesty James and the men owe Iris a lot. Vincent was an entirely different person. A lot nicer and more lenient on family time. James believed part of the reason Vincent never let much time for family was because he didn't really have one.

No one really knows what happened to Vincent's father. He never talked about it with anyone. But what James did know was that he loved his father a lot and has a lot of anger stored for his mother. James sighed in thought  before continuing on his ride.

James made it to the Madden house using the 3 keys it took to unlock the front door and the 5 to unlock the secondary study with the Pride's files.

James loved sitting in Vincent's chair and spinning a bit before getting to work.  Vincent called him a child for it. James laughed to himself thinking about his bestfriend before digging into the work of this recent week.

He was looking through papers when his heart stopped. 200,000 dollars worth of guns and a quarter of their income for the week was missing.

James shot to his feet no longer feeling playful. He searched through every ounce of documentation to see if it was a mistake but it was not. James inhaled deeply.

There was some one working on the inside.

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——Malibu, California——

Iris sat on the sand watching Jolene play with Vincent in the water. Instead of being a normal father and daughter, Vincent was teaching Jolene how to survive if handcuffed and tossed in the water. Of course he did it in the shallow part to avoid Iris's wrath.

Iris smiled lightly to herself. She needed to get out of Boston and this was something in her nature for sure. Maybe Vince would want to move out here one day.

She sighed laying back in the chair letting her eyes flutter shut. Hoping for some peace.

"Get the f*ck up Iris!" Rupert shook her. Iris was about 7 1/2 months pregnant. Her movements have been a lot slower than Ruperts liking.

She wobbled getting up rubbing her eyes. "W-What is it?" She mumbled still half asleep. "We gotta move. Some unhappy men are here we gotta sneak out back."

He gripped her arm dragging her along. Iris tried to ignore the sharp pain in her stomach but it became too much. "Rupert stop!" She gasped. "Hurry the f*ck up or I'll leave you here."

He was moving to fast. Iris was getting dizzy which lead to her vomiting all over Ruperts arm. His face contorted in a nasty anger as he cocked his vomit covered hand back and slapped her across the face knocking her down.