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“I don’t believe we are onyour property, just looking at it. We’re checking out an anonymoustip. Making sure your merchandise is in factyourmerchandise. After thismorning’s misfortune with some rats coming to vandalize ourproperty figured there might be some truth to this tip.” I loweredmy gun, but kept it in my hand.

Grayson followed suit, but with ascowl.

“We don’t need your shit;we get better stuff anyway.” Twist snarled as he shook his greasyblack hair out of his eyes and glared at us with his brown angrystare. “And we keep out of your stuff.”

“One would think that wouldremain the case considering the hell storm we brought down on yourgroup six months ago when you tried to steal our weapons shipment.But the shit stirred this morning and an anonymous tip raised ourhackles and we needed to get more information. But you’ll notice weinvestigated, didn’t attack.” I gave Pip a tight smile, teethbared. I hated all of the members of Pyro Devils, but merely beingwithin twenty yards of Pip shorted out my fuse. Even though theincident was over five years ago, it still scorched through me likeit was yesterday. “So tuck in your string. We have reinforcementsif we need them but it appears we do not . . . today.” Even thoughthey weren’t right behind us, but actually a phone call away.Semantics.

“We have bad history; ain’tgonna deny that, but we’ve been staying out of your business. Wehave more important things to busy ourselves. So no trouble today.As long as the two of you turn around and head back to your own.”Tilting his head, Pip studied the two of us with his unusual yelloweyes. If he was trying to unnerve us, he was instead making an assout of himself. Although he was a complete jackass so I guess itwas in his nature.

“That doesn’t explain therats today.” Narrowing my own gaze, I spat.

“I don’t know what you’retalking about.”

“Keep your Hangarounds offof our property.” Grayson growled from his clenched jaw.

“I have no knowledge aboutany of ours being on your property today. You might want toconsider bringing up to your Prez the suggestion to sit down andmeet with us. He’s refused us before, but you might find what weknow interesting. There’s shit going on you’re not aware of, butyour club refuses to sit down and listen to theenemy. But we think of your club asjust irritants not the enemy. You might want to think about that.”Pip sneered before he and Twist trudged off.

“Think we should talk toRemus? As much as I hate the idea of sitting down with any numberof them in an enclosed area – shit aren’t they concerned aboutpersonal hygiene?” I wrinkled my nose in disgust. “Maybe we can seeif there is any truth to his blabberings.”

Grayson shrugged as he paced into thewoods, not quite in the direction of the truck. “Something didn’tquite add up this morning. I think it was too easy for us tobelieve who sent the rats. What if those teenagers weren’t there todeface our property as much as to get a read on the layout? Youfigure, they didn’t really do much damage; it was just aninconvenience to us and then we let them go.”

As we crunched along farther into thewoods, I rubbed at my close-trimmed beard, rolling Grayson’scomments around in my head. The older members still wore the iconiclong beards, but many of us younger guys chose to sport the shorterstyle. “Why the hell didn’t you think of this earlier?”

“I couldn’t quite put myfinger on what was off about this morning, but after Pip spewinghis shit, my wheels really started turning. It won’t hurt anything,but maybe our nostrils, to sit down with them. We all know wearen’t the only two clubs and some of them aren’t even close tolegit and with the cartel always stirring up trouble on the downlow and local gangs, someone could be pitting us against eachother. We make no secret of our animosity toward the Pyro Devils,but many know we also don’t go after them without being provokedfirst.”

“You make valid points.We’ll talk to Remus when we get back.”

“What the fuck is that?”Something caught Grayson’s attention and he rushed toward whateverwas lying in the woods about five yards from us. When he got to theitem – which wasn’t an item but happened to be a living andhopefully breathing girl – he crouched down and put his fingers toher neck.

When I got to his side, I took acloser look at her features. She was dressed in a torn gray t-shirtand cut off shorts. “What are you doing, Grayson? Not our business.I’ve seen her at their club.” I jabbed my thumb over my shoulder inthe direction of their compound. “I don’t want involved.” Althoughthat wasn’t completely true. But I’d never admit that to him. Iused to be a sucker for a damsel in distress, but I refused to falldown that rabbit hole again. And even though I had seen her brieflyin their club – I wasn’t really studying any of their whores – shedidn’t seem to really fit in there. And if she did, she reminded memore of Angel or Misti not at all like Tara or the other cunts. Sowhile I was trying to shove away the protective impulse that racedup over me, I wasn’t successful at beating it back.

