Snake Charmer (Diamondbacks Motorcycle Club Book 2) by Evelyn Glass Read Free Book Online

finally picked up.
     
    “What?” he barked, his voice rough and raspy.
     
    Alan clenched his jaw in anger and then willed himself to speak calmly. “Get your ass over to the headquarters. Now .” Well, at least he tried to sound calm.
     
    “No, thanks.”
     
    “Lind!” Alec roared into the phone. “This concerns you directly.”
     
    “Are you guys finally voting me out?”
     
    “I wish,” Alec said. “Really, I do. I’m fed up with your attitude. But unfortunately that will have to wait. Someone’s looking for you.”
     
    “Who? Eve?”
     
    Alec frowned. What the hell had happened during that phone call, he wondered? “No,” he said. “Merchant.”
     
    “Merchant? Gary Merchant?”
     
    “Yes.”
     
    “What does he want?”
     
    “Your head on a plate, from what I’ve been told,” Alec said. “Along with Eve’s.”
     
    There was a brief pause. “Why Eve?” Lind growled. He sounded almost sober for the first time in a long time.
     
    “He blames the two of you for what happened to him.”
     
    “How was it our fault?”
     
    “I guess he thinks you should’ve figured out sooner that he was not involved with the Cartel,” Alec said. It really didn’t take a genius to figure out the motifs behind Merchant’s anger. “Now seriously, get your ass over here. We’d best keep an eye on the both of you.”
     
    Lind hesitated. “Eve, too?”
     
    “Yes. I’m sending two of our guys to pick her up. She’ll be a lot safer here.”
     
    “You’re bringing her to the club’s headquarters?”
     
    “Do you know of any safer place?” Alec retorted.
     
    “I guess not,” Lind said after a moment. “But in that case, I’m not coming.”
     
    Alec remained speechless for a few moments, completely taken aback. He had not been expecting that. “What the fuck are you talking about?”
     
    “I can’t see her, Alec,” Lind said, his voice actually shaking.
     
    “Oh, for fuck’s sake!” Alec exploded. “Are you kidding me?”
     
    “I’ll be fine,” Lind said. “You know I can take care of myself.”
     
    “Actually, over the past few months you’ve demonstrated quite the opposite.”
     
    “Whatever. I’m not coming.”
     
    “Fine,” Alec snapped. “Then stay there and get yourself killed, see if I give a fuck.”
     
    He hung up, temper flaring. He got up off the chair and walked in long strides to the front of the office, wrenching the door open.
     
    “LUCAS!” he barked. “Get in here!”
     
    The kid hurried over in an instant. “What is it?”
     
    Alec ushered him in and closed the door behind them.
     
    “We have a problem,” he said. “Lind is being an ass.”
     
    “Surprise, surprise,” Lucas said. Then, he realized what he had just said and paled. “I mean…uh…”
     
    “Relax, he deserves it,” Alec reassured. “He won’t come willingly, so I need you to grab a couple of guys and go fetch him and bring him here.”
     
    Lucas swallowed visibly, but he didn’t complain. “Will do,” he said readily.
     
    Alec nodded and opened the door again to let him out. He watched him go and deliver the news to the others, who groaned as one man. Alec couldn’t blame the men’s reluctance. Even in a stupor, Lind was still the Viper, and a pissed off snake was something no one ever looked forward to.
     
     
     

 
    CHAPTER ELEVEN
     
    “Is this really necessary?” Eve called out from the backseat of the car.
     
    They had placed a blindfold on her eyes.
     
    “Probably not,” one of the men escorting her said. “But better safe than sorry.”
     
    Eve grunted in protest but didn’t say anything else. When they had showed up to her door, the first thing Eve wondered was how they had gotten past the doorman. The next thing she thought about was how the ease with which they had made it past the doorman demonstrated that she really was not safe in her house. Reluctantly, she had agreed to go with them.
     
    Her heart pounded wildly in her