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“Where did you get this?” Lamb said as he stepped back up to the bar, cutting our moment short. Anna immediately cut her eyes to Lamb and the paper he held in his hands. She plucked it back out of his fingers, folded it up, and pushed it down between the valley of herbreasts.

“A source,” Anna said, sounding smug that she’d obviously beaten Lamb to something. But Lamb didn’t seem as bothered as he usually did. Instead, his eyes narrowedonher.

“You shouldn’t investigate this any further on your own,” he warned, his voice taking on a tone that Ididn’tlike.

“Investigate what?” I interrupted, my eyes looking toLamb’s.

“None of your damn busi—” Anna began, but Lamb cutheroff.

“Our new enemy,” Lamb informed me, earning him a betrayed glarefromAnna.

I felt my heartbeat increase and a different heat rise up as I turned my gaze toward her. “You’re looking into him?” I repeated, my voice deep and filled with a warning that told her the only answer I wanted to hearwas“no.”

“You said you wanted everyone on it,” she snapped, her hands moving to her hips as her blue eyes took on a defensive hue. “I’monit.”

“I didn’t say 'everyone,' Anna, and you fucking know it,” I argued, rising from my stool. She jumped to her feet but took a step toward me, my extra foot and a half of height not daunting her in the slightest as she was more than ready to go toe to toewithme.

“I don’t know shit, Wolf. And neither do you. That’s the problem,” Anna hissed, her arms crossing over her chest, near pushing her breasts out. “You always forget that I’m this club’s lawyer whenever it's convenient for you. I get to protect this club howeverIlike.”

“No. You don’t,” I growled, my hands itching to grab her by the hair and drag her back into my room to spank her ass until she fucking understood. “I’m the president of this goddamn club. Not you. When I say I don’t want you meddling in dangerous shit like this, I fucking mean it, and all you’re supposed to do is fuckinglisten.”

“It doesn’t work like that in this day and age anymore, you caveman,” Anna retorted. “I’m not going to sit around like some precious little girl while you big boys go and get dirty formysake.”

“I’m warning you, Anna. Don’t get involved,” Igrowled.

“Fuck you,” she spat, turning on her heels and storming out the door with a bang. I listened to her engine start up and her wheels squeal as she spun out of the compound and onto the road, leaving only silence fillingthebar.

I looked around and saw that the brothers had dispersed during our littlefight.

Only Lamb stood behind the bar, still looking down at his phone and where the absent paperhadsat.

“What did she find?” I asked, looking one last time before I turned back tothebar.

“Information on real estate in the nearby area that’s all been bought by the same buyer. Looks like it’s the guy we want. I just made a call to confirm it, and it’s legit. But with the quality of this info, I don’t like the idea of who this source is, nor who they’re connected to,” Lamb answered, typing more letters on the screen of his smartphone. He glanced at me and my silence and then to the door. “You made her so mad she didn’t even think to hit you once before she left,” he added, readingmymind.

I didn’t like her when she got like this. Hitting me to vent her frustrations at least meant I knew her head was screwed on straight and that she’d just clear the tension between us. When she didn’t, it meant she was carrying that anger around, and I didn’t like itonebit.

I just hoped my bad feeling wasunwarranted.

Chapter Four

Anna

As I stood listeningto the distant sound of cars passing, trying to avoid standing in any discarded trash or touching the damp, mold-covered wall, I was beginning to regret this. I checked my watch for the umpteenth time, reiterating our meeting conditions over and over in my mind despite knowing I was on time and in the right place. I wanted to text him that I was here because I hated to be kept waiting. But I held back, knowing that it was dangerous enough asitwas.

I grew impatient as the clock hand told me he was ten minutes late. I paced up and down the alley, my pulse spiking every time I heard someone walk past the open alleyway. Some would give me a passing look, but thankfully, this wasn’t Fellpeak and nobody knew me here. I was in our neighboring city, which was almost four times the size of Fellpeak and, thus, gifted me the anonymity I needed. The bad thing was that this was Hell’s Runners’ territory. Their compound used to reside in the town just north of us, but since the Grim Reaper’s took them over, they moved it into the city so they could have tighter control over theirinvestments.

I just hoped to God none of them spotted me. The only ones who could possibly know who I was would be Chains, the Hell’s Runners’ puppet president, and Charon, who had been the one to put me in thisstupidmess.

I was here running up my own lead, ignoring the warning Wolf had given me and not giving a shit about doing so. I was as much a part of that club as any of the boys, and I had the right to defend it as I saw fit. The only things that kept me apart were my big tits and two—not one—holes between my legs. I grew up with three brothers, and then and now, I let no man push mearound.

NotevenWolf.

If the fat bastard thought he could get one over on me, he had another thingcoming.

I heard footsteps behind me, and just as I was about to dismiss them as another passerby, I saw the shadow loom up undermyfeet.

I whirled to face the stranger hidden by a baggy hoodie with a logo I didn’t recognize and baggy tracksuit bottoms and shoes. They were about my height with my heels on, but as they shuffled into the alley, I still took a step back, just in case. They reached for the hood that had been almost entirely pulled over their face and looked up at me, and I couldn’t believemyeyes.

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