Page 44 of Deadly Secrets

I check my phone and see a text from Stone.

STONE

Outside.

I grab my riding boots and stuff my feet in them as I make my way out of the house to the front lawn. Several bikes are sitting in the driveway with their engines off. My brothers are talking in low voices.

“Everything all right?” I ask when I approach. I’d left my gun in my backpack in Remi’s room without thinking.

“Wanted to bring you up to speed on some things,” Stone says as I see Havoc, Brass and Ink there.

“What happened?”

“Nothing’s happened. We just know you’ve got a lot going on,” Havoc speaks up. “We’re still leavin’ in the morning around eight.”

My stomach clenches and a sense of dread rushes through me. I just found them, how can I leave them here?

Before I can stop and think about it, I say, “I’m not going.”

“What the fuck you mean you ain’t comin’,” Prez bites out.

“I’m not leaving them right now.” I point towards the house behind me.

“You fuckin’ patching over, brother?” Brass’s voice sounds panicked.

“Fuck no,” I correct quickly. “Can barely tolerate those cocky bastards.” I turn back to Stone. “I just can’t leave them right now. Ryder he’s…” I start to say but Stone’s face changes from menacing to understanding.

“Got it, brother,” he says. “I’d have a hard time too.”

“Don’t help that his mama is fine as fuck either,” Ink pops off and I whip my head towards him.

Before I can react, Havoc clocks him upside the back of his head, almost knocking him off his bike. “Don’t talk about his Ol’ Lady like that.”

Ink rubs the spot and winces before turning his face up to me. “Sorry, Reaper.”

The sound of hearing them call her my Ol’ Lady sends a thrill down my back. After getting out of prison, I never thought I’d want to have someone strapped to me. Someone who had the ability to put me in a spot like I’d just come out of. But calling Remi mine sounds natural, just like when I claimed her for the first time on a blanket while on our favorite hiking trail. That moment changed my life and everything that happened afterwards. We were forever bonded to each other that evening. I thought the years of being apart would dampen it or cut those ties but seeing her again, especially after Hawk told me that she’d gone missing right after my conviction, didn’t change one thing for me. Has she had a life these last fourteen years? Yeah, and I don’t blame her for it. Shit, I’ve done the same in the few years since my release. What matters now is that we found each other and she’s mine. We were each other’s first and we’ll be each other’s last, the in between doesn’t change that.

“What’s your plan here, Reap?” Prez asks, back to business.

I think on it for a minute. “Gonna talk to her about moving down to Texas and see where her head’s at. Ryder doesn’t finish school until Thursday so if all goes good then maybe we’ll be heading south by the weekend.”

Stone sits back on his Harley, rubbing his jaw thinking.

“Wildcat and Sutton are staying another day with the babies before flying out to the rally,” he starts. “Was gonna leave a few prospects with them then have them meet up with us. I’ll have them stay and help load up Remi and Ryder’s things in a moving van. Prospects can drive the van down and then we’ll meet you on the road back home this coming weekend.”

We’ve got a lot of product to offload at this rally. The cocaine we found on the cult farm has been lucrative. These rallies are the perfect meet up to pass it off to the buyers and have us sittin’ pretty for months on end.

“Sounds good, I’ll let you know if something changes,” I tell him.

“You patch things up with him,” Stone nods over at Bulldog’s house and I give him a crazy look and scoff.

“Don’t need to,” I utter.

Stone rolls his eyes upward, then shakes his head mumbling something. Brass must hear it because he starts chuckling.

“Take care of business and get your woman home,” Stone finally orders, then starts his ride. My other brothers do the same and after a quick goodbye, they leave.

Walking back into the house, I shut and lock the door. I move around the house securing the windows and other doors before checking on Ryder. I peek in the room and find him fast asleep on his stomach with his head turned towards me. He has a loud fan blowing, drowning out noise on his nightstand just like his mother. I walk over and inspect his window before silently shutting the door and making my way to Remi’s room.