Free Rebels (Nomad Devils Motorcycle Club Book 2) by Carmen Faye Page A

her if he knew she was working with Asher. That he’d told her about an investigation. That he’d said he was in danger. He wanted someone to know. He’d be in touch. Everything.
     
    Everything except one. She left it for last. And when she said the words she knew why she’d saved that detail.
     
    Asher exploded. He wanted her to leave town. Get the hell away from whatever was going on. He was worried for her. She had been afraid of that reaction.
     
    She argued. They got into a small fight. Then he told her he was sorry. That he couldn’t bear the idea of anything happening to her. She nodded. She understood. But she still wasn’t positive any of it was true.
     
    Hudson believed it didn’t matter. If the idea was thrown out there, she was in some sort of danger. And he wasn’t certain how to fix it with her out working cases. If Wallaby was honest and she disappeared, it’d put a mark on both of them. Logan was no fool.
     
    If he was lying, Logan would know she knew and he’d come after her. She was damned if she did and damned if she didn’t.
     
    There was no sex that night. They talked. She told him what had happened and he held her. They tried to sort through it. They tried to figure out what they could do to make it okay. They yelled and questioned and cried. And for the first time, Hudson told her he loved her.
     
    That brought her to the question that’d been in the back of her mind for months. If he loved her…if he wanted her…why would he let his club take care of her?
     
    Hudson was shocked she’d asked. He had known that was her thought. Once he’d realized she’d been in that passageway and heard the conversation. She was an agent. It was in her nature to stop and listen.
     
    He went on to explain how he was putting on a front. The guilt that had filled him from the inside. The way he’d planned to tell her. But she’d left. And he’d been devastated.
     
    Fuller wanted to believe him. She wanted to hear the words and have no doubts that he was being honest. The problem was that she wasn’t sure who was honest and who wasn’t anymore. She’d come to Vegas for a job and she ended up in some kind of mixed up and twisted world she’d never expected.
     
    Now she understood the saying. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. That’s because what happens in Vegas is so fucked up that it doesn’t make sense to the rest of the world. So they just keep it quiet so that nobody knows. She’d never been in a situation like this and once she was out, she never wanted to be again. It upset her more than anything she’d ever dealt with, including her brother’s death.
     
    Asher watched her facial expressions and felt his heart break. Even after all they’d endured together, she wasn’t sure she believed him. A part of him understood it. She was learning a lot about the world. But he’d thought that he’d proven himself to her.
     
    Watching her toy with whether she could trust him was the most painful thing he’d ever seen. He never expected that a woman, any woman, could get to him the way she had. And he knew that he only had one recourse. Keep her safe. Show her that he’d never hurt her and then she would know she could believe what he said.
     

CHAPTER 11
     
    Melissa sat straight up in bed. She was sweating. Her heart was racing. She had a feeling she couldn’t describe. For the first time in a long time, it wasn’t because of a racy dream about Hudson.
     
    Something was wrong. Very wrong. But she had no clue what. It was just her gut. And it was a bad something.
     
    She tried to take deep breaths and relax her body for a second before she went into a full-fledged panic attack. It’d been years but she had no doubt that one was coming.
     
    Everything in her told her to run. Get out. She was in danger. Her body was tense. But she tried to rationalize the situation. Yes her gut said something was wrong. But that didn’t mean she was in danger. Not necessarily.
     
    The fear