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Nory. I couldn’t imagine.

“Anybody else we could ask at the compound?” Otis asked. “Someone who was around when Daisy’s mom was there?”

Jace drummed his fingers on the table. “Mac will be pissed if I start asking around now that he’s told me he doesn’t want to talk about it. But… we could check in the storage building.”

“The one where Mac was looking for the tax papers?” I asked.

“Yeah. It’s not just financial shit that’s stored there. All the club’s records, old photographs, a bunch of furniture and shitthat members abandoned when they left the club… that kind of shit.”

“You think there might be something about my mom there?”

“I don’t know,” Jace said, “but it might be worth poking around.”

“It’s a good idea,” Wolf said.

I didn’t even know what we were looking for. I just had this feeling that I was so tangled in the web of deceit that apparently was my life that I couldn’t see past it.

I took a cautious sip of coffee, let it work its way into my bloodstream. We were still sitting there in silence when a knock sounded from the front door.

We all sat up a little straighter. We never got visitors at the house.

I started to get up but Otis pulled out his phone. “Hold up. Let me check the porch camera.”

A second later he lifted his gaze to mine. “It’s your dad.”

Chapter 63

Jace

“Stay here,” Daisy said.

But I was already on my feet. “No fucking way.”

Charles Hammond’s threat to send Daisy to Oak Hill had been haunting my fucking nightmares since Daisy told us about it.

“I’ll be right on the porch,” she said. “I promise.”

Wolf stood. “Sorry, but we’re not letting him within ten feet of you, sunshine.”

“Just… give me a minute with him,” she said. “Maybe he’ll let something slip. Something we can use.”

“I don’t know,” Otis said. “I think I’m with these guys. It seems like a bad idea.”

“I’ll be right on the porch,” she repeated. “You can stand on the other side of the door and watch on the camera if it makes you feel better. It’ll take you less than two seconds to open the door if something goes wrong.”

“You’re not making us feel better, doll.”

She sighed. “Nothing is going to go wrong. He’s been texting me for days and I’ve been ignoring him. Let me just see what he wants.”

I crossed my arms over my chest. “Five minutes. And we’re on the other side of the door watching on the camera.”

“That’s fine.” She took a deep breath and touched her sleep- and sex-tousled hair. “Do I look okay?”

“You look like you’ve been fucked,” Otis said.

Wolf shoved him, then looked back at me. “You look beautiful.”

“Oh god…” She started down the hall for the front of the house and was almost to the door when her dad knocked again.

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