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Tripp laughed. “Yeah? You straighten shit out with Nova in that time?”
I shook my head. “Spoke to her this morning before church, haven’t been able to shake everyone loose since.”
“Typical bullshit. Would have been easier if you could have left and went to Kip’s house to talk to her. Fucking lockdown is always a cesspool to wade through when you want to get shit done. Be glad it’s not a full lockdown yet.”
“That a possibility?”
“Still waiting to hear from the VOMC, so depending on how that shitshow goes, most likely.”
“Fuck, man.”
“Why are you here talking to me instead of making shit right with your woman?”
“Connie,” I stated, and he nodded his head. “Bagger already took care of that shit. She’s locked down to her room for now. We’re going to have to vote her out.”
“You think it deserves a vote at this point?”
“After the bomb we just dropped on the club, yeah. They need to feel like their voices matter. Don’t worry, if they vote to keep her ass here, I’ll veto that shit and tell them why their dicks don’t trump her being a security issue.”
I laughed at that. “Okay, I saw Charmer running errands and wanted to check, since he was the one supposed to be watching her door.”
“Bagger put a lock on the outside of the door for now. No one in or out. She gets food delivered once a day, and either makes it last or doesn’t until the men vote. We moved Liz to another room since they were in a two-bunk suite together.”
“She’s another problem.”
“Know it, brother. We’ll deal with her later. I’ve given her a warning for now. If she causes any more problems, she’ll be out on her ass, too.” He drew his hands up through his silver and blond hair, pulling it out of his face. “Gotta tell ya, when Kim was alive, she tried to get me to remove the whores from the club altogether.”
I laughed, as if the other brothers would ever agree to that. I wasn’t sure I agreed with it either. Tripp nodded his head as if agreeing with my thoughts.
“Knew it would be an uphill battle with the men. Shit, after Kim died, I buried myself inside more than one of them trying to forget. It’s getting old dealing with their drama, though.”
“Get that, too.”
“Go make nice with your woman and don’t fuck it all up again, Break. She’s not one you want to lose because you can’t figure your own shit out,” he warned.
I decided to take his advice and as I moved through the common room, it became a game of dodge my club brothers all over again. The bastards were trying to keep me from her on purpose. There was no other explanation, especially when I saw Grady sitting in the corner laughing every time one of those motherfuckers came up to me about something else.
“Fuck off,” I told Trench when he approached me just as I made it to the mouth of the hallway leading to the bedrooms.
“I can’t even pretend to have anything to say to you. Go fix shit with your woman,” he ordered. As if I hadn’t been trying to do that all fucking day.
By the time I finally got to her room, Kip was there packing his son up to take him home for the night. He’d borrowed my truck the minute Nova got put on lockdown, so he’d have a way to get his kid back and forth. Ash was barely home to do it.
I didn’t wait on Kip to vacate first. That fucker was taking his time on purpose and judging by the bag and cup sitting on the dresser, I’d been right about him sending Charmer to make sure she was taken care of. While I should have been upset by that, it didn’t escape my notice that I hadn’t been the one to make sure she had been fed today while everything was going down.
I moved over to the chair where Nova was seated and held my hand out to her in the hopes that she would take it without any questions. To my surprise, she did. I walked us back to my room and shut and locked the door before turning my full attention on her.
“Sorry it took so long to get back to you. There was a lot going on today.”
“I heard.”
“What exactly did you hear?”
She laughed, which was another surprise thrown at me today. “Well, I was informed that Scout has become a member of the club. I’m guessing that whatever happened in Tripp’s office last night had something to do with that.” I nodded, so she continued.
“Then Kip told me that he had dinner delivered to me because he wasn’t sure when the rest of the club was going to stop punishing you for what happened last night and for keeping secrets about Scout helping the club for so long.”
I couldn’t keep from laughing at their antics. Those fuckers. “I should have caught on a lot sooner.”
