Aidan (Devil's Stepbrothers MC)(21)

"Aidan? You sorry son of a bitch. Where the hell are you?" Pacemaker  sounded a bit worried, and if nothing else that was scary. The man  seemed to have no emotions beside angry and gruff, but here he was  sprouting some new ones.



"Trying to get a few things in order." He wanted to know how much his  friend had been able to find out, but he thought he needed to feel the  other man out for a minute. He'd been away for a few weeks, and he hoped  the man was still on his side. Loyalties changed so quickly now, and  with him not being able to see what was going on, he was at a loss.



"I heard. Sounds like you're trying to keep your cock warm in that high  class pussy you lucked into. Man, you always get all the good ones. I  keep asking you to help me in that department." There was a question  tucked into the gruff and raunchy talk. This wasn't about disrespect;  the bikers were a tough group and their words could be as nasty as the  missions they completed. It was a way of life for them, so Aidan didn't  even bat an eyelash over the wordage.



"You have to work on your demeanor if you want pussy to fall in your  lap. There are women everywhere but you get overlooked because you're  just too mean looking. No one wants to deal with that crazy shit. Put a  fucking smile on your face and try to look like you won't kill them  after they blow you, and you'll see your luck change." Aidan laughed at  his friend as they fell into the same conversation that they always  seemed to fall into when they talked.



"Yeah, yeah, that's what you always say." His voice trailed off, and Aidan could hear voices in the background.



"You never try my way, so if you have to pay for it or use the 5 knuckle  shuffle. Whatever you decide to do is totally up to you." Aidan missed  just shooting the shit with his brothers, but not as much as he was  enjoying being with Lorna. Well if you could get rid of the whole ‘he  may lose his life and the life of the woman he was beginning to care too  much about' thing, he was practically in paradise.



"There is a lot of talk about you here. The boys are getting antsy, and  Maverick is sending out Crowbar to do the job you seem to be taking your  slow ass time to complete. I was going to call you, but your phone goes  straight to voicemail so I figured you must have dumped it and the  other number just rings and rings."



It sounded like Pacemaker was in a crowded place because the voices that  he thought he'd heard before were louder and now there was accompanying  music. That whole situation struck him as odd. The man liked solitude  and quiet even though he did go out to be with his friends and talk to  the ladies every once in a while, but he wouldn't be talking to him if  he was around other people or in a conversation prior to the call.



"Where are you, bro?" Aidan asked.



"They are sending off Crowbar in style, and they took him out to Beverly's for a dinner before we go out for drinks?"         

     



 



"Why so much fanfare? I didn't get a fucking dinner before I left." Oh,  shit. Something was definitely up, and it wasn't looking good for  whatever plans he was trying to work out on this end.



"Well that guy Leon called back and doubled the fee to kill your mark  and threw in a few perks for the business apparently. Maverick is  happier than a pig in shit about whatever is going on, but I think he  wants to make sure this job goes as planned and quickly."



"Fuck!!!!" Aidan stood up and walked over to the balcony. He knew it was  going to be bad, but he hadn't anticipated this. Not only was this was  going to make his job harder, but it was going to be impossible to keep  this thing quiet. Here he was thinking he was getting close to a  resolution, and now he finds out that he somehow swung this the other  way and now Lucca's death was a priority.



"I know man. You need to get in there and finish this because it is  going to look like hell if you have been out there playing titty winks  with some girl while someone else has to come in and do your job."



"It's tidily winks, Pace." Why in the world was he making small talk  about this when he was dealing with such heavy shit he didn't know, but  it did make him feel normal. Fucking with Pacemaker was one of his  favorite things to do, and even though his scowling face and rough voice  didn't show it …  that man loved it too.



"I think it's you playing with titties not tiddlies that's making your  crazy. You've got half the women in the metropolitan here asking for you  and you're keeping yourself tied up with just one set. Are you crazy?  Do your job and save yourself. It sounds like you are on a sinking ship,  and you need to pull the eject button." The man wasn't anyone's fool,  and he knew that the wisdom coming from his friend was well intended,  but he didn't know what he was going to do with this situation.



"I hear you," Aidan responded.



"I know you can hear me, but are you listening? There is a difference,  and I'm hoping that you're doing it and thinking with the brain that  sits in your head and not your cock. That fucker has gotten you into  trouble before, and damned if it doesn't look like it's rearing its ugly  head again. Pussy is pussy."



"Says the man who hasn't had any in so long he thinks his hand is his  girlfriend," Aidan was trying to make light of the situation, but no one  knew better than him how fucked up this could end up being.



"Whatever man, do your job and come home. We'll be waiting for you to  return whether you fuck this up or not. You've got a family with us, and  I don't want you to forget it. Family forgives, but don't make us have  to." Pacemaker had let all the jovial talk go for a minute, and he could  tell that the man was being serious.



"Is that you or Maverick talking? I can't imagine that he is going to be that understanding that I've fucked this up."



"You'd be surprised at what Maverick is saying about you. I'd not tell  you that because it was told to me in confidence, but I do know that  you'd be welcomed home. So don't worry about that," Pacemaker explained.  It sounded like the man had moved to a quieter place in the bar. "I've  got to go. We're on the move to the next place, but make sure you keep  in mind what I said."



"Yeah, right."



"I mean it. Get rid of the girl, and get your ass back here safely."



"I hear you, and I'm working on it." Aidan wasn't going to leave his  girl out here in the wilderness not knowing what could happen to her,  and he wasn't going to bail on Lucca either. He didn't know that man,  but he did say he wanted to make sure everything got cleared up. It had  been too easy in the past to just let things go when they got too hard,  but he was committed to sticking it out for the cause. Even though the  cause was Lorna.



The gruff grunt was Pacemaker's classical goodbye as Aidan didn't think  he'd ever heard a proper farewell from the man, but they knew where they  stood, and he knew that the plan to kill Lucca was escalating and he  hoped it could be stopped.



This thing was like a live being, and it was growing hungrier an uglier  by the minute. His only hope was that it wouldn't eat up everything in  its path.





CHAPTER ELEVEN




Lorna had ordered dinner from a local Chinese restaurant and knew she'd  bought more food than they needed, but since the cabin had a kitchen,  they'd be able to keep the food cold until they wanted it again. It  shouldn't bother her that he was trying to get rid of her so that he  could do something as she knew he was working on getting them out of  this mess, but she wasn't sure he could fix the chasm that she'd put  between herself and her father. She looked at the clock on the wall and  saw that it had been over 45 minutes since she'd left him on the  balcony. and she wanted him to come and eat while the food was still  hot. Plus waiting around for people to come to her felt too much like  what she went through when she lived at home with her father. She'd  known better than to rush into his office when he was doing business,  and that intimidation is what she felt now as she waited or Aidan.         

     



 



Just when she was getting up her nerve to go disturb Aidan, he walked  down the stairs looking fresh as a hot man ready to be fucked or in his  case do the fucking. Maybe she would turn the table on him and blow his  mind. The smirk that appeared on her face when she had that thought must  have been seen by Aidan.



"What is that look on your face? It looks like you are planning dirty,  wicked things. I hope they are for me." He tried to pull her into his  arms, but she moved away playfully as her thought up plan started to  sound better and better to her.



"Maybe I am, but first I want you to sit down and get comfortable."



He did as she said as he kept his eyes on her like she was going to do  some kind of trick. In a way, maybe she was but he looked more than  ready for whatever came his way. She had scooted his chair back before  he came down and now as she watched him sit there, she decided that he  should earn his meal.