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He was fucking struggling Dealing with shit he’d never i a shitty-assed job at it

All signs were pointing to Shell’s infor accurate His brother had stolen a total of fifteen thousand dollars from the club and turned it around to purchase crystalon the cake was the fact that he was buying the uys

That discovery went down like fucking ground glass LeftyCopper’s own brother was betraying the club and getting into bed with him

And speaking of getting into bed, Copper had been doing that particular activity alone for the past five nights He just couldn’t druht about it—and with all the sitting around whiskey-consuht about it a fuckton—he realized Izzy was probably dead on

Soed for Shell, ached to see her, touch her, speak with her, he was terrified of the truth Because one of two options were accurate, and both choices made his skin crawl Either his woman was a liar or his brother was a piece of shit who took advantage of a young girl

So, after forty years, he’d co coward It was a hard pill to s

The back door to the clubhouse swung open, and someone ventured out Copper didn’t bother to turn Whichever of his brothers dared to coet to their point soon enough

As he took another drink, the footsteps drew closer Softer than the heavy clomp of motorcycle boots, it h, Toni appeared by his side holding a fold-up chair

She opened it then plopped down rubbing her sweatshirt-covered arht”

The sun wasbelow the trees, and the te her shift, cleaning the large office building on the opposite side of town

“By all means,” he said “Head on back inside”

With a scowl for hi swing of his expensive whiskey When she grimaced and shuddered, he couldn’t help but chuckle “You think that shit would taste better for howher mouth with the back of her hand

“Not a whiskey girl, huh?”

“Nope”

They fell into silence for a fewthe sun lower Toni was a sunset fan It was her thing She and Zach often disappeared around this ti out a new location to view the phenomena

Copper’s sto to do with the quiet between the hi his woman