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“Was he at the fight?”

“Yeah,” Spanner said. “Saw him later on, after you left with your girl.”

“Did anyone see him with her that night? Because the next morning was when it all went to hell.”

“Nah, she was with me until I took her to you after your fight,” Spanner said.

I froze. “She didn’t come to me after my fight.”

Spanner frowned. “Walked her there myself.”

“Where?”

“Took her to the locker room…” His brows dropped.

“What?”

Spanner cursed.

“What?” I growled out.

“Doc called out to me, acting like whatever he had to tell me was urgent. I pointed out where you were to Lila, then went to see what the fuss was about. He just started shooting the shit.”

I sat back in my seat hard. Doc was a brother from Albert, from Trip and my old man’s chapter. They were tight.

“He got to her.” My heart started racing. I looked at Stones. “He’s got some fucked-up idea about me climbing the ranks, that I’ll take him with me. Trip failed, so now he’s focusing on me.” I curled my fingers around my bottle. “He thought I gave up enforcer for Lila, that I was done with it for good…so he made her go away.”

Manic cursed.

“He can’t be trusted,” I said to Stones. “This is the proof we needed. He’s meeting Jackals, planning a takeover, and he’s dumb enough to think I’ll help him.”

Stones leveled me with a hard look. “You think you can do what needs to be done?”

“I proved that when I dealt with Trip. I’ll do whatever it takes. That man is nothing to me but a fucking sperm donor.”

Stones nodded and stood when I did, pulling me in and thumping me on the back.

“We’ll deal with him tonight. When I go to Lila, I want her to know she’s safe.” My father dealt in threats and intimidation. He’d hunted her down and terrified her. He’d done that to my sweet girl, and I’d make him bleed for it.

“I need to talk to Drums, see what he knows, make sure he’s on board. Then we’ll clean house.”

Drums was the president of the Albert chapter and a strand-up guy. There was no way he was in on this shit with my father.

I strode across the bar to Dane and took him aside.

“What’s up?”

“I need you to make sure Lila is covered tonight. Get Eves to have her around, fuck, get her drunk so she can’t leave, if you have to. Do whatever you need to. But she has to stay there with you, where I know she’s safe. I’ll come for her when I’m done.”

“What the hell’s going on?”

Dane wasn’t a Rambler, but he was my brother in all the ways that counted. “I know why Lila ran scared. My father said something to her. Shit, he threatened her, I know he did.”

Dane cursed. “You know, Lila looked shaken when she found us again after your fight. I thought it was because she wasn’t well, but she wasn’t sick, she was scared.”

I was going to kill that old fucker.

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