Page 37 of Property of Fire

Heat stares for a moment longer, shakes his head, and lets out a heavy sigh while looking at me. “I don’t have time to deal with this shit. You handle it.” Turning on his heels, he stalks off.

Tilting my head toward Evelin, I look at her. “You gonna do that shit again?”

“If they so much as touch you, yeah,” she answers, and it doesn’t surprise me. “They keep their hands to themselves and actually show me some respect, I won’t have to do that again. I don’t regret it, and I won’t say I’m sorry.”

“Not looking for you to apologize,” I tell her and dip my head down. “What I am looking forward to doing is fuckin’ you when I get you to my room.”

“Break it up, you two,” Pyro says, coming in close and slapping a hand on my back. “Your little party is gonna have to wait. We need to get to the barn and check on some orders that came in, or did you forget?”

Fuck me.

It’s one of the things that we’d been discussing in church. An order came for a few specialty blades that Pyro and I have to make. The order he’s talking about, though, is the one that we’ve already got available.

During church, Heat and the others filled Brimstone, Flame, and me in on what all happened at the rally. Several orders were put in. Brimstone and Flame filled me and the rest of us in on what Scotch had to say after I went after Evelin.

We’ve got a lot going on, and the last thing I want to do is leave Evelin alone to go to the barn, but this is shit we’ve got to get done.

“Don’t leave the clubhouse,” I order, curling her closer to me.

“I really need to go to the bar,” she says quietly.

“Thought we talked about this, and Francie was gonna step up.” Swear to fuck, Evelin is always trying to go to that damn bar.

“Well,” she shrugs, biting my lip, “I love my job, and I don’t like giving it to others to do. Please, Fire, can’t one of the guys take me, and you can come get me after you’re done?”

Staring at her, I grind my back teeth together. I don’t want to let her go, but it’s still light out, nothing can get to her now. As long as she’s with me before sunset, then it’ll be good.

“Fine,” I grumble and look around the room to see who is still around. Spotting Torrid and Flash, I jerk my chin at them. “Get Torrid and Flash to take you. I’m sure they gotta get to their part of it anyway. But first, you’re gonna promise me that you won’t leave, and you’ll call me if you finish up before I get there.”

“I promise,” Evelin says, giving me one of those sweet smiles and batting her lashes as she does.

“Go,” I tell her and look at Pyro. “Let’s get this shit done and over with.”

“You got it, lover boy.” Pyro snorts out a laugh.

“Fucker,” I grumble, not taking the bait.

Together, the two of us make our way toward the back of the clubhouse and out the back doors. It’s where we keep all our ATVs under a carport out of the weather. I climbed on one of the four ATVs we have back here while Pyro shifted and shot up into the air. A roar of fire shoots out of his mouth up into the sky. I’m guessing Pyro needed to be in the air as much as we all need to be on our bikes.

Hopefully, it won’t take us long to get what we need to do done. Then I can get back to Evelin.

With what Brimstone has filled in for us so far, I don’t like the idea of Evelin being anywhere without me. Until the threat against her is taken care of, I’m not gonna rest easy. It’s going to distract me that she’s away from me while I’m at the barn and not in the clubhouse, but I get it, she needs to do her thing. Still, I’ll make sure she’s safe before the sun sets.

What we know so far about this Holstein is that nothing happens before sunset. Always after. This means before that time, I’ll have Evelin locked away either back at the clubhouse or at my place.

TWENTY-FOUR

EVELIN

The momentI hit the bar, I made my way to my office and sealed myself away. I told Francie to pretend I wasn’t even there. I didn’t want to be there, not really. I just wanted to be away from the clubhouse for a while.

Now, being away from there, I’m a little freaked, but I needed time to myself to process everything that I learned. I can’t do that when I’m constantly surrounded by people. I needed space, and here at the bar, it was the only place I figured I could possibly get it.

I also wanted to be able to talk to Kinley about all that’s happened. I need her input. More so now than ever. Plus, I’m kinda freaking out with what my mom said about me carrying Fire’s children.

I don’t think I’m ready for anything like that. I definitely wouldn’t want to be pregnant now. Not when there’s a psycho out there after me. I wouldn’t be able to handle it if I were pregnant and something happened to cause me to lose a child.

My mind swirls and repeatedly plays different scenarios until I finally force them out and find my cell phone. I find Kinley’s number right away. I have her programmed at the top of my contacts list along with Heat, Mom, and Fire. Funny how Fire has always been at the top of my contact list, and I never really needed to use his number much.

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