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“I don’t know how,” I admitted. “It would’ve taken my contact snitching in order for me to be found. It was a tight plan—and it worked foryears.”
He nodded. “But here we are.”
“Yeah, here we are.”
“You should call your contact and figure out what’s going on.” Viper’s instructions, while well meaning, grated my nerves. I had a solid five years in age on Viper, but because he was the president, he could boss me around… And while I respected him, this issue wasn’t his to control.
“I’ll consider it. I have to be able to get ahold of him, and that’s not easy to do.”
“You gotta figure it out because it’s affecting our business deal.” His voice was flat. “And I know that you will.”
“Yeah,” I muttered, running my fingers through my dark hair. My mind wandered over to the camera, where Rachel was sleeping, and Tyson was still bound to the chair. We had to take care of him, but that was Viper’s decision. I had intended to keep a close eye on her once I had dropped her off in the basement, but my head had been too messy to sit through whatever she had to say to her ex-boyfriend.
I lost control of myself.
And that was a fucking dangerous thing to do. No woman had ever caused me to break the rules, and now here I was, fixing to admit to the fault that would get me stripped of my patch. I took a deep breath.
“There’s something else you need to know,” I began, my stomach feeling sick. “I, uh… Imightfavor Rachel Smith more than I should.”
Viper met my eyes, and then laughed. “Really? You don’t say, huh?”
“I don’t think I should oversee her anymore,” I forced the words out, no matter how much I hated saying them. “I just think that’s what is best. I can’t control my desires around her.”
His face went dark. “You mean you’re tempted to assault her?”
I shook my head. “Absolutely not. I don’t assault women and you know that. I’ve never struck a woman. She and I… We… We have some sort of chemistry or connection. She kissed me in the woods—”
“She was probably taking advantage of the situation and your apparent attraction. We’ve seen women try to seduce their way out of just about anything. You can’t give into that.”
“That’s why I’m telling you that I can’t t be the one to interact with her anymore,” I reiterated my statement, trying to do the right thing by my club.
Viper narrowed his eyes at me. “It’s already gone too far, hasn’t it? The connection between the two of you is obvious…”
“So then why are you questioning me about assaulting her?” I growled, growing offended at the insult.
He chuckled. “I just had to make sure that your head was in the right place, and that nothing had been manipulated. It’s not ideal, and it breaks the rules.”
“And I’ve lied to you about who I am,” I said with a sigh, pulling my leather vest from where it was draped on the chair behind me. “It’s only fair that you do right by the policies set in place.”
Viper eyed the vest as I tossed it on the table. “I’m not taking your patches, Axle. You’ve defended this club with your life—and you’ve messed upbad—but I’m not kicking you out. I understand the need to hide your identity… And while I’m pissed as fuck about the situation in the basement… I’m not surprised.”
I shifted in the chair, not sure how to take the blank face on my president. “You’re gonna at least reprimand me, right?”
“Yeah, you can take care of the problem down there.”
My stomach dropped. “You mean Tyson what’s-his-face?”
“Yep, I was going to be the one to do it, but now I think it’s better if you do.”
“Fuck,” I grumbled, running my hands down my face. “She’s going to hate me if I kill him.”
“Never said you had to kill him. I just saidtake careof him. I don’t give a shit how or what you do, I just want him gone—and no longer a problem.”
“Great,” I muttered. “I’ll come up with something.”
“We need to get everything we can out of him first, and then we’ll go from there. I told Will and Gunner to meet over here in about an hour. I don’t know what good the guy will be for us. Will is supposed to be doing some research on him. If we could get some dirt on him, we might get him to stay quiet and leave.”
I nodded, taking a deep breath. “I’ll take care of it.” Honestly, I had been taught a lot of things when it came to killing and hiding bodies. You could almost say it was a specialty of mine… However, I never killed for the hell of it. I wasn’t a sadist like Victor Sanchez, getting off on the act. It made me sick to take a life most of the time…
