Page 231 of Savage Brothers MC: Tennessee Chapter

“Gunner?”I growl.Fuck, I’m growling at everyone.

It’s day three of radio silence from Rory.After she walked away, I had to come to some hard realizations.If I want Rory back, I’m going to have to earn her.Since I’ve never had to do that before, I have no idea how to start.Which fucking means I’m in trouble.You add in the fact that I’m sleeping alone, when my woman is just down the hall, plus not having any new leads on King at all and I’m lucky I’m letting people around me live.Gunner though, that motherfucker, my rage toward him is completely earned.

“Yo,” he responds as I enter the garage.

“You’re helping the prospects today,” I tell him, turning to walk away.

“The prospects?”he asks, an edge to his voice.

“You got a problem with your orders?”

I stop and face him, inside begging for him to say something—just one little thing so I can smash his fucking face in.

“They’re grown ass men, but hey if you want me to order them and tell them how to spread gravel on the parking lot, I can.You’re the boss.Seems like a damn waste of time to me,” Gunner says, arms folded.

“No.You don’t order them.You will work with two prospects and spread the gravel.I’m taking the others with me.”

Gunner’s eyes narrow and I don’t blink.Say something motherfucker, just give me an excuse.

“Fine.”

“Fine,” I growl, pissed he didn’t give me a reason to ram my fist into his face.He starts walking away, whistling.

“When you’re done with that you can make sure the security cameras on lot seven are clean.Scorpion said the picture was blurry.”

Gunner stops and he looks at me.We both know that the only way to get to the cameras on lot seven is to walk—a long walk at least six miles one way and on a steep incline.The bastard actually laughs.

“If you think this is funny, I can find more work for you to do,” I warn him.

“I’m just wondering something,” he says with a shrug.

“What’s that?”

“If I get all this just for telling your girlfriend the room down the hall was empty, what am I going to get when you find out she asked me to take her into town tomorrow?”

“You’re not taking her anywhere,” I growl.

“She asked, it’d be rude to turn her down.Besides she needed to go into town to pick up a few things.You might not have noticed, but she didn’t exactly have a lot of things with her when Dragon picked her up.She’s been borrowing shit off of Dani and Torrent since she got here.”

Guilt hits me.I guess I hadn’t really thought about it.I was just focused on getting back to her and claiming her…Fuck.

“Rory can’t leave, it’s too dangerous.There’s a reason we’re on lockdown,” I tell him.

“I told her that, but she was adamant.”

“I’ll talk to her.”

“Now, there’s a novel idea,” he says—the fucking smart-ass.

“Maybe I’d talk to her more if you’d leave her alone.”

“I help guard her, Diesel.Youasked me to do that.”

“That doesn’t mean you get chatty with her.She’s not your concern.She’smine.”

“I don’t think she knows that.”

“She will,” I promise him and I stomp off.

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