Page 39 of Devil Inside: Green

Surprisingly, no. I won’t risk leaving Danni unprotected. If I get sent back into the joint, I won’t be there. “Nope. Not at all.”

“Fuck,” Sarge laughs. “Youarescrewed.”

My woman shoots me an “I’m sorry. I didn’t know he could hear” look, but I don’t give a shit.

I press my lips to hers. “It’s fine, Preppy. Let’s get them inside to start lugging the furniture.”

Reaper joins us. “Danni, girl—how you doing?”

“Reaper.” She smiles. “I’m good. This is my sister, Misty.”

Reap shoots Misty a chin lift. “’Sup?”

“My mind continues to be blown is what’s up,” she answers. “But it’s nice to meet all of you.”

Danni uses her arm to direct the other brothers hanging back to follow us. “How’s Dusty doing?” she asks Reaper.

“On me to get you home to Kentucky, where she says you belong.”

Damn, those women. Meddlers—all of them. But I love the shit out of them just the same.

“The door has to be propped open when you start going in and out because it locks when it closes,” I announce to the men as they follow me down the hallway toward the elevators.

Once we’re up in the apartment, Danni orders twenty pizzas for pickup. The prospects can grab them when they go out for the beer. It’s a tight squeeze with all these bodies in her small space. Still, they set to work right away, starting with lifting her sofa.

At one point, Dark’s carrying a box out of the bedroom while I’m heading in there and he scowls at me. “Wanna get the fuck out of my way?”

“What climbed up your ass?” I ask.

“Don’t go there,brother.” He stresses the wordbrotherlike it leaves a sour taste in his mouth.

“You got a problem with me?”

“Dela was my woman’s only remaining family. Now you’re moving this bitch into her bed.”

Whoa.“It was never her bed. Rae say something?”

“It’s my job to make sure she doesn’t feel the hits.”

“Rowed with you before. Not afraid to do it again. Danni’s with me now. Not giving her up. That means you want my cut, you’ll get it over my dead body. Choice is yours,brother.” I push past him into the bedroom fuming. He thinks this is hard on Rae? Dela was mine. She was mine and I couldn’t save her. Does that mean I get nothing else for the rest of my life? Maybe it does, but I can’t let Danni go. She’s a part of me now. She got in there.

I let the boxes distract me because I’m on the verge of marching back out into that living room and beating the shit out of a man I usually respect. The sooner we get Danni home, the better the both of us will be.

While brothers move boxes and large pieces of furniture down to the trucks, Danni and Misty continue to pack more boxes and clean along the way. We all stop for about a half hour to eat. With this amount of manpower on the job, we get her apartment cleared out in one day.

“Coming down to the clubhouse?” Vlad asks me. “You can introduce Danni to Steph. I think they’d get along.”

“Nah.” I drop my hands to my hips. “Misty lives about three hours north of here. We got to take her home tomorrow when we leave. Giving the sisters a night to hang because Misty’s, like, sixteen. I’m not bringing her to a biker clubhouse.”

“Definitely not. They wouldn’t let her in.” Vlad slaps his hand on my shoulder. “Then we’re out. Her stuff will stay in the trucks until you decide where you’re living.”

“Thank you, Vlad.” Danni walks up and gives my president a hug.

He half-hugs, half-pats her back. “This is how you know the club’s changed,” he teases. But I get it. When he joined the Horde, women didn’t hug the brothers—they fucked them and maybe cooked for them. A woman wanted to say “Thank you,” she dropped to her knees and sucked a brother off. When I joined the club I was looking for that, too. But with a little more respect for the women.The whole reason you left Dela the first time. Don’t know that I’ll ever forgive myself for that. But at the same time, I might’ve missed out on Danni and I can’t imagine not being with her.

I’m a lot of things and most of them are probably true, but I’m no damn cheater. Grew up around that shit. My mom was a good woman, but she was a doormat. Don’t know that she was ever with a man who didn’t cheat, including my old man. I was the one left picking up the pieces after each and every damn one until I got out once and for all.

She’d fucking adore Danni. We get this killer off the streets, I might need to make that meeting happen. Been a hot minute since I’ve been to see her. Bringing a woman like Danni along wouldn’t suck.

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