Page 167 of Sweet Temptation

Why meth?

“Methamphetamine doesn’t exactly feel like the party drug of choice at a DJ Summer event,” I pointed out.

“Nope,” Piper agreed. “Feels more like a lowlife dealer tryin’ to get noticed by chicks any way he can. With whatever drug he could get his hands on in quantity, and maybe meth was it.”

Maybe.

“Or maybe he felt like that was the only drug he could safely deal in an otherwise Kings controlled market,” I said.

Piper actually laughed. “The Kings ‘deal’ in marijuana. And if you hadn’t read the news, that shit has been legalized in our fair country. We’re upstanding citizens now. Just like you.”

“Right.”

I’d spent a large part of my life making sure I was nothing like Piper Grayson and his MC brothers. Because there was a time when I’d come far too close to ending up exactly like them—and it still fucking bothered me, when I stood face-to-face with guys like these.

In my mind, we couldn’t be more different.

“Something made Sanchuk take notice of Summer,” Blazer reminded me. “Wasn’t my bedroom he was trying to break into.”

I hardly needed reminding.

“You think maybe we’re blowin’ this shit all out of proportion?” Piper held my gaze, and he wasn’t smiling now. “Maybe we’re way off base here. I mean, maybe it has nothin’ to do with business at all. Maybe it was just those blue eyes of hers that caught his interest.”

“Maybe,” I said flatly.

“She’s got a nice, round ass,” Blazer mused. “Good tits… I’d do her.”

I clenched my teeth.

“You know,” Piper said, “some women just have that addictive kinda pussy.”

No.

Fucking no.

If he was suggesting that Blair Sanchuk had been anywhere near Summer’s…

Nope. I wasn’t getting baited like that.

I breathed slowly, in and out through my teeth.

Piper was studying me, pretty much trying to read my fucking mind. I had no way of knowing if he was keeping anything from me. But he was definitely wondering if there was anything I wasn’t telling him. Trying to rattle me.

But fuck him. I wasn’t letting him use Summer and my feelings for her against me.

He didn’t know I had feelings for her.

And I definitely wasn’t gonna offer up that information.

“Sanchuk never touched her,” I gritted out. “And she sure as fuck never touched him. I really don’t know why he was after her. But I’d love to find out.”

I would. It seemed that the MCs were somehow tangled up in it, maybe. I just didn’t know how.

And I wasn’t sure Piper did, either.

Maybe Sanchuk noticed Summer because of the Ashley/Haz connection. Maybe he saw Ashley at one of her shows, with Haz.

But then again, there was probably an equal chance that it had nothing to do with the Kings or Dirty or the Players at all, and a lot more to do with Justice.

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