Page 39 of Ghost

“How're the bikes coming?” I asked as I walked toward him.

“They’re getting there. Coast has detailing to do on a couple. We should be done on time. Definitely would be if you’d help,” Flirt said, and I slapped his back.

“I was hoping you guys could use some help. Haven’t worked on a bike in a long time,” I said and walked in the garage behind Flirt.

“Luna’s bike outside?” Coast asked as he came out of a room in the back.

“Yeah.”

“I’ll get to it when I finish the flames I’m painting on the tank.”

“Thanks, Coast. Appreciate you squeezing it in for her.”

Crusher stood and shut off the blowtorch he was using. He lifted the safety glasses before he spoke, “Please, the woman could ask the club for anything right now, and we’d give it to her. Tank’s hoping to talk her into helping him out at Soft Tails. He wants to put her in charge of hiring the strippers. Not sure if it pissed him off more that firing Lindy left him short a stripper, or now Thelma’s gonna be shorthanded, too. Anyway, he said she can set her own hours. Hell, he even said she could split her time between the shop and the club.”

“Tough shit. Tank’s gonna have to deal on his own,” I answered, and Speed grinned as he picked up the handlebars for the bike he was working on.

“Yeah, I told him there was no way you’d want her working at the club. Fuck, I hated Sami working there,” Speed said.

“That’s ‘cause you are a controlling bastard and didn’t want your woman around all the brothers,” Dev said, and Speed looked over at him and glared.

“Right, and you’d be all laid back with Bailey working in a strip club.” Speed cocked his brow, and Devil was the one who glared.

“I don’t want her working at all. But I’m not gonna fight with her over it. Plus, I spoke with Dare. He’s in if I want to start up a construction business. Luna said she’d work for me if I did. And the controlling bastard I am is going to do it.”

Flirt laughed. “Well hell, that’s one way to get what you want.”

“Whatever you need from the club, Ghost, ask. We’ll work on replacing you at the gym,” Prez said.

“I can finish overseeing the renovation of the building. It will take a little time getting up and running, so I might as well have something to do in the meantime,” I said, and Prez agreed.

“I’ll help you get the paperwork done and file for your license. Soft Tails could be your first job,” Jag said from across the bay where he worked at a table with parts spread across.

“What? Did something happen to the place?” I asked. It had only been two days since I was there.

“No, Tank has been looking at growing the business. He suggested building on to the back and moving the stage and girls in the new section. The bar seating could be expanded with a game room with darts, couple pool tables. Told him to work up a plan and we’d look at it and discuss at the next meeting. If we go for it, going to need to add on, so the job would be yours. Expect to get a good price for keeping the work in the club,” Crusher said.

“Please, you’ll be lucky if I don’t charge you extra for having to listen to Perry gripe. Hell, at first I thought maybe something happened to the place after Luna and I left the other day,” I said, and Crusher chuckled.

“Nah, the only thing that went down after Lindy was escorted out, was Tank calling in the other girls. Tank was pissed that he’d been lax in the testing since he took over. He called the other girls in and questioned them, then handed them paperwork to go get tested. Told them to have it done before they came back to work. Syn, Candie, and the others swore they weren’t on anything and none bucked about going to have the testing done.

“Tank told them that there would be no discussion if the test came back positive for anything, they’d be escorted out and told not to come back just as Lindy had been. None of the other women knew she was using, but Syn said she had noticed changes in Lindy’s personality, but only in the last three months after she started seeing a new guy. Coast and Speed did some digging, the guy is a doper. Been busted a couple times. There won’t be any trouble from firing Lindy. I told her she was lucky I didn’t call the sheriff in on it,” Crusher said, picked up the blowtorch and moved to the next bike.

“Hey, where is the club’s newest celebrity?” Flirt asked.

“First doctor’s appointment,” I said, then turned and watched Coast push Luna’s bike through the bay door.

“Surprised you didn’t tag along,” Flirt said.

“She wanted to go by herself. Besides, we aren’t attached at the fucking hip,” I said, and Flirt shook his head and grinned.

“Fuck off. And if you want my help, tell me what you want me to work on while I’m here. Gonna meet at the house when she gets done.”

Flirt laughed. “Fine. Still good with electrical?” I nodded. “Then you can wire the gauges in that one’s dash.” He pointed to the dark blue with silver tint bike.

The bike was sweet looking. I walked over to it and got to work. The only talking was the occasional curse word as everyone focused on their task. I didn’t know how much time had passed when my cell buzzed.

Digging it out of my pocket I read the text.

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