“I knew you were still with that club you’d joined.” She lifted a hand toward him, her eyes dropping to his cut. “Knew you were still in Birmingham.”
“And?”
“That’s a long way, and I was bro
ke. And Kyle had the only car. I wanted to get home. But then I remembered Sturgis was coming up, and I knew you’d be here. I thought if I could just get as far as Sturgis and find you…”
“You are shitting me, right? You really thought you’d come to Sturgis and be able to find me in half a million bikers?”
“I suppose I didn’t really think it through.”
“Ya think?”
“All right, it was a stupid plan,” she snapped at him. “You don’t have to rub it in and be a dick about it. And anyway, I found you, didn’t I?”
He shook his head. “Unbelievable. How the hell did you get here if you had no car?”
“I hitchhiked.”
“You what?” The words almost exploded from him. “Don’t you know how dangerous that is?”
“A long haul trucker brought me most of the way. It wasn’t so bad, Ghost.”
He took a step towards her. “You’re lucky you weren’t raped or murdered. That was incredibly stupid, Jess.”
“Maybe,” she conceded. “But I’m okay.”
“And when in this stupid plan of yours did you end up crossing paths with the Death Heads? Why are they looking for you?”
“I overheard something I wasn’t supposed to.”
“And what was that?”
“It’s complicated.”
He folded his arms and stared at her. “Un-complicate it.”
“They were talking about a man they had planted in some other gang.”
“You mean another MC?”
She shrugged. “I guess so, if that’s what you call it.”
Ghost studied her. She may be clueless about the MC world, but she was far from stupid. “You catch the name of that other club by chance?”
“Devil something, I think. But then they used an acronym.”
“The Devil Kings? The DKs?”
“Yes. That was it.”
“What about them?”
“This guy they planted, they were talking about how they were going to use him to get all the information they needed to take that club out of Georgia. They want the state. Not just that state. If this works, they plan to do the same thing in Alabama and Louisiana.”
His arms came unfolded at this news. “Those are Evil Dead states.”
She nodded, shrugging. “I guess so. I don’t really know about all that. I just know what I heard. They want the entire Gulf Coast under their control. I heard them say that the only thing standing in their way were the DKs in Georgia and the Evil Dead in Alabama and Louisiana.”