Free Situation Normal: Inked Brotherhood (Lima Six Motorcycle Club Book 2) by Kathryn Thomas

my calls or what.”
     
    “Don’t know. Did you check his shop?”
     
    “Yeah. Nobody has seen him since the meeting last night. Normally that wouldn’t worry me too much, but a half dozen other members have all gone missing about the same time. I’m concerned that there has been another hit by the cartel.”
     
    Jamie blanched at the news. “Who?”
     
    “I don’t know about everyone, but I know Gigolo, Lucas, Carson, Split, Eightball, Tug, John and Uri have all gone missing too, in addition to Ron. I heard from some of their old ladies that they didn’t come home last night, and they haven’t heard from them today either.”
     
    “And you think…?”
     
    “I don’t know. I hope not.”
     
    “What are you going to do?”
     
    “If I don’t hear from one of them by tomorrow, I will get a group together and see if we can track them down. I don’t know what else to do.”
     
    “Could it be they have just split? Left the club?”
     
    “The President?” Leo asked dubiously.
     
    “Yeah. I guess that is pretty—”
     
    “Leo!” A voice called from the door. “I thought I would find you here.”
     
    “Jesus Christ, Ron! Where the hell have you been? Your old lady has been worried sick!” Leo exclaimed as all the missing members filed into He’s Not Here.
     
    “I had to get away… do some of that kumbaya shit. I… was losing my way. You were right. I… don’t know what I was thinking when I was talking about making the town pay for our protection. I need to talk to the club, the whole club. Tonight. I need to apologize to them and make sure they know you and I are on the same page about this. Help me set it up?”
     
    Leo was so flabbergasted at Ron’s sudden change in attitude that he looked to Jamie to see if she heard the same thing he had. She looked at him with a confused look on her face and shrugged.
     
    “Uh… sure Ron.”
     
    “Okay, thanks. You start at the bottom and work up, I will start at the top and work down. We’ll meet somewhere in the middle. And Leo… thanks. Thanks for standing up and making sure this club’s name means something.”
     
    “Uh… you’re welcome.” He wasn’t sure what was going on, or what had changed Ron’s mind, but he would take his wins where he could.
     
    ***
     
    Two hours after Lima 6 left for their meeting, they returned. All of them. Leo is beaming as he strides up to the bar. He slaps his hand on the bar. “Pull me a Hefeweizen , and I would like to buy one for the bartender as well!”
     
    Jamie grinned as she and Will began to fill orders. “You’re in a good mood. Meeting go well?”
     
    “You bet your ass!” he crowed as he leaned across the bar and pulled her to him for a kiss.
     
    “Easy there cowboy,” she grinned as she pulled back. “Let me get these orders filled then you can tell me about it.”
     
    It took about five minutes of furious work, but soon she and Will had worked off the backlog of orders.
     
    “Okay. What’s up?”
     
    “It’s Ron. I don’t know what he did last night and today, he won’t say exactly, only that he had to get his head right. But it’s like he’s a different man. He stood up in front of the entire club and… apologize. Said that he was wrong, that he was leading the club in the wrong direction, and that was going to change. Then he thanked me for standing up for what was right. Said it was members like me that make Lima 6 what it was. I think you could have knocked me over with a feather. Fitz told me to close my mouth because I was drawing flies.”
     
    Leo chuckled and looked around the bar, full of happy Lima 6 members. “I think the entire club was stunned. Then he said the club had started with nothing and got the job done… and we could do it again because now we had the support of the community, and that was the most important thing. That Vallecito was the reason we were here, and that keeping the people safe was worth any sacrifice.”
     
    Jamie looked