“Gonna make you legal before that, baby,” he promised.
“Oh, I know you will,” I sassed, leaning up on my tiptoes to kiss him and getting socked in the face by Reagan as I did.
“Girl fight,” Aero joked.
I chuckled. “You eat and I’ll feed her, then you can do bath while I eat.”
“Sounds good.”
Aero handed her off to me and we went about our nightly routine as we practiced for our own family.
* * *
Aero
Wednesday night arrivedand the church meeting had been called to include all members, not just officers, so my ass was on the back of my bike and heading to the club before Letti got off work. She was planning on heading to her dad’s afterwards to hang with Wyatt and Reagan.
As I walked out of my apartment, I was reminded that Violet and I seriously needed to find something else. Somewhere nicer. A place we could make a home, together.
Pulling up to the cabin, I backed my bike into a spot, then headed inside. Dropping my cell phone into the plastic bin by the door, I walked into the meeting room and took my place beside Scooby and Scrappy, standing at the back wall.
“Hey, brother,” Scrappy said.
“Hey. Prez looks pissed,” I observed. “Know why?”
“Nah. He’s been breakin’ shit all day,” Scooby said.
“He’s not lockin’ down the women and kids, so that’s a positive,” Scrappy continued.
“Yet,” Scooby countered.
“True.” Scrappy sighed. “This doesn’t look good.”
“Who are we missin’?” Sundance demanded.
“Rocky,” Wrath said. “He’s five minutes out.”
“We’ll start without him,” Sundance said, nodding toward Wrath who was closest to the door. Wrath closed it and Sundance banged the gavel. “Looks like the Beast is backing the Bulykin brothers’ expansion into Monument.”
“What the hell does that mean?” Scrappy asked.
“Not sure what’s in it for the Beast,” Sundance said. “But the brothers are known for runnin’ girls and heroin.”
“Fuckin’ bullshit, man,” Stoney hissed.
The Bulykin brothers were the ones who’d planned to sell his kid to the highest bidder. The wound was still open in Stoney’s mind, and he kept both Sabrina, who was pregnant, and Felix close at all times.
“What do you want us to do?” I asked.
“Lock Letti down, drive her to and from work.” He focused back on the group. “Same goes for all of you. Watch your women and kids. We’ll get provisions brought in in case we need to host families for a few days.” He pointed to Stoney. “Get a meet set up with Luca. I want to know what they know.”
Luca was Sabrina’s cop brother. He’d assisted in getting Felix back from the Bulykin brothers after he was kidnapped, and even though Luca irritated the shit out of Stoney, he seemed to have backed off in his vendetta against the club, and had even steered law enforcement from our door a few times.
“I’ll set it up tonight,” Stoney said, and Sundance nodded.
“Do you think they’ll fuck with us?” Wrath asked.
“If they do, it’ll be the last thing they do,” Sundance said, banging the gavel. “Meeting adjourned.”
