Tip of the Spear: Devil Chasers (Lima Six Motorcycle Club Book 3) by Kathryn Thomas Read Free Book Online

it’s nothing. They probably drove all the way to Odessa to deliver some flowers.”
     
    “So we are running drugs for the cartel now? Goddamn that Ron Terrill.”
     
    “You still think the hit a month ago was all the cartel? Or maybe the cartel acting to protect their pipeline?”
     
    “Every member that was hit knew about the muling?”
     
    “Every last one. And not one other.”
     
    “Fuck.”
     
    “Now you know. The question is, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to just sit back and let the Prieto Cartel run Lima 6. Is that what you want to be, part of a drug cartel? I didn’t sign on for that. Did you?”
     
    “Baby, listen to him. You’re a good man. I know this isn’t what you want. This is your chance! You can make a difference again! A positive difference!”
     
    “Rich, you’re one of the founding members of Lima 6. You remember how Vallecito was. The drugs and the violence. You helped clean up this town once. Do it again. Be a hero again. Be our knight in shining armor again,” Jamie said quietly.
     
    “This is our home,” Kat said. “Five years ago, when I followed Lima 6 here, I came for the parties. But Vallecito gave me a home. They didn’t care that I was some biker’s old lady. I don’t want to see Vallecito go back to the way it was in the beginning. This is my home now and I want to protect it.”
     
    Copper stared into his beer, spinning the mug on the table. “I don’t like this anymore than you do,” he said, talking to no one in particular. “But I don’t see how I can change it.”
     
    “You can’t,” Leo said. “I can’t. None of us can do it alone. But together, we can. We can take the club back. We can make Lima 6 mean something again.”
     
    “Why do you even care? You’re not part of the club anymore. We threw you out.”
     
    “Because I owe it to Tuck, and Two-Tone. I owe it to Maggie, Ellen, Will, Jamie, Wade, Boggs, Jeff, and everyone else whose blood is on my hands. I owe it to them to make this right so these men are remembered for the sacrifice they made for Vallecito. I want them to be remembered for what they did, not what that fucking Ron is doing now.”
     
    “Yeah,” Copper agreed soberly. “But even the two of us, I don’t know if we can take back the club. I think I can convince Fitz to get on board, but only because you told me this right after the hit. If you were to bring this to me now, I probably wouldn’t believe you. Not from just some pictures. And maybe not over just muling drugs. Ron is keeping Vallecito, the town itself, clear of the violence.”
     
    “But for how much longer? The Cuervo Cartel is trying to push Prieto out. If this is Prieto’s last viable pipeline, how much longer until they start hitting us here? Before the cartels left us out of their fight, but Lima 6 is part of the Prieto Cartel now.”
     
    “Baby,” Kat said softly. “I don’t want to live like this. Something has to change. You have to leave Lima 6 and we have to go somewhere else, or you have to help Leo take the club back and make it what it was.” Kat paused for a long moment as she reached across the table and took his hands in her own. “Baby… I’m pregnant. We’re going to have a baby. But—”
     
    “What?” Copper nearly shouted, causing everyone in the bar to turn to look at him.
     
    “We’re going to have a baby. Vallecito is not any place to raise a baby. Not the way things are going. I love you, and I can’t leave you, but I won’t raise our child here.
     
    Jamie and Leo stared at each other with wide eyes. Neither saw that coming. “I think you two have some things to talk about. Why don’t you use my office,” Jamie offered as she slid out of the booth, Leo scooting out right behind her.
     
    “Thank you,” Kat said as she looked at Jamie with tears in her eyes, then slid out of the booth, never releasing Copper’s hands.
     
    “Holy shit!” Leo whispered as they returned to the bar to give