Hostage (Predators MC #3) (21 page)

“We’re going to look crazy when we walk in, and they ask why we left.” Penni’s trust in Jackal was beginning to slip. It didn’t help that all of the women were convinced the men were up to no good.

“What if they just wanted us gone to handle the situation with Hennessy?” Penni grasped at a final straw.

“Do you really think Viper would let his best men leave if he were expecting trouble?”

Winter had her there. They would keep them back to protect the clubhouse.

Penni took the keys out of Winter’s hand. “I’ll drive.”

“
Y
ou want
me to take the bullet for you?” Stump took a beer out the cooler behind the bar.

“If I thought you could keep your mouth shut, I would.” Jackal stifled the urge to knock Stump’s teeth out.

“I never could keep a secret.”

“Maybe you’re the one we need to watch.” He surveyed the clubroom, searching for the woman who was the first target.

“If you want to fuck me, all you have to do is ask.”

Jackal choked on his beer, managing to get away from the bar before he dunked Stump’s head into the cooler.

He used the opportunity to head over to Cruz who was close to Raci. She and Jewel were talking to another woman, sitting on the middle steps. Jackal and Cruz’s backs were turned to the them, but they would be able to hear as they talked.

“You ready to go back on Sunday?”

Viper had decided that was the bait they would drop to make them expose the traitor and draw the cartel out.

“Hell yes. If I listen to that old bitch bang on the wall next to my head much longer, I’m going to strangle her,” Cruz complained. “How did Viper keep her from coming down tonight?”

“I gave her the last of what Greer brought. She won’t want to leave that room.”

Jackal didn’t feel guilty. The old woman had more color in her fleshy face since she had been in the clubhouse. Cash had called Evie to stay the night with Mag until Rachel came back the next day. Rachel had taken Cash’s daughter to spend the night with her brothers at their house as suggested.

It was like a wall of dominoes that he felt was about to crash around him. Jackal hoped the women wouldn’t let it slip to Penni if he touched a woman. Otherwise, she was going to hate him more than before.

“You want go play a video game in the basement?” Jackal threw out the bait. If neither came down, he could cross two off his list.

“No thanks,” Cruz declined. “I think I’ll go get another beer.”

The men parted, going through the room. Jackal went through the kitchen and down the basement steps. The room was empty.

Sitting down, he turned on the Xbox. It was hard to wait to see if one of the women would show.

After ten minutes had passed, Jackal was about to stop playing the game when he heard someone coming down the steps.

He watched her feet appear then saw Raci’s grin as she practically bounced across the basement. She was wearing a black miniskirt that came to the tops of her thighs with a blue off-the-shoulder top that showed her tits.

“Can I play?” She sat down next to him, watching him play.

“Go for it.” Jackal motioned for the controller next to the Xbox then restarted the game to see if she really wanted to play or if her intent was to get information out of him.

When her breasts brushed against his arm, he had his answer.

“How long have you been a Predator?”

“Twelve years,” Jackal answered noncommittally, wanting her to think he wasn’t aware that she really wanted to find out.

“That’s a long time,” she practically cooed.

“Yeah.”

“Do you like being in their club? I like being in The Last Riders, but it’s boring sometimes.”

“It’s okay.” Jackal shrugged, keeping his eyes on the TV screen.

“I bet you’re really good at being a Predator. What position do you hold?” She pressed her tits harder against his arm.

“I’m their enforcer.”

“Wow. Train is our enforcer.”

He almost snorted at her lie.

Raci dropped her hand to his thigh, and Jackal dropped the controller, turning toward her.

“Is this one of the times you’re bored?”

Raci nodded, settling on the couch cushion. “It gets boring fucking the same men all the time. I could talk to Viper about him getting you in if you want.”

Jackal almost flinched when her hand slipped higher against the bulge of his jeans.

“Jeez, you’re really packing, aren’t you?” Raci rubbed his dick as she unsnapped his jeans with her other hand.

Jackal peeled her hands away from his limp dick. Either he made her talk, or his dick was about to show her how uninterested he really was.

Jerking down her top, he took her nipple in his mouth.

“I can make you feel so … good.” Raci brought her hand once again to his dick.

He yanked her hands back, holding them behind her back. “Did I tell you that you could touch my dick?”

Raci leaned forward, running her tongue up the side of his neck before stopping at his earlobe and sucking it into her mouth.

“You want my dick? Ask for it.”

