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Chapter One

“This is gonna be good.”I popped the top off my beer as I watched the scene about to unfold.Me and Chains sat at a table in the common room in steel folding chairs.Chains was leaning back with his booted feet on the table while I slouched with one ankle crossed over the opposite knee.

“Yep.”

Knight hurried to us from where he’d been snagging his own beer at the bar.Three club girls were in tow, all with tits out, wearing only thongs.I grinned, raising an arm to welcome the brunette with pouty lips onto my lap.

“We placin’ bets?”Knight looked gleeful in a maniacal kind of way.It was a little creepy to be honest.

I shrugged.“Might as well.”

“My money’s on Gunnar.”Knight high-fived Oktober as the big man walked up to us.Everyone was waiting eagerly.Pippa, Gunnar’s woman and Knuckles’s daughter, had already met and welcomed Hannah, but Gunnar and Cain had yet to confront Knuckles.Cain, the former president of Bones MC in Somerset, Kentucky, was Hannah’s father.I wasn’t really concerned for Knuckles.Especially after he’d attempted to beat the fuck out of Gunnar when he’d caught him and Pippa in bed together.So a beating was definitely going to happen.

“What’s goin’ on?”Oktober hadn’t been home long.After practically crawling back to the compound and into his room half dead from fatigue, I really thought he’d sleep for a fucking week.Bastard stumbled to bed for a couple hours and now looked fresh as a daisy.I hated the man on principle.

“Gunnar and Cain both pulled up outside the compound.”Tiny, our road captain and not tiny at all, pulled up a chair and flipped it around backward to straddle it.He crossed his arms over the back of the chair, resting his forearms there.“I told the guys not to let them in yet, but Gunnar pulled rank.”He shrugged.“I mean, brother outranks officer any day of the week, I suppose.”Tiny didn’t look the least bit upset.In fact, I was pretty sure he was looking forward to this as much as the rest of us were.

That got chuckles from us all.Knight clinked beer bottles with Inferno as the other man walked by.The second he sat down, two club whores descended on him.He didn’t let them undress him but had one on his lap with his hand cupping a tit while sucking on a tit of the other woman.Made me give the tit of the woman in my lap a squeeze.She promptly giggled and arched into my palm.Yeah.Tits.Gotta love tits.

The door burst open and Gunnar stalked in, an intent look in his eyes.“Where the fuck is he?”The bite of demand in Gunnar’s voice was unmistakable.He was a man looking to do violence.

“You know…” Tiny nodded in Gunnar’s direction as he took a pull from his beer.“I do believe he’s good and pissed.”

I grinned as I raised my voice to be heard over the low din in the common room.“Where’s who, Big Gun?”I’d started calling him Big Gun the second he came to the club.Just ’cause I liked fucking with him.My way of showing affection.And honestly, any man who would go to prison to protect his sister was definitely a big gun.

“The Goddamned motherfucker who made my sister his old lady without permission!”

That got a hoot from everyone.

“Better be careful takin’ on the big boss, Gunnar.”

“Fixin’ t’ get your ass handed to ya, boy.”

“I got fifty bucks on the kid.”

“Never happen!”

“Prove me wrong?”

“Oh, I’ll take that action.”

And the betting was on all across the room up until the moment Knuckles descended the stairs into the big room.The club compound was like four city blocks of abandoned four- and five-story warehouses the club now owned.We’d walled it off so there was no entry into the compound without our say-so.Each warehouse had been renovated so the bottom two floors were for various things that fell under club business, while the top floor, or floors, were made into suites and apartments for all our members.We had all this because of Knuckles, despite him being in prison.Once Knuckles entered the room, the betting and excess chatter stopped.

“You got somethin’ to say to me, kid?”Knuckles crossed his arms over his chest.The pose was intimidating because Knuckles was a big-ass, strong motherfucker.His pecs and arm muscles all bulged with the effort, straining his black T-shirt.Only man in the club bigger than Knuckles was Tiny.More than one club girl had drooled over him since he got home, but Hannah had managed to shut them down.I’m not sure what exactly happened and none of the whores were saying, but to a woman, they left Knuckles alone.

“You’re Goddamned right I’ve got something to say to you!”Gunnar stalked toward Knuckles like a jungle cat getting ready to pounce.

As one, we all leaned forward in anticipation.I could practically feel the tension in the room.I know I was coiled tight as a banjo string.Gunnar stopped a few inches from Knuckles, neither man giving an inch.Both of them looked ready to kill.

“The next couple minutes should be fun.”Knight murmured the comment so softly I could barely hear him “But I think Gunnar can take him.”

I would have rolled my eyes, but Gunnar lunged at Knuckles.We all sucked in a breath.

Knuckles flinched back slightly, bringing his hands up into a defensive stance but Gunnar didn’t attack.Instead, he laughed and clapped Knuckles on the shoulder before pulling the other man into a welcoming embrace.

“You cocksucker,” Knuckles muttered, his tone disgruntled.The whole place roared in laughter.

“If only you could see the fuckin’ look on your face, man.”Gunnar continued to wale on Knuckles’s back so hard it probably felt like the beating Gunnar had refrained from giving him.

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