Page 15 of Grumpy Sunshine

CHEVY

The last thing I wanted to do was go to a club meeting.

Nothing against my Truth Teller club brothers, but I needed to talk to my own brother.

And that wouldn’t happen if we were both at a club meeting.

Which was why I was here early.

I needed to talk to him, and I knew that he’d be here.

When we were young, both Copper and I had worked in a shop that was owned by the Truth Tellers MC.

That’s where we fell in love with club life.

Club life wasn’t for everyone.

But for Copper and me, we’d both been enraptured.

Having a whole crew of men always at your back, no matter what?

That was an intoxicating feeling, especially when you had a father like we did.

“Hey, brother,” Cutter drawled as he watched me pull up.

I was one of four bikes parked behind the barndo that we’d made into a clubhouse.

One of the bikes was Cutter, another Copper, who was nowhere in sight, and the last belonging to our club president, Webber.

Webber was on the phone in the middle of the backyard, throwing his one free hand in the air in anger.

“What’s that about?”I asked.

“His ex-wife being a bitch, like always,” Cutter said.“What’s going on with Copper and you?Keely called.”

Keely was my baby sister, and the one good thing that was always constant in my life.

I loved her with my whole heart, but I was glad she wasn’t here right now.

I didn’t want to yell at her.

“I’ll tell you and Copper at the same time,” I responded.“Come on.”

I found Copper at the bar in the middle of the room as we made our way inside, and he narrowed his eyes at me the moment he saw me.

“I’m not sleeping with her and have never slept with her,” I promised him.

His eyes narrowed.“Sure, because that’s what it looked like.”

I scrubbed at my eyes.“I swear to you, I haven’t had anything to do with her in an intimate way, ever.I only ever helped take care of her since you told me to.”

He frowned.“What?”

“What what?”I asked, confused now right along with him.

“I never told you to take care of her,” he explained.“So what do you mean, like I told you to?”

“You specifically said, right when you went to prison that first day before you left the courtroom, to take care of her,” I countered.

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