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“God, it’s been too long.” She threw her small body around me.
I lifted her into my arms, hugging her a little longer than I intended.
“Hey.” She wiggled out of my grip, staring up at me. “You good?”
“Yeah.” I hooked an arm around her shoulders, leading her to the house. “How’s the family?”
“Good! Manuel is with my dad and mom, and Tanner’s inside,” she said, nodding toward the house. “We’re taking a little trip just the two of us, so my parents are babysitting for the weekend.”
“That sounds fun.” I hugged her into my side as we walked to the front doors of the clubhouse. “Let’s get in there before my brother murders your husband for just existing.”
She snorted. “Whatever. Sammy likes him. He just won’t admit it.”
“Sammy won’t admit anything that has to do with him being nice,” I corrected her.
“True.” She laughed. “I take it you’re still fighting?”
“Yeah.” I forgot about the bruises on my face. “I made Cheesy go with me this time.”
“Oh, I bet he loved that.” Bee shook her head, a wide smile forming on her face. Her head of curls swung with the movement. “Poor thing. You guys are mean to him.”
“We are not,” I said as her husband, Tanner, took that moment to join us.
“How’s it going?” I asked him, pushing his wife into his arms.
“Good. Quiet,” he said, hugging her to him.
“Quiet’s good.” And that was the truth. They had it hard in the beginning when Tanner was accused of killing someone from our club. While his name was being cleared, he and Bee ended up together. It had amazed me how even in the most inappropriate of times, love could still bloom.
While Tanner and Bee mingled with everyone, I slipped away quietly and made my way down into the basement. My muscles were itching for some pain, even though I had put them through a lot the night before with the fight and all. Maybe I should have gone to The Ring again.
I pulled my phone out of my back pocket, checking to see if there were any fights tonight and if I missed any calls or texts.
“Cyrus, wasn’t expecting you here tonight.”
I lifted my head as Greyson Mercer came down the hall toward me. He was wiping the back of his neck with a towel.
It was true. I had been staying at the apartment lately, but something pulled me toward the clubhouse instead. Sammy never even mentioned anything when I had driven us there. Maybe he was feeling it too.
“We were at the center.” Which wasn’t really a reason seeing as the clubhouse was nowhere near it. “We dropped off a load of supplies for Piper and...I just didn’t want to be at the apartment tonight.”
Greyson nodded once. “I get that. How’s your brother doing? Eve said he’s being an ass lately. More so than usual.”
“I don’t know really.” But I did know. A bit anyway. Just not enough to explain what was going on because the truth was, it was none of my business. “Tanner and Bee are here. I’m going to get a workout in.” I went to walk by him when his next words stopped me.
“Sammy never goes to your parents’ gravesite.”
My head whipped around. “How do you know that?”
“Just because I’m no longer president, doesn’t mean I don’t know things,” Greyson said, crossing his arms under his broad chest. “Jaron told me.”
“How does he know?”
Greyson closed the distance between us and cupped my nape. Turning me around, he led me to the gym. “Jaron’s become a little paranoid after everything went down.”
“Understandably so.”
“I agree. He’s had people keeping an eye on things.”
