“I’m not claiming her yet. Shit, I’ve only known her for a few weeks, but she’s mine.”
You could hear a pin drop in the room.
“Oh, look who’s got his balls in a sling now,” Jax jokes from across the table.
The men erupt with laughter, and the tense feeling in the room relaxes a bit. I deserve that. When he claimed Sierra, I gave him nonstop shit for settling down and being tied to one woman. Didn’t see the point with all the ready and available pussy we have around here. Well, that was until a sexy teacher walked into my life.
“Fuck you,” I say while flipping him off with both hands. A smile pulls at the corner of my lips.
“Alright, you two,” Prince says like a father separating his kids.
“We gonna talk about the fact that we probably have a fucking rat among us?” Bear says from the back of the room. He’s leaned back in his chair so the front two legs are suspended in the air.
“There’s a reason we called an officer-only meeting, boys.” Prince juts out his chin toward Blaze.
“We have a hunch that it might be one of the prospects,” Blaze says.
“A hunch? What the fuck do you know?” I say in a pissed-off tone. If they knew something, we should have dealt with it bynow. The thought of having someone unloyal in the club makes me see red. Whoever it is, is going to see why you never cross us or put the lives of us and our families in danger.
“Relax. We aren’t sure. That’s why we’re going to feed each of them a different story as to how we’re going to retaliate. If the Reapers make a move to attack, then we’ll know who the rat is.” A menacing smile grows on his face. “Then we’ll deal with them.”
It’s a good plan, but it also means we have to keep the prospects separated for the time being. We only have three at the moment, so that won’t be too difficult.
We devise a plan for what we’ll tell each prospect and how it’ll be delivered to them. The itch to figure out who the prick is overtakes me, I just want this done. I practically vibrate with anger. Every officer agrees on the plan. This will be done tonight, and we hope it’ll lead us right to the dead man walking.
Prince stands, and we all give him our attention again.
“Remember, tonight you get your shit in order because tomorrow we figure out how to take these fuckers down.” He bangs the gavel, and we all stand to leave.
Thank fuck. I need to get back to Jenna. I bet she’s already fallen asleep and I want to wrap myself around her for a couple of hours.
I get two steps out of the Church doors when I feel a hand slap down on my shoulder. I turn back to see Jax.
“Prez wants us to go deal with the guy at the warehouse.” He says as he heads for the main door leading to our bikes out front.
“Already planned on going in the morning,” I snap back not wanting to deal with anymore of this shit right now. The guy isn’t going anywhere and I am so worked up I’m not sure I’m going to have the patience needed to do this interrogation well.
“No can do. Said it needs to be done now,” Jax says as he opens a piece of gum and pops it into his mouth.
I roll my shoulders, trying to alleviate some of the tension. “Fine.”
“Don’t worry, lover boy. You’ll be back soon enough.” Jax slaps my back as I walk out into the dark night.
CHAPTER TWENTY
jenna
Axel left abouttwenty minutes ago. I am exhausted, but every time I try to close my eyes, I see that man staring back at me. Lifeless. Dead. Gosh, I really am not cut out for any of this. I roll over and decide to scroll through social media. Nothing quiets my racing mind quite like aimlessly doom scrolling.
Right as I’m about to put down my phone, a picture of Marley’s face covers my screen. I answer as quickly as I can. She had texted me that she was on a plane back to California when we first arrived here, but I hadn’t yet been able to get ahold of her.
“Marley!”
“Jenna? Oh, thank God!” Her voice sounds relieved. “I leave you for one day, and all hell breaks loose?”
I let out a dry laugh. “Yeah, try not to leave anymore, okay? I don’t think I can handle this without you.”
Once the words are out of my mouth, I hear Marley take a deep breath.
