Page 66 of Greedy Grizzly
“We should probably let you get some rest. I’ll pop back in before we head home after lunch.”
“You don’t have to. I appreciate you coming, but you’re not obligated to stay. Go home. I’m sure you have stuff to do.”
“Yeah, I need to meet with a client,” Landon replied, which surprised me. Apparently, he wanted to leave just as much, if not more than me. I sensed something my sister had said unnerved him. Likely something to do with the dead president.
“That’s right, honey. I forgot.” I patted the top of his thigh, then stood. “I’ll text you tomorrow evening to check-in and see how you’re doing.”
“That’d be great. Maybe you could come on the weekend. Bring those casseroles.” She smiled. I honestly didn’t think she would want to see me so soon.
“Um…” I turned toward Landon.
“We’re free next weekend. Got nothing going on,” Landon told me. Guess he would know what Storm would want him to do.
“Okay, then. We’ll see you next weekend.” I went to stand up.
“Wait, one more thing.”
I froze hearing her voice change, like she was uneasy.
“I should tell you that I go by Mona at the club. The original president didn’t like my name.” She rolled her eyes. “But I decided to keep it. It’s how everyone knows me in town.”
“No problem.” I leaned over and kissed the top of her head. She didn’t need to be uneasy, considering I’d been going by a different name for years. “Call me if you need anything before then.”
“Thanks, sis.”
Landon and I left the room. We casually strolled to the elevator. When we entered and the door shut, he tugged me into his embrace and whispered, “Your sister’s mixed up with the Hell’s Bells MC and we’re going to use her to infiltrate it.”
20
STORM
Finally, we’d caught a break. The recon Toby and Grizz had done last summer in South Dakota hadn’t been for nothing. My gut instinct had been spot on about The Hell’s Bells MC.
The dude, RJ, was connected with the club. His uncle had been the president and RJ was his successor, but he was nowhere to be found.
I cut my gaze at Toby. “When you spoke to the pregnant girl, didn’t she say her boyfriend was gone and she hadn’t spoken to him since Valentine’s?”
Grizzly screwed up his face. “When was Toby in South Dakota?”
“Last year,” Toby replied. “Storm asked if I could check out Scornrock and I’d met a young pregnant woman there.”
“I’m betting she’s the same girl Libby’s sister mentioned.” I felt it in my bones. This young woman was the key to finding RJ.
“How do you want us to handle the situation?” Toby asked.
“You’re off the job. I can’t have you there when Grizzly and Libby are there. Somebody might put two and two together. As far as Bridget,Mona, whatever her name is, knows, they’re a couple, right?”
“Yeah, that’s right,” Grizzly replied. “She knows us as Landon and Lydia.”
“Good!” I clapped my hands together. “Let’s keep it that way. She is never to know your connection to the club.” Damn, I hadn’t been this excited since the day Birdie was born. And Chase, of course. But Birdie had been my first baby, so her birth was a little more special to me.
Grizzly nodded. He seemed out of sorts, which wasn’t totally unusual. I recalled my Uncle Matt calling him a grumpy bear way back when he’d found Grizzly. Back then, he was Brent.
After changing his name to Landon, per his request, the dude roamed around with his head down and he only came out of his room to eat. He’d had a huge appetite, still did to this day.
For months, Matt had called him grumpy bear but we’d known he’d been seriously traumatized at his home and had killed his foster parents. What he’d been through would fuck anyone up.
To make matters worse, Grizzly had lost his parents and his older brother had taken off and he never saw him again. His whole life had been traumatic. It was a miracle he could function at all after everything he’d gone through.
