Total pages in book: 86
Estimated words: 81603 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 408(@200wpm)___ 326(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 81603 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 408(@200wpm)___ 326(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
He didn’t want to fucking talk.
Daisy would often tell him there would come a time he was going to have to talk. He looked at the men and women in his room. Everyone had gone to high school with the Monster Dogs MC. They had all been there when it got ugly. They all had each other’s backs.
When he told them what he wanted, none of them questioned him. They all hated that the Monster Dogs, in essence, got away with that they did. It was time for them to pay the price.
“How are you all?” Anthony asked, biting the words out slowly.
Miles was the first to burst out laughing. “Well, Daisy has her work cut out for her, when she stops sleeping. Seriously, we all risk our asses for this, and that is all you’ve got.”
“We would all risk our asses for this,” Constance said. “No matter what. What started in high school should have ended there but didn’t. Fucking Daniella. When did she turn up?”
Miles nodded. “I don’t know, but she fucked everything up. Daisy didn’t see her coming.”
“None of us saw what was coming,” Anthony said as he rubbed at his temple.
“Well, none of us blabbed,” Miles said. “Someone must have alerted them. They had to have known. They didn’t even fucking know we registered, and then they started to attack. They were ready.”
“Aren’t you curious?” Rachel asked.
Anthony looked at the team they had made, and they didn’t know. He had kept it a secret, because he had known they wouldn’t agree.
****
Is This Where It Went Wrong?
Anthony drove up to the old lake. The text he had gotten from the anonymous number had been cryptic. He never usually responded to texts like this.
Pulling his bike to a stop, he turned off the light, and then he saw him.
Climbing off his bike, he reached into the back of his jeans, where he stored his knife just in case.
Luke put his hands up. “I didn’t come here to fight. This is not a trap.”
He didn’t trust him. “The text I got was from you?”
“I knew you wouldn’t come if you knew it was me.”
He wasn’t wrong. There was no fucking way he would have done anything for this son of a bitch. As far as Anthony was concerned, this guy and all the Monster Dogs MC needed to die. He knew Luke wasn’t like the rest of the club. The man had a sense of honor. He’d been the one to serve Ryan up. He had offered to kill the man himself. They had both figured what Ryan had done wouldn’t result in war. An eye for an eye and all that shit.
Only, that hadn’t happened, and now Luke looked like he had aged by ten years.
“What do you want?” Anthony asked.
“I know what you’re planning to do.”
He glared at him and was not going to bite. There was a chance he didn’t have a clue and was just baiting him.
Luke shrugged. “You can deny it all you want, but I knew this day would come, and this needs to happen.”
Anthony continued to stare at him. Usually, his silence unnerved those around him. It was why he stayed silent and allowed those closest to him to just leave him alone. People hated the silence, as it made them nervous.
The man opposite him laughed. “Do you really think you’re going to get into the Monster Dogs MC clubhouse and wipe out the whole club without help from the inside? It doesn’t matter how many weapons you have. It is not enough, unless you have my help.”
He waited, allowing the silence to fill the gap. This was too good of an offer, and he knew from experience that anything that sounded like it was too good to be true often was.
“Why?” Anthony asked.
“Why what?”
“Why are you doing this? You’re betraying your club.”
Luke laughed. “Do you think I’ve got much of a choice? After everything?”
Anthony waited for more and Luke shrugged. “You know, you were a hard man to like through high school and that hasn’t changed.”
“I never tried to be liked at high school and there is no way I’m starting now.”
“The club hates me,” Luke said. “Because I don’t agree with them. I don’t agree with their stance over what happened to Ryan, nor their view on Tabitha and Simon. I don’t agree with any of it. My dad is pretty much keeping me as a prospect because I handed Ryan to Simon. I tried to right the wrong of the club, and yet I’m the one being treated like a social leper. I’m not a rapist, and I will not support a rapist either.”
This was partly a surprise.
“What do you want?” Anthony asked.
“To pledge allegiance to the Skulls. I’ve watched you guys. I know what you do, and I’ve never seen you as cowards. I know you do what it takes to keep your family safe, and that is what I want to be part of.”