Page 156 of Reckless Vengeance

“I’m fine. Nurse Donovan patched me up,” I smirked, raising an eyebrow when he nodded and walked over to Tyler to check on him. “Their bromance is already driving me mad. Ty must have texted him.”

“I don’t like it either,” Skeeter muttered. “We’ll talk once everyone clears out.”

“About us joining your little⁠—”

“No, about the drive-by,” he deadpanned, getting to his feet and walking over to Josie to talk to her.

I studied them, noticing Josie relax with him beside her. It was a little surprising, but also not. Being on the good side of Skeeter meant having a damn loyal protector, so she must have trusted him enough to keep her safe.

My shoulder was stinging under the bandage Rory had put on it, and I hated seeing the graze on her forearm from when I’d yanked her to the ground. It wasn’t bad, I just hated that I’d hurt her.

“Thanks.” I looked up to find Lukas standing beside me, an annoyed look on his face.

“You’re welcome,” I answered, tilting my head at him. “I know you don’t like me, but I’ll always make sure she’s safe.”

“You’re right, I don’t like you,” he replied before walking off, making me snort.

Rory sat beside me after a while, neither of us talking, just waiting for the cops to leave.

There were already people called to help with the mess and to board the broken windows for the night, while Josie sorted somewhere else for them all to sleep.

There was no way they were going to be allowed to sleep here, a lot of the bedrooms had windows facing the road and had been damaged.

The moment we were alone, Rory glanced at me.

“Do you think it was Max?”

“He wouldn’t have the balls. There’s a possibility he hired Razor’s boys to do it, unless they did it themselves. They'll be wanting revenge for you shooting them. You killed their guys, babe. You’re on their list.”

“They broke into Ty’s and tried to rape me,” she argued, and I winced.

“I know. I saw the whole thing on the cameras.”

She was quiet for a moment before sighing. “How long were you watching us? When did you put the cameras up?”

“Honestly? You’ve been on my radar since late September, just before we showed up. The cameras were put up a week or two later.”

“You should let me see you naked and humiliate you. See how you like it,” she grumbled, crossing her arms.

“That’s going to get awkward because knowing you’re watching will only make me hard as fuck,” I scoffed, and Marco couldn’t fucking help himself as he leaned over the back of my chair.

“Pretty sure the best sex of his life has been with his hand and those cameras.”

“Thanks, man,” I mumbled, glancing at her. “Sorry. I intended on turning it off when things got heated, but I couldn’t.”

She blinked at me for a second before her fist met my face, and I flexed my jaw as she stalked off, making Marco chuckle as he dropped down into her vacated seat.

“I thought we were all being honest today?” he mused, Rory’s death glare reaching me from across the room where she stood with Jensen.

“Not that.”

“My bad. You going to tell me what you’re doing here? Faris said you’d be back later but didn’t say where you were going,” he stated, and I shrugged, the stinging starting to go numb.

“I spotted Max on the cameras with Razor. Tracked them down but they’d set the car on fire by the time I’d found it. They knew they were being followed. I came here to update Rory about it and she thankfully was next to me by the van and not coming down the stairs when they open-fired. They had a machine gun.”

“Do you think this was tied in with Max?”

“Not sure, but I know it’s the Soldiers. They wouldn’t care about a public drive-by like this. Most other crews wouldn’t want the heat,” I replied, getting to my feet. “I’ll fill them in so we can leave. I don’t think we’re a target, but they almost wiped me out in their little game. First Slash, now me? They’re going to end up in a war with all the crews if they keep accidentally getting other crew leaders involved. We’ll have to update the guys just in case it escalates.”