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This surprised him.
“You what?”
“I love her. I can’t let anything happen to her, but look at her. She’s scared and taking her to the clubhouse…”
“Is what I’m going to have to do,” Bull said. “This threat is real. It’s worse than Julio.” Bull ran a hand down his face. This was his brother. “Hernandez is dead.”
Grant stopped. “What?”
“Yeah, Hernandez is dead. Body was discovered a few days ago.”
“But he’s the one that controls—”
“Not anymore,” Bull said. “Miguel Vito Carlos killed him. That same man was in that practice, staring at Aria, Grant. He’s in town. He’s here to destroy the club.”
Grant shook his head. “Then why haven’t they done it already?”
“Because he likes to destroy slowly. He’s Julio’s brother, Grant. Stepbrother. And I don’t think I need to remind you what brothers do for one another.”
Grant ran a hand down his face. “That is so fucked.”
“He’s the one that pushed Ranford into hiding. He’s here as well. It would seem we’ve got a lot of fucking hiding places in Carnage.” Bull growled.
“I need my leather cut back,” Grant said.
“You can have it back and the patch. I was only trying to fucking protect you, Grant. That’s all.”
“Yeah, and how has that worked out for you?”
Bull burst out laughing. “Maddie’s going to be happy to see you.”
Grant sighed. “What do I tell Aria?”
“The truth, or as close to the truth as possible. That’s all you can do and hope that she’s as understanding as Maddie.”
****
Aria stared up at the clubhouse. Grant hadn’t said a word on the ride over to the Chaos and Carnage MC clubhouse. He’d asked for her to wait and now he faced her and kept opening and closing his lips.
“Is everything okay?” Aria asked.
“It … Aria, I’m back in the club. My suspension has been lifted,” Grant said.
“I kind of gathered that with the fact we’re here and you haven’t been arrested.” She forced a smile to her lips even though she was very nervous.
She had watched Bull and Grant as they took their conversation outside, and she knew deep in her gut something wasn’t right. Grant looked pissed, as did his brother.
“Yeah, my brother is not exactly bright.”
She smiled.
“Look, I don’t know how to say this, but the shit that’s going down with that guy is real.”
“Is he responsible for the dogfighting rings?” she asked.
“We believe so, well, not directly. We’re not sure where he comes in, he’s related to the son of a bitch that set them up.”
Aria nodded. “Grant, just tell me. I knew when we started this everything wasn’t going to be so smooth sailing, you know.”
