sneak in. After saving their asses a few times they stopped shutting the door in her face and just left it wide open. The brothers loved her and they respected her, so they didn’t protest. Instead they put her on protection for the girls and they let the boys take her along wherever they saw fit.
Her patch on the other hand had been harder won. The boys put her in that prospect vest after much debate. She’d had to work three times as hard as any other prospect. She ‘manned up’ and did the crappy jobs, she still worked the garage in between everything else, she turned a blind eye to all the shit that went on at the clubhouse and she’d learnt to hold her drink better than most men. She copped things the other prospects didn’t, like sexual passes from some of the brothers. She blew them off with some witty reply and if someone took it too far she used her MMA training to secure a hold on them or drop them to the floor. After a couple of those they gave up.
Even then she wore that vest twice as long as some of the other prospects. Trying to get chauvinistic bikers to patch a woman was like trying to pull teeth. She had to get them all on side one by one. In the end she’d received her patch though she had known some of the brothers had voted it under pressure from the boys and King. She knew she’d been called into question again when Alex came on the scene. He was a cop and she was a crim. She’d already proven she could keep her mouth shut but a lot of that was conveniently forgotten when he was around.
So now they were at it again and she could understand why. Her personal shit had leaked so far over into club shit even she would be calling herself into question.
“It’s not the first time and it probably won’t be the last time. Put me back in the mix and I’ll prove to them I have my shit locked up tight,” she stated.
“We got no doubt Ace,” Tex’s words held nothing but confidence.
She had no doubt either.
Chapter 5
Nikki woke up to the sound of knocking. She rolled over and glanced at the clock. Four pm. She cursed out loud. She really shouldn’t have slept that long. Hopefully he hadn’t already. The knocking at the door sounded again and Nikki could hear the boys stirring. She dragged herself out of bed to the front door.
Nikki peered through the peephole. All she could make out was a large bunch of flowers and what looked like a delivery guy’s shorts. Nikki frowned. This dude clearly had the wrong address. She opened the door.
"Hi. I'm looking for a Nikki Jones," the delivery guy said.
"Um, I'm Nikki," she replied.
Who the hell would’ve brought her flowers?
"Right can you sign here please?" He asked wiggling his clipboard at her.
She signed the paper then took the giant mass of roses from the delivery guy. She placed the flowers on her kitchen table and plucked the card from its little holder.
“Who bought you flowers?” Trace asked as he wandered passed her to the coffee machine.
“It obviously wasn’t you then?”
Trace shook his head. Nikki glanced down the hall to Tex’s room where he slept soundly. It definitely wouldn’t have been him. Tex was a lot of things but he definitely was not the flowers type. She slid the little card out of the envelope and flipped it over. There was no name just a web address.
This had to be the weirdest thing she had ever received. She moved into her bedroom and grabbed her phone typing in the address. It took her to an audio file and asked for a password to access the file. Nikki checked the card again for a password. There was nothing on the back but the web address. The front of the card had the insignia for the florist and that was it. Maybe if she typed in the name of the florist.
Nikki entered the name into the password request and the audio file booted up.
“Hello Angel.”
Nikki froze. The phone slipped from her hand and hit the carpet with a soft thud. God, that voice. It reached right
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