Page 130 of Break Out

“No way. Where’s Simone? You look like you’re going to be sick or something.”

My eyes cut to Torque and he nodded. “Jordan, you gotta leave. It’s for your own good.”

“If something happened to Simone, I want to help.”

I tilted my head. “You want to go to jail?”

Confusion stole over him and he looked at me like I was crazy. “No. Why would—”

“Then leave.”

The confusion cleared and I couldn’t tell if his eyes held respect for me or a newfound understanding of my ruthlessness.

“I can keep my mouth shut,” Jordan said.

Greco clapped a hand on Jordan’s shoulder. “Damn right you can, but the three of us need to talk. How about you head out and see about your Mom. We’ll call you as soon as we know something.”

Jordan’s lips set in an angry line. I expected him to argue more, but with a short head-shake, he turned and left.

“Corrupt Chrome has her,” I said.

“We don’t know that, brother,” Torque said.

“Who else would take her?” Greco asked.

Torque looked from me to Greco. “She’s the daughter of a Riot MC president. Could be one of their enemies, could be someone else looking to fuck with Steel.”

Greco turned an outraged expression to me. “You hooked up with a bitch from the Riot?”

Before I realized what I was doing, I planted a fist in Greco’s gut. “Don’t ever fuckin’ call her a bitch, motherfucker.”

Torque pulled me away. “Calm your shit, Steel.”

Greco kneeled over, panting for breath.

Rafferty ran to us. “Tie thinks Josie brought someone in here. He can’t get a good angle on the name patch, but he’s wearing a Corrupt Chrome cut. They knocked out the prospect at the gate, but kept outside the range of the cameras. Tie thinks Josie knew that nobody keeps an eye on the cameras on Saturday mornings, so nobody saw them.”

Greco straightened. “Why are you trusting him? He isn’t even a prospect.”

I glared at Greco. “He saved our ass three weeks ago, and I need decent members in Jacksonville.”

“Is he a Riot kid, too?”

If someone had said something like that when I was nineteen, I’d have lost my shit. Rafferty had one helluva poker face though. He also kept quiet.

“He is, but he’s considering joining our Jax chapter if you don’t do something stupid right now and fuck that up.”

“Maybe we don’t need a member like him. We hate the Riot MC.”

I shook my head. “That’s news to me, Greco. What the hell did they ever do?”

“Rancid died because of them, and we don’t know where Snake went. If I had to guess the Riot killed him, and we never avenged his death.”

“That happened years ago now, and considering how Rancid died, I’d say it makes shit even.”

Greco opened his mouth to argue more – the man could argue about anything with anybody, but Rafferty spoke.

“Can we move on to finding Jade? If they gave her Ketamine, who the hell knows what else they’ll do to her.”

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