Jett (Savaged Souls MC, #3) - K.J. Dahlen

THE LAST PART OF GUNNER BEFORE JETT

DeeDee looked at Patriot instead of anywhere else. She did not want her disappointment to show. Maybe Gunner wouldn’t acknowledge who she was. Who could blame him? For all she knew, she would have to leave here soon.

Patriot raised a brow at the long silence as he finished wrapping her shoulder and was cleaning his mess up when DeeDee got up and went over to the bed she had used earlier.

Gunner growled, “Where do you think you’re going?”

DeeDee looked over her shoulder at him. “I’m going to bed, why?”

“You’d rather sleep in here than with me?” He scowled at her.

“Of course not, but I thought you were finished with me,” she whispered.

“Not by a long shot woman. Not by a fucking long shot.” He looked over at Patriot. “Her name is DeeDee Racer and she’s Dana and Winona’s mom. As you can see at one time she was my old lady.”

Patriot looked at them both in shock. “This is Blacky’s cousin?”

“Not by choice,” DeeDee snapped. “But you can’t pick your family, can you?”

“Are you going to tell the girls?” Patriot wanted to know. He had no doubt she would be accepted by Winona but Dana was another story.

“I’m going to tell everyone in the morning,” Gunner stated. “I think it would be fitting just before we hang Blacky that he knows his plan didn’t work. You see the reason she left me was that Blacky threatened my life and that of the brothers. He threatened to ambush me and put the blame on her. She couldn’t let that happen, so she left the club. Then months later when the girls were born, he was going to let her bleed to death and he gave one of them to his addicted sister Sheila and brought the other one home. He needed an ace if anything happened.”

Patriot shook his head. “Now that sounds like something he would do, the bastard. It’s only too bad we didn’t get our hands on the money Yeta paid him with to betray the club.”

“Who says we didn’t?” DeeDee asked quietly.

Both men turned to stare at her.

“Do you know where the money is?” Gunner asked.

DeeDee nodded. “Years ago, I found him in Lake Charles. He thought I was dead already, so he didn’t hide his actions. He just carried on normally and he went to where his stash was hidden to add to it. I found out he bought diamonds with the cash. So when he left it there, I took it. I overheard him tell a buddy of his that the diamonds were well hidden in plain sight and that this was his retirement account and that someday he would come back for them.” She shrugged. “If he does go back for them one day, he won’t find them where he left them. The best part is he’ll never know I took them.”

“Well, that’s a given but I think he deserves to know where all his ill gotten money ended up don’t you?” Gunner smiled.

“And just where will it be going?” Patriot asked. “The club will never accept it. They would consider it blood money.”

Gunner nodded. “I know but I really want to stick it to the man.”

“Can I make a suggestion?” DeeDee asked.

Gunner and Patriot turned to her.

“Please do.” Gunner nodded.

“How would you guys feel about doing something that would help kids?” She suggested. “He exploited them in his skin business. So how about you turn that around and help disadvantaged kids. Something like a club, they can go to. Like to stay off the streets. It humanitarian and it’s for a good cause. That would really piss him off.”

Patriot grinned. “I like the way she thinks and she’s right. He never helped anyone except himself a day in his life. Knowing that his money would be used to help kids would really burn his hide.”

“I can bring it up for a vote in the morning,” Gunner told them. He ran his hands over his face. “But right now, we all need to get some sleep. I’m tired and getting too old to stay up all night.” He held out his hand to her.

DeeDee took it.

Without a word, he led her back down the hall to his bedroom closing the door behind them.

Morning came all too quickly and when DeeDee woke up, she leaned over and brushed Gunner’s lips with a kiss good morning. He was still sleeping when she got up and dressed. She took one long look at