Jake’s bed, if that’s where you wanted her and clearly it is.”
“This isn’t normal protocol, Marcs. For the sake of conversation, I’ll give you that. It may very well be the only time we ever see something like this happen.”
“There shouldn’t have been a first time,” Logan grated out.
Malory took a deep breath, seemed to debate revealing more, and finally said, “This may be the perfect time to test that. Autumn’s father had her brother killed. Fain Lake was one of the best undercover agents in the country. He brought down several motorcycle gangs out west.
“Cav Delbauchy, her father’s right-hand man, found out what he was doing and decided to have him killed. He had one request when he turned Fain over to the Devil’s Angels out west. He wanted them to torture him, but he wanted to deliver the fatal shot.
“Now Cav is watching Autumn’s every move. Cav Delbauchy isn’t just Morris Lake’s number one guy. He’s also a murderer with at least a half-dozen agent kills under his belt. We want Cav. We want Morris. We want the MC. And no one wants to take down all of the above more than Autumn Lake.”
****
Victory met him at the door. “Oh my God! What took you so long?” She grabbed the candy bars from his hands.
Logan snickered. “I ran into a couple of bikers looking for the Angel’s clubhouse. Nothing I couldn’t handle.”
Victory was already ripping open the candy wrapper. “Don’t tell Devon. He has me on some kind of healthy diet and apparently is worried to death I’ll gain a lot of weight with the baby and won’t be able to shed the pounds later.”
Logan watched her devour one candy bar and then the next. Impressed, he thumbed the door behind him and said, “Want me to go hold up the local convenience markets for all the candy I can carry?”
“Would you do that?” Victory asked around a mouthful of chocolate.
About that time, a door slammed in the distance. The dim lighting in the clubhouse prevented Logan from making out faces, but he was definitely able to make out what they were waving around in front of their bodies.
“Fuck!” Logan pushed Victory behind him, grabbed his piece from the small of his back, and swung his pistol forward. “Not your brightest move, fellas!” His heart was pounding and pounding. Over his shoulder, he hissed, “This is the real deal, Victory. Go get Sassy. Hide the women. Alert the men.
“Somebody in the club has pissed off the wrong man. And Morris Lake isn’t anyone we wanted for an enemy.”
Chapter Seventeen
“I’m here for Autumn Lake.” A throaty voice filled the air. “If you hand her over, we’ll leave peaceably. If you don’t, we’ll take you out one by one.”
Logan gripped his piece like it was the only one he had. From where Jake was standing, he could see Marcs clearly. He also spotted Scott gathering weapons from underneath the bar, but by the looks of the burly fellows blocking the doorway, they were better prepared for a war than the Heroes and Rogues.
When Victory had barged in his room, she’d said this was the real deal and she hadn’t been lying. Then again, Victory wasn’t like the typical broad. She cut right to the chase when lives were on the line.
Unfortunately, the spitfire at his right did the same. “I want you to go hide with the other women.”
“No way,” Autumn said. “Besides, they’ll smoke us out. Cav and Dad are both here.”
“Which one is your father?” Jake asked.
“The one on the far left.”
Jake searched the room. Thanks to a smoke-filled room, low dimmers, and a support post, he couldn’t tell much about her dad. “Autumn, please. Go with the women.”
“Quit wasting your breath and their time,” she said, tilting her head to the other wall. “Cav has been watching my every move. He will not leave without me. He knows I’m here.”
“What’s this about?” Jake asked.
Autumn’s father spoke, “Mr. Marcs, do you know who I
“This isn’t normal protocol, Marcs. For the sake of conversation, I’ll give you that. It may very well be the only time we ever see something like this happen.”
“There shouldn’t have been a first time,” Logan grated out.
Malory took a deep breath, seemed to debate revealing more, and finally said, “This may be the perfect time to test that. Autumn’s father had her brother killed. Fain Lake was one of the best undercover agents in the country. He brought down several motorcycle gangs out west.
“Cav Delbauchy, her father’s right-hand man, found out what he was doing and decided to have him killed. He had one request when he turned Fain over to the Devil’s Angels out west. He wanted them to torture him, but he wanted to deliver the fatal shot.
“Now Cav is watching Autumn’s every move. Cav Delbauchy isn’t just Morris Lake’s number one guy. He’s also a murderer with at least a half-dozen agent kills under his belt. We want Cav. We want Morris. We want the MC. And no one wants to take down all of the above more than Autumn Lake.”
****
Victory met him at the door. “Oh my God! What took you so long?” She grabbed the candy bars from his hands.
Logan snickered. “I ran into a couple of bikers looking for the Angel’s clubhouse. Nothing I couldn’t handle.”
Victory was already ripping open the candy wrapper. “Don’t tell Devon. He has me on some kind of healthy diet and apparently is worried to death I’ll gain a lot of weight with the baby and won’t be able to shed the pounds later.”
Logan watched her devour one candy bar and then the next. Impressed, he thumbed the door behind him and said, “Want me to go hold up the local convenience markets for all the candy I can carry?”
“Would you do that?” Victory asked around a mouthful of chocolate.
About that time, a door slammed in the distance. The dim lighting in the clubhouse prevented Logan from making out faces, but he was definitely able to make out what they were waving around in front of their bodies.
“Fuck!” Logan pushed Victory behind him, grabbed his piece from the small of his back, and swung his pistol forward. “Not your brightest move, fellas!” His heart was pounding and pounding. Over his shoulder, he hissed, “This is the real deal, Victory. Go get Sassy. Hide the women. Alert the men.
“Somebody in the club has pissed off the wrong man. And Morris Lake isn’t anyone we wanted for an enemy.”
Chapter Seventeen
“I’m here for Autumn Lake.” A throaty voice filled the air. “If you hand her over, we’ll leave peaceably. If you don’t, we’ll take you out one by one.”
Logan gripped his piece like it was the only one he had. From where Jake was standing, he could see Marcs clearly. He also spotted Scott gathering weapons from underneath the bar, but by the looks of the burly fellows blocking the doorway, they were better prepared for a war than the Heroes and Rogues.
When Victory had barged in his room, she’d said this was the real deal and she hadn’t been lying. Then again, Victory wasn’t like the typical broad. She cut right to the chase when lives were on the line.
Unfortunately, the spitfire at his right did the same. “I want you to go hide with the other women.”
“No way,” Autumn said. “Besides, they’ll smoke us out. Cav and Dad are both here.”
“Which one is your father?” Jake asked.
“The one on the far left.”
Jake searched the room. Thanks to a smoke-filled room, low dimmers, and a support post, he couldn’t tell much about her dad. “Autumn, please. Go with the women.”
“Quit wasting your breath and their time,” she said, tilting her head to the other wall. “Cav has been watching my every move. He will not leave without me. He knows I’m here.”
“What’s this about?” Jake asked.
Autumn’s father spoke, “Mr. Marcs, do you know who I
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