Total pages in book: 102
Estimated words: 100225 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 501(@200wpm)___ 401(@250wpm)___ 334(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 100225 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 501(@200wpm)___ 401(@250wpm)___ 334(@300wpm)
“This club kept secrets from me. Secrets that could affect not only me, but my woman. I won’t be a part of a club that doesn’t trust me.”
“What have you done lately to earn our trust?” Dancer asks and fuck, I guess I know what’s going on here.
“This is bullshit. Dom has had my back no matter what. I don’t know what caused this blow up, but I know I have faith in my brother. He’s had issues, but who among you hasn’t had your personal lives go all to hell and not need to regroup. Dom came back and has been doing more than his damn share since. He’s filled in for me more than a few times lately. So, if you are going to kick him out, you might as well do the same to me,” Raze growls.
“No one is kicking Dom out,” Dad growls.
“If it’s a club vote, I vote on Dom’s side. I’m out of this shit,” he growls. “Dom?”
“Yeah, man?”
“Ride or die, motherfucker.”
“Ride or die,” I laugh. With a nod, he walks off.
I know he’s going to find my woman. I trust Thea, but fuck, it’s hard to let him go. Breaker lets out a chuckle and my gaze moves over to him. He’s looking right at me and there’s not a doubt in my mind that he knows what I’m thinking. I flip him off.
“It shouldn’t need to be said but my vote is in support of Dom. The fact this meeting even needs to be done pisses me off. Dancer, man, much respect, but you of all people can’t complain about Dom. To answer your question, he’s proven a hell of a lot lately. He always puts the club first and has done everything the club asked, and then some. He’s the one responsible for our new liquor contracts with the restaurants we own. He has also been filling in on border runs. There’s a bunch of you going all to hell over personal shit between Dom and T. You act as if this club hasn’t had a history of men going through crap like this. There’s not a one of you that can say anything to Dom. This entire thing is bullshit and if no one else has the balls to say it, I’ll go on record as saying it again—because I already told you assholes you should include Dom on the intel we had. I know what went down with my dad in the club. I know what happened with Crusher, Dancer, and you, too, Dragon. What is going on here is stupid fucking shit. Dom has a right to be pissed, and he has a right to turn his back on the club for the bullshit that was pulled. I’ll tell you this, though if he walks out, it won’t be Dom losing out. It will be us.”
“Guess I’ve been called out,” Bull mutters. Breaker smirks at him. “Fuck it. I didn’t agree the first time we had this discussion either. I don’t agree now. Dom has my vote of confidence, although you and me are going to be talking soon about my daughter.”
“I figured, but the only thing you need to know is that I won’t let anything, or anyone, hurt my woman, and that includes me.”
Bull nods. “That sounds like a secret message. I’ll give you one right out. If I see any sign that you’re slipping—”
“You won’t, but we’ll talk more about Thea later. I’m not going anywhere,” I respond.
“Dom has my support,” Dancer pipes up. “Sorry brother, all I saw before was you fucking up in the same ways I did.”
“Let me just stop everyone here. I don’t really give a fuck. The point is there was a vote against me I didn’t even fucking know was happening. Shit was kept from me that came knocking on my door. I was blindsided. If I’m going to be out there protecting men who are my brothers, I need to know what’s going on. If I don’t, then shit sneaks up on me. Like seeing a fucking member from a club we’re not known allies with, staring me and my woman down at a school I have to leave her at all day.”
“Your woman?” Bull asks.
“Mine.”
He nods and walks off. I figure he’s going to go quiz Thea now. I’m getting damn tired. I take my cut and put it on the bar.
“I think we’re done here.”
“We’re not,” Dad says, but I just shake my head.
“We are. There’s not a damn thing you can say to me that will make me change my mind.”
“You’re going to let petty bullshit—”
“It’s not fucking petty! You had a vote on me, without my knowledge. You kept shit from me that I should have known.”
“You were layin’ drunk—”
“I haven’t had more than a beer or two in months, asshole. I’ve been working my ass off for this club, including leaving my woman’s bed to fill in for others and do the midnight border runs. I’ve been knee deep in negotiations for our new clubs and restaurants—shit I don’t like to do, but I had this dream of one day running this club like my old man. Or hell, even being Breaker’s second as I saw him moving up. That would have burned, but I thought this club was my world.”