“What?” Marie jumped from her seat and saw Liev following the boy out of the car and patting him on the shoulder and shaking his hand. “Holy s**t. Do you think Eric just approached the bratva king and asked him for help?”
“Eric has worked too hard to get out of a gang in his own neighborhood. He wouldn’t,” her voice trailed off.
Marie shrugged, “if Liev is as vicious as you say he is, Eric’s stepfather might not be long for this world.”
“Marie!”
“Hey, he’s a scumbag who touched a child. I don’t care if it was only once. Kudos to Eric if he asked him to off him because you and I were both too stupid to see what was right in front of our faces. We should have asked Liev to deal with the creepy bastard.”
“We can’t ask Liev to kill off people.” Briar had to admit though, Eric had been far
