Page 117 of Golden Atonement

Not even ten minutes later my phone started ringing.

Sighing, I connected the call and heard Savage groan. “What the fuck do you want, King? I was about to make my woman scream to the heavens.”

“Lucas Keller!” my sister screeched while I rolled my eyes. “My uncle did not need to hear that!”

Savage chuckled. “But, baby, I enjoy reminding him of who you belong to.”

“You’re an asshole.”

“Your asshole, baby.”

King growled as Jess quickly said, “Sorry, King. Babe, I need to go. We can finish this later.”

“But I want to finish now,” Savage whined.

“Later,” we all heard her clearly say as she smacked a kiss on the man and he growled. “This better be fucking good, asshole.”

Wasting no time, King asked, “Why were my men and Cameron at your place yesterday?”

“Why do you want to know?”

“Because I asked.”

Savage laughed. “I’m not telling you shit.”

Bored with this call already, I growled. “But you will tell me, dickhead.”

“Carnage, I would like to introduce you to Reaper, the President of the Golden Skulls Mother Chapter and the only person on the planet that can bring Savage to heel.”

“You motherfucker!” Savage roared. “We were having a friendly conversation and you had to call in the big gun? You really want me to kick your ass, don’t you?”

“You can try, asshole,” King snarked.

“I’m waiting, Savage,” I said as Phantom walked into my office with a smile on her face.

“Uh, sorry to interrupt, Reaper, but I just got this cryptic text message. I think you need to see it.”

“Who is it from?”

“It’s from Digger,” she said, handing me her phone as we both heard Savage roar out in laughter.

Reading the text, it simply said.

Digger:Don’t interfere or I’m sending Stella to kick your ass.

“Well.” I chuckled, then roared with laughter because I fucking knew Digger would do it, too. Had love for my brother but his wife scared the crap out of me. No one was worth pissing Stella off. “This changes things. Sorry, King. You are on your own and good luck. I think you’re going to need it. Oh, and, kid, you are welcome in my house anytime. Anytime.”

“Thanks, Reaper.”

With that, I disconnected the call, handing Phantom her phone back.

“Want to let me in on the secret?”

Looking at my club sister, I grinned. “Just a little carnage over at the Sons of Hell clubhouse. So how are things going in the bat cave?”

Phantom groaned, taking a seat.

“Slowly. The key codes are not in order or assigned specifically to a file, so we have to manually plug in a code to a file and hope we matched the right file to the right code. It’s going to be a while. Sypher wants to bring Pippen in. We need more help.”

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