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Jazz could relate

Spreading throughout the ris of chips, and a few sodas, re out of the ordinary for a late-night gas station run, except for one very significant factor

EachChrome Disciples rockers None wore jackets, just cuts and dirty T-shirts or wife beaters as though it wasn’t currently thirty-eight degrees If it hadn’t been for the quiet when their cars pulled up, she’d have guessed they’d rode in on their bikes too

Such tough guys

Not that it mattered, the proble into toith their one-percenter cuts in a territory already claimed by an outlaw MC

A blatant show of disrespect and a giant fuck-you to the Hell’s Handlers Worse, they’d bragged about settling in the area and made it clear the Handlers were to either join the endeavor or they’d be fast enemies In the week or so they’d been in town, they’d caused an immense amount of drama for the Handlers Crank, their enforcer, had shown up at the diner, stalked Chloe one afternoon, and even went so far as to lure Toni and Shell into a trap One that nearly ended in death for her friends, and had got Zach shot in the process

After it all went down, the club up and disappeared No one thought the reprieve was perure out what their next move was

What the hell was she supposed to do now? Leave the coffee and slink out the front door? Waltz up to the counter and pay the terrified attendant?

Instead of either of those options, Jazz held her breath as though that would somehow make her invisible to the bikers

“Well, well, well, who do we have here?”

So much for that

Jazz stood, rooted to the floor, a sixteen-ounce coffee to go in each hand as a man with a crooked nose and cauliflower ears sauntered up to her His hair, wavy and dark, nearly reached his shoulders Across the left side of his chest a patch read Crank, with another stating Enforcer right below it

Shit

“Excuseher feet She took one step only to have her path cut off by Crank

“Nohere ya running off to?”

Did he know her? How she was connected to the Handlers?

She sed as she lifted the coffees “Excuse me, I need to pay for these”

He cocked his head and studied her with surprisingly shrewd eyes She could practically see the wheels turning in his ured out hoork this situation to his advantage