Page 34 of Gypsy Angel

“What are you thinking so hard about over there?” Viper murmured into her ear, wrapping his arm around her neck, pulling her into him, kissing the side of her head.

“How, in less than 3 hours, we’ll be setting up to go up against my family, my blood family. How, while they are blood related, they really aren’t family. They may have similar DNA to me, but my true family is sitting here with me.” Diesel admitted to Viper, looking over at him.

“Damn skippy. You have the best family at your back, willing to go into the fire for you, and beside you. Those people we will be seeing, they aren’t your family. They are just another body that needs to be dealt with.” Viper agreed with her, pulling her in for a kiss.

“I love you.” Diesel slipped out before catching herself.

“Good! I’m not letting you go! I love you too.” Viper announced, sealing the statement with a kiss, sealing that final hole in her heart together with his words.

“About fucking time those two admitted it to one another.” Showalter shook her head, throwing her trash into the nearby trashcan.

“If I admit I love you, too, want to shag?” Kermit asked, wiggling his eyebrows, causing the others to groan at the crack.

“Dude that is the lamest pick-up line I’ve ever heard in all my years of pick-up lines. I thought that douche canoes ‘just call me the professor’ was bullshit.” Pratt groaned, shaking her head as she leaned into Highlander laughing.

Kermit wiggled his eyes at Pratt. “Baby girl, if you weren’t already taken, I’d be bending that ass over my bike and going for a ride. As juicy as that ass of yours looks in them jeans, I don’t know what would be more fun, pounding into you from behind and watching that ass jiggle or smacking it and watching it turn red and jiggle!”

“If ye want to keep breathing in hopes of getting Showalter on ye cock, ye best get the thought of my wife’s arse out of ye head before I not only cut ye cock off, but I’ll also shove it down ye throat as I beat ye arse bloody.” Highlander warned, his eyes going steely as he moved to stand in front of Pratt.

“I love it when he gets all dominant and growly. Totally want to shout, ‘clean up on isle three!’” Pratt admitted as she pulled on the back of Highlander’s jeans to pull him back towards her.

TWENTY-FIVE

The group, minus Kermit who had veered off when they had reached downtown Los Angeles, arrived at their new ‘home’, two hours later. Getting settled in their respective rooms, the men double checked the house to make sure no listening devices or cameras, other than, were found in the home. Once they were satisfied with their set up, they went about setting up security measures around the home and in the yard.

The women unloaded the secret stash of weapons that was left for them and placed them in different places around the house in case they were invaded like they suspect will happen. Their end goal was to end the threat to Diesel and her daughter once and for all.

When the men were finished, they walked into the house to find the four women doing shots of tequila as they looked at schematics for the Eternal Nights club and where the rest of their ‘team’ would be. Things the men were unaware of.

“Who all did you bring without talking to us?” Viper asked, rubbing his face with his hands.

“Aside from Alpha Squad and the rest of your horde with the MC? Just Bravo Squad who will be assisting everyone. You didn’t honestly think that Bravo would just sit back with Showalter walking into the lion’s den did you?” Diesel asked, taking another shot.

“They don’t trust you ladies to look after her?” Viper watched as the four women clinked glasses, laughed at his question before drowning their shots.

“Of course, my team trusts these hussies. It’s you and your boys my team considers the unknown at this point and time. While we trust Highlander and his clan of merry hotties, my team came in case these sexy beauties needed back up. They are technically the back up to the back up.”

“Truth be told, we’d be doing the same thing if the roles were reversed.” York advised Viper nonchalantly.

“So, you basically don’t trust the other to watch your teammates back?” Viper repeated his question differently.

“Again, we trust each other with our lives. It’s not about trusting others. It’s about going through the fire with them because we are family. Family doesn’t go through hell alone. We may not be a blood family, but we are a family forged by blood, sweat and hell. A huge difference there, snake pit.” Pratt advised, shaking her head as she pointed something out to York on the map.

“Snake pit?” Viper repeated, sending Pratt and scathing look.

“Yeah. Your sign is Viper. Vipers are snakes. Venomous fuckers, for one thing. Therefore, snake pit. Duh!” Pratt answered looking at Diesel and rolling her eyes.

“Okay, lass. I think ye have had enough shots.” Highlander advised, walking over to the table to take the bottle away.

“Touch the bottle, Scotsman, and my girl will be a widow before this case even starts.” Showalter, said as she grabbed the bottle before Highlander could. “Now, are you boys done trying to dissect every movement we will make or have made and ready to get down to business? Because the four of us know how each other works, probably better than you and your teams do. I want to get this down and plan for anything and everything. Something tells me tonight is going to be a huge test.”

“Tonight? We aren’t going in until tomorrow night.” Jacko stepped up, arms crossing his chest as he looked at the women.

“Wrong. Tonight, we go and scope out the place. Raso, Phoenix, Gigi and Brocard are already surveying the area. And before you boys start, Kermit and one of your other boys, Houston I think his name is, is with them so they aren’t alone. They’ve broken up into two teams, one of your boys is with each team. There are a few abandoned buildings from what’s been reported so that gives more places for surveillance. Taz is having Oz check to see what’s going on with those abandoned buildings as we speak.”

“Phoenix and Gigi?” Viper asked, looking between the four women and Highlander.

“Phoenix Duong and Gina ‘Gigi’ Riordan are from my team. Phoenix’s last name should be an indicator she’s Asian and Gigi is a girl next door type with her looks but she’s anything but. Those two can blend in any crowd better than a master of disguise expert. Both are former Marines and know what the hell they are doing.” Showalter informed Viper and Jacko without looking up at them as she surveyed the map, pointing to the areas she had mentioned abandoned and where the two teams were setting up.

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