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“No!” Ana, Nat and I all say in unison.

“Well, it would have worked on me, just saying,” Chewy grumbles.

The back door opens and closes and we all look up to see if the kids are back, but it’s just Pops wandering through.

“Ladies, what problems are we solving tonight?” He asks, plopping down in a seat next to Chewy, picking up a dark brown dildo and copying Chewy’s exact movements, his large palm cupping the dark balls, eyes on the tip while he jiggles it.

“That is so wrong,” Ana mumbles to no one in particular.

“We are trying to figure out a way to repurpose 100 dildos,” Remy answers.

I jump when Pops slams his down on the table with a thump and then watch closely as he pokes it. It bends one way before bouncing back up again.

“There you go. They suck on to things,” he says as if he discovered gravity.

“Ah, yup.”

He looks around at our blank faces before picking up another dildo, grabbing a cap off the back of the couch on the way past. He steps up to the wall, pulling his arm back and thumping the dildo into the wall, causing it to suction on. Pops nods once in satisfaction and then hangs the cap on the end of the dildo.

“Taadaaa!” He waves his hands around like Vanna White.

“Well, it’s not a terrible idea, I guess,” I shrug and then join the rest of the ladies in creating a row of dicks ready for coats and hats to be hung on them.

Chapter 9

Tav

“Yo, listen up! As you probably know by now, Tav, Blanche and their family will stay with us for a while. That fucker Royal Landry tried to take her boy off the street today. Hit him in the head with a fucking gun. He’s with Switch in his clinic quarters, so we need to keep the music to a minimum tonight boys,”

All the brother’s nod their heads at Marx, and then, surprisingly, to me. “Don’t worry brother, we got you,” Tank says quietly from the seat next to me.

When I first filed into church after my brothers, I had a feeling of belonging come over me. It feels right, like this is where I’m supposed to be. In this room with these men, making the world a better place. I try to do it every day in my work with my siblings, but sometimes there are things we can’t do, lines that we can’t cross when we wear our Tombs Security hats. There, we are the good guys. Here, though, here we are the good guys who sometimes do bad things for the greater good.

“Royal, he’s the one working with Hammer, right?” Dex asks.

“Yeah, brother to the Prophet and the one tipped to lead when he dies,” Marx replies.

I raise my hand because as a prospect I don’t feel right just blurting shit out. Marx runs his hand over his beard and I see him trying to hide a smirk before tipping his head at me to go ahead.

“Royal is also Niko’s father.”

“What the actual fuck? Isn’t Blanche the Prophet’s daughter?” Rhodie growls, the faces of the other brothers like thunder.

“She was forced to marry him when she was 18. Her brothers managed to get her outta there when she was pregnant with Niko. For the past almost 18 years, he’s been trying to get the boy back. She doesn’t know why he’s so important. Royal has many sons older than Niko.”

Wire frowns for a moment before speaking. “Remy and I have been looking into every angle to do with Royal, and we keep hitting dead ends. On paper, he’s just a high-ranking member of Mercy Landry’s flock. Everything we’ve found so far points to a legit church about 3 hours over the state border. There isn’t even a record of a Blanche Landry.”

I want to be irritated that they looked into my Pixie, but I know that in their shoes I would too.

“Try looking into Eden’s Keep. From the little Blanche has told me, the church is a front for a larger commune type set up deep in the woods. Her father set it up before she was born. From the outside, it looks like a legit church, but it’s actually a cult. The kind where old men get all the women and young men get kicked out as soon as they come of age. I’m sure you can all use your imaginations to figure out what it’s like.”

“What the fuck?” Judge mutters.

“So we need to decide how fucking far we want to go. Blanche will help us get to Hammer. In return, she wants to take out what she calls the council members. There are 8 of them,” Marx looks around the room, gauging our reactions.

Fox lets out a low whistle. “That’s a lot of lives to take. She up to it?”

“I’d say she’s more than up to it after watching her jump out of the back of that truck where she’d taken out her own cousin,” Savage says,

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