“Can I suck your dick?”

She moaned when he yanked her skirt up, baring her to her waist. He brought his hand between her thighs, and Raci spread her legs as he slid a finger inside her pussy. Raci twisted on his fingers, sprawling her legs wider.

“How long have you been with the Last Rider’s?”

Raci moaned louder. “Several years.”

“That’s a long time.”

Raci frantically nodded as Jackal began to pump his finger into her drenched pussy.

“I bet they took one look at a beautiful girl like you and thought they hit the jackpot.”

Surprisingly, she shook her head. “My cousin had to talk Viper’s brother into letting me join. It’s not easy to become a Last Rider.”

“Where is he? I want to thank him.”

Raci tried to open Jackal’s jeans again, and Jackal saw the flicker of fear enter her eyes.

“She doesn’t live in Treepoint.”

“Where is she? Call her. I’m tired of the Predators. We could meet up. We can start our own club,” Jackal said as he rubbed her tit with his free hand.

“Crystal has an old man.”

“Introduce me to her. I can take care of him.”

Raci shoved her hand down his jeans, taking out his cock. “I haven’t seen a pierced dick since Diamond married Knox,” she whimpered. “Fuck me.”

Jackal pulled his hand out of her pussy. The fact that she hadn’t noticed his dick wasn’t hard showed she wasn’t into fucking him.

Clenching his hand on her thigh, he smeared her juices on the inside of her leg. “I think we need to get Viper down here to enjoy this party.”

“Viper’s busy.”

Jackal jerked back at Penni’s choked voice. He didn’t spare a glance at the woman who was trying to tug her skirt back down as he shoved his dick back into his jeans.

Penni turned and ran up the steps, and Jackal ran across the room, his hand reaching out to try to catch her. Penni dodged his hand, turning to face him.

“Don’t you dare touch me when you still smell like her!”

Jackal jerked his hand back. “Listen to me—”

Penni clenched her hands into fists. “I’m going to walk up these steps and go to Shade’s house, and you’re not going to fucking touch me. Do you understand?”

The fury blasting from her told Jackal she wasn’t ready to listen to anything he had to say. It would end a fight and give her something else to hate him for. Therefore, he would wait until morning to talk to her.

“Yes.” He nodded once.

Raci tried to slide past them.

“We’re not done.” Jackal pulled her to his side. Then he wanted to kick himself at his choice of words as he saw Penni blanch then run up the steps.

“I hate you!” she yelled. With each step she took, more expressions of animosity came out. “God, I hate you!” Her voice became shriller.

Jackal barely had time to move away from the bottom of the steps as a chair came tumbling down.

“Get away from me!” Jackal heard her furious scream from the kitchen, but he wasn’t stupid enough to attempt the steps. It was lucky he hadn’t. Plates came flying down, crashing onto the floor.

“She’s gone crazy. Maybe you should go talk to her?” Raci whispered when a large cookie jar joined the pile.

Jackal looked at Raci as if she had lost her mind. “If you’re so brave, you go up there.”

“Never mind.”

“Shit.” She was pissed off.

“Fuck that asshole!” Penni screamed down the stairs.

A laptop splattered in parts, the screen cracked.

“Come on, Penni. I’ll walk you home.” Winter’s calm voice tried to reason with her over the men telling her to calm down.

“He was fucking her!”

Jackal heard her moving away from the door to the basement and yelled back, “I was not!”

“What the hell did he say!”

He peered up the steps, hearing a struggle. Concerned, he started up the steps.

“FUCK!” Jackal ran back down the steps, taking Raci with him into the hallway, and then he heard shots ring down, sending plaster raining from the wall across the steps.

“Fuck that!”

“She’s pretty mad,” Raci panted, crouching down.

“No shit.” Jackal had his gun to protect himself, but he really didn’t want to shoot the crazy bitch.

Jackal had learned his lesson. This time, he was smart to stay quiet until he saw Train and Viper come down the steps.

“You okay?”

Train’s amusement had Jackal shoving Raci toward Viper. He wanted to spank Penni’s ass red.

“I’ve been better.”

“Did a bullet hit you?” Viper went to the laundry, taking out a roll of paper towels and tearing some off before he handed them to him.

“No, that was glass from the cookie jar.”

The men stared at the disaster that Penni was responsible for.

Jackal stepped on a cookie, smashing it with his boot.

