Total pages in book: 119
Estimated words: 117494 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 587(@200wpm)___ 470(@250wpm)___ 392(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 117494 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 587(@200wpm)___ 470(@250wpm)___ 392(@300wpm)
“Uh. Yeah. I mean, it’s not so clear-cut. They get protection from the club, but not the respect. But they know that signing up. It’s their choice to be a sweet butt.”
“What kind of woman would do that? Or a girl would do that? Sign up, service the guys, get looked down on by others and for what?”
“Protection. A sense of belonging. The guys really like them.”
“I don’t understand that.”
“That’s because you’re not made that way. They are. You aren’t. Some don’t know better. Some like it, but listen.” She ground out her cigarette and touched my arm, stepping close again. She lowered her voice. “A little after we came back from dinner, a bunch of Shane’s club came in. Then, a bit ago, they took off again. They didn’t ask if you were here and Crow and a bunch of guys went with them, but I overheard something that I don’t think I should’ve.”
“What?” Also, why was that dread coming back to me? “Does it have something to do with my friends?”
“What?”
“Uh.” I shook my head. “Never mind. What’d you overhear?”
“I don’t know how much of club business you know, but I know a little. There was recently a vote put where they’re not working with a cartel anymore. Some of the guys aren’t on board and I overheard a conversation that some are going to go ahead and ambush the rest. I’m not sure what that means, but I heard where they’re going.”
“What?” Oh God. My heart slammed against my chest. “Where?”
“They’re heading for Texas. A town there. Amarillo.” She pulled me even closer. “I think we should go.”
I backed up. “Wait. What?”
“Yeah. I tried calling Crow, but I know something when they’re on these missions, they use cell phone blockers. And I’m a little edgy about keeping mine with me. They got computer people who could track ours, but I can’t sit here and wait to see what happens. Not if we can get to them. Stop them or the very least, warn them.”
Yes.
Everything she was saying I was down for.
God. Not just Harper and Justin now, but Shane.
I pulled my phone out. “I could call Shane right now.”
She shook her head. “I wouldn't. I mean, who knows who could listen in, right? And if we let him know, that’s great, but the wrong person might hear too.”
“What are you saying then?”
“I think we should go. The guys are off somewhere else, but if they’re heading to Texas, we should too. If anything we can get there and then call, and find where they are. By then, they can’t stop us.” She was studying me intently. “What do you think?”
They already tried to hurt me, hurt Aly. They had Harper and Justin.
This was a fucking no-brainer for me.
“I’m in.”
She closed her eyes, her relief evident. “Good.” She looked down, seeing my bag. “Oh good, you have that. Where’s your phone?”
I pulled it out.
She motioned to it. “Turn it off, and let’s just go. The guys are still here. I know the route they use. My car is around the block. We could do this, get there ahead of them.”
“Then let’s do it.”
I turned my phone off, and we snuck out.
42
SHANE
Calling Kali.
“The person for this account has not yet set up her voice–”
I hung up because what the fuck?
“What’s wrong?” Boise came over.
I sent off a text before putting the phone back in my pocket.
Me: Where are you? Call me.
“Can’t get a hold of Kali. She’s back at The Bonfire, right? You been in contact with the guys back there?”
“No. Our guys are here.”
“Kali is there.”
He grimaced. “Uh, if she was keeping her head down, I don’t think they would’ve known she was there. I didn’t tell them. Did you?”
Shit. “No. Everything was hitting the hay here.”
“None of the guys would’ve told them. We pulled the rest of our club here, they rode in with Crow and the others.”
This wasn’t sitting right with me. “I need to talk to Crow. We might need to send some guys back for her, some of ours.”
“Sounds good. You want me to send him out?”
I was outside, and it was nearing five in the morning. The night had been about interrogating Estrada’s men, who told us nothing. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe them. I did. We let Machete loose on them. He’d been feeling a certain way since they took his woman. But it was that they didn’t know anything. They were told to grab two Red Demon women. Kali had been specifically mentioned, but when she went missing, they had to improvise. It happened exactly as Kali guessed it had.
“And the two guys?”
The guy was crying and bleeding, but he wasn’t holding back. It only took two hits before he broke. His friends had been the same. “I don’t know. We were told two women. The other van might’ve been told to get people friendly to the Red Demons. They were easy pickings. Right there and talking. We saw the one at your table in the bar so we knew he was an ally of your club. That’s all I can say. Honest. You don’t get it. We have to go back with someone or it’s our head and our family’s hanging. You can’t mess up with our boss.”