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“That’s something else I wanted to talk to you about,” Loki said quietly. “That’s why I invited myself over. Audrey said something to me today. Something you’re not going to like.”

I closed my eyes and waited, knowing down deep that it was going to be bad.

“Audrey said today while she confirmed her statement that the man said something,” Loki said quietly as he watched the door where Rue had disappeared earlier. “Audrey and Rue were seen together the day it’d happened. Audrey was a message…to Rue.”

The men surrounding me stayed silent as I processed what was said.

“She got punished for being friends with Rue,” I stated softly.

Tunnel’s face was set in stone, and Loki’s was just as hard as he nodded his head in confirmation. “Yeah.”

I took a long, deep breath. “Don’t let Rue find out. That’d gut her.”

Fuck.

Rue came out of the house moments after my epiphany and I knew, right then and there, that whatever I had to do, I’d keep her safe.

It wouldn’t happen to her.

Oh, she’d be watched like a hawk, and she’d feel smothered, but that wouldn’t be happening. Not now. Not fucking ever.

Chapter 16

Treat your woman like a princess, and fuck her like a whore.

-Biker rule number fifty seven

Cleo

“You’re buying the company?” Rue asked in surprised.

Silas, who’d just informed us that he’d already set plans in motion to buy Life Flight, said it’d be finalized within the next couple of months.

In the meantime, he had complete control of who did and didn’t work there. So I now had my job back, as well as a new supervisor position to boot.

“I’m not really supervisor material,” I said worriedly.

Rue snorted. “He’s really not.”

I winked at her.

“To be honest, I don’t really care if you are or not. You’re doing this, because I want you to do this. There’s no other reason,” Silas informed me.

I sighed.

I knew chain of command.

I also knew our MC.

If my president wanted me to do it, I’d do it. But I wouldn’t necessarily like it.

“I don’t have to have his office, do I?” I clarified.

He shook his head. “No, for now, Alfonzo is staying in place. He’s still got his title, just not any pull, or rank. He can no longer make those decisions, either. The man I bought it from, Ulysses, was a buddy of mine from Desert Storm. He’s got prostate and rectal cancer, and isn’t doing so well any more. His kids are all dead, and he’s unaware of what’s been going on. The partner who’d helped found the Life Flight here in Shreveport died a couple of years ago, but left it all to Ulysses. Kid was pretty bitter about it, so Ulysses gave him the job as ‘director’ about a year ago. Then he got sick, and the kid had to pick up quite a bit of the slack.”

I grimaced. “I knew the prick. His name’s Forrester. Brenton Forrester.”

Silas nodded, flicking his eyes once to Rue before moving them back to me. “Yeah, it is. He’s the one you’ve been showing off for. The new bird you got a couple of weeks ago is his doing. He’s also pulled the money out of somewhere, but none of it has anything to do with the business. That’s what has Ulysses in a tither. He thinks the kid is into some bad shit, and after seeing some of the shit he’s bought in the last couple months, with no money trail in sight, I’m wanting to agree with him.”

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