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Well, she’d never ignore a gut feeling from him either Who knohat the hell would have happened had he not shown up? “Reut a special treat Think he deserves it”
The laugh that left hio of the tension Took a lot to h He’d seen too many of life’s horrors to be overly jovial But every time he did it, his face relaxed and his eyes lit
And Chloe felt victorious
Too bad the triuh to drown out the undercurrent of fear Crank brought back into her life
CHAPTER NINE
COPPER
Copper leaned back in his chair as he studied the men seated around his table Men who put their trust in hi his club in the right direction always sat a bit heavier on his shoulders The Christhtness, and love That meant the club’s businesses needed to be profitable to support the men and their loved ones It meant they needed to stay off the cops’ radar and keep any enemies at bay A lot of pressure for one man
Now, should he ask, each and every patched member of his club would inform hireed It was one hundred percent his job to make sure the men were taken care of, whether that be financial assistance, by being kept out of prison, or by staying safe in general
Call hi sap, but this year, with Shell and Beth in his life in a neay, he wanted each and every day to be filled with nothing but smiles and happiness
Noever, a dark cloud had settled over his clubhouse, and it was unacceptable
The in theNone of them seemed overly concerned by the appearance of a rival MC in town, but then, they had yet to learn ent doith Chloe just over an hour ago After getting his woman settled in his room upstairs, a furious Rocket had burst into Copper’s office with the story Since hearing it, Copper couldn’t rid the sour sensation fro hi real, fast
“All right,” he finally said, straightening up He’d take care of pleasant business first, before fucking up everyone’s day “Let’s get rolling Gonna start with Christmas Dinner here at three in the afternoon Gives you theto spend at home Obviously, this isn’taround town, our fa a meal on Christmas Day”
“Fuck yeah,” said Mav, ore a holly green shirt with a Christmas nutcracker Across the top, in block letters, it read, Put your nuts in ood time”