“We can’t leave her herelike this. She’s bruised and has dried blood on her. And she can’tbe one of the Old Ladies otherwise she wouldn’t be in thiscondition.” Grayson curled his arms under her back and legs andslowly lifted her from the ground before tucking her against hischest. “So if she is one of their Sweet Butts or Club Whores, itcan be her decision if she wants to go back. But I’m taking herwith us.”

“Back to the compound?Well, actually that might be okay. Maybe Lynette can take care ofher or something.” And that would leave me out of the equation forthe most part.

“No dumbass. I mean yes,Remus’ Old Lady would help out, but no. Do you really think it’s agood idea to take her there where the guys hang out? She’s freshmeat. And even though she’s bloody and dirty from being in thewoods, she smells lovely and feminine. Like vanilla and lavender.I’m taking her to our place. We have an extra bedroom she can useuntil we can get this sorted out.” Grayson quickened hispace.

And after my brain processed hisintent, I strode after him in the direction of our truck. “Are youfucking serious?” Yet part of me really liked that idea. Thatprotective drive roared up again. Yet I couldn’t fall into thattrap again. I’d have to stay away from her as much as possible –even though it would be a challenge considering we’d be living inthe same house – and leave Grayson to care for her. Then after shehealed and we had things figured out for her, she’d hopefullydecide to return to their club. But just the thought burned likeacid through my brain. Something horrible had happened to her orshe wouldn’t have been left there in the woods or dropped therefrom exhaustion after fleeing something vile. The thought of eitherof those scenarios caused senseless rage to rush through me. Butanyone with even a half a heart would feel empathy for her, right?I was so fucked. And starting to get a headache from the back andforth of my common sense vs my lack of it.

When we got to the truck, I poppedopen the back door and he gently lay her in the back seat. “Grabthe blanket and cover her with it and you should probably sit backthere with her so she doesn’t roll to the floor.”

Taking a deep breath and schooling myfeatures, I snatched the red blanket and wrapped it around her bodybefore hopping in the back and sitting right at her head. WhileGrayson drove us back to our place, I stared at the unconsciousgirl. Now that she wasn’t curled in a heap, I could appreciate herlong shapely legs and decent sized rack – not overly large but nottoo small. My dick twitched to show its appreciation. Time to focuson something else; I adjusted my crotch. I hoped she didn’t haveany internal injuries. Maybe if she didn’t wake up by the time wegot home, I’d take her to the clinic to get her checked out. Shewas a lovely girl. Long red curly hair and elegant facial features.I had to stop myself from reaching over to run my fingers along hercheek. She looked like she was sixteen and I fucking prayed shewasn’t. I shook my head to scatter those thoughts. Who the fuckcared if she was underage? I was not considering laying claim. Butdeep down, I feared that was a big ass lie. What in the fuck waswrong with me?

Giving myself something else to focuson, even for a moment, I sent a text to Remus giving him an updatethat the shipment was not ours – it might not be theirs but itwasn’t ours. I also included that we had found out some other bitsof information that we needed to run by him the very next time wewere at the club. He messaged back and said that was fine and notto bother tonight; he was busy with his Old Lady. Despite mymuddled mood, I released a chuckle. “You’re not going to be able tobang that chick since you decided to bring this one home.” TeasingGrayson also helped brighten my mood.

“I brought her homeforyou. Don’tthink I didn’t catch how you were looking at her.” He shot me aCheshire Cat smirk in the rearview.

But the mood lightener didn’t last.“Prick.” Didn’t matter what he thought he knew, once we were sureshe was okay; she was heading out. Back to their club or somewhereelse.

“Besides, if the chick isstill working, I’ll figure something out.”

About ten minutes later, Graysonpulled into the diner’s lot and hopped out.

I scowled out the window. Then Ishifted my attention to the girl. She hadn’t moved a muscle normade any sound. Was she still breathing? She didn’t look blue.Knowing it was a bad idea, I did it anyway. Leaning down, I put mycheek to her mouth. Relief rushed over me when the slightest bit ofwarm breath puffed over my skin. And then something else entirelyflashed over me from the close proximity of my lips to her softlooking ones. I wanted to taste her lips and then taste her allover before I fucked her. I was going to drive myself insane beforewe even got back to our place.

A moment later, Grayson climbed backinto the truck. “I gave her my number and told her to text me whenshe was done with work and I’d take her for a ride on my bike andthen one on my dick. She turned about a dozen shades of red, butsmiled and said she’d see me later.”

“I’m surprised you didn’tget her fired.”

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