I reach the door and step through first, checking the lot before I let Cassie follow me.
“What was that?” she asks.
“Instinct,” I shrug. She doesn’t look impressed but doesn’t have the energy to complain.
As she heads for her car, I look around the parking lot again. The car that had been parked up the whole time I was waiting for Cassie is gone.
The man in it seemed to be watching the building. He probably didn’t think I could see him through the tinted windows but every time he used his phone it lit, up and showed me him sitting right there. Either he saw me and didn’t care, or he was too focused on whatever he was waiting for.After Rosa’s comments about Cassie needing protection, I wasn’t going to take any chances.
Cassie doesn’t say anything as she gets in the car I stick close but don’t crowd her and she drives well within the speed limit. She doesn’t want to go to Sussex.
Not that I blame her. When King calls, we drop everything, doesn’t matter who you are. Cassie might not want to believe it, but she is as loyal to the MC as any of the brothers.
Once we’re parked up, I ask one of the guys to move her car over to the house for her and Cassie hands me her keys. I figure she won’t want to walk up to the clubhouse to get her car when it’s time to go in the morning.
There isn’t a party going on as such, but it’s rowdy as we move through the front of the clubhouse. Cassie knows the way and doesn’t spare anyone else in the room a second glance. She doesn’t wait for me to catch up, knocking on the door to King’s office.
“Cassie,” King says, getting to his feet. There are two other brothers in the office with him.
“I didn’t mean to interrupt.”
“Not interrupting,” he says and nods to Wraith and Kansas who gather up their stuff and head out.
I shut the door and stand back as Cassie takes a seat opposite King. She’s done this so many times she is effortless. Despite how late it is and the tiredness she tries to hide, Cassie is switched on for King.
It’s impossible to take my eyes off her, which is a big fuck up when King is here. There is nothing that man doesn’t miss.
“How are you, Cassie?”
After a moment of hesitation, like she wasn’t expecting the pleasantries, she smiles. “I’m fine thank you. A little tired, it’s been a long day in work.”
“And I appreciate you coming out here tonight. I hadn’t thought you would be so late getting here.”
That’s aimed at me. He’s right, I should have gone up to her office to find her when she didn’t come out with the majority of the other staff but I was still trying to wrap my head around the whole situation and what King wants. Also how to speak to Cassie about it.
I might have no idea how it is going to play out but knowing I’ll be doing it with her has given me some hope that I can figure out what went so wrong that she can barely make eye contact with me.
“I had work to finish at the office, it couldn’t wait.”
King sits down and if I’m not mistaken, there is a twitch of his lip beneath his thick mustache. “I’ll assume Handlebar gave you the basics.”
“He did,” she answers and leans back, crossing her legs, looking every inch the professional, powerful woman she is. “Why do you want to be a part of it?” she asks.
Fuck me, her attitude is so damn hot. I shift on my feet, and King casts a quick look my way.
“For the moment, that isn’t important. How we can tap into their services, if we ever need it is.”
“It’s not something you can dip in and out of,” I speak up, drawing both of their attention. “They’re secretive for a reason. You don’t find them, they find you. I’m not sure it’s going to be possible.”
“In my experience, that isn’t something Cassie Beillo will agree with.”
“Nothing is impossible,” she agrees.
“The difference is, the Veil Line isn’t just a group of people saving women, it’s a whole system and network that has been cultivated over years. They will doanythingto protect the people who work for them.”
“And you think an MC trying to track them down will scare them off.”
“It won’t scare them off,” I tell her. “You can’t scare off what you’ve never had contact with in the first place.”
