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He nodded and Scoop started, motioning at the TV on the wall. “Okay, this is the security company’s client who set up Bear and Remington. He’s listed under this name,” Scoop motioned to the first name in a list, “but after Sarah and I dug further, none of the names are what he was on his birth certificate. His paperwork is good. I can see how he made it this far but his birth name is Kevin McBaine.”
“While Rocky Road dug into the client, I dug into survivor number five. On the surface everything looks good, which is why she passed our initial check. We didn’t do deep dives because we assumed everyone coming to us was in a bad situation. After a little research, she and Kevin have a lot in common. Multiple names that all lead back to a birth name which disappeared from existence over forty years ago. Meet Lucinda McBaine, Kevin’s younger sister.”
A chorus of what the fucks and grumbling had Sarah pausing.
Scoop shushed the group. “Can you guys shut it and let her finish?” Scoop growled.
“Digging deeper, we uncovered the same mother for them—Suzanne McBaine. No father is listed on the birth certificate. We were able to find a current picture of Suzanne and a couple from the seventies and eighties. Here’s her picture.”
In the older pictures, the woman had long brown hair and was dressed in tight tank tops along with an MC cut. The picture was grainy and the MC logo on the cut was blurred.
“Do we know what MC she’s connected with?” Remington asked, pausing when she noticed her dad and Baron staring at each other. She hated when they seemed to talk to each other without words. It came from them serving together but it was still irritating.
“So do you all want to share with the rest of us?”
Baron motioned to Locks to go ahead. When they were still trying to decide who would update them, Rascal jumped in.
“Suzanne was a club girl in the early days of the club. She went by Paradise.”
“What a misnomer that was. She named herself,” Locks offered.
“Why don’t I remember her?” Regina questioned.
Baron shook his head and rolled his eyes. “She was before you came here. She was messing around with...” Baron paused.
“She was messing around with who?” War stood and banged his hand on a table. “This fucking concerns all of us. If you’re hiding something, it needs to stop.”
Locks motioned for War to sit, and he stood up. “It’s something we’re not proud of but it’s time it’s out there. When we originally formed Bluff Creek Brotherhood MC, there were seven of us from the Army that came here. The majority of us were in agreement which way we wanted the MC to go. We thought everyone was but behind our backs, one of the members began making moves. He’d been named Sneak in the military for the way he could get into enemy camps. Unfortunately, his name was truer than we knew. He didn’t want the life we all did. He wanted to run drugs and women—whether they were willing or not. Paradise saw dollar signs and did everything to become his old lady. I was distracted with starting the bail bonds company and Kathryn and I had just been married.”
Noah paused and Baron motioned for him to sit. “Locks was the one of us with a woman, so he was vulnerable. Kathryn didn’t like Suzanne, but she wasn’t the type of woman to be mean just for the sake of it. When Suzanne dropped by the house needing to talk to Kathryn, she didn’t suspect a thing. When Kathryn’s back was turned, Suzanne knocked her out. They took your mom and hid her. Sneak walked into church and told us how we were going to run the MC, or he was giving Kathryn to someone as a gift. Sneak may have been smart in some ways, but he considered women commodities. He left Paradise as the only guard. While Sneak was giving us his ultimatum, Kathryn had convinced Paradise to untie her for the bathroom. She knocked out Paradise, took her gun and car. She wasn’t sure who all Sneak had on his side, but she knew Clancey and his wife. She stopped there. Clancey called Dan and the three of them burst into church. Kathryn didn’t give Sneak a chance to explain anything. She shot as soon as the door was open. She was an amazing shot and took part of his hand off. We called the sheriff and let the law handle it. We warned him to never come back, or he wouldn’t leave breathing. He died in prison a couple years later.”
“So their kids are coming back at us? If he went to jail, how did he father Suzanne’s kids? I still think we’re missing a lot,” Remington stated.
“I’m not sure how this all goes together. Let’s let Sarah and Scoop do some more research into Sneak and Paradise. We’re all tired, irritated, and not thinking straight with everything going on. Scoop, Sarah, how long do you need before we could meet again?”
“War, this is a lot of info. I’m not sure.” Sarah nodded at Scoop’s words.
“Okay, everybody stay vigilant. We’ll meet when they have more for us.”
Remington waited as the members chatted with War. She’d known her mom was strong but hadn’t realized how badass she really was. She’d known she was an incredible shot because her mom and dad had both taught her and her sisters how to shoot.
She had too many questions still. What was the end goal? Why try to take out the MC and the security company? Did they have a competing company? Why did it make a difference if the MC and the security company existed and what changed if they didn’t?
Her head was starting to hurt from all the questions and stress. War sauntered over to her, brushing her hair off her forehead when he stopped in front of her.
“Headache?”
“Yes,” she answered, keeping her head still. It had progressed to her neck and movement was bothering her. War’s arm went around her as he placed a light kiss against her forehead.
“So sleep for you. Where would be best?”
“Let’s do your room. I can sleep and get rid of this headache, and you can spend time with your brothers. They’ll need to talk after all the revelations.”
“And that’s why you’re perfect for me. Let’s get you a hot pack for your head, meds and a dark room.”
Remi let him lead her to his room. She’d worry tomorrow about how to stop the threat. With her man and her family, they’d conquer this threat. She only hoped no one else was hurt before they did.
