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A slow smile spreads across his face. “You’d let me ride your motorcycle?”
I tilt my head. “Didn’t say that, did I?”
“I’m hard just thinkin’ about you and me ridin’ together.”
I lean forward, planting a kiss on his lips. “Then you’d better be a good boy, hadn’t you?”
Church is bustling with activity after last night. Drifter went to work unseen. And Diamond is hatching a plan to send the Ridgehaven Hellions after the Crows, since they’d been spotted heading that way. Bane, the Prez, is friends with Diamond, and an ally to the Stilettos. They’ll step in when we can’t be in two places at once.
“This situation is dire.” Diamond’s face is a little paler than usual. “I wanna give them a taste of their own medicine.”
“You can this weekend,” I tell her. “Lanzetti is apparently comin’ here.”
“Wait, how do you know that?” Sapphire pipes up, always the first to smell a rat.
“I… Well—”
Sapphire narrows her eyes. “You just know?”
“Wouldn’t have anything to do with a certain blond biker, would it?” Onyx wiggles her eyebrows.
“It’s my job,” I remind her, exasperated. “I have no choice in the matter.”
“Sure you don’t,” Sapphire quips.
I flip her the middle finger.
What I don’t expect is a frantic call from Drifter halfway through the strategy meeting.
“Baby doll?” His voice is hushed. “I got somethin’ good, but gotta listen up and act quickly, got me?”
“I’m listenin’.”
“Fury.”
My hand slices through the air to quiet them. “What about her?”
“She’s here, at the farm.”
“What the fuck is she doin’ there?”
“I don’t know, but she could be an informant, a hustler—hell, she could be Lanzetti’s personal whore for all I know. But she’s about to leave—by herself. If you go now, you’ll intercept her.”
I jolt out of my seat, one hand over the phone as I bark to the others, “Fury. She’s about to leave Lanzetti Farms. We need to snatch her. Let’s move!”
“On it.” Sapphire charges out of the room.
“Holy shit,” Pearl mutters. “Fury’s working for Lanzetti?”
I ignore the chat, getting back to Drifter. “Good work. If we can snag her, we can get intel on what’s goin’ on a lot faster. She’ll squeal like a pig if she so much as breaks a damn nail.”
“You’re welcome.”
I smile. “Get back to work. I’ll see you later.”
I hang up and take after Sapphire, Diamond and the others on my tail.
“Emerald and Topaz, drive half a mile toward town, in case she happens to slip past us.” Diamond directs. “Onyx, grab the truck.”
