Page 19 of Mav

“Oh, Star has them in the playroom. Now…we have something we want to discuss with you.” Mia says quietly and leans forward. But it’s the shifty way her eyes are flashing to the door that leads to the common room that I’m worried about.

Leaning back in my chair I fold my arms over my chest and give Mia my squint-eyed look. That tells her clearly I’m onto the fact she’s up to no good.

Bitty gives a small giggle before placing her hand over her mouth to contain the glee I can see in her eyes. “What are you lot up to?”

“Well, you know Bitty just got herself a daughter? Doesn’t matter, she has, that’s all that counts. Well, seems her dead husband got mixed up with another woman, on a one-nighter, but produced a son. Which we know now is all a lie. He isn’t her dead husband’s son…”

Now, I’m not a dense person as a rule, but I’m not sure I’m following what Mia is saying, and looking at the other three who are nodding in agreement with all Mia is saying I decide to not even ask, and remain quietly listening.

“Anyway, we want this terrible woman out of Blake’s house, and in such a way, she can’t get into trouble for evicting her, with a child being involved. So, are you up for coming along and finding out what we can? Then we can decide as to how we are going to get Yax and her man gone,” Mia leans forward and looks me in the eye. Waiting for my response, I’m sure, and for fuck’s sake, she is the President’s woman. There is no way I can allow her to go without having her back.

“Okay, I’m in.”

Meat grunts where he’s working at the island, slicing steaks and placing in marinade. I can see he has a slight upward tip to his lip, which shows he’s finding this highly amusing. “What about Meat, he’s a good one for recon missions?” Yeah, I’ll throw the fucker under the bus.

Meat stops slicing and looks over at me. I give him an innocent look, but he knows as well as I do what I’m up to. Amelia must realize too, and she’s totally in on the idea. “Yeah, Meat, you are good at recon. You can come with us, too.”

“Go where?”

We all turn and see Star, who is holding Summer over her shoulder and patting her back lightly. But when Summer belches louder than any baby should, followed by a tremendous fart, we all look at Mia, who starts to giggle, “Just like her daddy!”

That is how forty-five minutes later, I’m following Mia out of the compound. Mia is on her trike, and looking damn proud of herself. Meat is driving the SUV with the Three Stooges excitedly sitting inside, and all of us are heading towards the house that Blake owns. I’ve a feeling this is the Blake that I caught, and the woman who we are going to spy on is the one in the street causing trouble.

As we reach the street, a bike pulls up and I see it's Graham. Now, what the fuck is he doing with a bike? A damn fine Harley he has too. It’s an Electra Glide, and in damn good condition.

“Where are you all going?” Graham asks as he takes his helmet off.

Mia grins, “You want in on some trouble, you follow us. No questions asked, no lies told.”

Before anyone can say anything at all, Mia is off and we are all right behind her. I look over my shoulder and see Meat is right behind me. The Stooges are grinning like fools in the SUV and must be giving Meat some grief, but he doesn’t seem to give a fuck what any of the women do. He’s always on their side, whether they are right or wrong. He just loves the women of the club and sees them all as his responsibility.

Pulling up at the side of Mia, she quickly places her helmet on the handlebars and gives me a grin. “Come on, Mav. The others can follow.”

I sigh to myself as I follow Mia two streets through the back of gardens and dodging dogs that think we are invading their territory. Mia doesn’t give a shit, and I keep looking behind me, but no sign of the others. Mind you, I can’t see the Three Stooges climbing fences and shooing dogs out of the way. Graham is another matter. He is climbing fences and catching up to us fast.

“What’s going on?” Graham asks as he finally reaches us.

“We are going on recon duty. This bitch is going down, and we are going to get the evidence we need to get her out of this house. Bitty’s daughter owns it and we need this woman gone so Blake can sell it and free herself of some debt. Debt that isn’t even hers, I might add.” Mia is on the ball with this, and knowing how bad she had it with the prison stint and all, she is a tremendous support when she finds any woman having an injustice thrown at her.

“Did you tell Axel where you were going, Mia?” I have this terrible feeling in my gut that she has sneaked off, and that’s going to leave all of us in hot water when he finds out.

“No, of course not. You think I’m a fool? He’d have said no, I couldn’t come and do recon.” Mia snorts as though I’m an idiot for suggesting it, but she continues speaking. “Star is keeping him busy. He’ll not notice I’ve gone missing.”

“So, you are dodging Axel to come here and check on what’s going on with this woman?” Graham asks.

“Yeah…” Mia replies but stops mid-reply when we see the Three Stooges and Meat stomping up to the door of the house that we are watching and bang on the door.

“Are they not supposed to be doing recon? You know watch, but not be seen?” Graham mumbles.

“Yes,” Mia growls, and I look at her because she sounded just like Meat.

“Let’s wait here and see what happens. They have Meat with them and he’ll not let anything happen. But we are a backup that the people in the house don’t know about, so a secret weapon at this point.” I had to make it sound good, or Mia would stomp her way over to the fucking house and cause mayhem.

The door opens, and Bitty pushes the man who opened it in the chest as all three of the Stooges rush past him into the house. Meat grabs the fucker by the collar and slams the door closed behind them. I look at Mia, who is frowning and keen to go over to the house, but I speak to Graham to divert Mia’s attention. “What happened to Nell’s date night?” I innocently ask.

Graham immediately knows what I’m doing as he gives Mia an innocent smile. “Well, they went for a meal, and Vincenzo chose a beautiful Italian restaurant. All dressed up in his black suit, which we all know is the normal attire for him, anyway. But, he brings an enormous bunch of flowers with him, including lilies which Nell is allergic to. So, she gives him a dirty look, takes the flowers and hands them to Tank, telling him to get rid of them before she feeds the idiot to the gators.”

Mia giggles and rubs her hands together. “Was Nell okay?”

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