Declan by Ava Manello

Author:Ava Manello [Ava Manello]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Military, Romantic Suspense, Mystery & Suspense, Suspense
Amazon: B00VATU4NI
Goodreads: 24713143
Publisher: KBK Publishing
Published: 2015-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty Three

Declan

The Sunday lunch crowd is keeping us busy today. Lucy seems to be over her hangover, but there’s something not quite right with her and I can’t figure it out until a couple of bikers walk in and Lucy glares at one of them before turning away. Man trouble. It’s not my place to interfere, but I’ll have a chat with her at the end of her shift and make sure she’s okay.

“Gentlemen, how can I help you? Table for two?” I walk over and greet them. One of the guys gives me the once over and doesn’t look pleased with what he sees. That’s fine by me; I’ve come up against worse. He’s the guy that Lucy was ignoring.

“Do you have a moment?” The other guy asks. “We’d like a little chat if you can spare the time?”

I catch the non-speaker watching Lucy closely. I can see he has feelings for her.

“She’s a good worker.” I inform him. “I’d hate to see her get hurt.” He doesn’t like that and his colleague has to hold him back slightly.

“I’d never hurt her.” He growls at me.

“She’s family.” His friend tells me. “We take care of ours.” I can hear the unspoken threat.

I nod in understanding and lead the guys back to my office. I get the impression this isn’t a conversation about the merits of roast pork versus roast beef somehow.

I sit on the edge of my desk facing them and ask how I can help.

The guy who’s done most of the talking introduces himself as Angel, Vice President of the local MC club. The other guy with him is Cowboy, the one who rang me to tell me Lucy was ill yesterday. Angel looks me straight in the eye when he tells me how they keep an eye on the town and the people here, and that recently a bad element has come into town.

I take a deep breath before I reply, getting a hold on my anger. “And you think I’m that bad element?”

“I didn’t say that.” Angel replies. He goes on to ask me what I’m doing in Severed. My answers are brief and clipped. It’s none of their business, but I don’t want to rub these guys up the wrong way.

I lose it when they tell me they don’t’ allow drugs in Severed.

“I don’t allow drugs in my bar.” Angel continues to probe, but I’m not answering his questions. I think it’s pretty obvious I’m against drugs, but that’s as much as I’m prepared to let on. I came her to escape my past, not be reminded of it.

I tell them about the dealer I found in the bar on opening night, and that he won’t be returning any time soon. I don’t tell them that I left him a bloodied mess out back, but I think they can tell that it wasn’t just an idle threat in conversation that he left with.

The conversation gets a little easier from then, and I can see that the club are really concerned about drugs being dealt in Severed.

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