I shake my head, taking a sip of the beer. “No, I think you can’t.” I don’t bother telling him that Poppy has only ever been interested in girls since she was little. I’d rather watch his ego be crushed.

“So look, Royce here tells me that the Kyle shit didn’t even touch the surface of what you’ve done and been through. That there’s someone else?”

I lean back in my chair, exhaling a deep breath. Two years I’ve spent not thinking about all of the dark shit in my past. Pretending your demons don’t exist doesn’t make them stop chasing you…it only slows the race. “That’s right, but since K Diamond is dead now, I’ll never know shit about Skully.”

“This Skully chap…” Lion asks. “He a big threat?”

I think over his words, watching as the girls laugh inside the house while preparing bread rolls and salad. I haven’t seen Jade this happy since she’s been here. “Nah, I don’t think so. If that motherfucker wanted me dead, I’d be dead.”

“Good.” Lion shifts back. “Then tomorrow at church, I have a proposition for you.”

Weed and pussy are the general smells of the clubhouse, but with Jade and now Olivia spending more time around the place, they make sure the club girls are kicked out well before anything else.

I move to the back, behind the kitchen and through the space we hold church. I don’t bother to say Royce said we were doing this tomorrow. Obviously, this proposition needs to be told now.

I take the spot beside Royce. This chapter isn’t large. Lion, Khaos, Royce, Roo, Fury, and a couple of prospects. It’s manageable to Lion and gives Royce and Jade that easy-going life they both want.

Lion blazes a joint, blowing out smoke and passing it around the table. I shake my head as Khaos takes it from Royce. “We have an issue. In-house. And I hate to bring this to the table so soon after what happened, but since Royce’s and my girls are safe, figured we hit this one straight away. We have a chapter that needs doing over. The president there is weak, can’t take fucking shit, and needs to be stripped of his patch. He’s being doing dodgy fucking dealings with the cartel for years now—shit we never pulled him up on.” Lion’s eyes come straight to mine. “It’s the Illinois chapter. Or, Chicago, to be precise.”

I keep my eyes level on his. “Illinois? Didn’t know we had one there.” Even though he hasn’t said it, I already know what he wants from me.

Royce stiffens beside me, his thigh pressing against mine.