Page 92 of Reacher
“Shit. Okay, we’ll deal with that. Whatever he needs. Any luck on members to help him out on tech? Assuming he’s even still capable?”
Stitch nodded. “Two of our brothers have stepped forward, offering to take on the job. Has-Been is one of them.”
I felt my jaw drop. “Has? Has is offering to work with Ice? What the hell is going on there? They fucking each other or something?”
Stitch snorted, pushing his empty plate aside.
“Not that I’m aware of, but then, it’s not like they’d face judgement for that, right? Not now we’re in charge.” Hell no, but under the old leadership? They’d probably have been beaten to death for being ‘fags’. Another reason I was fucking relieved we’d disposed of the old ‘leadership’.
“Okay… this could be really good though, Has is seriously smart, and kinda anal about details.” We both snorted at the unintended pun.
“I just mean that he’ll do well. I’m glad he stepped up actually. Who’s the other?”
“Micro. Turns out he has some limited experience with some of this shit, so he’s a little ahead of Has, but not quite as smart.”
It was more than I’d hoped for.
“Excellent. Some good news at last, huh?”
Stitch took a breath, pressing his hands against the table, and hesitating just long enough that I knew my brief reprieve was over already. What the hell had happened now?
“About Ryder and Tori…”
Jesus. “I’m not sure I’m ready for this discussion. Any decision we make could destroy their lives.”
He stared at his drink, wrapping his hands around the mug.
“That’s why I’m not sure we should get involved at all.”
“Seriously? She’s drugging him for sex.”
He met my eyes steadily. “With his consent.Surely what they do in the bedroom is their business, and none of ours.”
“Something you want to tell me, brother?”
He snorted, rolling his eyes at me.
“We all have… uh… likes in the bedroom. I’m just saying, you’re always gonna offend someone, right? If they’re getting off, and they’re happy, who cares how they’re getting there? It’s a dangerous precedent to set, if we start dictating to people about how they can fuck behind closed doors.”
He definitely had a secret, but I wasn’t going to pry. His sex life was his business, and wasn’t that the point? He was right, and his business should stay his business, and that meant theirs should too.
“Get Ryder up here. Let’s tell him.”
Stitch reached for his phone, then glanced at Ally.
“You want to do this somewhere else?” She looked like she was dozing off, but I knew if I tried to leave, she’d move.
“Nah, I don’t want her alone right now. Just tell him to keep it down.”
Thirty-One
Ryderjoinedthemoverat the dining table, and it looked serious. I could hear them, even though they probably thought they were keeping their voices down.
Stitch had been urging Reacher to butt out of their sex lives, and I was with him on that, mostly… I didn’t like what they were doing, because it could hurt them. Only because of that. But I’d almost lost my love, and I knew how it would kill them to lose what they had too.
“Brother, I don’t agree with what you’re doing, or how you’re doing it…”
Ryder groaned, holding up a hand.
