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We were still descending the stairs and my brother kicked out at him, hitting him in the chest and sending him flying.

“No one calls my sister a whore but me. You do not run your mouth, not ever. You’re fucking lucky I have a need for you otherwise you would be dead like the other bastards in this house.”

The loser dropped his eyes and nodded but I saw the look he gave us as we passed him. He was weak and a worm who had betrayed his club, he would do the same to my brother and the bitch behind us if it came to saving his own hide.

I was dragged into the security room then through the open door to the tunnel and down the steps. I didn’t say a word. I let him drag me away from the house and shove me into the back of the car waiting for us.

My free arm was clasped around Ry the entire time. I had to keep him safe.

There were several black cars parked in the yard of the empty house and several on the street as well.

Were they so confident that they didn’t even hide their presence?

It didn’t make any sense.

I was still looking around when I felt a prick in my arm. Jerking around to check my arm I saw the bitch sitting back with a syringe in her hand, smiling at me.

“Night, night, bitch.” She smirked.

As the blackness descended my last thought was for Ry who was still strapped to my chest and I fell sideways to protect him.

And then nothing.

TWENTY EIGHT

Lucky

Three Days Ago

Reading Harper’s last text burned his gut and had his heart jerking in his chest. It’s only been a day and he missed his little cat. He ached for his woman but he had agreed with his prez that he would give it time. He didn’t understand why he had to go radio silent as they had undetectable burner phones and it would have been easy to talk to her on Viper’s phone. But his prez had shot his idea down.

Fuck.

He didn’t want to do it but he needed her and the baby to be safe, if Gloria, or rather, Carmella found out there was a possibility that Ry was his they would be in terrible danger. He couldn’t allow that to happen.

So silence it was.

Trying to carry on with his day as if nothing was wrong was incredibly difficult. Every second of the day he wanted to call her, tell her he was sorry for being a prick and not responding to her texts.

He didn’t.

Instead he was here continuing to investigate Gloria’s links to the boy in Mexico. Lucky wasn’t proud of his reaction to the news but still he hoped and prayed the kid wasn’t his.

Walking into Byte’s computer dungeon his eyes met those of Dive who was leaning against the wall.

“Anything yet?”

Dive shook his head.

Fuck.

“This isn’t somethin’ that happens the minute you type shit into a computer like it does in the movies. It takes time.” Byte said quietly. “We’re workin’ as fast as we can, brother. We need to do this right, no mistakes.”

Lucky had to agree with him. They couldn’t make any mistakes, not with a kid’s life on the line.

“I get it, brother, I just need to know if my life as I know it is goin’ to go down the fuckin’ drain. I have no idea how my ol’ lady is goin’ to take the news if the kid turns out to be mine, or how she’s goin’ to handle Carmella bein’ in our lives.” Lucky shook his head. “If she wasn’t lyin’ and the kid is mine, we all heard her, she plans to be in a relationship with me and the boy and that’s goin’ to be a problem for me. I don’t want her in my life or in the lives of Harper and her boy. It will be a huge fuckin’ mess.”

Dive snorted in disgust. “That’s not all you’ll have to worry about, brother. That slut will be a danger to Harper, maybe not to her kid, but to her? Definitely. She won’t like havin’ competition for your dick. And I’ve had the opportunity to be around Harper a few times and I’m tellin’ you, the girl is not a push over. She’s strong and she won’t take shit from anyone. Not even you. She’ll be gone the minute your shit impacts her boy.”

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