Out of the blue, I’m now not within the temper for tacos. “Let’s get out of right here.”

“What? No means?” Sage pouts. “Our meals hasn’t even come out but.” Sage appears to be like over her shoulder after which again to me. “Why did you misinform that man about Stone?”

I shake my head, not eager to get into the main points of my paranoid thoughts. “I don’t know. I simply didn’t get an excellent feeling from that man.” Jones is a standard title, and there’s no motive to assume he’s associated to Bobby Lee. He could possibly be hassle that adopted Stone from California. “Let’s simply get out of right here. Please.” I choose up the eagerness fruit margarita and down it as quick as I can.

“Effective,” she growls, offended and irritated, ingesting my favourite Cadillac margarita like she owns it. “I’ll inform our waitress to make the meals to go as a result of there’s no fucking means I’m leaving this place with out my rattling tacos.”

A small smile touches my lips, however I can’t shake the concern or the worry that burrows its means underneath my pores and skin. One thing about that dude gave me the creeps, even earlier than his clear curiosity and warning for Stone.

As quickly as Sage returns with our meals, we head to the automotive. “He was type of cute,” Sage says, however I’m solely half listening to her, trying across the car parking zone to see if these guys are lurkers.

It’s all clear, however I lock the doorways all the identical and haul ass again to Opey, heading straight for Hardtail Ranch and Stone.

“What’s happening, Ivy?” Sage tugs on the hem of my shirt the identical means she used to as a child when she didn’t know what was occurring.

“Dangle on,” I inform her because the door swings open and Peaches’ smiling face welcomes us to her house.

“Ladies. This can be a nice shock.” After we don’t reply, her smile dips. “Isn’t it?”

I shake my head. “Is Stone round?”

“Yeah, we simply completed up with lunch. Are available in.” She steps again, the look of concern on her face rising extra intense by the second. “What’s happening?”

Stone strolls into the kitchen, trying like a sizzling, rugged, film model of a biker, too smiley and too good-looking and completely too tall.

“Ivy. Hey.” His smile slips, and his palms go to his lean hips. “Look, should you’re gonna bitch me out about fixing your automotive, reserve it. I acquired an excellent deal on the elements, and it was a straightforward repair.”

“Liar,” I reply with a smile and faucet my backside lip. It’s his inform when he’s mendacity, nibbling his backside lip. “Anyway, I’m not right here about that.”

I repeat the story from the bar, maintaining my gaze on Stone as a result of I must see that he’s taking this critically.

“Did he say anything?” Gunnar poses the query, his deep voice laced with anger.

“No. Simply to say Butch says hello, however then he mentioned his title was Trey Jones. There was one thing about his tone that I didn’t like.”

Peaches places a hand on my shoulder, guiding me to the couch. “You had been proper to take heed to your intestine. Bobby Lee has a brother, Trey. He was within the Military when every thing went down, however two years in the past, he fell off the grid utterly.”

I can inform she realizes one thing as a result of she stands nearly as rapidly as she sat down. “He have to be again, which suggests I want to seek out out the place he’s been.” With that, Peaches leaves me alone with Stone, Gunnar, and Sage.

“What’s happening?” Sage whispers. “Can I eat my tacos?”

“Later,” I growl out of 1 facet of my mouth.

“Stone, it is advisable to watch out. If he’s Bobby Lee’s brother and asking about you, he’s acquired plans. Now that you simply’re again, all of us have to be ready for shit to leap off.”

Stone nods, his expression rising darker. “I’m all the time ready, Dad. All the time.”

Badass Stone isn’t the identical because the badass I knew as a young person. This model is grown up, darker, and extra harmful, and I’m comfortable to see him present as much as maintain enterprise.

“I’m sorry,” I whisper, filled with guilt.

5 fucking years later.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Stone

“This place hasn’t modified in any respect.” I smile and look across the small bar that’s been a staple in Opey since I used to be sufficiently old to know what the hell a bar was. The outdated pine bar has a couple of extra scratches than after I was final right here. The stools nonetheless solely swivel in a single route, and the proprietor, Smoky, is a bit of grayer and giving off offended outdated man vibes.

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