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His heavy gaze lingered on Sasha who met his stare with a quelling look of her own. “Keep those people safe. You hear?”
“Wouldn’t have it any other way, Prez.”
I opened the driver’s door and pulled off my cut. Normally, I would drape it over the driver’s seat, but bodies were pressed hard against the seat. I settled for just turning it inside out and put it back on before climbing in.
Mace slid into the passenger seat, immediately putting his feet up on the dash. Dust knocked all over Carbon’s fucking cage. Dude was going to roast me.
I caught Sasha’s eyes in the rear view mirror. A wave of lust and longing hit me, hard. My eyes closed as I licked my lips, desperately hunting for a trace of my other mate to soothe the torment. Holding myself back from climbing into that back seat with Sasha was gonna be more difficult than I thought. But his taste was already gone. And that hurt my heart, almost as much as my fucking cock.
Bulletproof and his mates pulled up in front of the van. He looked over his shoulder and circled two fingers. And just like that, the entire club started their bikes and we were off.
The old highway through the Badlands was a piece of shit. The asphalt was a string of pitted potholes. Each one large enough to build a small resort town and set up shop.
The bikes in front of us weaved around the mess of cracks and holes like dancers, avoiding the worst of the turbulent road while the van bounced and shook with every hit. I cringed each time the cage rocked into another crevasse. The silence in the van didn’t help, ‘cause I could hear it creaking and groaning as we made our way back through the desert.
Good thing poor Benji was out like a light by this point because otherwise that wolf would’ve been in agony.
“Man,” Mace fidgeted in the seat next to me, tugging at his seatbelt. “We could not be going any slower.”
“Bullet sets the pace.” I leaned over and flicked on the heat, which belched out of the vents with the acrid smell of burning dust and ash. “Gotta look out for our people. We didn’t make many friends tonight.”
Mace laughed. “That we did not. Plus we burned down their fucking clubhouse. Good times.”
My friend leaned over and presented his fist to bump. I tapped it with my knuckles without taking my eyes off the road, swerving a bit harder than I intended to avoid a pothole that could have swallowed my granny, may she rest in peace. That woman was not a small lady. Ever.
“Sorry,” I murmured, eyes flicking to my precious cargo in the rearview mirror. “We’ll be on the main road soon enough.”
“We know how far we are from the road,” a sassy voice from the back commented. “Don’t treat us like we’re stupid.”
“Addy,” Sasha hissed.
“Sorry,” the sullen little voice answered back. “But he’s lying.”
“He’s trying to be reassuring. It’s called subtlety, Addy. Why don’t you try it?” The flash of green eyes that met mine in the rearview mirror were everything as she offered an eye roll. “At this pace it's gonna be over an hour. How's our friend doing, Talia?”
“Sleeping, I think,” Talia whispered back. “The bleeding’s slowed at least.”
“You looking out for my boy, Benji, back there?” I asked, my eyes back on the road as we bumped along. Addy must have picked up that my question was directed at her all the same because she answered easily enough.
“Yes, sir,” Addison nodded. “He says my sister’s his mate. Killed a couple of wolves over it, too.”
There was a beat of shocked silence in the van. I could tell all the women were listening in hard to this little exchange.
Then, completely ignoring the sudden tension in the ride, Addy finished off her blunt recounting with an afterthought. “I finished off the third.”
“That so? Sounds like you handled yourself just fine, little wildcat.”
I looked over to Mace, but he was picking rocks out of the bottom of his combat boots. Yep, Carbon was definitely going to murder me. Not like the van was pristine to begin with, though. Thankfully, it didn’t smell like nasty pussy, which was a miracle given the number of sweetbutts and hangarounds that Carbon had fucked in it over the years.
“And what did your sister say to that?”
Last thing we needed was another of our human’s feeling traumatized because a wolf claimed them without even bothering to explain what that meant in the Soul Reapers.
“Share seems fine with it,” Addy shrugged.
Louise, who was sitting pressed up against Addy’s side, piped up. “Benji makes her happy. Well, before he got stabbed. Now she’s sad.” Louise’s little head ducked out of view again. “He’s gonna be okay, right Mr. Silver?”
I didn’t have an answer for Addy’s shy friend this time because Addy was right. None of these humans deserved lies hiding behind manners. They had earned the right to honesty. Addy was playing it off like she couldn’t care less but I could feel her waiting on my response along with all the others.
