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CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: UNRAVELING

Author: Frank Cannon
last update publish date: 2026-01-04 03:27:13

I did not tell anyone about Dr. Mitchell's visit.

Not Mae. Not Razor. Not Daniel.

I just carried it. Like a stone in my chest. Getting heavier every day.

Three days later, I went to see Victor.

He was at his compound, working on a bike, when I arrived.

"Jenna. What brings you here?" He set down his tools. "You look like hell."

"Did you know?" I asked. "About Colt. About his depression. His suicidal thoughts. Did you know?"

Victor's expression closed off. "Who told you?"

"His therapist. She show
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  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX: THE ACCOUNTABILITY CONVERSATION

    Riley came off recovery on a Monday.She walked into the compound at eight in the morning. Not slowly. Not with the tentative quality of someone testing whether their body had kept its promises. She walked in the way she always walked. Direct. Like she had somewhere specific to be and had already calculated the most efficient route.She looked healthy. The two weeks had done what two weeks of enforced rest do for people who had been running at the wrong pace. Something had settled in her face that had not been there before. Not softer. More grounded. The difference between someone who was holding everything tightly and someone who had learned to hold some things loosely.Cruz was in the corridor when she came in.He looked at her for a moment."Good," he said. One word. Santos-style.Riley looked at him. "You restructured the intake schedule before I told anyone.""Santos restructured it," he said."Because you told him something was coming," she said

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE: FORTY-EIGHT HOURS

    Morrison's legal team cleared the operation in ninety minutes.The ethics review was shorter than I expected because the precedent from the Razor counter-operation was cleaner than I had realized when I cited it. Morrison had documented that entire operation thoroughly. The legal basis for feeding false intelligence to a compromised asset within a federal investigation had already been established and recorded.The Voss situation fit within the same framework.Morrison called at eleven."We are approved," he said. "Forty-eight hours. The false information enters through the standard investigation status briefing that Voss receives as part of her normal role. Nothing that requires her to take any unusual action. She receives it. She passes it. The legal team gets the wrong picture." He paused. "Mouse has the package ready?""Mouse will have it ready by this evening," I said."Send it through the secure channel at six," he said. "I will integrate it into the br

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR: VOSS

    I sat with the name for a long moment.Carla Voss.The agent who had been in every significant meeting. Who had annotated the partnership draft in red pen before we renegotiated it. Who had run the database query that let Mouse trace Hale's physical location in Sonora. Who had said the section three language was already flagged before we came back with the renegotiation request.Who had been inside every room where the investigation's status was discussed for the last eight months."How certain is Britten?" I said. My voice came out even. I was grateful for that."He named her specifically," Morrison said. "Not as a Hale operative. He does not believe she was ever in Hale's direct employ. The picture he is describing is more complicated." He paused. "Britten describes Voss as someone Hale's legal team identified and approached after the arrest. Not before. After." He paused. "Someone who was recruited specifically to monitor the post-arrest investigation and pass status updates to the

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE: TWO WEEKS

    The recovery period had a particular quality.Not the quality of a crisis that required managing. The quality of a pause that was built into the structure of things. Riley working at full cognitive capacity from her office or from home. The compound running on the team she had built. The program not pausing.But Riley present in a different way than usual. More still. The enforced reduction in physical movement producing an interior space that fast-moving people do not always access.She told me this on the fourth day.We were sitting in her office. She was at her desk. I had come in for a framework question and stayed because the conversation went somewhere interesting."The two weeks are making me think about things I normally run past," she said."What kind of things?" I said."The pace of the presidency," she said. "I have been running at the pace I ran as the program's second. High output. High engagement. Always in motion." She paused. "Sitting here

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-TWO: RILEY'S PROCEDURE

    Riley scheduled the procedure for a Thursday.She told the club on Monday. I was in the war room when she did it. Not because she needed support. Because she had asked me to be there and I had said yes without qualification.She stood at the front of the room the way I had stood at the front of rooms for years. Direct. No preamble. The specific quality of someone who had decided to do something difficult and was doing it without performing the difficulty."I have a health matter to address," she said. "Minor procedure Thursday. Outpatient. Two weeks of limited physical activity following. I will be working at full capacity throughout." She paused. "Cruz and Santos have operational coverage. Jenna is running the network meeting Friday. The program does not pause." She looked around the room. "That is everything I need to tell you operationally. I am telling you personally because you are my family and you deserve to know."The room was quiet for a moment.Danny sp

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE: WHAT RILEY CARRIED ALONE

    I found out on a Wednesday.Not from Riley directly. From Cruz.He came to my office at four in the afternoon with the expression he had developed for delivering things he was uncertain whether to deliver. Not the operational uncertainty expression. The human one. The look of someone who cared about multiple people and was caught between competing loyalties."Talk," I said."Riley has been managing something for two weeks," he said. "I noticed it because I know her now. The specific quality her focus gets when she is carrying something that she is not distributing." He paused. "I asked her directly yesterday. She told me it was operational and she was handling it." He paused again. "But this morning I overheard part of a phone call. She was talking to someone. I did not hear the full conversation. But I heard enough.""What did you hear?" I said."A doctor," he said. "She was talking to a doctor. About something that was not routine. The tone was not routine.

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: FACE TO FACE

    I tracked Crystal through the clubhouse using sound.Her breathing. Her footsteps. The soft rustle of her clothes.She was good. But I was better.Because I knew this building. Every creaking board. Every hiding spot. Every exit.This was my territory.My home.I found her in the bar. Standing by t

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-21

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER THIRTY: THE REAL ENEMY

    "You are alive." My voice was barely a whisper. "Very much so." Crystal's laugh was like nails on glass. "The body you found? A girl who looked like me. Same build. Same hair. I killed her three days before the quarry. Planted my ID on her. Knew you would not check too carefully in the heat of bat

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-21

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: MAE'S SECRET

    I could not confront Mae directly. Not yet.If she was the traitor, tipping her off would be suicide. If she was innocent, accusing her would destroy our relationship.So I watched. And waited.For three days, I observed everything Mae did. Who she talked to. Where she went. What she said when she

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-20

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: TRUST NO ONE

    I did not go back to the compound immediately.Instead, I rode to Colt's grave.The cemetery was empty. Dark. Just me and the ghost I could not stop mourning."I do not know what to do," I whispered to his headstone. "Everyone is lying. Everyone has secrets. How did you handle it? How did you know

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-20
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