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“Where were you two weeks ago? Do you have any enemies?” I scoff. “I mean, do you have any enemies that would come after your family?” I know I’m stereotyping her because of the MC affiliation, but after the show I just saw with both clubs, coalitions, and two-percenters, I have to wonder.
I hear the restlessness of the shuffling boots from her club members at my insinuations. An extremely tall redhead is watching me close. I could tell the moment I walked up that most of them were carrying guns.
“Now, Trooper Abbott, if you have an issue with my niece, I have to tell you—” Joel starts, but Scout holds up her hand, stopping him.
My girl has changed. She’s no longer timid and shy. She doesn’t let others answer for her. She moves a bit closer to me and tips her head to the side. The scent of citrus and spice that has always been her carries to me instantly. It’s a smell that causes my cock to react to this day. I hate my body for this betrayal.
“Trooper Abbott.” She sneers at my name, and I want to shake her or kiss the fuck out of those lips. “I was in Widow’s Creek, Kentucky, until four days ago when I started driving here.” Her soft voice has a commanding tone to it that I’ve never heard from her before. She chuckles softly and it’s not in humor. “As for enemies… Well, anyone who goes against me is an enemy.” She pauses and looks me square in the eyes. “Anyone who hurts me is my enemy.” The biting tone of her voice doesn’t make her look any less sexy.
My chest aches and my breathing increases. I’m about to step into her personal space when her mother saves us both from something embarrassing. The thought of fucking her against the side of her lifted truck is almost overwhelming. I can’t think with my little brain trying to take over.
“Thad, you didn’t mean anything bad now, did you?” her mother says. “You just need to rule out everyone. I already gave you my alibi, and you just heard Scout’s. Want River’s next?” I step back and so does Scout. I look over at River, who is looking between Scout and me.
“Answer him, Jinx,” Scout says, and again I hear the authority in her voice that wasn’t there before. The girl I fell in love with was soft and quiet unless it had something to do with engines and cars. This woman in front of me is commanding, and I can tell in the way she shifts she has some combative training. It makes me wonder why she would do that. Why she would want to be trained.
“I was with Riddler. She and I lived together. I believe at the exact moment, I was in the paint booth of our shop spraying down a Barracuda. Keys?” she says, and I don’t understand what she means until a brunette a couple of inches taller than Scout steps forward.
“I didn’t know the victim, but I’ve known Riddler since she and Jinx were both prospects. As for the date and time, I was working in my room at the DHMC clubhouse. I can provide computer documentation as proof of timestamps. Ginger?”
The tall redhead steps up next and looks me up and down before she shakes her head.
“I was asleep. Maybe I did it,” she scoffs.
“Ginger.” The tone coming from Scout stops her.
“I wasn’t in Alaska until last night for the first time.” I can hear the sarcasm in her tone, and I turn back to Scout.
“Riddler?” It suits her. Scout used to love riddles and puzzles. That’s what an engine was to her, a puzzle she needed to complete. Make it run better and sound louder.
The blonde I clocked earlier steps forward. “I’m Vixen. I was busy at home.” She doesn’t say anything else to clarify, but a hush works over the group. I turn back to Scout again, and she shuffles on her heels slightly. Something is up with this statement, and I want to solve it. A need inside me to find out the truth pounds through my veins.
“Do you need to question all of us?” she asks softly, and for the first time I hear a tremble in her voice. Something scares her.
“I’d like to.”
“Jinx, go relieve Frenchie and send her out. You know what to do.”
River moves from the group to the saloon entrance. After she steps inside, another blonde steps out, this one is shorter than Scout. She’s extremely petite and walks over to us.
“Prez?” Her voice has a slight accent to it.
“Frenchie, this officer would like to know where you were on May tenth at about four in the morning Alaska time, that would be eight Kentucky time.”
She looks at Scout and then toward me. “Officer, I was in school.” I hear the French accent now.
“There, you’ve heard our alibis. Now why don’t you go do your job and find out who killed my father.” She stutters over the last part, and again I feel myself wanting to pull her into my body and comfort her. I know she’s hurting. I’ve been because Levi was a good friend to me. He always told me he regretted that Scout and I didn’t work out.
“I was returning these also. I’d like to look around the office if I could?” I hold out a bag containing her father’s watch and rings. They all look back at the building and then to me.
“No,” Scout and her aunt say at the same time as her mother says I can. I look between them and take Violet’s suggestion over Scout’s. When I start to move around them to head that way, Scout steps in front of me.
“I said no.” Her voice quivers ever so slightly again, and I watch as she pulls back a foot into a fighting stance.
“You don’t want to do this, Sunshine.” I lean down toward her as I pull my hat off. I watch her breath hitch at the nickname I used to call her. I’ll take her down if I have to in front of her people. “Are you interfering in my investigation? Or threatening me?”
“Now, now. Trooper Abbott, you don’t need to search the office again. It’s been cleaned already. Besides, Ms. Keller just got home after a long, stressful drive. I’m sure she’ll rethink this, say Monday?” Joel tries to move between us, but I hold my hat up in his face, stopping him. I don’t take my eyes off her though.
“What’s it going to be, Scout?” Calling her Sunshine was just a slip of the tongue.
