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“When did the order or whatever the fuck it was come in that someone had to pretend with her? Was it before we meet or after?” he asks.

Fuck I truly don’t want to answer this question, but I do “we found out she was going to try to set up the club right after we met you at Grandma May’s but it wasn’t until a few days before, before our first date and after our first time,” I say my voice getting lower.

“What is she planning on doing to you guys?” she asks.

I shrug and Drills states, “We don’t know, we had someone from the club hear her make a threat against the club and we acted on it.”

“Do you understand how fucked up this sounds? There probably were a million other ways to deal with a rat, but you picked to pretend to date her. Come on guys, what part of this situation makes it okay? Not only is she a fucked-up female, but you have seriously placed a sliver of doubt in my head. What is going to happen when she wants to have sex if you? What’s going to happen when she wants you to take her out on a date? What’s going to happen to me in this situation? Did either of you stop to fucking thinking about that. Right now, I’m considered the fucking home wrecker, even though you guys aren’t really together. Now I have two options, I can back away from what I think we have and pray that the ashes fall in my favor, or I can stick it out with you guys, hiding away from you club like some dirty little secret until you catch her, if you catch her,” she finishes and wipes a tear from her eye.

“No, you aren’t now, and you will never be a dirty little secret. You are my life. I was willing to drop my cut and walk away from my brothers for you. I never agreed to go along with the fucking plan, but I had to because every person in that clubhouse knows that Drills and I come as a team, we fuck as a unit, we fight as a unit, and we fall in love with the same woman as a unit. You think this was an easy decision for us, to know that the woman that will complete our life and support us through all the shit, maybe cast aside because dumb fuck over there had his head already buried between your legs while we were at the table. I was happy to explain to you that Drills had to get beaten, but he already opened his fat mouth.” I say and point to Drills, who shrugs his shoulder and nods his head before I continue my speech “You are the woman that will be wearing my ring and our property patch. Doreen can fly for all I care we will catch her doing something stupid and we will end our time with her.I will not be keeping you away from my life because you are my life.”

I finish and stare straight at Fire, whose eyes are shining, and I do the only thing I know how to do. I stand up and wrap my arms around her, placing kisses on her head and down her cheeks until I land on her lips and deepen the kiss.

I slowly pull back and whisper, “You Amelia Mackenzie have captured my heart the moment you put those men in their place and speed off in your car. The day we found you at that fire, I knew that fate had graced me with my heart’s desire, and I wasn’t going to let anything take it away. When your family came storming out of the clubhouse and drove off with you in the car, I didn’t care what happened to Drills. He has been my brother and confident for years, but right then, I blamed him for dulling my shine. I handed him my cut and took off after you. So, Fire, you are the only woman that will be in my life and in my heart, even if it means I leave the only family I have ever known then I will so that I can be with you,” I finish and run my thumb under her eyes wiping away the tears.

“I don’t want you to give up your family Lucas,” she whispers before I am tapped on shoulder and Drills states, “It’s my turn.” And Amelia is gently removed from my arms.

I am not ready to let her go, so I stand behind her with my front pressed into her back and place my hands on her hips.

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Drills

Everything that Eagles said had my head hanging in shame. He is one hundred percent correct in his assessment of the situation. If I were in his shoes, I’d have done the exact same thing, only I wouldn’t have come back. I would have set fire to my cut and told the lot of them that I was done.

I look over Amelia’s head and stare at Eagle. He is my brother; my left hand, and I don’t know how I would have been able to handle being in the club without him.

I stared at him, waiting for him to lift his head, waiting for him to feel me staring at him. Finally, after about fifteen seconds, he raises his head. His eyes are dark and angry and I do the only thing I know will make him realize how angry I am.

“You are my brother, you are my ride or die brother, you’re my family together we are Buried Deep,” I state and anticipate that he will say riding free.

The fucker makes me sweat it though, his eyes stay locked on mine and his mouth slowly starts to form a smirk before he raises his hand in a fist and crosses overtop or Fire’s head. We bring our arms together to form and x and he states, “And riding free brother.”

I take a small inhale and look down at the beauty that is in between my brother. I bring my hand up under her chin and raise her head so that she can see my eyes.

“You, my beautiful girl, are the epitome of what I have wanted between Eagle and myself. You are strong, you are beautiful, and you are truly the beauty that this world needs. What I did by hanging my star to someone like that witch was damage the beautiful sun that I was floating around. I will be taking care of that situation immediately, but I need you to know that you, this, us, is our future. I’m not a genie and I can’t predict the future, but you bring out a feeling in me that I have never had with another female. I feel like I have to protect you at all costs, knowing that I didn’t, that I wasn’t there when those two evil men raped and beat you has my body on high alert. I know I can’t keep you protected all the time, but I can make sure that every man in this city fuck that in the nation knows that you belong to me and Eagle. I want to love you, I want to protect you and I want the whole world to know that you are ours,” I state and gently place a kiss on her lips.

“You guys couldn’t have known those two were going to do that. I may tell you that you should. I may tell you I deserved it, but I truly don’t believe those things. The demons come on so quickly that at times I can’t fight them off,” she whispers and tries to dip her head.

“Sweetheart, what those guys did was deplorable. It makes me sick that people out there are evil enough to still do things like that. I hope that the police catch them before my brothers and I do.” I state.

I am just about to tell her that her life is in our hands and that we are honored to have her between us, when screeching tires, sound, and screams can be heard from outside.

“What was that?” Eagle asks and heads for the window.

“Oh shit, get outside now,” He shouts and sprints for the door.

Amelia and I break apart and run the same way that Lucas has just left. When we get downstairs, it's utter chaos.

Rosey is lying on the grass with her leg clearly broken, her kids are crying on the front porch wrapped up in their grandmother.

“Where is Dad?” Amelia asks as she is leaning over her sister, trying to stabilize the leg that is twisted.

“Where is Lucas?” I ask, looking to make sure that the kids are unharmed and that Mrs. Mackenzie is safe.

“It was that evil woman from the club. She sped into the driveway, aiming for Rosey, and then backed out and waited at the end of the road, laughing. When your dad took off after her, she jumped in the car and took off, just as Lucas came out of the house,” she says.

“Steven, I need you to dial the local police department and tell them to dispatch an ambulance to this address. We are so far out of town that nine-one-one does not work. Tell them to head towards the Mackenzie house. Mom, I need you to go find me extremely thick twigs that I could make a brace out of. I need to stabilize Rosey’s leg without moving it much,” she orders. I watch in awe as she turns her professional switch on and gets to it.

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