Page 123 of Dozer

Gabi entered the chapel with Jazzy. I lunged to my feet, but the thin pull on her mouth spoke more than the words she wasn’t speaking. She crossed the room to Vance. As good as it was to see him back in the chapel, I couldn’t swallow the reason he was here or shake the suffocating fear and the weight of their judgment.

I didn’t belong at their table. This was my fault. Anatomy had escalated because I’d taunted him, claimed Pippa as mine.

“Dozer.” Romeo said my name, drawing my attention.

He joined the others at the table, but I took position a few feet away and slid down the wall until Isat on the floor with my knees bent. I closed my eyes and listened to them speak.

“Claudia had her baby,” Gabi said. “My mom wants to know when Pippa and I will be there, and I don’t know what to say to her.”

“Are you sure we shouldn’t call the police?” Jazzy asked, which surprised the fuck out of me because Jazzy was the last person to turn to cops for help. She was her old man’s princess, but she reigned like a brutal queen.

“Fuck.” Vance ran his fingers through his hair. He scooted back from the table. “Call Alex again,” he said to Gabi.

Levi came into the chapel.

Elvis sat by the door with Sully. Both stood as the football player followed her in.

“He’s with me,” she said to Sully as she rose onto her tiptoes and kissed the burley biker on the cheek.

He gave her a hug. “Glad you’re here. He needs you.”

Both she and Sully turned to me. I was glad she was here, but she wasn’t the one I needed.

Elvis curled his meaty hands into fists. “This place used to have rules. We got unwelcome hang-arounds, a president sharing a table with a traitor, and no one seems to give a shit about disgruntled brothers wondering what the fuck is happening to our club.”

“Calm your shit down,” Sully said. “You want to worry about something, you worry about the girl. These other changes are good for the club.”

Levi crossed the room. Then she was on the floor next to me with her arms wrapped around me. Icurled one arm around her neck and hugged her close. The familiar scents of honeysuckle and mandarin surrounded me. She was warm and strong. She didn’t bend as I gripped her tighter. Long moments passed before I let her go. She stared into my eyes.

“Go find her, Dozer. All of us sitting here isn’t helping Pippa.”

I ran my fingers over her hair. “He’s going to hurt her.”

Tears glistened in her eyes. “I know. You need to find him.” Her mouth formed a hard line. “Listen to me, Dozer. You unleash all this dark rage building up in you on him. You destroy him, or it’s going to destroy you.” Her small hand clung to mine. “You do it for her because she’s going to need you.”

Levi was right. I couldn’t wait around here, hoping for a sliver of hope from Gabi’s connection.

My gaze raked up the thick thighs standing behind her. “You brought Rook?”

“His name is Coop, and you can get territorial later.”

I kissed her forehead. “A boyfriend looks good on you.”

She held my hand as I stood.

“We have two places we know to look,” Levi said.

I’d been to his house with Blade and Rogue, but another search would give me something to do besides sit and fucking dwell on the shit I shouldn’t be thinking about, imagining what he was doing to her.

My gut clenched with a painful twist.

“It’s getting late,” Coop said. “But if Professor Graves is still in her office, I’m sure I can get a favorfrom her.” He lifted a brow at Levi. “You’ll need to hang back until she lets me into Chamber’s office. It’s going to take a bit of flirting.”

“You can screw her if it’ll help find Pippa.”

Coop wrapped his massive arm around her. “Hopefully, I’m persuasive enough it won’t need to go that far.”

It was unlikely they’d find anything at the university. I’d drive by his house again. After we filled in the others, I went to my room, and changed into black jeans and a black T-shirt and grabbed a black beanie to cover my head.

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