Page 330 of Savage Brothers MC: Tennessee Chapter

“I…We haven’t talked a lot about it yet, Harvey, but if things work out…”

“You’re going to leave me,” Harvey mutters.

“Yeah, I…I’ll go back to Tennessee.”

“Is he good to you, Ellie?”

“Really good,” I tell him, without so much as a pause.

“You’re going to have to introduce me to him, Ellie.I’m okay with losing you if he’s a good man, but I’m not letting some asshole get his hands on you and hurt you all over again.”

“Careful, Harvey.You almost sound like you have a heart there,” I tell him with a grin.

“You’re a good woman, even if your family is a little out there.At least they’re all hot to look at.How is that mom of yours?Still single?”

“Ew.Don’t even think about it.”

“What?You don’t think I’m good enough for her?”he demands, and I can’t tell if he’s upset or if he’s yanking my chain.

“You know better, but I know too much about you.”

“Like what?”he asks, but I can see the smile he’s trying to hide.

“Like the fact that you like sex a lot.”

“You say that like it’s a bad thing, Ellie,” he says, laughing so hard that his belly shakes.Harvey is a big man, almost as tall as Liam.He’s also heavy and I don’t know a man around who wouldn’t worry about taking him on.He looks like a defensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys—only his gear and padding are all real.

“It’s not unless the woman in your bed is my mother.Then, it’s just gross.”

“Everyone needs love, even moms.”

“I just don’t want to know about it.With you I would and I’ve worked here long enough to hear about your kinky side, too, Harvey.You and my mom?That would scar my soul.”

“Fuck you,” he laughs.“Get to work.For now, you still work here and I’m not paying you to sit around and destroy my sex life.”

“Yeah, right,” I laugh, feeling my phone vibrate in my back pocket.I frown, because I just got off the phone with Liam.I take it out and see a message notification from my sister and relax.She’s checking in.I mean I told her to, but I didn’t think she actually would.My sister usually ignores me—especially when I’m pissed, and she knows I am pissed about her and Mom hiding the fact Liam called me.

I open the message and she didn’t say anything, just sent me a picture.Proof she’s pouting at me.We’ll make up, of course, but I am hurt and it’s going to take me a bit to get past it.Which probably makes me a bitch, considering my history with Liam…but, I can’t help it.

I look at the picture and roll my eyes.Gross, they’re all in bed together.I start to shut off the phone, when something catches my eye.It’s the man that they’re with.I know that guy.Dawn gave me his name, it’s the one that Liam did the check on.Reggie.I know he came back cleared, but…

The guy in this picture is the same one that showed up at the club.He introduced himself to me.He’s the same creepy guy that set off every internal alarm bell I had and when he told me his name, he didn’t mention the name Reggie.

He said Charlie.

Maybe it’s nothing.Maybe I’m overreacting.But the longer I stare at this picture, the more I can feel the panic build up.Why would he lie about his name?I mean, maybe he’s like Liam and Charlie is a first name and Reggie his middle.But, if he goes by Reggie….

I text her, thinking if she texts back I’ll relax, that it’s all just a big misunderstanding.

Are you okay, Dawn?

It feels like forever while I wait for a return message.When nothing comes, I look to make sure I have signal.I miraculously have a full bar lit up.

But still no reply.

Then, I take in the fact that in the picture they’re all smiling but the guy—whoever, he is—his smile is different.It’s harsher, darker, and he looks…

Evil.

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