Page 84 of Life To My Flight

“I’m not going back to that fucked up place,” Cleo said darkly.

“No, listen. If you do go back, you pretend everything is normal.” Tunnel said waving his hand in the air. “Just think about you being on the inside; you’ll be right there, privy to all that goes on. Alonzo will slip, I’m sure of it. You’ll be there to catch it. There won’t be a better opportunity to get some ears in there, either.”

Loki concurred, “Yeah, that’d work really well. I have some new toys we can throw in his office. Just got them from Jack and Max.”

Jack and Max were two of the founding members of Free.

Free was a custom bike repair/motorcycle design shop in Kilgore, Texas.

Sam was the owner of the shop and the president of that chapter of the Dixie Wardens..

He was the brother of Sebastian and son of Silas from our motorcycle club.

Apparently, the two brothers hadn’t even known about each other until just a few years ago.

I’d been in the Air Force at the time, so I wasn’t as in the know to some shit, such as how they were all lovey dovey all of a sudden, as the others were.

However, I did know that Jack and Max’s shit was quality, and that whatever they’d have, would work perfectly.

“Well, I guess we’ll be going then. I’ll run by there on the way home, and then go from there. You ready?” I asked Rue.

She looked at me and nodded. “Yep, just let me go say bye to Audrey.”

I nodded and Rue got up to leave.

We all watched her go before we moved on to another hard topic.

The rape of a member’s sister.

“You okay?” I asked once the door closed.

Tunnel, the one I’d been speaking to, looked up, and I could see the barely contained fury that lit his eyes. “No.”

I understood that. Or at least tried to.

Nothing beyond a few broken hearts had happened to any of my sisters.

I don’t even know what I’d do if I found out that one of them had been violated in such a way as Tunnel’s had been.

“The DNA, what little of it there was, was sent through the police database early this morning. There weren’t any matches,” Loki informed us.

I had a feeling that Tunnel already knew that; which happened to only add to his bad mood.

And who could blame him?

“I know, just fuck. She had no physical description of the man. She was in the dark, and didn’t see a goddamned thing. That fucking hospital is about to hear it, too. I’m so fucking mad that they make their ‘valued’ employees walk that far away in the goddamned dark,” he growled, throwing his hands up in frustration. “Then she told me what she did today, and, just fuck!”

His yell reverberated through the night.

I silently agreed.

The night I found Rue in the parking lot, I could’ve just as easily been someone else.

I could’ve had her before she even realized something was wrong.

Then my stomach started to knot.

“That could’ve been her,” I said aloud, but not meaning to.

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