Page 132 of Devil's Falling

“King, why did you want us to find them so badly?” Cassie asks.

I shift behind where she is sitting but King nods at me, letting me know it’s fine. I might not ask questions like this. Cassie isn’t afraid to, and King is used to that about her.

King wasn’t happy when he heard what happened at Cassie’s law firm and offered to step in. By that point, Cassie had made peace with her new position. She didn’t want to go back to a company who could use her and cast her away as easily as they did.

“What they do,” he says, focusing on her. “Brings peace, to a lot of people. When you lose hope, can you imagine how it feels to have a group like this step in?”

“You’re not answering the question,” she says.

King eyes me, his look says I’ve got my hands full with her. Truth is, I wouldn’t have her any other way. And I share the load.

“All you need to know is what you did is helping someone who needs it. Someone I haven’t been able to help,” he taps the drawer. “Until now. Iappreciate what the three of you did to get this. I never thought it would turn out the way it did.”

“With us all nearly dying?”

I put a hand on Cassie’s shoulder, not taking my eyes off King.

He runs a hand over his beard. “Among other things,” he lifts a brow. “Anything else?”

Cassie is dying to ask more questions but even she knows King is done.

“Dirt is arranging a gathering when the Stroudsburg members get back. I hope to see you both there.”

“Sure,” I agree.

We head out and toward the garage. Cassie stops halfway and turns to look around at the compound. She has struggled a lot with being here, even though she’s been loyal from the start. Things have changed for her, in more ways than one.

“What’s the gathering about?” she asks.

“I’m not sure if your aware that King has been keeping an eye on Mace’s chapter since they joined us.”

Cassie gives me a look like she knows more than anyone realizes. And it’s true, as many secrets as I keep about the club, Cassie knows some I don’t. We’re not hiding anything from each other, it’s the way of the club.

When it matters, we will always tell each other the truth.

“I guess you could say the training wheels are coming off. Don’t tell anyone I said that. Especially Dominic.”

Cassie grins. She loves it that we call each other by our real names when it’s only us. She takes my hand. “Oh I can’t wait to tell him that.”

“Hey,” I tug her hand and pull her against my chest. “You want us to have an argument?”

“Watching you fight is almost as good as having you both fuck me.”

“Well then I guess we’re not doing one of those things right,” I bite her earlobe and she moans.

“Do you think they really need him on that run?” she gives me a look that I find hard to resist.

I pull out my phone and dial his number. He answers and someone yells something in the background then more people laugh. Sounds like he’s still at the clubhouse.

“Er, we have a problem.”

“What kind of problem,” he asks and the sounds around him get quieter. He must be moving away.

Cassie leans in and puts her mouth by mine. “The kind that only the two of you can fix,” she says, in a low, sexy voice.

“What the fuck?” Mace breathes out. “Is she serious? I have work to do and… Fucking hell. Shit…Talon! We have a problem. I’m gonna need you to handle this.”

I pull the phone away from my ear and look at Cassie, smiling like the boss she is.

“How long will it take you to get home?” he asks.

“We’re leaving now.”

“This can’t keep happening,” he says.

“Until you start saying no, it’s gonna keep happening.”

Mace laughs and I hang up the phone and grab Cassie’s hand. She bursts out laughing too as we run to the garage but I don’t get the Buick, I grab the keys to one of the spare bikes and spin her around lifting her onto the back of it.

Cassie holds on tight as we head out and finally, wholeheartedly, I know this is where I belong.