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“So have you, brother. So have you,” Flirt said, then turned to walk away, but he stopped and looked back at me. “She might be part of the Ops and the Lady Riders, and you both might have taken different roads for a while. But the way I look at it, Ghost—she’s been yours a lot longer.”

I sat there and watched my friend walk away, then I turned around and finished my beer. By the time I headed to my place to start getting my things together, the decision was made. When I came back to Shades Valley from San Diego, Luna would be with me. Even if I had to tie her to the back of my bike.

Chapter Six

Luna

Today was the day. I closed the door to my cabin and walked across the compound to the main building. When I walked in, Creed was disconnecting from acall,andthe other men in the room waited to hear any new information he might have gotten.

Instead of interrupting by walking across the room, I leaned against the wall just inside the doorway to listen.

“Well, we aren’t going to have to meet Black Hawk at the designated place with the trucks to bring them inundercover. The Black Hearts know they are here.”

“How the fuck could they know that, Creed? We’ve been over every inch of this compound, checked the computer equipment, and scrubbed everyone’s phones. They don’t have shit of ours or the Furies bugged. Yesterday we caught the two that were sneaking around just outside both clubs’ perimeters,” Fork said.

“Those two are clueless to what they walked into.Theywere hired to watchus,and if we made any suspicious moves, they were to send a text to a number programmed into the disposal phones they were carrying. Data and Numbers ran that shit and surprise, it went to another disposal phone,” Maxi informed everyone. From the expressions on the men’s faces, none of them were happy.

“Yeah,and when I called it, no one picked up. All we have is two unconscious assholes in our shed who know jack shitaboutwhere the man that hired them isheldup,” Ice said.

“The man found them in an alley where they live. They’re just a couple of homeless men he walked up to and asked if they wanted to make some easy money. He was Native American they said. I asked if he had a cut or vest on with the name Black Hearts on it. One guy didn’t remember what the man was wearing because he was too busy counting the grand in cash he handed him, then he shoved each of them a disposable phone. He told them if they did good, the other four grand owed for their services would be paid. This was the interesting piece I got out of the other guy. He said he remembered the man had a leather vest on and when he turned to walk off, he noticed shit on the back. But the only thing he could recall was the first letterofeach word.A Dand an S in bold print,” Maxi finished and waited. It didn’t take long before the men clued in.

“Seriously?Sledgehad his old club’s vest on?” Creed asked, and Maxi nodded.

The room was quiet for just a second. I was suretheywouldn’t appreciate if I said that shit took balls from Sledge, butitwas damn impressive.

“The fucking shit gets more messed up by the damn day. When we think we’re getting answers and close to piecing it all together, then more shit floats to the top,” Forksaid.

I couldn’t have agreed more,andI’m sure I wasn’t the only Lady Rider in the room that did. But we knew when to keep quiet.

“Only thing we can do is take care of one issue at a time. First up is Sledge and the other Black Hearts. And we need to do it sooner than later. That was Crusher I hung up with. They rode hard and were on the outskirts of San Diego when he called. Told them to come on in since we caught the ones watching us, so they should be here at any time. Crusher said he had a little info for us when they get here, so afterintroductions,we’ll have a meeting,” Creed said, and he and the men headed out.

I moved off the wall and followed the other women outside. And as the door closed behind us, the faint sounds of pipes could be heard.

“I thinkcompanyis coming, Pa,” Kink said and laughed, drawing a glare from Creed.

With the sound of the bikes drawing closer, more Ops members gathered to greet the club. We watched from our spots in front of the main building as the motorcycles pulled up to the gate followed by a Ford 3500 Diesel crew cab truck with a trailer attached. As the gate opened, the bikes began to filter through untilfinally,they reached our group. I ran my eyes over the men on the bikes as they were dropping their kickstands and began to dismount. I spotted Brax, the man was hard to miss. When he stretched my stomach flipped,andit had nothing to do with morning sickness.

“Holy shit! What the fuck dotheyfeed those men in Washington?” Shady said,andher men turned to look at her.

“I know, right? I told you about Moon’s man when we got back from picking up Jas. The other two with him that day weren’t anything you’d kick to curb either,” Harmony said, and I smiled when Creed and Fork moved beside her.

“He’s not my man,” was out of my mouth before I could control it, and Harmony turned her head toward me. All I could do wasshrug.

“Right, like you didn’t climb that tree and do some swinging.”

“Harm, we are fucking standing right here,” Fork said in a disgusted voice, and I was thankful for it because if Harmony was focused on Fork, her focus was off me.

“Moon, I think—”

“Freedom, I’d be cautious with what you think out loud,” Easy said, and Freedom rolled her eyes at him. I used the distraction and stepped to the side with the hope they wouldn’t notice.

“Not helping, Free,” Poke said when Easy growled. Freedom turned to reply toPoke,butinstead,she grinned ear to ear with the other Lady Riders. I followed their line of sight and watched as an old biker stepped out of the truck and started towarduswith the other men from Black Hawk.

“Well goddamn, they got some prime women in this club! Youmensure these women aren’t underage.”

I would have laughed at the old guy if I hadn’t felt thetensionas the men moved until they had us women closed in between them as the group of men got closer.

“Aww, I like him. I always wanted a grandfather.” At Shady’swords,I watched a huge smile spread across the man’s face,andI shook my head.

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