Page 44 of Reckless Vengeance

“Why don’t they have a relationship?”

“His brother killed their parents and little sister when they were kids. He runs the Shadow Kings crew.”

“He’s going to come back and haunt your ass for blabbing his private shit,” Diesel muttered, looking highly uncomfortable to have Josie putting ointment on his face.

“Wait, Slash’s brother is Rage Evans?” Caden sputtered.

“Yeah. See why he kept it a secret? I wouldn’t want to be connected to that prick either,” I said grimly, sipping my beer.

“Will he go to the funeral?”

“Fucking hope not or more people will die. The last thing we need right now is the Kings coming to town on top of everything else.”

“You boys all need to stay out of trouble,” Josie said firmly, taking a step back from Diesel to inspect his face.

“Trouble seems to find us,” Diesel said with a straight face, a small smile tugging at Josie’s lips.

“I bet. I don’t want you two keeping Rory and the boys awake too late tonight. They have school in the morning. I don’t know what happened to her friend though. What was her name? Mule? She was supposed to spend the night but didn’t come back with Rory. What parent names their child Mule, anyway?”

“They don’t. Her name is Ashlynn. She gets in fights and is known for using her feet,” I explained, not really being able to say she fights in our illegal cage fights.

“Kicks like a mule,” Diesel added as if she didn’t understand.

“Oh. Well, you really should call her by her proper name. It’s pretty,” Josie said with a frown.

“She prefers Mule. Thanks for playing doctor,” I replied as I stood to stretch, my muscles screaming at me.

“You’re welcome. You’ll be here next Thursday, yes?” she asked, making me glance at her with confusion.

“Why?”

“Thanksgiving. I imagine it’s a tough time right now for you all. Diesel, you’re welcome too. Unless you have plans,” she said quickly, and I knew this wasn’t something she’d been planning since Caden looked just as surprised as us.

“We don’t have plans,” I said slowly, but Diesel cringed.

“I usually spend it at home. It was always Sasha’s thing and I haven’t really felt very thankful since losing her. Thank you for the invitation though.”

“If you change your mind, you know where we will be. I always cook for Thanksgiving and I make way too much,” she laughed. “If any of your other friends need somewhere to go, they can come too.”

“I’ll let them know,” I confirmed, not sure how to feel about it.

Sure, some of us caught up for a beer on Thanksgiving, but it had been a long time since we’d had a big meal and get-together. There also weren’t many of the guys that I’d trust in this house.

“Good. I need to head to bed, I have a meeting tomorrow and have to leave early. I’ll be checking that you all get to school, Caden,” she said as she kissed his cheek. “Get a good sleep.”

“We will,” he grumbled, waiting for her to leave before grabbing a beer of his own and glancing at Diesel. “So, who’d you beat up?”

“Matteo,” Diesel grunted, the guys nodding like it made perfect sense.

It kind of did, the guy had been an asshole for months.

“Did Rory ice her face?” I asked, and Lukas gave me a dirty look.

“Yes. How the fuck did you accidentally punch her?”

“I blackout when I fight sometimes. I didn’t know I hit her,” I hissed. “Don’t look at me like that, I didn’t mean to.”

“She’s napped most of the evening. Ty and Jensen didn’t have to fight her much to get her to go to bed.”