Page 53 of Property of Woods

We walk out front to where Tree has the truck backed up at.He’s Big Daddy’s nephew and Faye’s half-brother.You’d never know the two are siblings by looking at them.He’s a tall motherfucker.

“Hey, man.Would have been here sooner, but we made a pit stop in Texas for BD to pick up something for you.”He opens the back of the truck, revealing Jessika’s belongings all neatly packed away in boxes and then chained to an anchor on the wall of the trailer must be Thad.He’s got that smug asshole look about him, even though the shit has been beaten out of him.Whether it was the Juarez brothers or Big Daddy’s men who worked him over, it doesn’t matter.I’m going to put a bullet in him after Jessika is done with him.

She tenses beside me.

“Take him to the garage,” I order my men.The less he’s around him, the fucking better.

“Go fetch Faye and my brother,” I tell Foolish.“Bring them to the garage.Rizz and Swift take Jessika and her stuff to the house.”I kiss her on the cheek.I’ll have them bring her over after Tree sees his sister.She’s moving into my house and fixing up the guest room for the baby.Right now, we’re going at her pace.Taking things slow.I’m living at the clubhouse and we’re dating.Seeing where life takes us.

She’s started working at a bookstore in town part time and helping my sister out at the office to give her a sense of routine and normalcy.She thinks she’s paying me to rent my house, but I’ll be putting that money into an account for the baby.

I don’t want her money.I only want her.I know we both come with a lot of baggage, but I’m willing to put in the work.

“Juarez brothers will be in touch with you to arrange their first pickup,” Hero tells me.

“We’ll be ready.”

“Tighten your security and don’t show them where you manufacture.They’ll look for any way to expose your weaknesses.”

“I’m not worried.We can handle those greasy fucks.”

“They will try to take over your territory given any opportunity.”

“Why haven’t we executed their asses yet?”

“Because someone hungrier, more violent, and greedier will fill their shoes.Sure, at first there may be some in house fighting to establish the new hierarchy, but make no mistake, you’d rather deal with them than their replacement.”

“I hear my little sister has been giving you a hard time,” Tree says as he falls in next to me and Hero.

“Something like that,” I mutter and Hero laughs.He knows Faye is as spoiled and fucking crazy as Lucie and Sissy.

“Speaking of pains in my ass, did BD tell you about this other trouble making bitch?”

“The one you want out of your hair?”

“Your sister’s accomplice.”

“And what am I supposed to do with her?”

“Fuck if I care.I can’t have her here.Faye and her together is dangerous and Jessika can’t stand the sight of her.”Gabbie can’t be trusted not to run her mouth and share shit about the club, so she’s got to be dealt with.I’m not asshole enough to give her to the cartel.But I can send her to California to get her out of my hair.I should be sending Faye back with him, but keeping my eyes on her and Dirty is easier to do with them here.

Fucking sucks to know I can’t trust my brother not to try something behind my back.At least now I’ll see the knife coming when he tries to fuck me over.

He’s got a lot of work to do to earn my trust and keep his position in this club.Faye may have been exaggerating about the promises he made to save her ass.Either way, I don’t care.Being stuck with each other is their punishment.

I spot the two of them walking up to the garage.Faye’s face lights up at the sight of her brother, but quickly pales when she sees the mean mug he’s giving her and my brother.

“Never learn, do you,” he grumbles as she gets closer to where we stand.

“It’s not as bad as it sounds.”

“I don’t give a fuck.When BD made a deal with Woods to marry you, this wasn’t the behavior he expected.I’m ashamed to call you my sister.And you.”He shifts his attention to Dirty.“Fucking your brother’s ol’ lady.Hero should do him a favor and take you out, but for whatever reason, you’re still standing.”

“Let’s not pretend Faye and Woods were in a loving marriage.It was business, but we could have had something good.”

“Then you shouldn’t have fucked up and went to prison.That’s on you,” Hero tells him.“All you did was prove BD right.You weren’t fit for the job.”

“Did you come to take me back to California?”Faye asks, looking excited at the prospect.

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