Cole burst out laughing and rolled offof me. “Yeah babe, you didn’t hear Sal’s bike?”
“I don’t think I would have heard amarching band,” I muttered. He continued to chuckle and pulled me to his chestas he lay on his back, still breathing hard.
“My pop agreed to meet with Henrytomorrow,” he informed me after we’d been quiet for a while. His fingersstroked through my long hair leisurely.
“Good,” I replied simply. “Despiteeverything, I still trust Henry and it would seem that I have a good sense forthese things,” I added.
“So it would seem,” he agreed, kissingmy head briefly.
“What was that situation with that Parkerguy tonight?” I asked curiously.
He sighed. “Allen Parker. The guy is aworm. He used to hang around more, we even thought at one point that he’dbecome a prospect. But he screwed Axel’s girl at the time… big mistake. Then hetried to skim off the top of one of the projects we gave him. He hasn’t beenwelcome since then,” he stated.
“Yeah but why do you have such anissue with him?” I pressed, knowing that wasn’t the whole story.
“I’m just pissed that I was a poorjudge of character. I liked the guy, trusted him even. My pop had my balls forvouching for him,” he grumbled.
“Ah,” I nodded, finally understanding.All of the Sinners had always prided themselves on being able to judge character.Trust was a huge variable. If you were wrong about it, or about someone, youcould be seriously fucked. “It’s happened to all of us,” I said and shrugged,hoping he’d brush it off.
“Yeah,” he agreed. I could tell he wasdeep in thought.
I left him to it and got up to getready for bed, padding over to the bathroom. I’d packed a few overnightessentials just in case, and I was grateful to be able to wash my face andbrush my teeth.
After I crawled back in bed with Cole,he pulled my back to his front, he wrapped his arm around my waist, and we bothfell asleep.
Chapter Eight
Cole surprised me the next morning byasking me to come to the club with him after we finished breakfast. “I want tokeep you close,” he said simply when I asked why.
“Okay,” I agreed, grateful that Ibrought a change of clothes with me.
We hopped on his bike and I wassurprised at how many of the guys were there, including Sal. I was thrilledwhen I saw Kat, too.
I hugged her. “It’s a big deal hebrought you here you know,” I whispered in her ear.
“I know,” she replied.
“You okay to hang out while we meet?”Cole wanted to know.
“Yeah, we’ll catch some rays,” I saidas I smiled at him. He leaned down to kiss me tenderly. God, he was awesome. Icouldn’t believe my badass biker was willing to be openly affectionate with mein front of his guys. My stereotypes definitely didn’t apply to him, in mostways anyway.
Kat and I got comfortable on thechairs out front where there was more sun, and sunned ourselves as the guystook care of business inside.
“So tell me everything,” I demanded,my face upturned to the sun as I sighed in contentment. It was a beautiful dayand I was in love. Couldn’t get much better than that.
“He apologized,” she said. “Sincerely,”she added when I looked over at her. “I don’t think he realized what an ass hewas being.”
“Told you.” I grinned.
“He’s got some work to do but I thinkhe likes me, at least enough to apologize, which I have the feeling he’s notused to doing,” she said with a smirk.
“Definitely not,” I said, as a blackSUV with tinted windows came screeching to a halt at the curb.
“Let’s go inside,” I said immediatelyas the hair rose at the back of my neck. “Go!” I shouted more desperately whenI saw Jake and two other men jump out of the car and race toward us.
We were up and running for the doorsof the club when a strong arm wrapped around me and I saw Victor fucking Crossgrab Kat.
“No not her!” I screamed angrily asthey dragged us quickly to the SUV. I couldn’t believe they had the balls tosnatch us in front of the Knights’ headquarters. Clearly they were sending amessage.