“Arm up. Not the cut one, it needs to breathe,” Beast demands from behind me. I’m so new to feeling things for a man that I don’t know what is too much. I need to talk to the girls about it when this club stuff flies over. Raising my arm up, he drops his hoodie over me, the warmness of it blanketing me in warmth and the smell of sweet, musky man engulfing my senses. I smile because it smells of him, this is all him. He even smells like a man. He turns me around and tucks me under his arm. “Come on, we need to go and sort this out.”
I nod my head and cast a quick glance over at Melissa to see her and Hella arguing. Oh dear, I have no idea what the hell those two are trying to defy by being together but it’s not going to work. They are either too similar in things or polar opposites. You know that saying, ‘She be but little, but she be fierce.’ Yeah, that’s Melissa to a T. She dances to her own beat, no-one else’s, especially not to the deep growl of a blood red Harley. Good luck to alpha domineering dark and alluring Hella. He and Beast are so similar it’s scary. Only Beast has more muscle on him and has dark hair, where Hella has mouse blond hair.
Walking to Zane and Alaina, Beast nods his head. “The fucking Feds are crawling all over.”
“Yeah, I know. Meadow, Alaina can take care of that arm.”
“Okay, thank you.” I look at Alaina as she points to her car.
“Come on, the second time I’ll be cleaning you up tonight and I don’t think you’ll be the last. It’s a good thing Vicky took the kids home.”
Yeah, I don’t think I’m going to be her last either. I need to ask her some pointers on President alpha males. I feel I may have bitten off more than I can chew.
Watching Meadow walk toward Alaina’s car with her side-by-side has me itchy. I don’t fucking like what the fuck is going on. Of all times for shit to hit the fan, it has to be when I have Meadow. If I have her, I don’t know why I don’t just fucking kiss the girl. If I’m reading the signals right, she wants me to. No, I know why. It’s because I need to tread carefully. If I come on too strong, I might scare her. But if I don’t make a move at all she might think I’m not interested. What a fucking mind fuck.
“Brother? You okay?” Zane is smirking at me, looking between Meadow and me.
Shaking my head, I rub my fingers over my face. “No. Fuck, I don’t know what I’m doing anymore.”
“We can get to that later. Right now, we need to sort this shit out.”
“Who you thinking?” I ask, swinging a chair around and sitting on it backward.
Zane shakes his head. “Well, it’s not Russian. We have enemies, though, it could be any of them. But then so do you, with The Army, so it could be them too. We need to play this safe and keep everyone close together. I think for here, I’m going to have to separate everyone into three groups. Each group goes to mine, Blake and Ade’s house until Blake can have his boys working the construction back here,” he answers, looking over at his compound. I follow his gaze, goose bumps prickling over my skin because I’m only wearing my white T-shirt under my cut with jeans and army boots on.
“Sorry about the clubhouse, brother.”
He shakes his head. “It’s fixable. What isn’t, are the two family members Travis lost in there.”
Widening my eyes, I nod my head. “Yeah, that’s true.”
Exhaling out, I add, “We’ll head back tomorrow morning. We can sort this out separate now that the Russians are taken care of.”
He narrows his eyes on me, shoving his hands into his pockets. “And Meadow?”
“She can ride with us,” I answer casually without missing a beat.
He chuckles, taking a seat on the chair opposite me. “It’s like that is it?”
Running my hands over my head, I nod. “Yeah, I think it is.”
Meadow and Alaina walk up to us laughing. “You all done?” I ask, pulling Meadow into me. She looks cute as fuck with my hoodie on.
“Yeah, I’m all done. Thanks, Alaina,” she says, squeezing herself into me.
“All right, I need to go and sort all this legal shit out,” Zane says, turning to Alaina and kissing her on the head.
“Hey, I was thinking. My place is small, but you guys can all crash at mine for the night.” Meadow suggests, peering up at me from her position.
Pushing her hair out of her face, I smile. “They can get a motel. But I need to be with you to make sure you’re safe. No doubt Hella wants to keep an eye on Melissa, too.” I look over to find them both sitting on the table not talking to each other.