Saved by the Rebel by Kameron Claire

Author:Kameron Claire [Claire, Kameron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Snuggle Whore Press, LLC
Published: 2024-05-28T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Drak

The next morning, after a few hours of restless sleep, I’m at work teaching a range safety course to a bunch of white collar millionaires who fancy the thrill of walking through a tactical shooting range killing bad guys and saving the concerned citizens of Whoville. Yes, I have twisted a favorite childhood Christmas story into a hostage negotiation / active shooter scenario for my amusement. Fun fact: the Grinch is not the bad guy.

He wasn’t when I was a kid, either.

Every two minutes I glance down at my phone, which I have face up on the table, praying Missy doesn’t text me with distressing news. It took everything within me to leave her last night, but she couldn’t skip out of work and come to Maplewood with me without telling Ma the truth, and that is simply something they can’t do. I only spent ten minutes with the woman, but I believe Missy and Jerry when they say she’ll meet the threat head-on with a flour dusted rolling pin in her hand. Apparently, she’s been Rizona’s matriarch since she was in her forties, and even though the town is dying around her, she refuses to abandon her post on the sinking ship.

Fuck me. How am I going to protect my woman and the people she loves from seventy-five miles away while running my business, which is currently one man deep?

Chadwick walks into the metal container that functions as a classroom and heads to the cinder block basement where I store a militia-worthy armory. I called him at first light and demanded he swing by as soon as possible. He’s wearing his border patrol uniform, an amused smile on his face when faced with six pampered white males strapping on bullet-proof vests.

Are the vests necessary? Of course not. But it completes the illusion of going to battle against the consumer-driven Whos of Whoville. Considering the men assembled—none of whom are from Texas—are millionaires because of rampant consumerism, the entire situation is ironic.

Hence Chadwick’s grin.

“If you gentlemen could get acquainted with your firearms, I’ll be back in a few minutes with ammunition and we can get started.”

I tilt my chin to Chadwick and we walk outside and across the parking lot to a cabin that functions as my office. As soon as we get inside, I spin on Chadwick and shake my head. “What’s the real deal with these drug runners taking over nowhere Texas?”

“What?” his head snaps back, as if I’ve attacked him personally, and in some ways I wonder if I should. I hate to say that about one of my MC brothers, but after meeting a dirty deputy last night, I’m reminded how corrupt this world is and that no one can be trusted. “Is this about that chick in Rizona?”

“Yeah, it is. I met the riff-raff last night and some not-so-veiled threats were made to include having friends here in Maplewood. Considering I also met a dirty cop, it has me wondering exactly how much is flying under our noses around here and why that is?”

“Fuck you.

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