Grant by Molly Black

Author:Molly Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MB
Published: 2019-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Grant

ON SATURDAY, THE PHONE rang with another call from Cameron. “You need to come to Candy now,” he said grimly.

“What’s going on?” I asked in surprise. Candy was one of the businesses that had been loyal to Rebel Riders for a long time, a bar-slash-nightclub that was popular with the ladies. However, I didn’t think for a second that Cameron was calling me to Candy to get a drink with him in the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday.

But Cameron didn’t answer any questions. Instead, he just hung up the phone. I frowned down at the device, but it wasn’t like I had anything else to do other than meet him. I just hoped that there wasn’t anything too terrible happening right now.

When I got to Candy, though, I grimaced, staring in horror at the business. Or rather, the site where the business had formerly stood. Red-and-blue lights flashed all over the place: ambulances, police, and most of all fire trucks. But the place had nearly burned to the ground by now, and the firemen seemed to be focusing their efforts mostly on the surrounding businesses, making sure that they didn’t catch on fire as well.

I watched the building burn for a moment. If it was almost to the ground already, that meant it probably had been going for a long time. I wondered why no one had made any move to help the place. Probably just something else to do with our biased, fucked-up police force.

I turned away in disgust and saw Cameron off to one side talking to Linda, the owner of the place. I swear, for a moment, I had been expecting to see Ray there. But of course, he wouldn’t be there, not yet. He could barely leave the house. He wouldn’t want anyone from the club to see him yet, and he definitely wouldn’t anyone from the wider community to see him in such rough shape. Half of being leader of the most powerful motorcycle club in New Mexico, from what I could tell, was making people believe that you were stronger than you were.

It gave people no reason to doubt that you could protect them.

I headed over to Cameron and Linda, already sure of what Linda must be thinking at the moment. She had paid her dues for so many years, and as far as she was concerned, we had betrayed her. Or if not betrayed her, we at least had failed her. And none of us could blame her for that. We had.

Braxton materialized just as I was walking up to Cameron and Linda. “Well, did anyone bring the marshmallows at least?” he asked in a stupid attempt at humor. It was such a Braxton thing to do, but we all just sort of stared at him for a moment. He rolled his eyes. “Come on; it’s not like we’re not going to take down the fuckers who did this,” he said. “They’ve left a trail a mile wide.”

“Have they?” I asked in surprise.

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