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I shut the door behind me but waited until I heard all of my brothers bikes start and take off down the street before I stepped further into the small apartment.
The cop sat at Chelsea’s small table in the center of her kitchen, tapping his fingers impatiently on the wooden surface. “I figured you weren’t done yet.”
“Stay away from her and we won’t have any problems,” I said sternly.
The corner of his mouth turned up, even at my warning. “She’s one of a kind isn’t she?”
“She’s mine, is what she is.”
He finally looked up at me. “That’s funny because I didn’t seeyouthrowing yourself over her as a hail of bullets shattered the windows of the gym.”
“Are you trying to protect her or get in her fucking pants?” His fists clenched and I knew I’d hit a nerve. I smirked. “That’s it isn’t it? You’re pissed she didn’t pick you.”
“She’s obviously not as smart as I thought if she’d rather run with some biker brats than have proper protection,” he spat.
“Why are you here?” I asked, folding my arms across my chest, sick of fucking dancing around the issue. “What do you want?
“I want to know what your ties are with the Italian Mafia.” He stood from his seat, the chair under him scraping across the floor. “I’ve been following the DePalma family for a long time. Never have they even thought about leaving the east coast. Now suddenly, Anthony DePalma has decided to pay a little visit to Alabama, showing up at your clubhouse and hanging around well-known Brothers by Blood establishments.”
I frowned. “You’re not just a cop.”
He laughed. “No, no, I’m not. I’m with the DEA.”
I tried not to act surprised. It was one thing for some small time cop to be sniffing around asking questions, but it was another thing to have a federal law enforcement agency throwing their weight around where it wasn’t wanted.
“Your buddies know about you having a hard-on for one of your focuses?” I taunted, enjoying watching him squirm. “The Brothers don’t have anything to do with your little investigation, so leave it alone before you find more trouble than you can handle.”
“It’s not that simple,Bryce.” I ground my teeth at the use of my real name, something no one but the bank, the taxman, and my father had called me in years. “Like I said, word out there is that Chelsea has a hit on her head. So if you aren’t working with them, what the hell have you done to piss them off?”
I shrugged and held my hands out to the side. “People just seem to not like me. I’m not sure why. I can be a pretty nice guy when you’re on my good side.”
“This is the only warning you’ll get,” he said as he walked around the table and headed for the front door. “If I find her alone, I’ll take her in, and trust me when I say I’ll put her so far into protective custody, you willneverfind her.” He twisted the door handle and pulled it open.
“Cop,” he didn’t turn to face me, but he stopped. “This is my warning. You try to take her from me and I’ll kill you.”
“Threats don’t go down well with law enforcement.”
“Just a fair warning.”
He didn’t answer but pulled the door closed behind him. As soon as I heard his car pull away from the apartment, I pulled my cell phone from my pocket and dialed.
Wrench answered after the first ring. “Yo!”
“I need you to get to Chelsea and Rose’s place ASAP. The place needs an exterminator. Get rid of any bugs you can find,” I told him.
The bastard had had a good few minutes to plant something, and I knew for a fact that he had been there before.
Not that Chelsea would be coming back here.
I was done.
Hearing that the front of her work had been shot up, and not knowing whether she was dead or alive, it was like the reality check of the century. No matter what I did, the only way to make sure she was safe was to have her with me. The one thing I should have just seen in the first place.
It didn’t matter if she was at the club or fucking in China, we still had a connection and killing her would fucking destroy me.
I was stupid to think that my enemies didn’t already know that, and that I was fooling them by pushing her away. The only person I was fooling was myself.
And that ended now.
