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a damn fool, and watched her leave until she opened the
curtain and was swallowed up by the heavy bass thumping music and people
cheering, ready to slide money anywhere she would let them.
    Outside the club, Jet and two
prospects were waiting for me.
    We rode back to the clubhouse.
    Right at the stroke of midnight, I
stood at the head of a full table.
    The room lingered with whiskey,
beer, and smoke.
    “ Hunter,
what did you find out today? ” I asked.
    Hunter took a cigarette from his
mouth. “ Uh, the Mountain
Killers were a little active. Running arms up north. I ’ m not sure for who. Probably small gang deal. Just
two guys. Not Viper or Stryker though. Couple low rung guys. I could have
gotten ten feet within them and they wouldn ’ t
have known. ”
    “ Okay, ” I said. “ Viper and Stryker are watching Oakville with steady
eyes. They ’ re waiting for
us to fuck up. I want Hunter, Blaze, Roc, and prospects on the border at all
times. I want a firm presence up there. Hunter, can you handle that, brother? ”
    “ Yeah,
sure, ” Hunter said.
    I put my fists to the table. “ Would you die for this club? ”
    “ Of
course. ”
    “ Would
you die by my orders? ”
    “ Patch
says President, ” Hunter
said. “ I get my orders and
go. ”
    “ Okay. ” I scanned the table. “ Does anyone object to my orders? ”
    Nobody spoke up. Not even Finn.
    He skipped the shot glass and went
for the bottle. Nursing a bottle of amber whiskey, he sipped it and his eyes
looked glossy and drunk.
    “ I ’ m going to visit Pep again, ” I said. “ See if the old son of a bitch is dead yet. I put
his gun on his chest. Maybe he ’ ll
get the nerve to kill himself. ”
    “ He
used to stand where you are, ” Finn said. “ A lot of people
did. This town gets run over again and again. It ’ s
a bad spot. Maybe it ’ s time
to pack it all in. Go outlaw. ”
    Outlaw.
    That got the attention of the
entire table.
    Going outlaw meant stripping all
patches off your cut and riding away. You were given a one day in advance
before you became target by the MC you bailed on. Some guys were offered outlaw
as a sign of respect if they fucked up. Other guys took it as a way out.
    I grabbed the bottle of whiskey
from Finn and threw it against the wall.
    “ Let
me say this once, ” I said. “ Any of you motherfuckers even
think about going outlaw, I ’ ll
hunt you down and slit your throat myself. Nobody in this clubhouse is going
outlaw. We ’ re at fucking
war right now. You step out there in that lot, on that battlefield, and you go
with honor for the cut on your back. ”
    “ Layne,
what do we do about the shooting at the bar? ” Brett asked.
    “ Keep
looking. We ’ ll figure it out.
Either the Mountain Killers are trying to send a message. Or the mafia is fucking
with us. Maybe it ’ s the
local PD pushing at me being here. ”
    “ You
think they ’ d go that far? ” Rylan asked.
    “ The
fucking sheriff used to wear a cut, ” I said. “ Why doesn ’ t he now? ”
    Nobody spoke.
    Finally, a hand went up. Blaze.
    “ What? ” I said.
    “ You ’ d have to ask Pep, ” Blaze said.
    “ Sure, ” I said. “ As soon as I fucking pull the tube out of his
throat and wake him up. ”
    “ Or
Niles, ” Blaze said.
    “ Who
the fuck is Niles? ” I
asked.
    “ Pep ’ s VP. ”
    “ You
mean … that Niles? ”
    “ There ’ s only one, ” Finn growled. “ You go find him. ”
    “ He ’ s dead, ” I said.
    “ He ’ s not dead, ” Blaze said. “ It was set up to look like he
was killed. So he could squeeze out. That ’ s
what I heard. ”
    That was news to me. I tucked that
away in my mind for the moment.
    I sat down. I flicked at my shot
glass. To my right, Ransom hurried to fill the glass.
    “ It ’ s time to figure it out, ” I said. “ No more attacks. I want Oakville secured. Nothing
comes in. Nothing goes out. So if there ’ s
an attack again, I know it ’ s
from the inside. ”
    The guys agreed,