I sighed and thought back to that day when I made the decision. I’d wanted to be like Dad, to make him proud even if he was no longer alive. I wanted to do something with my life, and this way I didn’t have to play by anyone’s rules or feel bad that I wasn’t a Ghost Rebel, but I didn’t want to tell Alex that. He’d feel bad, and I would never do that to him.
“I like the open road, brother,” I said quickly. “It was tantalising.”
He nodded, seeming to understand. I knew he had lived the nomadic lifestyle for more than fifteen years so he had to know what it felt like.
“Who recommended you?”
“His name was Demon,” I said. “He’s dead now.”
“So he can’t stand up for you?”
I shook my head. “No.”
Alex nodded, realising that if Demon had been still alive, he would have been able to solve this quickly.
I was alone.
It had been the scariest thought for the past year while I’d been running. Alone and when they found me, I would have no one to weep for me.
No one but Tierney that is.
“How’s T?” I asked him.
“You haven’t gone to see her?”
I shook my head.
“She’s good, but I’m sure she would want to see you, brother. When we finish up here, go and see her. We don’t know what’s going to happen with the meeting.”
It was an ominous thing to say, but I knew he was a take no shit kind of guy. I didn’t want to pull him downinto this. He found happy ever after with Orla, and he was happy. I couldn’t do this to him.
“Why don’t you just let me know who to meet and I’ll go alone?”
Alex smirked at me. “One day, brother, you’ll know how fucking stupid that question was.”
I couldn’t respond. The door opened and in filed Hawk, Viper and Savage. They all took their spots at the long table.
“Right,” Alex said. “We got word that Wolf’s contact is in town. He’s meeting with him now to find out what the Outlaws' ideas are and to plead Dempsey’s case here. From what we’ve heard, Flynn has taken over for the Broken Reapers after what we did to them a year ago. This could be good or bad, we don’t have a measure on it yet. The Wolves are coming for him too. I can’t make heads or tails of who is in charge there.”
“His name is Braden,” I told them. “I may have had a run in with him about three months ago. He was an enforcer up until we knocked off the last president and he rose fairly fucking quickly.”
They all looked at me.
“What’s he known by?” Savage asked.
“I honestly have no fucking idea,” I told him. “The Wolves are down though, I only saw a few men in theranks and unless he’s recruited heavily over the last few months, he has maybe four men with him.”
“Don’t forget the Wolves have a chapter in Milan who owe them a favour or two,” Viper added.
Alex nodded. “Viper, can you go and find out what you can?”
He nodded and left the room without another word.
“Who do we take down first?” Savage asked. “We start taking aim and they’ll know who to gun for. We need to take apart the biggest and toughest MC first.”
“Reapers,” we all said in unison.
“Hawk,” Alex aimed at his VP. “Do you think Morena can tell you anything about what she knows?”
