When Fire Meets Ice

2. Poor choices

The hours on my watch were going too slowly. Attention, I love the course I'm taking in college. Music is my life, but today, after Hayden told me what happened to the last drug shipment, my head just isn't here. I need to go meet Jace, he must know what happened.

You know what happened, Alaska. Yes, my subconscious is right, I know exactly what happened and that is Hayden Hawkins, or better, the Hawkins in general.

After counting the last seconds of the class, I grab my stuff and leave the room in the exact time that the class ends. I'm definitely not going to the rest of the classes; this requires my full attention. I grab my phone and search furiously for Jace's number.

"What the fuck Jace, why didn't you tell me about the deal this morning?" I scream at the phone as soon as he picks the call. "I found out from Hawkins! Do you know how stupid it makes me look? Founding out about my own business for fucking Hayden" I am pissed, really pissed.

"Wow, calm down. I didn't want to bother you. You needed to go to school."

"You're a jerk!" Again, I shout and hung up the phone in his face. I bet that this morning when he called me, he was dealing with all of this shit and had the nerve not to tell me. Fuck him, men are all the same, they think that women can't do the dirty work too.

I speed down campus corridors until I reach the exit. As soon as I get into my car, I left for Clover Casino. He must be there. 20 minutes have passed, and I pull up to the parking lot. I walk over to the huge elevator and press 2.

As the elevator doors open on the second floor, I can automatically see Jace's hair in Charles' office. That piece of shit.

"You were dealing with all of this shit this morning, weren't you?" I stormed in the office and point my finger to Jace's face. I am pissed. I can feel my blood pump trough my veins.

"Wait Alaska, it was me who told Jace not to tell you." Charles gets up from his chair and start to walk up to me. "I knew you would react like this and I can't have you around like a maniac looking for revenge from the Walkers. Remember that the last time that happened I had to take you out of jail because you almost shot Hayden."

"But they stole our shipment. Those drugs were going to make a lot of money." I sat on the white couch letting a sigh escape my mouth. "And I am not a maniac."

"We are going to get them back, Alaska, tomorrow night." I look at Jace and see his smirk. I am liking the idea.

"How?" They start to tell all of the plan. You are not messing with us again, Hayden Hawkins.

Clover casino is hosting a fundraising event tomorrow night and every influent family in Jacksonport is invited.

Yes, I know what you are thinking, we have all of these illegal businesses running behind the walls of the casino, but we like to give back to the community and help the others. And besides that, we have to keep up appearances in the community, as the Walkers are an influential family, and few know about the business we do.

The plan sounded good until I hear what I don't want. "We want the things to go as smoothly as possible, but the Walkers have a lot of guards at the warehouse where they are keeping the drugs. That's why you have to keep Hayden busy all night and preferably you have to steal his phone, so that if things go bad in the warehouse, nobody can contact him." Oh no Charles, you are not asking me this.

"What? So, I'm out of this whole operation and I even have to play Hayden's babysitter? You guys must be kidding me. I am not doing this! I'll go with Jace to the warehouse." First, they keep me out of the news that our drugs were stolen, now they want to keep me out of this plan. This shit is really pissing me off.