“I’m not sure if you remember,” I say. “But you made an interesting comment to Chaos when you stopped by the clubhouse a little while back.” Matthias’s gaze shifts my way. “You said that you had everything he needed to run a brothel. The equipment, the connections… and thegirls.” I lean in close to add. “Mind telling me a little more about that?”
A sedan quietly sneaks past behind us.
Matthias swallows—hard. “Can we do this shit later? I got somewhere I need to be.”
I huff out my nose. “Only place you need to be is right here, right now, answering my goddamn question.”
He looks to me first, and then Circus. “What exactly do you want to know?”
“Which of those things I listed are you currently missing?”
His steely gaze meets mine. “You think those women were mine?” He snorts. “I heard what you did. And all I’m gonna tell you about that is you made a huge fucking mistake.”
“I don’t make mistakes,” I growl, even as the whole fucking situation with Reno flashes through my mind.
And as though he sees it reflected in my gaze, Matty smirks. “You sure about that?” He’s torn away from my immediate field of view, Circus’s meaty hands wrapped around Matthias’s arms as he hauls the guy back to the sidewalk.
I follow behind, sure to make it clear to Matty what’s strapped to my ribs as always: my conversation starters.
“I’m gonna ask again,” I say as Circus pins Matthias to a brick shopfront. “What part do you play in their mess, huh? What are you doing for the Devil’s Breed?” I roll my lips as I study his face, then utter, “What can you do forus?”
His attention snaps to a small crowd that gathers on the far side of the street. “Don’t think you’ve got too long before the law gets here, boys. You might want to back off.”
Asshole clearly knows nothing about these small satellite towns. “I’ve got plenty of time before Marty gets here.” They’re all run by one county department. “Talk.”
He sighs out his nose. “You assholes know what connection I got to the Breed: I owe Manic money. But that’s got fuck all to do with those bitches you found. The girls I got are legit. They want the work after the law change made them redundant. They’re not the same as what you took.”
“And what do you know about what we took?”
Circus slides a hand beneath Matthias’s jaw, holding his head high so the shorter man is forced to look me in the eye, no matter how much he squirms.
“I don’t know much, okay? Just what I’ve overheard.”
I lift my eyebrows, coaxing him to continue.
“Smoke’s lost support lately for what he’s done. Some of the MCs he made deals with to move through their territory locked him out. So he’s diversifying. Moving smaller groups along more routes to improve the chance of getting stock through. Minimizing losses.” He pauses to take a breath. “Problem with that is he’s not so selective about who he uses to help him do it, and some of the riffraff are causing trouble that the other Breed don’t like.”
“Where are they moving them?”
“I don’t know, but I’ve heard it’s a lot of places.”
“Hey!”
I jolt at the shrill word.
“What the hell are you doing?”
I’d plain forgotten about Danica.Fuck it.Right when we were making progress.
“Talking,” I sass, turning to face Matty’s sister as she jogs across the road. “You want to join in?”
“Let him go.”
“He’s free to leave whenever he wants.”
Circus quietly removes his hold on Matthias. The woman’s got balls. More than the group of cowards on the far side of the road, two of whom record our interaction on their phones. Not that it’s going to achieve much. Where are they going to post it? On a social media profile with their name and key information? Pictures of their kids. Places they go. Enough to lead the wolf to their door.
I don’t think so.
