KINGSLEY I’d followed Harper outside to give her an earful and teach her a lesson for waltzing into a party where she was uninvited to run her mouth, but when I saw the fear in her eyes as she stared at the screen of her ringing phone, curiosity made me halt and watch. Whoever she’d gotten on a call with probably held the power of life and death in his or her hands judging from Harper’s trembling fear. That fear that pulsed through her and turned her smart mouth into a stuttering mess was the kind I’d been trying to instil in her for years. But somehow, she always managed to run that nasty little mouth around me. As I walked back into the house brimming with music and some of the hottest strippers I’ve ever seen, there was one thought in my mind. To find out whatever that person at the

