Rise of the Phoenix by Jessie Cooke

Author:Jessie Cooke [Cooke, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Redline Publishing
Published: 2019-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

* * *

Jace left father and son where they were and drove back to the house. He was surprised to see a collection of Harleys in front of the small garage when he got there, especially because these particular Harleys had Skulls emblems on them. He was parking his bike when Wolf Lee stepped out of the garage. “Hey,” Jace said, genuinely happy to see his old friend. Wolf took Jace’s hand and gave him a side hug. “This is a surprise.”

Wolf nodded. “We were headed to Vegas and took a detour.”

“Nice, what’s up in Vegas?”

Wolf chuckled and said, “Manson is getting married.”

“No fucking way!” Manson had to be pushing sixty years old. He was Wolf’s VP and had been his father’s VP before him. Jace didn’t know him well, but he did know the man had never even had an old lady in all the years he’d been with the club.

Wolf laughed again. “Yep. Turns out he’s been seeing this woman for years.” Wolf cocked an eyebrow and said, “She was married all those years...to a cop.”

Jace made a face. “Ouch. How’s the cop feel about her and Manson getting together?”

“He’s not around to say. He dropped dead of a heart attack a few months ago. She’s got two kids and I guess that was why she stayed with him at first, and then he had a stroke about ten years ago and couldn’t work so she stayed to take care of him...and now, she’s finally free.”

“I’ll be damned,” Jace said. “Is Manson here?” There were four bikes parked next to Wolf’s, which Jace had recognized right off since he was the one that designed the pipes for it.

“No, we’re meeting them there. The ladies flew out and Manson and a few of the guys are headed out on their bikes. The guys have a big bachelor party planned for him tonight. I imagine it might get a little rough, even by Vegas standards,” he said with a chuckle. Then seriously he said, “I just felt like I needed to check things out here before I went.”

“Yeah, I’m doing a bang-up job out here. You and Dax are probably regretting giving me this assignment.”

“Bullshit,” Wolf said. “Your problems out here haven’t had a damned thing to do with you. Maybe we should have checked out this land a little better before we plunked you down here. I’m not here looking for someone’s feet to lay the blame at either way. I’m just here to try to find out what I can do to help you.”

“At this point, I have no idea.” The sound of truck engines stole their attention. They both looked toward the road to see a line of trucks surrounded by a swirl of dust coming toward them. There was a backhoe in the midst of them as well. “Fuck,” Jace said.

“What’s all this?”

“My guess would be the police. They’re going to start tearing up our land, looking for more dead bodies.”

“Shit,” Wolf said, echoing Jace’s sentiment. They stood quietly and waited for the trucks to roll in and stop.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.