We just had a few drinks and forgot that we weren’t supposed to be there in the first place.”
A muscle ticks in Rake’s jaw as he processes this information. “Please, Anna, please fuckin’ tell me you didn’t put yourself and my fuckin’ woman in danger by taking her to the fuckin’ Wild Men MC, the same fuckin’ MC that broke into our clubhouse and killed Mary. The same MC that our piece-of-shit father led, you know, the father who didn’t give two shits about us but raised Talon, a man you now seem to worship for some motherfuckin’ reason I’ll never understand. There’s shit you don’t even know too—just trust me when I say that his clubhouse isn’t a safe place to be, not like ours. Their MC is so different from ours, and you need to remember that. Never once did I think that you’d be stupid enough to go there.”
My eyes widen at all that information. Someone named Mary died? Because of the Wild Men? They broke into the Wind Dragons clubhouse? I rub my forehead, seriously not knowing what to do right now. I don’t want to get involved in a sibling argument, but at the same time I can’t let Anna take all the heat for this.
I step closer to Rake and put my hand on his arm. “Can we talk about this tomorrow? When everyone has calmed down?”
Rake looks down at my hand, then his gaze moves to my face. “Go and wait in my room, Bailey. I’ll deal with you later.”
My eyes narrow at his tone, but I know Anna and I have fucked up. We put ourselves in danger, and I know just how much Rake loves his sister.
“Arrow will handle her,” I say quietly. “She doesn’t need to get it from you too.”
“Get inside, Anna,” he tells her, just sounding tired now. “Arrow is on his way. You can tell him this fuckin’ story and see how he reacts.” He then looks down at me. “Are you mine?”
“Rake, I—”
“Are you fuckin’ mine?” he asks, enunciating every word.
“Yes,” I whisper. I was. All his. In every way.
“Then fuckin’ act like it,” he replies, turning and walking away.
Ouch.
I watch Rake disappear, then turn to Anna. “How’s Arrow going to react?”
Anna closes the space between us, standing next to me with our arms touching. “He’s going to be really angry because he’ll think I put our safety in jeopardy. Here’s the thing though, you were there—we weren’t in danger at all, because Talon would have protected us from harm the way any of the Wind Dragons would have.”
“I know,” I admit, wrapping my arm around her. “We just see it as going to visit a friend. But the men see it as a betrayal, I think. You’re Arrow’s old lady; I’m pretty sure we crossed some kind of boundary today.”
“We did,” she whispers glumly. “I just didn’t want to let Talon down. It was his birthday, how could I have said no? We shouldn’t have gotten drunk.”
“We shouldn’t have done a lot of things tonight,” I reply, laying my head on her shoulder. “But now we have to suck it up and feel their wrath.”
“I’m sorry I made you come, Bailey.”
“If I didn’t I would have been worrying about you all night, so I’m not. And I saw for myself just how much Talon cares for you, like you’re his sister,” I say, taking her hand and pulling her toward the door. “Let’s go inside before we get into more trouble.”
She cracks a smile. “Maybe I should wait out here so Arrow can yell at me away from everyone.”
“Nah.” I giggle. “Let Rake hear it so he doesn’t decide to yell at you too.”
She giggles a little too, then sobers. “Thanks for being my partner in crime tonight.”
“Any time, babe. Any time.”
Rake
“I heard them fuckin’ thanking each other for being partners in crime,” I tell Sin and Arrow, running my hand through my hair in frustration.
I turn my head to look in Arrow’s direction. “If Anna wasn’t my sister, I’d be telling you to control your fuckin’ woman right now.”
Sin sighs and crosses his arms over his chest. “Arrow, control your fuckin’ woman. This Wild Men shit has to fuckin’ stop. I know she thinks of Talon as family, but this is crossing a line.”
“Don’t I fuckin’ know it,” Arrow says gruffly, his eyes hard as stone.
“I’ll get Faye to talk to them,” Sin says distractedly. “I’ll handle Talon. Looks like the bastard needs to