He must see what we already know about Luca, he motions for the officers to leave, and they do.
Once the door is closed, Angel says, “I’m not sure if that was wise.”
Luca’s smirk returns. “I guess we’ll find out.”
“We don’t need to make unnecessary enemies,” Angel argues.
“Everyoneis an enemy until they prove otherwise.”
I admire Luca and how his mind works. I couldn’t figure him out at first, but once you spend time around him and see him in action, it’s easy to see what kind of man he is. Ruthless. Brutal. Cold. But loyal, smart, and I always know where I stand with him.
“Max. Warren. Head out, take Tor’s truck, and see if you can locate where the Hades Hogs are staying,” Luca instructs.
It would be with pleasure to get out of here for a while. I served two years when I was sixteen in a juvenile detention, and I have no plans of ever finding out what an adult jail or prison is like. I’ll stand and fight side by side with Luca when it comes to anyone, especially the police.
“That was a fuckin’ rush, brother,” Max hollers once we’re in Tor’s truck and I’m pulling away from the clubhouse.
I admit, my heart was pounding a little harder than usual.
My brother, as much as I love him and would die for him, he can be reckless, and he enjoys the dangerous side of life more than any other person I know.
“Do you think Luca would have had us spill police blood right there in the bar?”
I round the corner and drive along East and third scoping out every parking bay for motorcycles.
“I think he would’ve gone as far as he needed, but I don’t think he would have had us shoot them. It would have brought too much attention to us. You think the city would have let us get away with killing ten cops? Come on, Max. Be smarter.”
“Fuck you. I am smart. That’s why I reckon he would’ve shot them and fuck the consequences.”
I’d laugh if it wasn’t so stupid. “There’d be no way we could get away with it, nor would we have been able to stay in the city. We’d have to spend our lives on the run.”
“I think he would’ve if they tried taking any of us,” he murmurs.
“Ithink that Luca has the ability to make anyone believe they’re in danger and he knows that, and he used it to his advantage.”
“I don’t agree. Surely you saw the difference between him and the Willow’s Peak chapter. He’s different to Leo. Leo’s more reserved, Luca’s wild with control.”
“You admire it?”
“I do and so do you.”
I can’t argue with that but if I tell him so he’ll think he can be even more reckless.
We drive around the city for hours. Not a single motorcycle raises our suspicions or a Hades Hogs brother in sight.
“I’m hungry, let’s stop by Mom’s.”
It’s always Mom’s, never Mom and Dad’s. Though our parents are still married, we don’t have a relationship with our father. He made sure of that while we were growing up and then we made sure of it when we embraced being the disappointments he constantly told us we were.
I park up outside our childhood home and kill the engine.
There have been a few times I haven’t had the energy to deal with our dad but tonight isn’t one. I’m hungry and I haven’t seen my mom in a couple of months. She’s the only reason I step through her front door. The day she’s gone, I’ll burn it to the ground.
It seems we’ve caught them at a convenient time for us. Dinner time. The family is sat around the table with our father sat at the head and our mother to his left.
“Ah, Jessica,” Max sneers. “How lovely it is to see such a backstabbing whore at our table.”
I’m the one who shouldn’t be able to keep my mouth shut. I’m the one she promised she loved before she took up with my brother and then went on to marry him.
