“Fuck. Anything else?”

“The picture on the license doesn’t match the face of the man he stole the ID from, which means he changed out photographs. So I called in a few favors, and they’re running it through some computer programs. We may get a hit. I don’t know. It’s a shot in the dark. I’ll give you a call when I find out anything else.”

“Thanks, Cash.”

“Anytime, brother.” Cash hung up.

Shade returned his attention to Jewell who had laid paperwork down on his desk. Shade picked it up and set it in the appropriate tray.

Jewell laughed. “You don’t want to take a look at it?”

“No,” Shade said wearily.

Jewell raised a brow, sitting down on the edge of his desk. “You look tired.”

“No shit,” he snapped.

Jewell lifted her hands in the air. “Don’t blame me because you’re tired. Hell, when you fucked me, you always had energy to spare. Lily must be doing something right to wear you out,” she teased.

Shade’s face went hard. “She’s sleeping on the floor rather than sleeping with me.” Shade tossed his pen onto the desk.

“She’ll come around, Shade. Who could resist you?” Jewell mocked.

“Plenty,” he stated, standing up.

Jewell’s face went mischievous. “I could talk to her and tell her you fuck like a dream, that she’ll have an orgasm which will rock her fucking world. Then I could tell her there’s more where that comes from. She’ll be yours like that.” Jewell snapped her fingers.

Shade couldn’t help laughing at Jewell’s antics. “If I tell her all that, she’ll lock me out of my own bedroom.”

“If she does, you can always come to my room. My door is always open,” she said, gliding her fingers up his arm with a sultry look to her face.

Shade walked around her, opening the door. “The only door I’ll be walking in is the one she’s behind.”

Jewell walked up to him in the doorway. “I guess the other brothers will have to pick up the slack,” she joked.

“I think Rider can handle the job himself.”

“I think so, too.”

As they laughed together, Shade noticed Lily’s eyes kept glancing over to them. He thought he might have seen a spark of jealousy, but he couldn’t be sure.

He walked across the room to her workstation where Raci was talking to her.

“Ready?” Shade asked, coming to her side and touching her arm.

Lily jerked away from his touch. “Yes.”

Lily turned to the door, ignoring him. Oh, yeah, she was jealous.

She went to the front door and he followed behind her, watching her flouncing ass as she went up the path angrily. He still couldn’t believe she was jealous. Maybe Raci had said something?

On their way to the clubhouse, Train and Kaley were standing in the middle of the walkway, blocking them from passing. He could hear Kaley’s big mouth as he walked up the path.

“Please, Train, talk to them.” Her voice was pleading against Train’s stony face.

Shade frowned. Viper was supposed to make it plain and simple that she wasn’t ever going to become a part of The Last Riders.

Lily tried to pass the arguing pair, and Kaley’s reaction at seeing her wasn’t pleasant.

“This is all your fault,” she said hatefully to Lily.

“Excuse me?” Lily asked, coming to a stop.

“Shut up, Kaley. It’s not Lily’s fault you didn’t keep your mouth shut,” Train said.

“No one would have cared if she hadn’t been nosing in, like my sister.”

“Miranda was worried about you,” Lily protested.

“Miranda was just jealous. I was getting plenty of sex and she wasn’t.”

Her harsh words had Lily taking a step back, coming into contact with Shade who had moved closer to her. When his arm slipped around her waist, Lily tried to move away, but he held her still.

“That’s not true,” Lily tried to reason with the angry woman.

“It is true. Neither one of you would know how to have sex other than lying on your back and spreading your legs. And I doubt if you would even lower yourself enough to do that, Lily.” She nodded at Shade. “He’s fucking wasted on you, but he’ll get tired of your shit, and when he does, he’ll go back to fucking anything with a cunt.”

“Lily, go on up to the house,” Shade said calmly, his arm leaving her waist.

Shade waited until Lily was out of ear shot before he turned his gaze on Kaley. “Why are you here?”

“I wanted to talk to Train. I like it here, Shade. If you want me to stay out of Lily’s way, I will. I’ll even pretend to like the stupid bitch if you want me to. I don’t have to become a member as long as you guys let me hang around. I’ll do whatever you want.” She ended with the seductive promise.

“You want me to handle this?”

Train hesitated. “I brought her in, so I’ll take care of it.”

“Do that, before I do,” Shade said grimly.

He didn’t turn around when he heard Kaley’s sharp cry. The stupid bitch had underestimated Train. He always fooled everyone into thinking he was the easy-going one, which was true, but he had a button which shouldn’t be pushed, and Kaley had pressed it a long time before. Train wouldn’t lay a finger on a woman, but he would have no problem taking out anything she cared about.

One time, a prospective member had grown too attached to Train and had given Raci a black eye after she had seen Train fuck her. When the Last Riders had thrown her out of the club, everyone had thought Train wasn’t even angry at the woman. Shade had known different and wasn’t surprised when he heard her two brothers and cousin were in the emergency room with broken ribs and lacerations. Each of them had both of their eyes blackened after he had broken their noses. They never heard from her again.

Shade opened the door to the basement to see Lily already on the mat, working out in black leggings and a T-shirt which actually fit. He was glad to see he had gauged her size correctly, although he had asked Winter to buy them for her, knowing she wouldn’t take them from him.

“I’ll be right back,” he told her as he went to get changed.

When Shade returned, she got into position. They always did a set of maneuvers, switching it up occasionally when she became bored. Shade made one of his practiced moves and Lily responded with more force than usual, almost managing to knee him in his privates.

“You’re getting better. You almost got them that time,” Shade complimented her, well aware she wanted to make him a her.

She had been trying to knock his nuts off since they had begun her defense lessons. He often wondered if it was all men in general or if it was only his nuts she wanted to hurt.

Lily gritted her teeth as she circled the mat, trying to get behind him. “You haven’t seen anything yet.”

Shade lifted his brow at her assertion, but he decided to take it easy on her. Lily’s newfound confidence was hot as Hell.

That time, when he came for her, Lily responded unexpectedly, using a move he sure as shit hadn’t shown her.

She used both of her fists to hit him between the shoulder blades after he let her wiggle away from his hold.