36. Hawg
HAWG
Taze is around back when the truck pulls in just like we planned. If I’m not available at some point in the future I want my VP to know exactly how to handle the situation with these trucks.
The driver opens the back of the truck while Lacey gets down from the cab, her blue eyes scanning her surroundings with angst for a moment before smiling first at Pearl and then at Onyx as she closes the distance between them.
“Thank you so much for letting me come here. I just needed a change. I promise, I won’t be any trouble. ”
There’s something about this girl that just doesn’t feel right. Maybe Onyx is onto something that makes her second guess the Harlots’ decision to bring her back into the club, but hopefully time will prove her wrong.
Skye and Brandy help the ladies who’ve been hanging out in the safe room all night and day through the closed-up bar and into the back of the custom air-conditioned truck that will keep them protected from prying eyes on their journey, all of the Harlots giving them hugs and wishing them well.
The journey won’t take too long, then they will be free.
They will be in great hands with Duchess. There’s no one better. She will treat these ladies just like family, sisters, because she knows exactly what it feels like to have life kick you in the gut.
That alone makes me wonder for the umpteenth time, just like Onyx, why the hell Lacey would leave her twin sister and a place as great as Duchess provides.
There’s not two men in the world that I trust more than Carver and Taze.
“This is Lacey. She’s going to be spending some time with the ladies, to see if she’d be a good fit for the life.
She came to the Harlots last year the same way.
In from Vegas, and the ladies got her and the others with her into the safe house before shipping out to Duchess.
The same way the other ladies will be going north tonight. ”
Taze has been updated on the safe house and the crucial aspects of everything there is to know about keeping it on the lowdown even from the other men.
Whether we trust them or not, this, it’s just between us.
And for a while I’m going to need his priority to be keeping these women safe when I’m not around.
Just in case Lacey isn’t here just for kicks.
Especially since we still have a couple recruits that we don’t know from Adam and the last one got found out as a rat even with the best of recommendations from a man I used to call brother.
Taze hasn’t ever flaunted being a ladies’ man but hasn’t hid it either. A different bunny on his bike and in his bed every other night. It’s how my VP rolls.
Lacey may end up being a Harlot someday, a very low-level Harlot, and Taze is charged with protecting the Harlots even from her. He should keep his mind on the objective of the night because the way he’s looking at Lacey could heat up an entire camp on a cold desert night.
I make a mental note to mention something to him a little later when we’re not around all the women, but as Onyx turns looking at me, it slips to the back of my mind for the moment.
Onyx slides in next to me and I put my arm around her as the truck starts up. Her arm tightens around my waist and when I look down there’s a tear rolling down my little badass’s face. “You okay, baby?”
She sniffs. “Yeah, it just always gets me right in the feels. You know? The work we all do? It makes a difference to these ladies, a real difference.”
I hold her close as we watch the truck pull away, heading for the next north ramp on the way to their new home. Onyx is not wrong, and I’ll protect her, the Harlots, and this way of life with my dying breath.
This woman who loves so much, with all of her heart, she’s entrusted me with her heart and to me, that’s the best gift in the world. I cradle her to me. “Love you, baby.”
Onyx smiles up at me. “I love you too.”
Some roads lead to trouble, some to freedom, and ours led to each other. And I’m never letting her go.
Find out what happens when Lacey comes back to the Royal Harlots’ Club and is welcomed by some of the Harlots and mistrusted by others.
Especially Taze, the big muscly VP from the Royal Bastards down the road who doesn’t trust her at all.