“No one is going to want to clean this mess,” Train said as he took a chair from in front of the couch.

“Penni made it; she can clean it up,” Viper said as he pushed Raci onto the couch, standing over her.

“You going to be the one to tell her?” Train arched his eye at his leader.

“Never mind. Raci can do it.”

“Me? I’m not going to clean up her mess!”

“Why? You have something better to do than fucking Jackal?”

“I didn’t fuck him!” Raci denied. “Who are you going to believe, me or Jackal?”

“Penni was the one who was screaming it.”

“We were just messing around. That’s not against the rules. It’s not fair, anyway. The men don’t have any problems fucking anyone they want, so why can’t the women?” Raci began crying. “Besides, I didn’t want to.” Her eyes pleaded with Viper.

“Then why did you? You have plenty of Last Riders to keep your pussy warm.”

Raci’s shoulders began to shake. “I didn’t have a choice. They threatened to kill Crystal.”

Train reached out, taking Raci’s wrist and tugging her onto his lap. “Then we have to stop them, don’t we?”

Train’s gentle words had Raci’s tears drying. “Yes, we do.”

Ice, Hennessy, Max, Stump, Cade, and Rider came downstairs.

“Where’s Winter?” Viper asked Rider.

“Upstairs in your bedroom. She left a blanket and pillow in front of your door.”

Viper’s expression hardened. “Talk!” he snapped at Raci.

“I got a text from Crystal for me to call Deron. When I did, another man answered. At first, I thought I had dialed the wrong number.” Raci shuddered.

“It wasn’t?” Jackal prompted when he saw Viper was getting irritated. He wanted to be with his woman as much Jackal wanted to be with Penni.

“No, but I didn’t know who it was. He told me that he had Crystal and Deron, and if I didn’t do what they wanted, they would kill her. You know how close Crystal and I are. What was I supposed to do?”

“You could have told me or Shade.”

“He said he would kill her if I did. He said someone else in the club was watching me.”

Viper folded his arms across his chest. “He was bluffing.”

“I didn’t know what to do. I was scared. He made me tell him who was in the clubhouse and when they left the house.” Raci gave Viper a terrified glance at that. “I told them Genny was the only one who left the house. I made sure they wouldn’t hurt Willa.”

Jackal looked away. The bitch was excusing herself because she had been willing to get Genny killed instead one of the members’ wives.

Raci had known that, if one of the men had found out, they would have killed her. She had been right.

“How did you talk to them? Shade checked cell phones.”

“They mailed me a disposable phone. Since I offered to check the mail, no one noticed me taking it.”

“Jewell is going to be furious you did it.” Rider’s low whistle had Raci crying again.

“Do we have to tell her?”

“Yes. Where’s the cell phone now?” Jackal’s sharp voice cut through her tears.

“I hid it upstairs in my bathroom, under my sink. It’s at the bottom of a box of tampons.”

Viper motioned for Rider to retrieve it.

“Sorry, Viper. I didn’t think to look there.”

“I wouldn’t have, either.” Viper nodded to Rider to go. “What else did you tell them?”

“I told them that I heard Jackal and Cruz talking about leaving, but I wanted to find out more before I called them back. The last time I didn’t have anything, they made Crystal scream.” Raci buried her face in Train’s shoulder.

Rider came back with the phone, talking into another phone.

“Shade just found out Winter and Penni are missing. He wants to know if you want them to come back or stay in Lexington?”

“Tell them to stay. The kids have to be tired. They can come back in the morning.”

“Why did it take them that long to notice they were missing?” Jackal’s loud voice must have been heard on the phone because Rider winced.

After a few minutes, he hung up the phone. “Shade said that Lily and Willa kept telling them they were in the dressing rooms.”

“It took a long time to say all of that,” Jackal said suspiciously.

“He told me to shove my phone up your ass.” Rider shrugged. “Any other time, I would help him out, but it’s a new phone.”

“What’s our next move?” Ice’s cold gaze went to Viper.

“Raci’s going to make another call. She’s going to tell them the Predators, the Road Kingz, and The Last Riders are going to attack the Unjust Soldiers’ compound. They’ll think our women will be guarded by a small amount of men. When they show up, they’ll have a surprise waiting.”

“You going to bring them to The Last Riders’ clubhouse? Isn’t that risky?” Jackal didn’t want Penni near the cutthroats when they attacked.

“They won’t expect all of us to be here, plus the other clubs.”