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it?”
     
    “What do you mean?” Lind asked carefully.
     
    “Maybe if I was more involved—”
     
    “No,” Lind said immediately, in a tone that bore no arguments.
     
    “Why?”
     
    “You know why. It’s dangerous.”
     
    “But—”
     
    “Look,” Lind cut her off, “you were kidnapped and almost killed. Twice. And you weren’t even involved with the club. Can you imagine what would happen if you were?”
     
    “Nothing has to happen,” Eve said after a moment. “If you could just—”
     
    “I said, no way,” Lind all but growled. I’m keeping you safe, goddamn it, no matter what. “I’ll see you later.”
     
    He disconnected the call before Eve could say anything else, too angry to even consider his gesture. She could snarl and demand all she liked; Lind would rather have her mad at him than have her killed.
     
     
     

CHAPTER FOUR
     
    Lind’s head was still reeling as he sped through the congested L.A. traffic on his beloved Harley. He had left the car at the Diamondbacks’ headquarters; the bike was faster, and after what he had just learned, he needed to get to Eve’s as fast as possible.
     
    ***
     
    “There’s reason to believe that the attack at the Cobra, while aimed at Alec, was meant to hurt someone else.”
     
    The Diamondbacks had all looked at Lucas, the youngest and most promising member of their club, in confusion.
     
    “What are you talking about?” Phil, one of the oldest members, had asked.
     
    “And how would you know?” echoed Freddie.
     
    Lucas hesitated. His hazel eyes settled briefly on Lind before he nervously looked away, but even that short stare was enough to make the hairs on Lind’s arms stand up.
     
    “This came in the mail today,” Lucas said, pulling an envelope out of the inside pocket of his leather vest. “There was no name on it, so I opened it.”
     
    It was a brown, plain envelope with nothing written on it, just the MC’s address. Lucas slid it across the table towards Lind, who took it with a sense of foreboding growing in the pit of his stomach. He looked briefly at the kid before he, too, took the single piece of paper out. Unsurprisingly, the note addressed him directly.
     
    ‘Viper,
     
    This isn’t over. You may have eliminated the menace of the cobra, but I have many more serpents in my basket. I will destroy you and all you love. I will destroy the club. I will destroy your love. Once everything you’ve ever known and loved has been burned down, I will kill you.
     
    This isn’t over. You can’t sleep easy yet.
     
    Love,
     
    D.’
     
    Lind had to re-read the words quite a few times, in order to make sense of it all. In order to accept that this was real. And once the reality of it finally sank in, he experience a red-hot wave of rage as he had not experienced in a while. It almost blinded him.
     
    “What is it?” Alec asked.
     
    His friend’s voice brought him back to the here and now. Wordlessly, Lind handed the note over to him. He watched as Alec’s gray eyes flashed in anger and his jaw twitched. Equally silent, the President of the Diamondbacks handed the note over to the man sitting next to him. It was passed around the table until everyone had read it, and once everyone was up to speed a stunned silence fell onto the room.
     
    “Are we sure it’s him?” Victor ventured weakly. “Maybe it’s a prank.”
     
    Lind silenced him with one glare. This was no prank. This was far too real.
     
    “What do we do now?” Freddie asked.
     
    “We find that son of a bitch,” Alec said. “And we kill him, like we should have done a long time ago.”
     
    “ I’ll kill him,” Lind corrected, his voice low and growly and dripping with hot fury. “No one else lays a hand on the bastard but me.”
     
    Alec nodded gravely. “Understood.”
     
    ***
     
    Lind feared that Eve would not understand. After all, he could hardly wrap his mind around it himself. He just couldn’t believe this was happening. Then