Page 89 of Walking Red Flag

If they only knew…

The Truth Tellers MC and the Gator Bait MC were friendly. There’d been many times that we’d had each other’s backs in the past.

But having the Carters here, who had a kinship to my wife…

Granddad did know how to start a party.

“You don’t fuckin’ scare me with your cop badges,” the biker, whose name patch said ‘Sniff’ on it, said.

Ol’ Sniff had no clue.

Sniff’s friends shifted restlessly, likely seeing the error in their friend’s ways.

Sniff didn’t care, obviously, because his next words were short and sweet.

“I’m going to fuckin’ kill you.”

Then he launched himself at my granddad.

And let me tell you something, folks.

My granddad was a vet.

He had done things, seen things, and experienced things that not even I, as a SEAL, had experienced.

He’d been in the trenches of Vietnam.

He’d turned into a man that not even I would fuck with.

Not even at eighty-eight years old.

Sniff launched himself at Granddad, and Granddad slapped him across the face like a bitch, dropping him to his knees.

Auden moved then, cuffing Sniff before he could recover from the slap.

Granddad’s friends were snickering, and Sniff’s friends were shifting from foot to foot.

“Now’s the time to take a hike,” I suggested to them.

They looked like they wanted to argue but chose not to.

The crowd of them dissipated, heading toward the back of the lot where the bikes were lined up.

Auden walked toward a cruiser I had noticed in the corner of the lot and deposited a bleeding Sniff into the back of the cruiser.

I turned just in time to have Milena come up to my back and wrap her arms around my side.

“So, you’re a dolphin trainer?” she teased.

I looked down at Milena and narrowed my eyes. “Not anymore.”

“Why not?” she pushed.

“Because it was exhausting,” I admitted. “And it was time to find a new path in life.”

“Now he’s just a pain in our ass.” Webber came up after parking his bike. “It’s nice to see you again.”

Milena offered Webber her hand and said, “It’s great to see you again, too.”

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