Savage Love (Back Down Devil MC #7)(15)

By the time Miller sat down with his coffee, he was livid. He felt like trading the coffee for a beer.

A few silent minutes later, Blaine came walking from alongside the building. He was adjusting his jeans. He ran a hand through his hair and lit up a fresh smoke.

“Mind if I join you?” he asked Miller.

“Jump up,” Miller said.

Blaine took a drag of his smoke. “She was something, huh?”

“What?”

“That one back there. Took care of her every way possible last night. Passed out out here, under the stars. She woke me up and told me she was married and her husband was going to be coming to look for her. That she had a problem for cock. So I offered to get her home, safe. You know, being a gentleman.”

“Nothing about you is a gentleman,” Miller said.

“Well, I told her she had to earn it. But I tried to be respectful. No more f*cking. She wanted something inside her. She wanted to suck on something. I woke up with a crazy hard on. So we made the best of the situation.”

“I saw that,” Miller said.

“Look at my fingers,” Blaine said. “They’re all wrinkly now. From her mouth, not her *.”

“That’s enough, bro,” Miller said.

“Hey, what are you upset about?” Blaine asked. “I know you sent that other one away last night for me to finish up. What was that?”

“I just wanted my own. I got it. I was done.”

“Good for you. I’m too caring. Too giving. And I like *.”

Blaine took another drag of his smoke. Miller sat quiet, staring across the lot. There was just too much on his mind.

“Hey,” Blaine said. “Not my business at all. I talked to Gaige though.”

“Yeah?”

“You went to see her.”

“Yeah.”

“How’d that go?”

“She’s alive.”

“Of course she’s alive, man,” Blaine said.

“She told me Jerry met with Coast Road.”

“No f*cking way. Right in his house?”

“Yeah. She didn’t use their name, but what other bikers would it be?”

“Could be any,” Blaine said. “He’s a f*ck, isn’t he?”

“I’m not sure how to handle this one, Blaine. I gave her up to him. It was supposed to work out. They have the storybook life and I have the hard life. I was okay with that. But all this now, I’m not okay with. I want to kill that man, Blaine. I have to kill that man. And it’s not just for all of this. It’s years of shit piling up. But when I pull that trigger…” Miller looked at Blaine. “I’m killing a baby’s father.”

Blaine put a hand to Miller’s shoulder. He squeezed. “Hey. What kind of life is that baby going to have? Jerry made it clear he’s cashing out. Do you think he’s going to take his family?”

“I’m not sure.”

“If he does, he’ll have guilt on his hands forever. If he doesn’t take his family, they’re lost. Family in this day and age, brother, is not a blood thing. It’s a loyalty thing. It’s a love thing. You’re my family, Miller. My brother. That chick I was three fingers deep in? I didn’t love her. See the difference?”

“In a sick way, I actually do. Christ, Blaine, I’ve been hanging around you too much.”

“All you can do is go forward, Miller. That’s what we do.”

“It’s what we’re going to do. We can’t just kill Jerry though. We have to take the right steps. We have to make sure Coast Road MC is out of the picture. Just in case they have any connections somewhere else. And in Frelen, it’s really us against the law. So we have to be extra careful. No fights. No speeding. No f*cking someone else’s wife.”

“I don’t know about that,” Blaine said with a grin.

“If we cut off Coast Road MC, Jerry has nothing. There’s one other thing we can do to make his life miserable.”

“What’s that? You going to f*ck his wife?”

Miller snapped his head to the side. “Are you f*cking kidding me?”

“Sorry. Just slipped out.”

“First off, I’m not f*cking anyone. Second, she’s giving him divorce papers.”

“Christ,” Blaine said. “Are you serious? No wonder you’re a mess right now, Miller. They’re going to end up…”

“Stop,” Miller said. “Back to the club. We can call in a few favors and have a splurge in crime.”

“You’re going to have some guys come in to cause trouble?”

“Why not? Some rough guys, gangster types. Push into Frelen. Rob some places. Nothing super dangerous. Make sure nobody gets hurts.”

“You’re going to sabotage your own town?” Blaine asked.

“Risky.”

“Risky and genius.”

“What is?” a voice said.

Gaige came out of the clubhouse along with Nate, Jace, and Landon.

Soon there was a little meeting outside, trying to piece together the right plan.

Miller left his half full coffee cup on the table and cracked his knuckles.

“We could bring in trouble from Riverside. Maybe even a little gambling. Why not? Try to make Jerry’s life miserable. He’ll lose his focus. We take out Coast Road MC. Next thing you know it’s just us facing off with Jerry.”