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The place must have been a bit crowded, given the number of full parking stalls. I carefully opened the glove compartment. Under my gun, I found a bottle of spray perfume that I remembered to keep there for cases like that when I didn't have the chance to get ready. I was not badly dressed. I was wearing a pair of jeans, brown boots, and a dark-colored dress jacket over a white shirt that I wore outside my pants. Everything was understated, nothing ostentatious, but I didn't have time for anything better. I glanced at my wristwatch.

He looked completely exhausted, but his jaw was clenched tight with barely suppressed rage. The sharp, metallic smell of fresh blood instantly filled the room. Nick was holding a dark security uniform jacket in his right hand. The fabric was completely soaked in dark, wet blood. It dripped slowly onto the polished hardwood floor, leaving a horrific crimson trail behind his heavy boots. Nick stopped a few feet away from the sofa and threw the ruined jacket onto a nearby reading chair. "Is the house secure?" Kade asked quietly. His voice did not shake. It was a dead, flat calm that promised absolute violence.

“Mom! Where’s my black jacket? The one with the hood?” “Who wants to know?” “Me, Jacob! Ashley has his!” “You never wear it, so I hung it in the basement!” “Shit.” “What did you say?” “I said, dang it.” “Uh-huh.” Ashley got his leather jacket, a tight white T-shirt, and blues jeans he could roll up the cuffs on and a pair of black motorcycle boots. This would be his 1950's street-tough costume. Jacob wanted his black hooded jacket to dress up as a serial killer with a ghost face mask and a huge plastic butcher knife. Both had torn their room to pieces trying to find everything.

He then expertly parked his black tinted Audi next to the arrays of bikes, situated at the small garage before the entrance of the beer pub. His gaze drifted to the passenger seat of the car. Picking up the thick fabric he had torn off from the back of a leather jacket his last victim wore, he gazed up the insignia. He wondered why he tore the insignia off the jacket instead of just taking the whole jacket with him. But then he reminded himself that he would have had to remove the jacket from the dead guy’s body. Since all he needed was the insignia on the fabric, he simply tore it off, avoiding the stress of the unclothing the dead body.

There was no turning back now. Derik knew he would spend the rest of his life as a fugitive if he were wrong about Lawrence. He edged towards the door at the corner of the room. With a single thrust of his fist, he took down the door. Peering through, his brows waggled when he found an empty room. He couldn’t believe that he came all this way for nothing. His eyes were drawn to a suit jacket on a hanger that hung on the wall. And beside it, a cowboy hat. He wondered why Lawrence had a special room built just for his jacket. Something seemed off about that.

His golden eyes were as dark as could be, and his intense gaze was locked straight on Alpha Drake. My heart fluttered at the sight of him, taking in his every inch. He looked like a villain standing there, partially in the shadows, as the lights danced around his mostly black attire. His golden hair was tousled in a way that seemed as if he had left in a hurry, but not tousled enough not to match the golden chains that hung from his jacket pocket and danced along his cufflinks.

CHAPTER 127: Daddy’s Home Derek's POV I stepped over the body of a guy in a grey suit. He’d been one of Lucius’s top-tier guards but he’d folded like a cheap lawn chair when I caught him by the galley. My boots made a wet sticky sound against the cream-colored carpet. I looked down and frowned. These were Italian leather. “Damn,” I muttered, wiping a splash of blood off my sleeve. “This was a new jacket, too.”

They flashed in exuberance as he spoke to his men. Dressed in a well-worn leather jacket adorned with patches that told stories of various journeys, he seemed to wear his history with pride. The jacket's faded colors and scuffed edges were a testament to the miles he had covered and the adventures he had embarked upon. Beneath the jacket, a plain black t-shirt clung to his muscular torso, accentuating the strength that lay beneath his weathered exterior. In a different life, I may have found him attractive. In some ways he fit right in with the diner’s appearance, he had a long-forgotten James Dean kind of style, but anyone could see that there was a rough, primal side to him as well.

In his jacket. Speechless.