Page 117 of Savage Outlaw

Axel smirked and knocked a glass of scotch back in one gulp. “Always did, kiddo.” Her mother had always been a sore subject. What she gleaned was from bits of overheard conversations.

They stayed an hour with her dad, it was good to see the boys. Though she’d accidently walked into Reno and Ruin …entertaininga sweet bottom in one of the back rooms. She might be blind forever after seeing them tagging the moaning woman. That shit Reno, smirked at her in her haste to get back to the door, he didn’t stop his hips churning and Ruin didn’t pull the woman’s mouth off his dick either.

Dirty bastard twins.

There’d always been club talk about how Ruin couldn’t fuck a woman without his twin brother being there too. Now she was figuring it was right. God knows what would happen if Reno ever got an old lady.

Before she left, she warned Chains to keep his best friend alive. She knew he would, those two were tight like blood brothers. She still worried though.

Axel and Tad didn’t share many words, her man listened mostly, but it was a start. She’d take it. One day her favorite men would be friends.

The day pigs wore tutus and did a ballet in the sky.

It was a hope.

THIRTY-TWO

“One life changing word.” - Poppy

“What do you think about Rider’s old lady?”

“Zara? Intimidating as hell. But she’s sweet when you get to know her.”

“Intimidating, really? She’s all of five feet and looks like a gust of wind would blow her over.” Roux said over a plate of crumbs. Without realizing, she’d been the one who’d eaten the three cronuts.

“Never judge a book by it’s pretty cover. Her and I got into it over Texas. It was a misunderstanding and we sorted it out and we’re kind of friends, but she still intimidates me. The club adores her like a queen.”

Roux got that. Not that she’d had a MC queen. Her dad was made the Prez in his twenties and she hardly remembered the last Prez before him. Axel was likely to take a club queen the day the moon fell to earth. “She made a point to come and meet me when I was in lockdown. I didn’t know what to make of her.”

The truth of it was, Zara’s friendliness made her uncomfortable. Besides Poppy, she only had guy friends, and not close ones either. She hadn’t known what to make of the blonde woman who was all smiles and eager conversation. The kid hanging off her hip also made Roux nervous when she looked like she wanted to lean her arms out for Roux. She’d taken several steps back in case the kid started to fly. She wasn’t even sure she liked the snot makers.

Just then a goat came prancing into the room, bleating in a pink sweater. Roux rolled her amused eyes as she leaned a hand over the arm of the chair to give the baby goat a pet. It was closely followed by Poppy’s man; he headed for her and pressed a kiss to her lips. “Gonna take Glenn for a walk then head to the club. You good here?”

“Yeah,” she smiled up at him. Her friend was so gone on her husband. She’d attended their wedding ceremony and witnessed firsthand how much they loved each other. “You still don’t know what Rider wants?”

“Not a clue.”

“You don’t think it’s anything bad, do you?”

Texas crouched down clipping a lead on the goat … it looked ridiculous and cute. A biker with a pygmy goat wearing a sweater. Only Cinderella could talk a hard man into having that kind of pet.

“Nah, little girl, don’t worry, they have no plans to kill me.” He smirked at his wife, sliding his arms into a leather jacket.

“Not funny, Tait.”

They kissed again, then man and his goat sidekick left.

“What’s that all about?”

“I don’t know, Rider wanted to see him tonight.”

“But they’re good now, after the shooting.”

Poppy cleared away their dishes, Roux followed her to the kitchen.

“Yeah. I mean we go to the club if we’re invited. We were there last week for a birthday bash, it was fun. I’m just nervous I guess.”

“He saved the life of the prez, in my world that’s big, babe. Texas could take a piss on the club floor and he’d be forgiven for it.”

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