Total pages in book: 43
Estimated words: 39540 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 198(@200wpm)___ 158(@250wpm)___ 132(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 39540 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 198(@200wpm)___ 158(@250wpm)___ 132(@300wpm)
The sun was just peeking over the horizon when we rolled into the Kiss of Death compound. I had no idea how the club had acquired this area or how much land and construction it owned, but the compound consisted of fenced-in city blocks. Multiple blocks. Nothing but three-story warehouses occupied the spaces. Not in neat rows to maximize the space, but set up seemingly at random. Each building looked exactly alike, though each building had a different purpose. You couldn’t tell from the outside what was on the inside. From what I could tell, Torpedo ran a tight ship. There wasn’t a vehicle outside on the paths or in any kind of parking lot not under cover. Even the paths were camouflaged from above. Once someone entered the compound, it was impossible to see where they went, even from the air.
Hawk wound his way under the fixed camouflage netting, the Humvee barely fitting between some of the buildings. He drove the vehicle like he’d driven this same route a million times, never hesitating when I just knew he was going to take off a mirror or get a wheel wedged at a corner.
“Fuck,” I grumbled. “I only had my driver’s license like three months before I went to prison.”
Hawk barked out a laugh. Chains raised an eyebrow at Hawk but said nothing. “Don’t worry, kid. I’ll give you a crash course, so to speak.”
“You know, I’m not afraid to go back to prison.”
“And miss your honey? I don’t think so. I’ll take my chances today. Tomorrow might be another story.”
“Fucker,” I muttered under my breath. And yeah, those two bastards heard me. Even Chains snorted this time.
“I never learned to drive,” Pippa offered, lifting her chin. If I hadn’t already been in love with the woman, I’d have fallen then.
I leaned in on impulse and gently nipped her earlobe. “Remind me to tell you what you just did to me when we’re alone.”
Pippa sucked in a breath, her gaze snapping to mine. Her vivid green eyes were wide with shock and hunger. I wasn’t experienced in sex, but I knew what the look she was giving me meant. “Oh?”
Instead of saying anything else, I tightened my hold on her, needing to wrap her up in as much protection as I could. Not because I didn’t trust the men riding with me. Because I was a jealous bastard, now that I had the woman I wanted. It wasn’t something I’d ever known about myself, but there was no denying the monster inside me. Pippa had caught Chains’s and Hawk’s attention and I found I didn’t like their interest in the woman in my arms.
“Calm down, you jealous bastard.” Hawk chuckled. “We ain’t gonna make a move on your girl.” Then he addressed Pippa. “He don’t treat you right, though, you come runnin’ to one of us. We’ll put the asshole on the straight and narrow.”
Pippa looked up at me, curling her lips in to keep from smiling too much. Which she failed at miserably. “I don’t think I’ll have anything to worry about,” she said, finally giving up and giving me a dazzling smile. “Besides, I’m fully capable of making sure he treats me right.”
“Yep,” I growled. “Gonna have to have a long talk with you when we get inside our room.”
“Can you guys at least wait to get mushy until Bohannon assigns you a fuckin’ room?” Chains sounded put out, but he was fighting another grin.
“Nope,” I quipped. “Sure can’t.”
I leaned in and took Pippa’s lips with mine, thrusting my tongue inside her mouth once before pulling back. Her smile was glorious before she buried her face in my chest demurely. Kissing was as far as I’d ever go where someone might see, but I really liked staking that claim. Even if it was only two of the club members. Putting a claim on Pippa was the most satisfying thing I’d ever experienced to this point in my life.
“Honestly, Chains. It’s like you do it on purpose.” Hawk kept driving until he pulled into one particularly large warehouse. The door was easily wide enough for two semitrailers to back in side by side.
Once we rolled in, the doors shut behind us and we all climbed out of the cage. Bohannon and Torpedo both moved to me with identical grins on their faces. “Good to see you made it, kid. Everything go according to plan?”
I nodded. “That place was evil, Torpedo. We got Pippa out and killed anyone inside or on the grounds. When the other half of Fire and Steel gets back to their clubhouse, they’re gonna go hunting.”
“Ice and Cyclone know the score?”
I nodded. “Yep. We tried to drop any breadcrumbs we could going away from Bones. If they decide to go hunting, they’ll come here. Not to Bones.”