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Hammer stared at me, lightly nodding. “That they did. Still, they could be dead.”

“I agree. I’ll talk to Glenda.”

“Anyway,” Hammer continued. “What happened? What did she say?”

I told them all how I was ambushed at the house, and how Lady was trying to get me to turn like Reggie, and in exchange, she’d let Glenda live.

“I knew you wouldn’t let anything happen to Glenda.” I looked around. “I’d rather die than turn on my brothers.”

The room went quiet for a few seconds. Finally, Bama cleared his throat. “I put Bruce back in the house. He was barking up a storm, so I didn’t want to leave him out and draw attention to the house.”

“Thanks, man. I’m glad they didn’t kill him.” He sure was trying to get out of the fence. It wouldn’t have taken much to take him out. “Speaking of, are we set? I’m beat and so is Glenda.”

“You sure you don’t want to stay here a few nights?” Hammer asked.

“I got alarms on the house. I just didn’t have them on because I was running in and out.” I honestly hadn’t used them in ages. I got comfortable there. I didn’t know some crazy bitch was looking for us. “Plus, you said you’d send some members over.”

“We got a few guys. Enjoy it while you can. We’re gonna have to be on more patrols until we can be sure we’ve driven them out.”

“And make sure there’s no more crazy sisters with money and rage,” Bama said.

It wasn’t Church because Hammer hadn’t called it, but everyone that mattered was there, so I raised my hand as everyone started to get up to leave. “Hey, before we clear out, I got one more thing to discuss.”

Chapter 36

Glenda

Pinkie brought me a tumbler of Crown, but I downed it in one gulp. It went down smooth but tingled a few seconds later. Putting my hand up, I told her, “I’m good. Thanks.”

“You guys should have seen it!” Allie was going on about how we snuck in and what happened.

Linny listened in awe and Pinkie drank her beer, nodding.

The room had cleared a decent bit. But my guess was most of the guys were patrolling or in the room with Leigh and them.

Pinkie also brought me some ice for my hand. My adrenaline was finally starting to drop. I could feel the pinch in my leg and my knuckles were throbbing.

“Such a baddie,” Allie said as she took a long draw from her beer.

“I’m glad you’re not dead!” Linny said.

“Yeah, maybe we didn’t plan that very well,” I chuckled as the liquor warmed my insides, loosening me up. I wasn’t much of a liquor drinker.

“If these assholes weren’t so secretive about everything, we wouldn’t have to sneak around,” Allie said.

We all got quiet. They had a code. And the code was for the brotherhood. As much as I hated it, I knew it was part of the life to keep women in the dark. Part of that was our own protection. But sometimes, it would save a lot of trouble if they just talked.

I could wallow over all the time I’d lost with Leigh. Over the fact I didn’t know that Reggie turned, and had not only disrespected me the ways I knew, but was hiding shit from me. Then to learn he was talking about me… to that whore?

But Lydia, or Lady, did me a favor. Reggie was a piece of shit, and I’d chosen to be ignorant to it. What I did to her wasn’t about Reggie. It was about Leigh. She could’ve had Reggie. Good riddance. But I’d be damned if she thought she was fucking up my real love and threatening my man. But that problem was dealt with.

“Hey, you ready?” Leigh asked from behind me.

He put his hand out, so I took it and stood. “Very.” Turning back to the table, I said, “Thanks for the ice. I’ll see you guys tomorrow unless I sleep this off.”

They all waved and I followed Leigh outside.

Looking around, I didn’t see his truck. “How are we getting home?”