That had me rolling my eyes. “That’s a stupid question, Raider.”
He rubbed his hand over my ass and pulled me closer, while his other hand angled my legs over his thigh that was under the picnic table. His lips touched the corner of my mouth, making me gasp at the tenderness behind the small kiss. “Tell me you love me,” he murmured close to my ear. “I need to hear you say it again.”
“I love you,” I whispered and felt him jerk.
Closing his eyes, he pressed his forehead to mine. “I love you, Quinn.”
Hearing those words, I pushed down all my insecurities and doubts and leaned into him, letting him hold me.
Eventually, I picked up one of my sandwiches and offered him the second. We ate in silence, with me still practically sitting on his lap. Behind us, the kitchen door opened, and Hawk and Gracie came to sit down at the table with us. Hawk had a plate with four sandwiches on it, but Gracie looked about as green as I felt every morning as she sat beside him.
“I take it Bates is finally gone?” Raider shot at his brother.
“About ten minutes ago,” Hawk said with a nod. “This one wouldn’t take her eyes off him.”
“I was just making sure you guys were protected,” she grumbled, her lips twisting when her boyfriend put a sandwich in her hands. She took a tiny nibble. I could see that she didn’t really want to be eating, but the two brothers were too busy talking to notice.
“Saw Colt leaving earlier. He take Kelli with him?”
“Yeah.”
“Good,” Hawk muttered, low and menacingly. It caused the fine hairs on my body to stand up in fear, and I didn’t like it. Something was going on; I could sense it now just as much as I could when Colt had come to say bye. “I guess we’ll have to wait and see, then.”
That got a nod from Raider, who grabbed a sandwich off his brother’s plate.
“I can fix you a plate,” I offered, and he shot me a look that told me to stay where I was even as his hand tightened on my ass.
“I like having you right where you are, sweetheart. Don’t go anywhere.”
“Here, take mine.” Gracie put her barely touched sandwich on my now-empty plate and dusted off her hands.
“Are you still not hungry?” Hawk was watching her closer now.
She shrugged. “I’m good.”
I caught her gaze and lifted a brow, because I could make a guess at what was wrong with her. Maybe the Hannigan clan was going to be getting more than one new addition soon.
Chapter Eleven
COLT
THE CABIN WAS QUIET WHEN I pulled my hog around to the back of it. Kelli, who had fallen asleep against my back halfway through the trip, stirred as I killed the engine and lowered the kickstand. She had fucking fallen asleep. As if she didn’t have a single care in the world. As if she didn’t suspect for a minute why I had brought her with me on this run.
I didn’t know what to think about that. Did she not regret betraying me? Did she have no conscience? Or did she just not have anything to even be concerned about?
I hoped it was the latter one, because I didn’t want to think about what I would have to do if she had betrayed not just me, but my MC.
“Where are we?” she muttered as she tried to hide a yawn.
I kept my eyes on the mountains around us. My family had owned this cabin in the Santa Rosa Range for three generations now. The mountain range was mostly in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, but this cabin was just outside of it. When I realized how badly Kelli might have betrayed me, I knew I had to bring her here. There wasn’t another single person for miles in either direction. No one to hear me screaming at her, no one to hear her cries. No one to witness me burying a body if that was what it came to.
Fuck, I didn’t want it to come to that.
I needed to find out what Kelli had been telling Bubbles and that motherfucking senator. Needed to figure out just how much I had let slip during the months I had been sleeping in the same bed with her.
“This is our old hunting cabin,” I told her as I got off the motorcycle and helped her off before leading the way up the back steps to the second floor. I pulled out my ring of keys and unlocked the door.
Using the light from my phone, I found the breaker box and turned on the power and the well. The lights came on with a soft flicker, and I was glad at least one thing was going right for me today. I still hadn’t had time to think about what had happened earlier in the day. One of my best friends was gone, but I didn’t have the time to mourn him, wouldn’t get to go to the memorial to tell him goodbye or celebrate his and Warden’s lives with my club. Instead, I would have to deal with Kelli and find out just how much she knew, how much she had told my enemies.