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He spent the nextat me, as if he could set h Sadly for hiuess he needed to practice that particular superpower a little bit longer Then the door opened Graves stood outside with two ht Marsh He sht of Marsh huddled on the floor

“He attacked me,” I said blandly

“Looks like self-defense,” he replied “We’ll find a safer place for you to wait out your processing Sorry about the mistake”

• • •

Half an hour later, I walked out into the parking lot, and despite the fact that I’d spent the night in jail, I felt better than I had in a long ti shit

Horse and Ruger were right there, just like Coales had proht , he nearly broke a rib

“Missed you, brother,” he said, his voice serious for once “We orried about you up there We’re gonna clean house tonight Pic wants to talk, and then we’ll call the Nighthaho aren’t locked up together Wants a full report on everyone, to see if any of the”

Together alked toward my bike

Fuck, it looked good

The way it was supposed to For one thing, they’d put the whips back on, and the custoer handed me a carefully folded leather vest My colors, with my road name on the front, and Reapers MC across the back I pulled it on, savoring the smell of the leather, and for the first tiain

“There’s a knife in your saddlebag, and I stashed soer said in a low voice

“Missed wearing this,” I said, pulling on ain Got some business to take care of”

“Yeah, they’re waiting for you,” Horse said “Gonna have church at the hotel, get your full report Then we’ll oin’ for us—enough of theht”

“Not sure there’ll be ht,” I told him “All of Marsh’s people went down to the rally The club wasn’t united and those who stayed behind were already pulling away Anything could happen, but taking Marsh out of the picture is a gaer”

“That’s e should get going,” Horse said “Boss hates to wait”

“Got so my chin “Someone important”

“More ier asked, but I was already throwing a leg over , and for the first tiot hard just thinkin’ about it

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“So yesterday,” Carrie said, her voice breathless through the phone I was sitting onmy Sunday-afternoon wine No eye candy this weekend, which was probably a good thing I hadn’t seen Cooper for a few days, andhim work, I kneas for the best

On the bright side, I hadn’t seen stupid Talia or her machete