I'm not trusting this shit, one fuck! I looked around at the BBQ pits that were already smoking and the men and women who stood around my yard. I'm not sure even Dana-Sue, who was the one to come to me with the idea for the impromptu get together, knew what was really going on.After I'd caught Lyon and the others with their heads together this afternoon, I've been on high alert, but they weren't giving away anything, even Kyle, who I could usually threaten into telling me the truth.That boy had grown up way too fast in the last year or so, something I regret but understand. He's my little brother, the only one of my blood left after the massacre, but he's still a man. Now he has our cousin here to back his plays I can't keep a leash on either of their asses.I didn't suspect anything right away when Dana-Sue came to me with the idea, but as time went by, I started to get that feeling. Lyon's sneaky ass is up to something. I'm not sure what, though, since he'd turned my place into
Mancini had called earlier with the news that it was taking him longer than expected to smoke Junior out. Kyle, Travis, Lyon, and Creed have been acting shifty-shady since this afternoon, and now this."Fuck!" How could I be this stupid? Mancini found the Fox in the desert a few thousand miles away, how is it that he can't find one spineless asshole stateside? Shit!"Lyon, what did you do?"He had his burger halfway to his mouth when I asked, and just then his phone rang. He didn't say anything more than hello before he smiled and hung up again."***LYON***That was perfect fucking timing. Now there's no question of the asshole sheriff coming at my boy for this shit. I'm pretty sure he won't be heading back this way anytime soon since his hands were about to be full. The only thing left to do now was tell Law and get the hell back home.I walked over to Creed, who looked like he was holding his very pregnant wife up while she chowed down on some grub. "Creed, a minute." He
Hah, Colton Lyon thinks he's slick, but he forgot that I know him very well. I didn't spend the last eighteen years with him not to learn a thing or two. I knew when he sidled up to me this afternoon and sweet-talked me into throwing this impromptu barbecue that there was something more behind it.I didn't ask too many questions, though, because I was sure that whatever he was up to had to do with our friends, so I'd warned the girls to be on the lookout and just go with the flow.The sheriff showing up here was unexpected, though, but apparently, that was part of Colt's plan whatever it was. "Look!" I pointed out Law walking away with the baby after the little talk he'd just had with Colt and Creed."Whatever it is has been taken care of. Now we can breathe easy.""If you hadn't warned us in advance, I would've died of fright when your man came over and told me to take the baby to Law."Dana-Sue actually shivered as she looked in the direction of our men. I've told them a million
"I give a fuck about you and your fucking laws, now get the fuck off my property before I put a hole in your gut, asshole." The middle-aged sheriff's deputy looked at the young man with the assault rifle pointed at his gut.In his younger days, he maybe would've tested the younger man's mettle, but he wasn't so sure about this one. Word on the street was that he was mean as a rattlesnake and wasn't too fond of anything or anyone, having to do with the law. Funny though, that the man's name was Law.Lawton Daniels watched the car with the sheriff's insignia pull out of his yard and waited until it was out of sight before returning inside. The young girl was still cowering in the corner, looking scared to death, her face bruised and bloody, clothes torn.He didn't say anything as he went by her to the little downstairs bathroom to get what he needed to clean her up with. Her eyes followed him around the room like a trapped rat until he sat in front of her to assess the damage.She fl
His little brother Kyle wasn't too bright. By that he meant, the boy was book smart and knew right from wrong and all that happy shit, but when it came to his big brother, there was a glitch in his head. It was understandable, though, since the two were all the family each had left. Law looked over at his brother. "Kyle, if this son of a bitch gets the drop on me, you let him lone ya hear?" All he got was those eyes turned on him and a grunt.He guessed that was gonna have to do for now. He'd expect the others to keep Kyle in line. Not that he expected the other man to overpower him, that little speech was all for the man's benefit.He turned his attention back to the asshole, who charged him like a bull out the pen at the starting bell. What an ass. Law stood still until the fool got close enough and hit him in the face with a short left-hand jab.This enraged the bull, and he charged again. Each time he charged, Law countered with a jab, a kick, or a punch. Truth was, the big ba
I need this shit. What the fuck am I supposed to do with this kid? I can't have her hanging around the clubhouse, she's too fucking young, and sooner or later, someone will be sniffing after her.My guys are pussy hounds. Some of them I can trust, others I'm still feeling out. I'm pretty sure none of my crew would fuck with her, but there were always newbies coming onto the place looking for a spot.Not to mention my place is still a working ranch, and there were a lot of out-of-towners on the place at any given time.I hopped off my ride and watched the others as they headed back to the clubhouse. That's another thing I hadn't fucking asked for. I wasn't cut out to be the leader of shit. I'm a loner down to my core, but these fucks got it in their heads that I was the man for the job and hitched their fucked up wagons to my trail. Even the army knew to separate my ass from the rest of humanity. Snipers didn't normally work with a crew these days; at least I didn't.I headed in
I guess you can call my place a compound now as much as it's a ranch. The men had turned a few of the old bunkhouses into supply sheds. The old barn, the one that hadn't been in use in years, had been turned into the clubhouse after an extensive build-on.There were about thirty of us here. Five stayed at the clubhouse at any given time on some sort of rotation schedule that they'd made up.They all had homes, but I knew they stayed close for Kyle's and my protection, even though I'd told them time and time again that it wasn't needed.I showed the mother to the little guest cottage that was a little ways away from the main house.I remember the day ma and dad had had one of their loud discussions about the building of that particular structure. That's what she called their arguments. She never said they were arguing or fighting; it was always a loud discussion or an intense debate. And always ended with dad dragging her off to their room for hours. I miss the fuck out of those
I'm cold, scared, and alone. The room where he'd left me to sit just outside the door he'd gone through was a wide-open area with hardwood flooring and only artificial lighting as far as I could see, except for a couple of very high windows whose light barely reached the ground. It was obvious we were in an old barn that had been renovated into something else. I looked around the room, trying to figure out just what exactly this place was.There was a bar that took up the whole of one wall, tables and chairs in another sectioned-off area and then what looked like a lounge area with couches and more chairs scattered all around. On the walls was a mix of ranch and biker photos and other things you'd expect to see in a manly space in the Midwest.Through a little archway, I could see what looked like a game room, with just the corner of a pool table visible from this angle. The air was filled with the scent of cigarette smoke and other things but somehow didn't look as dark and sinister