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Ruin speaks up quickly in an amused voice, “What is it, Hobo?”
“Was riding around and two Halvorson workers seemed to be tailing me. I got behind them, and they pulled over into a station. Real obvious how they knew I was watching them.”
“Where was this?”
“Don’t know where they first started tailing me. I pulled into Howling Prairie Road, and they kept going. I started following them, and they pretty quickly stopped at a gas station.”
“So, it might be nothing?”
“Most things might be nothing, Ruin. When I don’t tell you shit like with Todd Rogers and his daughter, you get pissed. When I hit you up with my suspicions, you act put out. Pick a lane, man.”
“I’m not acting put out. I’m trying to get a read on shit.”
“I’m not paranoid,” I spit out, wishing I’d just texted. “I don’t assume people follow me around. But I’m telling you that I felt those guys on me.”
“Why you?”
Rolling my eyes, I can’t remember a time when Ruin didn’t give me shit about something. Now, he thinks I’m fucking psychic.
“Maybe they’re mad I helped out Yagger that day.”
“We all kicked their asses.”
“You wouldn’t have been there if I hadn’t been there spying for the club first.”
Ruin exhales hard. “This doesn’t feel like Halvorson. Or even his fuckwit sons.”
“Erik Halvorson ordered his guys to jump Yagger. They obeyed and got beat hard for it. Meanwhile, the rich boy barely got pounded and went back to his fucking tennis games. I can imagine going rogue if my boss set me up like that.”
“So, these guys are looking to start shit without the boss’s say-so?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, you sound like you do.”
“What I’m saying is I do things that aren’t being ordered by you. If I can think for myself, why can’t these assholes?”
Ruin grunts, and the phone goes quiet. I suspect he’s talking shit about me to Selene.
“Where are you now?” he asks after a minute.
“Howling Prairie Road.”
“Where are the assholes?”
“I left them at the gas station.”
“Why would you stop tailing them?”
“I’m getting ready to take Xenia out for the afternoon.”
Ruin doesn’t respond to that information. However, I think I hear Selene go “aw” in the background.
“What if they’re planning to jump you?” Ruin asks before adding, “Do you really want to put that woman in danger?”
“What if they’re planning on jumpingyou? Maybe they were making sure the rest of us were busy before they made a move on our club president.”
When Ruin exhales loudly, I cover my phone and chuckle at how Mister Perfect just got his daily plans shit on.
