All Chapters of Extreme Curves (Dangerous Curves 7): Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

“What?” Spider hollered, not even bothering to make an attempt at staying cool. “Just – just what?”Tex sighed, rolled his massive shoulders. “Ace will be staying here too.”“What?”“Ace –” Tex began again, but stopped abruptly when he saw Spider bolting for the door of the safe house. Tex threw out one bulging arm, easily blocking the other man’s escape route. “And you’re going where, son?”“Anywhere but here,” Spider choked out through his rage. “I’m not staying here.”“Oh, but you are,” Honey said, all silken tones. “If you want to live through the next week, you sure as hell are.”“Nuh-uh,” Spider said, all defiant and dumb. “I’d rather be fully eviscerated than stay here with that man for five minutes.”“Well, I’m sure that The Fallen Angels will oblige you,” Honey said. “And I’m sure they’ll happily use a rusty spoon to drag your insides outside. Sounds good to you?”“Uh,” Spider stalled. “No. Not really. But –”“No ‘buts’, “ Honey said, all sweetness and light long gone, and Sp

Those black eyes met every other eye in the room, and although he didn’t curl his lip or give everyone the finger, he might as well have. The lack of concern or taking of responsibility in his expression was nothing short of breathtaking, and Tex for one suddenly felt that it was a real struggle to not pound Ace Cuddy’s stupid, smug face into the wooden floor.King, however, wasn’t fooled. Not even a little bit. He’d heard the tremor in Ace’s voice a few hours earlier, when the other man had apologized over and over again for screwing everything up. He’d heard the guilt and shame in Ace’s voice at putting Spider at risk. King had also heard the sheer terror in Ace’s voice when he’d begged King to make sure that Spider was safe. Finally, King had heard the soft hope, the surprising sweetness and vulnerability in Ace’s voice when he’d told King that he wanted a second chance with Spider. He’d also seen and heard nothing but relief when Honey had called to say that Spider was in the safe

Spider was just thinking that the bedroom in this safe house was way nicer than anything he’d ever actually have in his own home, like ever, when he heard the knock at his door. Automatically, he froze, and had to force down the urge to dive under the bed. That was when he realized, for the first time, just how scared he was.He took command of himself – after all, he had four very lethal people between himself and the front door, people who ate bad guys for breakfast – and called out, “Who is it?”A pause. Then:“It’s Ace.”Now Spider did freeze, utterly and completely. What the hell?“What do you want?” he croaked, hoping that the words carried through the door. “To talk to you. Can you open the door?”Spider didn’t move. He didn’t even breathe.“Liam?”Spider shivered. Nobody called him that, nobody but the man now standing a few feet away, on the other side of a door. Suddenly, without any warning, before he could stop it or defend himself from his own memory, Spider flashed ba

Donovan ‘Joker’ Kane stared at his laptop, simply unable to believe what he was seeing. He blinked a few times, still not trusting his own damn eyes, and when the images didn’t change, he gave a low growl of rage and disgust deep in his throat.“Nails!” he called out. “C’mere, Prez, and I mean double-time.”Stomping footsteps approached, and then Nails Paxton was in the doorway of Ace’s bedroom, looking ten kinds of seriously-pissed. Ever since that anonymous phone call had come in from someone claiming that Ace Cuddy had killed Kirk, Warren ‘Derby’ Kane (Joker’s own cousin), and Shay Alcott, it had been one hell of a day, and Joker knew that what he had to show Nails was only going to make for a much worse night.“What?” Nails snarled. He’d just gotten off the phone with a few of his brothers, and sure enough, Kirk’s body had been uncovered, and both Ace’s and Derby's Fallen Angels cuts had been found on the bed in the MC cabin. No sign of Derby or the little bitch, but Nails didn’t

“Mmmm-hmmmm,” Luke said, a bit dazed. “So… did Spider help Ace kill Kirk?”“No.” King stepped in again. “No, Ace did that to protect Warren Kane and Shay Alcott.”“Are they OK?” Mac asked immediately. Warren was Mirrie’s younger cousin, and she’d been living in fear of him getting hurt ever since he’d patched in to The Fallen Angels. “Were they hurt?”“They ran,” King said heavily. “That’s a story for me to tell you and Mirrie alone later, OK? But the thing to know is that they’re fine. They’re in love, and they’re together, and they’re safe. I've made sure of it.”“Uh.” Mac furrowed his brow, a bit stunned at how much had happened in just a short time. “Ohhh-kaaay.”“The thing that I need to talk to you guys about is this: we’ve got Ace and Spider in a safe place, and we’re protecting them.” “Why the fuck are you protecting Ace?” Aidan asked, his tone far harsher than usual. “After what he did to Gabriela? And Maria?”Dillon’s green eyes flashed with automatic anger as he remembered