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“Yep,” the president said though it wasn’t a question like he wanted Lake to keep going. It was as if he knew what Lake was thinking and answering some unsaid question.
Was I super fucking confused right now?
You bet your ass I was.
“You got a name, doll?” Iron asked. Or so I assumed that was his name. Club name? Road name? Ugh, whatever.
“Doesn’t everyone?” I stared at him pointedly. Yeah, I wasn’t good at reeling it in when I felt like I was in danger.
To my surprise, the president dropped his crossed arms as his head fell back and he let out a loud bark of a laugh.
“I think I like you,” he said with a shake of his head. “I’m Iron. In case you haven’t figured it out, this guy is Lake.”
“Bridget,” I supplied with a short nod but didn’t drop my guard.
“Listen, our clubhouse is just beyond those trees there. We don’t have any extra beds right now, but Lake here wouldn’t mind giving up his for the night, I’m sure.”
My eyes shifted to Lake’s and he gave me a tiny nod letting me know that was exactly what he’d been thinking.
Was it the safest thing?
Nope.
Did Inotwant to freeze to death in my car?
Yes, that was for damn sure.
“Fine,” I said and turned to dig around for some clothes and at the last minute pulled something out of my glove compartment. “But just to let you know, I’m carrying too. And mine is so much bigger than yours.” I turned back around and held out my revolver so they could see I wasn’t playing around.
This earned me another chuckle from Iron while Lake went a little wide-eyed.
“You don’t give any trouble and we won’t give you none,” Iron said.
“Yes, sir,” I said showing him some respect so he would know I wasn’t trying to cause problems.
“Alright. Lake, you got this?”
“Yep,” Lake said and Iron started walking away. “Come on.”
He turned and started walking into the darkness. I jogged to catch up with him and soon fell in step beside him. I couldn’t really see where the hell we were going but by the way he took confident strides, I could tell he did.
“Sorry about your eye,” I finally said.
I had no clue why I felt the need to fill the silence. Maybe it was because every step we took, the music from the bar faded more and the sounds of the night began to ring louder. It was a bit eerie. Probably didn’t help that this could have been the opening to a horror movie.
Dumb girl gets herself lost and ends up in the middle of nowhere surrounded by a bunch of deadly men. Which one will get to kill her first?
Yeah, that made no sense. You can only kill someone once. Hey, sometimes my head came up with some random shit, okay?
“It’s fine,” he said and I would have sworn he was a little embarrassed.
Finally, a big motel came into view. This was not what I had been expecting.
“Whoa,” I breathed out. I mean it wasn’t like some great place or anything but it definitely wasn’t some crumbling down warehouse like I envisioned in my head.
“Not a bad place to call home,” Lake said as he walked up to what I assumed was the main part of the building. What I would have guessed would have been where you checked in had this been a real motel. Only as we stepped inside, I could see that it had been transformed into a bar area. Like a lounge. A verymanlylounge.
“You hungry?” he asked snapping me out of my daze.
