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Why was he being so short? “And you need our help…?”
Hawk shook his head. “Nah, I think we’ll be able to handle it. But if you have any firepower you could spare, we won’t say no.”
“So you called me to here because you need weapons?” I asked, confused.
He licked his lips. He actually looked nervous. In the three years I’d known this bastard, I’d never seen him look any type of way except angry. And sometimes homicidal.
“No, man. I need you to take the girl,” he finally answered.
What the fuck?
“You ain’t got room?” Trigger asked from beside me.
“Not only that,” Hawk replied, “I’ve got the pigs watching the place. The last fuckin’ thing I need is for them to think we were responsible for what happened to this girl.”
“Why would they think that?” I asked. “She can clearly tell them it wasn’t you.”
He chuckled darkly. “Have you ever dealt with the cops? Specifically, the feds? They will think she’s lying and lock us up. Stockholm syndrome and all that shit. You dig?”
My hackles rose. “Well… did you have something to do with it?” I blatantly asked.
“Fuck no!” he came back immediately. A glance showed the rest of his guys were thoroughly insulted by my accusation. Not that I gave a damn.
“Why not just dump her at the police station?” I asked.
He shook his head. “We tried that. She said no cops. They threatened her. Or some shit. Maybe the pigs had something to do with it. All I know is I need her the fuck out of my clubhouse.”
“This information would have been helpful before we got here. We only have our bikes, man,” I said, frustrated.
What the hell was I supposed to do with a human female right now? The full moon was tonight. As if the bitch wasn’t already traumatized enough, she would soon forget all about her abduction once she saw how we got down during a full moon.
Hawk jutted his chin at one of his guys, who nodded in return and wandered out of the room. “Slim’s going to get her. Then, I need all of you out of here. Do not make eye contact with the fuckin’ pigs posted up across the street.”
The white van we passed. I thought it was suspicious but then again, I was a paranoid motherfucker in general.
I barely nodded in acknowledgment.
“What do you know about her?” I asked to break up the cloying silence.
“She got off the bus at the Greyhound station, used the payphone to call Duke,” Hawk said, pointing at a tall bald guy with yellow teeth and an unkempt blond and gray beard.
“She said she went to school with my cousin Amanda and that we’d help her. So I took the cager to the Greyhound station and picked her up. Brought her back here. Let her use the shower and fed her,” Duke added.
“That’s it?” I asked.
Duke nodded, as did Hawk, who was occasionally looking out the window. Paranoid dick.
“Okay, well, I guess we’ll take her.” She had to be better off with us than these smelly human fuckers. Not to mention they clearly had heat on them.
My guys looked at me in confusion and also seemingly for guidance. I resisted shrugging. I didn’t want to take this lady in, but we had the room, and it would allow me to investigate further, maybe get more girls out and shut down whatever operation had been responsible for her abduction.
All heads turned when the Reaper returned with a small woman in tow. I watched as her bluish-purple eyes, that reminded me of a larkspur flower, scanned the room and went big when they landed on me. I saw fear but there was also a hard edge to her gaze; a bit of defiance. She was more angry than she was scared. A shock of short platinum-blonde hair haloed her head, and she brushed a stray strand away from her face.
“You’re going with Psycho,” Hawk told her. “They’re gonna keep you safe.”
She glared at Hawk and said, “I don’t need to go with anyone. If you’ll just get me a bus ticket to Tampa, I’ll be out of your hair. I obviously don’t have any money.”
He shook his head. “Sorry, sugar. We need to find the guys who took you and try to get the rest of the girls out.”
