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“Um, my family lives here. I don’t. Just here for a visit.” Small chit chat seemed in order, after all, I nearly knocked him over.

“Well, I’m Jake.” He extended a hand with my bag.

“Nice to meet you, Jake. I’d love to stay and chat, but I have someone waiting for me. Sorry again.”

“No worries. Bye, Abby.” He waved.

I waved back and then made a beeline for the truck. I was back inside, telling Brad we could go, when it hit me. I hadn’t told him my name. So how did he know it?

Chapter 51

Abby

So after Brad bought possibly everything baby related, it was all stuffed into my bedroom. I was currently going through it when my door swung open.

“Geez, who bought all this crap?” Kim eyed the room, filled to the brim of baby stuff.

“Reaper gave Brad his bank card.” I put a blanket down and moved toward the bed.

“You would think after last time they would hold back on this shit.” Kim’s words might have sounded nasty, but she meant them out of kindness. “Reaper should know better.”

“What do you mean Reaper? Brad is the one who went baby mad.”

“Yeah, and he is doing everything Reaper says. So all this,” Kim gestured around the room. “is from Reaper.”

I hadn’t looked at it like that. I honestly thought Brad was just doing it because of all the sales assistants following him around like he was the best thing ever. Maybe it was because of Reaper?

“I guess you’re right.”

“So like I said, he should have known better.” Kim crossed her arms. “What are you doing in here anyway?”

“I honestly don’t know.” I was avoiding the clubhouse because everyone was just so focused on Reaper. Wanting to know where he was. How he was. If he was heading back soon. And I had no answers because he didn’t think to call his wife and check in, did he?

Then I remembered what I wanted to ask Kim. “Hey Kim, do you know a guy in town called Jake well? At least I think that was his name.” I frowned.

She gave me a cold expression. “Are you joking? There would be hundreds of Jakes around, Abby.”

“Yeah, but this one knew my name.”

“You’re the daughter of the local motorcycle President. I think everyone knows your name.”

“You have a point.” Maybe I had been overthinking it. There was just something odd about him. I couldn’t put my finger on it. But the way he knew me, it just gave me the creeps, though he looked normal.

“I’m heading to the supermarket if you want to come along?” Kim said, snapping my mind back into the moment.

“Clubhouse shopping?”

“You guessed it. So you coming? Get away from all this?”

“Yeah, why not.” I got up from the bed. “Hey, Trigger hasn’t mentioned anything about Reaper, has he?” I fiddled with the end of my tank top, not making eye contact.

“No, why would he? The only one Reaper will be checking in with is you. How is he anyway?”

I looked up and put a fake smile on my face. “He is great. Let’s go.”

Lying to my sister? Not the best move, and usually she would call me out on it. But it seemed she got thrown at the mention of Trigger. I wondered what was going on between them two. She always kept it quiet, but I knew she had strong feelings for him. Pity he would never tell Kim how he really felt.

Trigger

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