Page 12 of Mav

“Don’t ask. Let’s get this furniture moved.” I make my way into the huge cabin, or house, as Kenzie likes to call it, and look to Jig for where we are going to start.

I’m not a bit surprised when Kenzie says she’s going to speak to Heather about getting cleaning help. The place is huge, and going to take some looking after.

The morning passes fast, and I have to admit to myself that although I keep myself fit, I’m pleased to be handing over the afternoon help to Garth, who apparently has today away from work, but was overheard saying so and got himself hogtied to helping here.

I like Garth and the more contact I have around him, the more I think we should drag him in as a brother. I may just bring it up in church.

Later, and after lunch of course, I’m riding into town behind BS, who is going to be visiting the club’s businesses. We are all hoping to hear anything being whispered about women being drugged, and any suspicious people seen around town. Wings, for some reason, jumped onto his hog and tucked in behind me as we left the compound. He was mumbling about being bored, and Chaos was working too many hours to get into any mischief with him. I roll my eyes because honestly, do they think they are still teenagers!

Pulling into the front of the Bespoke Furniture Shop, BS places his helmet on his seat and turns to speak to us both. “You two wait here. Keep your eyes open. If you see anyone that is friendly to the MC ask them if they’ve seen anything.”

Staying astride my hog, I lay my helmet between my legs on the tank. Turning to look at Wings, who I thought was behind me. Well, his hog is, but Wings is walking down the sidewalk, giving winks and smiles to every woman he passes. Sighing, because I know he’s gonna cause trouble.

Nothing unusual going on here. It’s damn boring if I’m honest. Folding my arms across my chest, I continue to watch everyone walking down the sidewalk, going into and out of the shops.

“MAV…MAV…” Turning to look behind me when I hear my name shouted, I frown as I watch Wings sprinting up the sidewalk.

“What’s up?”

“I found out that two women have left town after they were date raped last month. This, it seems, has been going on for longer than we thought. I’m going to keep digging around as I’ve made a few contacts since I got here. Well, me and Chaos. Wego to a poker evening once a month at old Benny Bradshaw’s. Surprising what you find out from the older generation. They are more observant than you can imagine.” Wings is snarling and I can understand why because this is showing we were negligent in our observations of the town.

Before I can reply to Wings, BS walks out of the furnishing shop and stands a moment at his hog. “Lucas from the wood supply saw something last week. He called Terry and Jorge to him and followed the guy he had seen peeking into a woman’s window. They cornered him and dragged him into the backyard of old man Gonshaw’s place and beat the fuck out of him. They’ve not seen him around since, but they are keeping ears open for anything.”

“Fuckin’ hell, we’ve been missing shit going on. We need to get to all our people and find these fuckers, take them down and clean up,” I snarl.

BS nods in agreement. “This is the third thing I’ve heard in two days. We need to discuss this in church tomorrow. Find out what Pres wants us to do.”

“I know what I want to do, and that’s feed some fucker his own balls!” Wings straddles his hog, fires her up and takes off before I can even place my helmet on my head.

“He’s a fuckin’ hothead,” BS shakes his head, then looks at me. “But you can bet he’ll find out faster than anyone else what’s going on. He’ll speak to the women he’s beenfriendlywith.”

I chuckle, because Wings is known for his following of women. “They all seem to think he’s someone that needs to settle down. We all know it’s going to take someone like Star to settle Wingsdown. Can you imagine putting up with his shit on a regular basis?”

BS shakes his head as he smirks. “Oh, it’ll be fun when he finds his woman. I can’t fuckin’ wait.”

Back at the clubhouse I’m grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge when I stop to listen to Mia, who is telling the Three Stooges the twins are going to be starting Kindergarten. Now I can’t help but inwardly smirk because whoever is going to be looking after those two hooligans is going to have a hard time. If I had to describe them, it would be to say they are from the Little Johnny jokes—Yeah, little Johnny one and two!

Sunday and after watching the women’s training session with Chaos, Wings and Meat, I’m surprised to see Graham had joined them. When the fuck did he come here to train with the Ol’ Ladies?

Target takes a seat on the bench next to me, and he’s watching Winter enjoying herself messing with Kenzie. They seem to have gotten themselves into a friendship, and it’s great to see. My cousin deserves happiness, and now her brother and his family are further away she’s sunk into the MC family with enthusiasm.

“I’m going to do a second wave over my informants later. If we need to follow through with anything, you gonna be available?” Target asks, and I turn to look at him, with a raised eyebrow that is clearly asking if he has any doubts. “Okay, okay, sorry. I’m going to check every one of them, and it may take me a few days, but I’ll find each of them.”

Walking into church an hour later, I take my usual seat and relax back, place the ankle of one leg onto the knee of the other andfold my arms across my chest, calmly waiting for Pres to arrive and open the meeting.

Knuckles takes a seat next to me on the left and Colton on the right. I give them both a chin lift but remain in my relaxed position. Colton is buzzing for some reason. You can feel it flowing from him. I give him a fast study but not sure what is going on with him.

“Sit still, Colton.” Knuckles gives him a firm look, which he has to do by leaning back and glaring from across my back.

“I’m trying, but you know I don’t like waiting.” Colton obviously has something going on, but I’m not getting involved unless I have to. Last scheme he dragged me into, we ended up on compound duty for a month, pulling every weed we could find. Axel thought it highly amusing, as he had us doing it in a costume of a Knave that he rented from Lily’s shop.

Pres walks into church with Drag and Buzz behind him. Surprisingly, he also has Graham! Now what the fuck is going on?

Once everyone is settled, the door is closed and Axel picks up the gavel, slamming it down and declaring the meeting open. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to keep using this room as church, because we’ve so many members now that if you don’t get a seat early, you are packed standing against the walls.

Axel speaks, and everyone pays close attention, some leaning forward in their seats. Sentry, I notice, is standing next to the door, obviously living up to his name.

“Okay, first, I’ve looked at all the officers' reports and with nothing particular to give you all, I’d rather we don’t waste time on that. Anyone have a problem with that?” Nobody speaks, soAxel continues. “As you can see, we have Graham in attendance, which is not the norm, but he found out a little more from ourfriendwe took over to Nell’s place. Graham, do you want to fill everyone in?”

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