Cap just shook his head. “We need this footage analyzed sooner rather than later. I’m sorry.”
I furrowed my brow deeply. Since when did our president apologize? For literally anything?
These women are making us soft.
“The girls can handle her just fine. I’m sure she’s tired of being surrounded by dick, anyway,” I said.
Ranger shot me a look. “You know, you could be more?—”
“Here, we’ve got her,” Amanda said as she stood and took the woman’s hand.
Ariel was quick to follow suit, scooting the woman’s feet out of her lap and standing. “You know, we’ve got some leftover homemade macaroni and cheese, if you’re up for it.”
“And my sister made some bangin’ lemonade last night,” Amanda said as they got the woman to her feet.
Ranger leapt up, his hands held out, just in case she fell again. His eyes were so attentive with her as the women slowly coaxed her out of the kitchen full of people. Doc had already made his escape, no doubt already out of the clubhouse and heading to his office here on the compound.
And it wasn’t until the women disappeared that Ranger turned toward us, his hand shoved into his pocket.
“Come on,” he said as he pulled out my cell phone, “let’s go get this footage loaded up in my room.”
Everyone was tense. On edge. The girls disappeared somewhere toward the back of the clubhouse, but it didn’t stop the men from walking around on eggshells, hoping to catch a bitof gossip, or to get another glimpse of the woman. I didn’t care about any of that, though. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
I wanted to know what the hell that logo belonged to.
“All right,” Ranger said breathlessly as he flopped down at his desk. He hooked up my cell phone to some cords and cables that connected to his laptop, “let’s see what we’ve got on here.”
The first watch through was just that, a watch through. To get a good idea of the footage I had managed to obtain.
“You didn’t catch up to them?” Cap asked.
I shook my head and crossed my arms over my chest. “Believe me, I tried. But, no. I couldn’t catch them.”
“Not even with your mods?”
I grinned beneath my mask at Cap. “What? I thought you didn’t like my mods.”
“Not now, Ghost,” he growled.
I tsked and rolled my eyes. “No, even with my mods, I couldn’t catch them. I’d stake my career on the fact that their vehicle was modded as well.”
“Can’t be many places to have that done,” Cap muttered.
“Unless they’re like me and know how to do it themselves,” I said.
“Oh,” Ranger said as his fingers flew across the keyboard.
I watched him pause the video before blowing up the image of the logo on the side of the car.
“Huh,” Ranger said as I watched him sharpen the image as much as he could, “the fuck is that?”
I leaned over his shoulder. “No fucking clue. It’s not a logo I recognize.”
“Me, neither. Cap?” he asked.
Cap came around to his other shoulder and hunched over before shaking his head. “Nope. Not a logo from anywhere in Redd Valley.”
“What the fuck?” Ranger asked as he sank into his zone.
