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him, not because he couldn’t handle Killer, but because there was no way to win that sort of fight. Losing wasn’t appealing, but beating Echo’s son was risky too. Doing so might mean Alamo wasn’t going to be welcome in the club, and he needed the club.
    â€œI’m not going to start anything,” Alamo said.
    â€œGood. That mess in Carolina seem to be following you here?”
    Alamo shrugged. “Not so far. It was good of Echo to be willing to take me on.”
    â€œWolves are family,” Killer said, as if that policy was easy. It wasn’t, but the simplicity of it was that the club was a lifeline to almost all of them at one point or another. The Southern Wolves had one another’s backs.
    â€œIf it looks like it followed, I can move on,” Alamo offered. Protecting the club was a priority, as much as the club protecting the members was.
    â€œNo need.” Killer flashed teeth. “We got it. Just keep us updated.”
    Business concluded, Killer motioned the bartender over again. His intimidating expression faded into a warm flirtatious assessment of the young bartender, who preened under his attention. “My boy here is new to our chapter. I need you take him out and show him the town tonight, okay?”
    â€œAnything you say, Killer.” She smiled at Killer and then at Alamo. “Best job I’ve been offered.”
    Alamo couldn’t deny that she was a pretty little slip of a thing, but he was a lot more interested in the beautiful singer he’d met earlier than the sweet girl in front of him. Nonetheless, he saw Killer’s move for what it was and went along with it. He smiled at her and asked, “What’s your name, darlin’?”

Chapter 4

    T ELL ME WHAT YOU WANT ME TO SAY ,” NOAH SAID when I walked out the front door a couple of days later. “I don’t know what I said, but—”
    â€œNothing.” I stepped around him.
    â€œBullshit.” He stayed at my side as I walked to my car. “You ignore my calls. You haven’t come by at all . . . So what did I do this time to piss you off?”
    â€œLet it go, Noah.”
    â€œIs it someone else?” Noah stepped in front of me, forcing me to back up or shove him aside. I backed up. I wasn’t ready or willing to touch him even casually. I had self-control in most things, but Noah was a bad habit. Resisting him wasn’t easy, even now.
    â€œIt’s not someone else,” I told him, even as the thought of Alamo flitted through my mind. Alamo wasn’t why I left Noah. I’d not even met him when I walked out on Noah, but I knew that I was noticing Alamo because I was over Noah. There was no way to explain that well, though. Telling him I’d been thinking of another man wasn’t going to do anything good for Noah’s temper.
    â€œSo what then? I don’t understand, Ellie.”
    Noah didn’t often admit to having feelings for me, and I wasn’t sure that the ones he had would’ve ever turned into enough. Tonight, though, they were raw in his expression. Whether he could own it or not, he wanted more than this mess we had between us. Leaving him was good for both of us.
    â€œI’m not angry,” I said. “I promise. I’m just . . . tired.”
    â€œAre you sick?”
    I laughed. I didn’t mean to, but he had been my best friend for too long for me to forget the person he was when we weren’t whatever we’d been trying to be. He was dense.
    â€œI’m fine,” I said gently. “I’m just not happy.”
    â€œSo . . . you took a break,” he said slowly. “You’re not mad, but you’re tired and unhappy.”
    There was something sweeter in him than I got to see these days, but in that instant I saw it again. He didn’t understand. Even now that I’d explained it, he couldn’t follow what I was saying.
    â€œDon’t