Loving Nicole (Savage Brothers MC #3)(25)

“But it did motherf*cker, because you left my woman alone and the backdoor unguarded and I know this because her damned cell phone was found crushed by the door!”

Bull doesn’t respond, but then there’s nothing else for him to say at this point. Fuck, when did my club become such a damned mess? Did we have it easy for so damned long that my men got soft? This was a juvenile, stupid-ass mistake and if my woman gets hurt because of it I will gut Bull, friend or no friend.

“Drag, Nicole just called in. Frog went to pick her up.”

I don’t know if the sigh of relief in the room was from me or Bull. I just know those are the best words I’ve ever heard.

“Call the rest of the men off the search.”

“Already done,” Freak says heading back towards my office where he’s been working, going over the tapes of the flower shop. The man who has been sneaking around my club is the one who took Nicole—a Donald Tover. He has ties to Michael Kavanagh and that in and of itself signed his death warrant. I will end him. I just have to plot how I’m going to do it. A man with that much power and money can’t disappear easily. Worse, he’ll be harder to trap.

“You, get out of my sight for now, go find Crusher and drag his ass back here!” I order Bull. It’s harsh, but motherf*cker, it feels like I can trust my prospects more than the original patched in members!

He gives me a look of disgust and leaves the room. It’s another twenty minute wait and three shots of whiskey to calm my nerves before my woman walks through the front door. I’m practically on her before she takes one step in.

Before she can even speak, I have her wrapped in my arms. I inhale her scent, breathing deeper so I can take it all the way in.

“God, Mama,” I whisper shakily into her ear, as I feel her arms go around me and hold onto me tightly.

Her nails are digging into my back with a fierceness that tells me just how scared my woman has been. I need to find out information, I need to hunt down the bastard responsible for it all, but all I can think right now is that I need Nicole. I need her taste, her comfort. I need the feel of her in my arms. It’s a need so huge that I almost take her right where we’re standing. I can’t. I have to capture this SOB before he has a chance to escape. So for now, I push my tongue into her mouth and content myself with a kiss. It’s a f*cking great kiss though, full of heat and need. Our tongues fighting each other for control and my dick pounding with the need to be buried deep inside of her.

We break away slowly. She takes a shaky breath and rests her forehead on my chest. Her hands are gripping my biceps and her nails are still digging into me. It soothes me.

“Dragon,” she whispers.

My name on her lips. Her taste on my tongue. That is all I need in life.

“Mama, talk to me.”

“They have Dani, Dragon. He’s demanding I…he’s torturing me with her. He has Dani, Dragon.”

I listen to her mumbled words and the fear in her voice physically hurts me.

“Where Nicole?”

“The old abandoned Laurel Elementary School. Dragon, we have to save her. She’s in such bad shape.”

“What kind of f*cking shape?” Crusher picks that minute to come in the door and the anger in him at hearing Dani is hurt vibrates through the room. My brother has it bad.

“He…they beat her. She, oh God, I’ve never seen someone hurt that bad before. He’ll kill her if we don’t get her.”

“We won’t give him the chance. I got one of his men being followed even now, Mama. I’ll find out where he’s staying. In the meantime, we’ll go check the school out.”

“Okay, I’m ready to…”

“No, Mama, you’re staying here. We’ll talk about what you went through when I get back. Bull will watch over you and this time he won’t let you out of his sight.” I add that last part with a death-glare at Bull. He nods in agreement.

“But I need to be there for her, Dragon…”

“You need to think of our little one, Mama. I’ll go and if Dani is there, sweetheart, I’ll be careful with her and bring her back to you.”

“I…okay, can Poncho check me out?”

“Shit, Mama, did they hurt you?”

“He just slapped me and pushed me. But he pushed me into a wall and I hit my stomach…”

“I’ll get him right to you. I’ll let Crush and the boys go to the school,” I respond picking her up in my arms, intent on lying her on the bed and holding her until Poncho gets here.

“No, you need to be there to help Dani, Dragon. Please? I’ll be fine, I promise. Little Dragon is already moving around. I just want to be safe.”

I don’t respond till I have her back in our room and place her on the bed. She looks so tired and beaten right now, but there’s never been a more beautiful woman in the world.

“Are you sure?” I ask still not convinced and hurting at the thought of leaving her.

She takes my hand and guides it to the top of her stomach. It doesn’t take but a minute, and I feel the strong fluttering beneath. Will I ever get used to that miracle? I don’t think so. I bend down and place a kiss there. I raise back up and look at my woman—my life.

“I love you, Mama.”

“Forever, Dragon,” she whispers back.