Page 53 of Maverick
“Seems Tavi couldn’t keep you happy, you need to move onto another unavailable woman, and so soon,” the fucker said to me. Parker turned to his friend, confusion all over his face.
“What’s going on, Dane?” Mari asked me, her attempts to stop me from aiming the gun at the two men in front of us had stopped.
“Dane? Why aren’t you asking me? Get over here!” Parker yelled at her. Mari stilled beside me, and I knew I’d been wrong about him. He’d been fucking working for them.
All along.
My family hadn’t been safe. They would have been safer with me.
“Dane?”
“Mari, get Bane, pack a bag. You’re coming with me.”
“Like hell!”
Parker made a move to grab her wrist, but I shot at his feet and he jumped back. Mari ran up the stairs to grab Bane, and away from the fuckers in front of me.
“How long have you been feeding information to the Ironborne, Parker?” I asked, marvelling at how calm my voicewas when I was anything but. “Don’t lie. I can tell when people lie, it makes my trigger finger all itchy.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
I turned to his friend, my sworn fucking enemy, and wondered why I hadn’t taken him out of the equation yet.
“Hardy, I wouldn’t be fucking smiling if I were you. I’m the one holding the gun.”
“In a house with your family,” Hardy sneered. “I doubt you’ll try anything. In fact, there’s not a place that the Ironborne won’t find them. Then again, you discarded them for a piece of tight ass. Where is that ass that I own, by the way?”
“You don’t own shit,” I said through gritted teeth.
Fuck. Tavi was going to bring Lani home. I grabbed my phone from my pocket and dialled Tavi as quickly as I could, holding the phone to my ear, while I kept the gun trained on Hardy.
He had a sick smile on his face, while my heart raced.
When I heard her voice, I relaxed a little.
“Change of plans, meet me at the clubhouse. Take the kids there.”
Tavi was silent for a minute, but when I heard her response, I almost broke. “He’s found me, hasn’t he?”
“Just get there, Tavi.”
I hung up, knowing she would do as I asked her. Hardy seemed pleased with himself and that only annoyed the fuck out of me more.
Mari came down the stairs with Bane, and I lowered the gun a little. Bane clocked it, and he turned to Parker and Hardy, his eyes narrowing into slits almost.
“Go with your mum, Bane.”
He nodded and took his mum’s hand with his good arm, and let her lead him to the door. She turned back to me.
“Go to the clubhouse,” I told her. “Tell Reaper I’ll be there and to call church.” She nodded and headed outside, and away from the fucks in front of me.
“What are you going to do? Shoot us in daylight in the middle of a nice neighbourhood?” Parker asked. “They’ll hear your bike and have you locked up faster than you can blink.”
“You think prison time scares me, fuckhead?” I shot back. “I’ve had plenty of brothers serve time, and I have some still inside. I don’t give a fuck. I’ll do whatever I can to protect my family.”
“And what of them when you’re locked up? Surely you don’t think it’s just us two watching them.”
“You underestimate the Sons, Hardy. We protect our own, not like the scum of Ironborne.”
