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Deccan nodded. “Levi is watching over Flemming from a distance. Echo is with me at all times. I’ve told the owners of BTS to keep their women close to them since Echo hangs out with the other Littles a lot.”

“What about the girl who works at our bar down the street?” Butch asked. “Do you have someone watching over her?”

“Why would I have someone watching over Demi when she isn’t involved in anything? No one knows we own the bar,” Deccan pointed out. “It’s a quiet place and only regulars come in to nurse their broken hearts or get away from all the noise. We’ve made sure that the bartender, Neil, is pretending to be the owner.”

“But Neil is part of the club.” Butch shook his head.

“No one knows that. He was born and raised here. It works out for us. People go to the bar and talk. If anything important comes up, he tells us. He has eyes and ears everywhere. He has connections all over the United States to help us in the long run,” Deccan reminded him. “Everyone thinks he’s an innocent young man who wanted to open a quiet bar for people. It works out for the town.”

Butch sighed. “How did he even get all those connections? Do we know everyone?”

Deccan scoffed. “No, we don’t, and he won’t tell us. But we know he’s close with Dimitri. If he’s friends with him, we don’t want to know who else he knows.”

“Fuck.” Butch hung his head. “And he wanted to join the Springfield Sinners? Are you sure he isn’t a spy for him? We don’t need another problem right now.”

“He promised that he wasn’t. Apparently, he thinks of us as family. He just wanted to hide that he was part of the club because he has siblings who still live here,” Deccan explained.

“Do you think we can use him? Ask him to contact some people to see if he knows where Raelynn was for the past seven years?” Butch asked.

“I can ask hi⁠—”

An ear-piercing scream startled both of them. Butch yanked open the door and ran toward the girls’ room.

“Daddy!” Raelynn yelled.

CHAPTER 19

RAELYNN

Raelynn screamed as she was lifted into the air.

“Daddy!” she yelled when the door slammed open.

Daddy’s eyes were wild as he looked around the room, trying to find the threat before they landed on her.

“Put her down,” Daddy growled.

Reaper walked over, handed her to Daddy, before rushing over and extinguishing the fire.

“How the fuck did a fire start?” Deccan asked as he ran into the room, straight toward Echo.

Raelynn clung to Daddy as Reaper stomp on the last embers. Guilt ate her up she stared at the now-ruined chair.

“It was only a small fire. I don’t know how it got so big,” she whispered. “We thought it would stay small.”

“Little Fairy, what happened?” Daddy asked.

“The package said it was going to be little,” Raelynn mumbled. “I didn’t think it was going to grow.”

Daddy sat down and placed her on his lap so she was facing him, cupping her face with his hands to hold her attention.

“Little Fairy, I need you to listen to Daddy. Can you do that?” he asked.

“I’m sorry,” she said, her voice cracking.

“What happened?” Deccan questioned. “Do either one of you want to answer us?”

“Reaper, what happened?” Daddy asked.