Wirth (Dirty Aces MC #5) - Lane Hart Page 0,23

my chin to the big, blond, shirtless man lying prone next to her, taking up more than half of her queen bed, sound asleep.

She lies back down with her head propped up on her arm facing him. “He’s in and out. Mostly out. When he wakes up, he’s in pain, so I give more morphine.”

“Lucky you had that here.”

“I had a friend steal it from the hospital pharmacy,” she responds without looking at me.

“Oh.”

“I took tomorrow off to keep an eye on him.”

“Thank you,” I tell her. “We really appreciate you helping him, even though you don’t know us.”

“You didn’t really leave me much of a choice,” she says with a smile when she turns to face me. “But the money was a nice and much needed surprise for me and Casey both.”

“Yeah, and it looks like your friend is breaking her own rule,” I remark, jutting my thumb over my shoulder in the direction of the bathroom.

“Sexual healing is a real thing. Or so Casey believes,” she jokes.

“Oh yeah? Then maybe you should try that with Fiasco,” I tease. “Nothing would get him up faster than a woman’s touch.”

“Not going to happen,” she says with a shake of her head before she goes back to staring at him. “Well, not unless he gets worse. He is incredibly handsome.”

“What God gave him in looks he took from his IQ,” I say with a chuckle.

“That’s just mean!” she whispers.

“It’s the truth. Just wait until he wakes up,” I tell her.

Fuck, I really hope he wakes up.

And until then, I’m going to do all I can to find out who is responsible for hurting him.

Chapter Ten

Maeve

There’s a loud knock on my door the next afternoon while I’m doing laundry to pass the time. I have no doubt it’s my brother since I’m assuming the Knights are all still out of town.

I’m not really in the mood to deal with Rian, not after he and Cormac lied to me, but that’s the thing about family – you have to love them even when you hate them.

Making sure it is, in fact, my brother, I put my eye up to the peephole; and all it takes is a flash of his auburn hair for me to start unlocking the door.

“You need to stop coming by here,” I say when I jerk it open. “One of the Knights or girls could see you.”

“Hello to you too, sis,” he huffs before pushing right past me, inviting himself inside.

“Have you forgotten that I’m also still pissed at you,” I say while shutting and locking the door. “No, not pissed, furious!” I then follow him into the kitchen where he starts going through the refrigerator like he lives here. “Since when did you become as bloodthirsty as dad?” I ask him.

Slamming the fridge door, he spins around to look at me. “Did one of them die?”

“I don’t know! And how could you wish that on anyone?”

“They’re trouble. Everyone knows it, especially you since you were up close and personal with them for weeks. But do you hear that sound?” he asks, putting his hand up to his ear.

“Hear what?” I ask, bracing my hands on my hips.

“Silence. No motorcycles revving. It’s peaceful again in our neighborhood.”

“They will be back, Rian. I bet they’re plotting against you right now, you idiot! They won’t go away that easily.”

“So, where are they? Who are they plotting with?” he asks, grabbing an apple from my fruit bowl and taking a bite out of it.

“I-I don’t know.”

“Bullshit,” he says between bites. “Are you seriously going to lie to your own brother to protect those dirty sons of bitches?”

“I’m not lying,” I tell him through gritted teeth. “And you have no idea what I’ve done for you and Cormac!”

“Oh, please, Maeve,” he says with a roll of his eyes. “Don’t act like you were some kind of saint before the night you stepped into that bar.”

“Yeah, you’re right,” I snap at him. “It’s hard to be a saint when our father auctioned off my virginity to the highest bidder when I was sixteen!”

Rian freezes with his half-eaten apple halfway to his mouth. “No, he didn’t.”

“Really? You think I would lie about something like that?”

“He was a hardass, sure, but he wouldn’t go that far…”

“He would and he did!” I shout at him. “There’s a reason why he wouldn’t let me date in high school. He made ten grand on my first time. Stood right outside the door of one of the hotel rooms down