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TWENTY-THREE

FIRE

“What fuck is the commotion out there?” Heat demands, sliding back his chair and getting to his feet.

I had a feeling I already knew what was going on out there, and I wasn’t waiting around for them to find out. Getting to my feet, I stalk to the door, throw it open, and make my way out to the main room of the clubhouse. The first thing I see is Herja sitting on a stool, watching what’s going on across the room.

Turning my attention in that direction, I immediately halt my steps at the sight of Evelin beating the hell out of all the horas at once.

“What the fuck is going on?” Heat again demands, stopping next to me. “Fuck, she’s going to kill those bitches. Get in there and stop her.”

“Give her another minute, let her finish,” I tell him and give him a quick glance. “Trust me, Eve’s actions are justified.”

Evelin flips Chellie over her back and slams her through a chair. Same jumps for Evelin, looking ready to claw her with those damn nails of hers, but ends up with Evelin slamming her fist in her face. One after another, Evelin takes them on until each one is down and doesn’t get back up.

“Satisfied?” I ask, getting Evelin’s attention.

“Much better,” she answers, a sly smile on her face.

“Wanna fill me in on what the fuck that was about?” Heat demands.

Shaking my head, I crook a finger and motion for her to join me. “Get over here before you get your ass into even more trouble than it’s already in.”

Evelin bites her bottom lip, making my cock thicken more than it already is. When it comes to her, I’m always ready to fuck her. It doesn’t take much.

“I’m going to start by saying Mom encouraged me,” Evelin starts when she makes it to my side and faces off with her brother. “Those bitches had it coming, especially after Chellie kissed Fire in front of me.”

“So, you beat the shit out of all of them?” Heat growls. A couple of our brothers make their way past us to see to the horas .

“Well, yeah.” She shrugs. “They thought it would be funny to play games with me, and you always told me, just like Mom did, to defend myself, so I defended myself. Showed them I wasn’t to be messed with.”

“Fuck me,” Pyro barks out with a laugh.

Heat stares for a moment longer, shakes his head, and lets out a heavy sigh while looking at me. “I don’t have time to deal with this shit. You handle it.” Turning on his heels, he stalks off.

Tilting my head toward Evelin, I look at her. “You gonna do that shit again?”

“If they so much as touch you, yeah,” she answers, and it doesn’t surprise me. “They keep their hands to themselves and actually show me some respect, I won’t have to do that again. I don’t regret it, and I won’t say I’m sorry.”

“Not looking for you to apologize,” I tell her and dip my head down. “What I am looking forward to doing is fuckin’ you when I get you to my room.”

“Break it up, you two,” Pyro says, coming in close and slapping a hand on my back. “Your little party is gonna have to wait. We need to get to the barn and check on some orders that came in, or did you forget?”

Fuck me.

It’s one of the things that we’d been discussing in church. An order came for a few specialty blades that Pyro and I have to make. The order he’s talking about, though, is the one that we’ve already got available.

During church, Heat and the others filled Brimstone, Flame, and me in on what all happened at the rally. Several orders were put in. Brimstone and Flame filled me and the rest of us in on what Scotch had to say after I went after Evelin.

We’ve got a lot going on, and the last thing I want to do is leave Evelin alone to go to the barn, but this is shit we’ve got to get done.

“Don’t leave the clubhouse,” I order, curling her closer to me.

“I really need to go to the bar,” she says quietly.

“Thought we talked about this, and Francie was gonna step up.” Swear to fuck, Evelin is always trying to go to that damn bar.

“Well,” she shrugs, biting my lip, “I love my job, and I don’t like giving it to others to do. Please, Fire, can’t one of the guys take me, and you can come get me after you’re done?”

Staring at her, I grind my back teeth together. I don’t want to let her go, but it’s still light out, nothing can get to her now. As long as she’s with me before sunset, then it’ll be good.

“Fine,” I grumble and look around the room to see who is still around. Spotting Torrid and Flash, I jerk my chin at them. “Get Torrid and Flash to take you. I’m sure they gotta get to their part of it anyway. But first, you’re gonna promise me that you won’t leave, and you’ll call me if you finish up before I get there.”

“I promise,” Evelin says, giving me one of those sweet smiles and batting her lashes as she does.

“Go,” I tell her and look at Pyro. “Let’s get this shit done and over with.”

“You got it, lover boy.” Pyro snorts out a laugh.

“Fucker,” I grumble, not taking the bait.

Together, the two of us make our way toward the back of the clubhouse and out the back doors. It’s where we keep all our ATVs under a carport out of the weather. I climbed on one of the four ATVs we have back here while Pyro shifted and shot up into the air. A roar of fire shoots out of his mouth up into the sky. I’m guessing Pyro needed to be in the air as much as we all need to be on our bikes.

Hopefully, it won’t take us long to get what we need to do done. Then I can get back to Evelin.

With what Brimstone has filled in for us so far, I don’t like the idea of Evelin being anywhere without me. Until the threat against her is taken care of, I’m not gonna rest easy. It’s going to distract me that she’s away from me while I’m at the barn and not in the clubhouse, but I get it, she needs to do her thing. Still, I’ll make sure she’s safe before the sun sets.

What we know so far about this Holstein is that nothing happens before sunset. Always after. This means before that time, I’ll have Evelin locked away either back at the clubhouse or at my place.