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“That so?” I asked.
“Yeah, that’s so. She doesn’t need to get involved with your MC or any trouble you have brewing. She’s a good girl and has been through enough without adding your band of thugs to the mix.”
“Thugs? Really, Bri?” Brady asked his oldest brother.
“What would you call them?”
“Allies, if you’re smart,” Brady explained. I grinned at him and then turned my focus back to the man who didn’t seem to care much about his own daughter before he walked into my office.
“It’s too late to keep Sammy away from club business. It’s already at her doorstep. I’m already there, and I don’t plan on walking away from her. She saved my life, and if there wasn’t another reason, that would be enough to keep her under our protection.”
“So, this is a favor for a favor thing?” Brian asked. I had already started to shake my head, but he ignored the gesture and carried on. “If you want to do my little girl a favor, you will forget about her. Leave her alone to live her life without all the bullshit the club will bring into it.” His chest heaved with the effort to speak passionately about his need for us to leave his daughter alone.
“Does your vehement dislike of our club around your daughter have anything to do with your wife?” Baffle asked.
“My wife? What the fuck does my wife have to do with anything?” I glanced from Brian to Brady and then Baffle before turning back to Brian to answer his question.
“She has been linked to a rival club of ours. The Mojave Devils,” I tacked on to see if their name sparked a response from him. The man seemed clueless.
“No. She’s not involved with an MC. She’s a stay-at-home mom, for Christ’s sake.”
I glanced back at Brady who looked disappointed in his brother. “She’s been keeping secrets from you, Bri.”
“What the fuck is that supposed to mean? What secrets?”
Brady explained to his brothers, after a healthy warning from me about keeping shit to themselves, what happened with the Devil Sammy killed and how he had been sent to her cabin by Colleen Morton.
“That can’t be,” Brian denied.
“I have the security video. You obviously never told your wife about the cameras. Maybe there was a reason for that. I think somewhere deep down you knew you couldn’t trust her the way you pretended to.” Brady didn’t wait for his brother to accept or deny that claim. Instead, he pulled out his phone and shoved it in his brother’s face. “Watch. That’s your wife, gleefully showing a biker where to find your daughter so he can kill her.”
“She wouldn’t do that,” Brian denied again. “You don’t know that’s why she sent him there.”
Brady took his phone back and pulled something else up. “That is your daughter’s mattress. Those three holes are from the three rounds that fucker put into her bed, thinking she was sleeping in it. If she hadn’t heard something that woke her up, she would have been dead. Instead, she killed the fucker. The fact is your wife sent him there. Whether she ordered the hit or just pointed him in Sammy’s direction, Colleen knew he didn’t have good intentions toward her.”
The middle brother appeared stunned and remained silent until Brian turned on him. “Did you fucking know about Colleen? Is that why you were so fucking determined that I get my daughter away from the club? You’re the reason we’re here today. You swore Sammy would be in danger if we allowed them to keep tailing her everywhere. Are you in on this shit - whatever it is - with Colleen?”
“Fuck you if you think I’d ever harm my niece for that cunt you married. You’re the one who brought that bitch into our lives because you were too fucking busy thinking with your dick and running wild after Joy died to think about wrapping your cock up.”
“Then why? Why were you so damn hard up to keep my daughter away from the Kings of Anarchy?” That was something I was curious to have answered as well. I thought them being here was Brian’s doing, not the middle brother who Sammy barely even talked about.
Josh scrubbed his hands down his face as he shook his head back and forth slowly. Then, instead of addressing his brother, he turned his attention fully on me. “Fuck!” he spat out. “I’m sorry man.”
“What the fuck have you done?” Immediately, I thought maybe he got into bed with the MDMC or the Cartel, but what he ended up admitting to was something I never would have seen coming in a million years.
“She told me to do whatever it took, so things wouldn’t get complicated.”
“Who told you? What the fuck did this bitch say to make you want to keep Sammy away from me?”
“I’ve been dating Melissa for almost a year,” he admitted. I was blown away and so were my club brothers from the looks of all the shocked faces in the room. “We’ve kept it quiet, but when she realized who Sammy was at the hospital, she called me immediately and said there was no way we could allow that shit to happen. If you hooked up with Sammy, you would demand that Melissa couldn’t be with me.”
“What the fuck?”
“That’s what she said.”
“Why the fuck would I do that?” I asked him. “I don’t give two fucking shits who Lis dates as long as they treat my boy right if it’s serious between them.”
Josh laughed and then looked down at his feet as he admitted her reasoning. “Because it would look pretty fucking incestuous for me to be your son’s stepfather one day while my niece becomes his stepmom.”
