Page 2 of Lorcan

Never again.

Chapter One

Lorcan

Thephonewasbuzzingon my nightstand, and I knew, somehow, I just knew this was going to be bad. I grabbed it and looked down at the screen lighting my entire room.

Shit.

The instinct of seeing my right hand man’s name lit up on my screen told me I was right. I flicked the slide bar over on the screen and held the device to my ear.

“What?”

Finn didn’t miss a beat. “The Cherry Bomb’s gone.”

“What?”

“Someone’s burnt it to the fucking ground, Lor. You need to get here, now.”

Fuck.

I disconnected the line and threw the phone against the wall. Who the fuck would have the balls to burn my studio to the ground?

This had to do with Ronan and his fucking desire for vengeance. It had to be connected to him. No one else would have the fucking guts to go after my business.

I got up and put on my jeans and my shirt and I headed down the stairs to the garage. Grabbing the closest keys, I clicked the unlock button to see which car lit up. Racing down the long garage, I got in and drove like Conor to get to the lot I had set my porn studio up in. When my uncle Tadgh had asked my dad if he could start a porn business, we never knew it would turn profits so quickly. My dad only said yes to get Tadgh off his back about being a part of the business. He was the screw up, the one you could never count on and the one you always cleaned up after.

But… turns out we had a lot of perverts in Ireland that needed their fix. It was what kept our finances in the red. Conor and Killian both spent big for their businesses, and I had to keep them level or else we’d have to turn our operations over and there was no way in hell that would ever happen.

I pulled up outside of the club with firefighters fending off the inferno with their hoses. Finn was talking with Edward, the police chief, and an old friend of my father’s. I got out of the car and headed over to them.

“Lorcan.”

“Eddie, what the fuck?”

“Do you think maybe this has something to do with Ronan?” Edward asked me.

“Of course it does,” I growled. “No one else would fucking dare.”

“You do know there happens to be a MC set up on the outskirts of town,” Edward said. “They’re not from here. Maybe they think they’ll take over.”

I did know about the MC, but they were keeping to themselves. They rarely came into town and stayed hidden away in the middle of the woods. I doubted they would have waited this long to make their play.

Even still.

It wouldn’t hurt to go out and see them and clear the air, just to keep our minds set on the task at hand.

Getting rid of Ronan and his cronies.

“Doubt it,” I said. “They've kept to themselves since arriving.”

“Don’t get complacent, Lorcan. I’ve got some paperwork to fake. This is getting serious now, take care of business once and for all.”

“He isn’t wrong,” Finn said. He’d never liked that I allowed the MC to stay in our town. My dad had run the last chapter out of Galway when we were just kids. I’d never understood it until I took over the empire.

When they’d shown up, the president came to speak to me, to let me know they weren’t encroaching on our turf, they just wanted a new place to set up shop. They ran a mechanic’s shop here in town and kept their heads low.

I didn’t want this to connect back to them, mainly because I didn’t need any more heat until Ronan was taken care of.

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