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I’m reaching for her neck to pull her in for a kiss, planning to distract her so I can see who she’s written down, when Trigger stops next to us. “I need you to come with me fast, brother.”
I turn away from my girl and note the severe worry in Trigger’s gaze. “What’s going on?”
“Follow me.Hurry.”
I catch Lilah’s eyes, and she nods me away with a curious smile before turning back to the bar and collecting people’s votes.
twenty-five
Ringer
What the fuck?
I cough over the smoke starting to accumulate in the kitchen.
“What the fuck?” Ghost roars behind me.
“Fuck man, be careful! That’s the shit that fucked my face up,” Trigger shouts at my brother as he rushes across the kitchen to the random box sitting on the counter. Trigger grabs a fire extinguisher and sweeps the nozzle across the counter.
“Who the fuck started this?” I growl, and we all step carefully toward the counter.
“I don’t know, but something's going on here. Shut this shit down,” Ghost barks at no one in particular as my eyes rove over the entire kitchen to assess for anything else that could be suspiciously out of place.
Just as I step closer to the box to check it out, my dad, Tank, and Reaper push through the swinging door. Dad waves his hand in front of his face from the leftover smoke. “What’s going on?”
I reach into the box, finding a small piece of paper. How the fuck did that not catch fire too? I look farther into the box, noticing that the sides are lined with some sort of thin metal. “Fuck!” I roar when I realize what the paper says.
See how easy it was for us to get into your clubhouse? Next time we won’t miss you, Ringer.
Ghost brows furrow. “You just got out of fucking prison, man. Who the fuck did you piss off already?”
“I haven’t done a damn thing!” I bark back, my defenses toward my brother rearing back up with a vengeance.
“This isn’t the time,” Reaper roars as he puts himself between me and Ghost. “The clubhouse obviously isn’t fucking safe right now for our families.”
Ghost stomps from the room first, and we all follow behind him out to the main room. The party continues as if our world wasn’t just rocked.
I find myself wrapping my arms around Lilah, and my heart rate lowers momentarily as soon as she’s safe in my arms. I’m quickly reminded of the seriousness of the situation when I look around and see each brother attaching themselves to their woman. We begin to guide them to the exit.
“We’ve gotta go, Princess.”
Lilah’s dazed, sleepy eyes rise to mine. “Hmm?” Her brows furrow when she senses the urgency in my features.
My eyes raise and find a panicking Ghost as he holds the little girl, Emery, in one arm and pulls on the door repeatedly with the other. “Door won’t fucking open.”
“What’s going on, babe?” Lilah squeezes the arm I have wrapped around her waist.
“It’s not safe in here right now, baby. Don’t worry. I’m not going to let anything happen to you.”
Fear flashes across her face before she quickly schools her features and turns to Maria, who is yelling for someone to tell her what’s going on.
I step towards Ghost, who is cradling the small girl’s head to his chest as he roars. “We need to get the fuck outside!”
Reaper comes up from behind Lilah, holding onto Sasha. “Who’s to say whoever started the fire and left the message isn’t out there waiting for us to try and get out? Take a breath and think, Pres.”
Ghost’s chest visibly rises and deflates with a breath, and he turns, handing Emery over to her mom.
“We can try the window in your office, Ghost.” Bull suggests.
