Free Hiding Out (Hawks MC: Caroline Springs Charter, #2) by Lila Rose Page B

hands went to his waist.
    Muffkateers...now that was laughable; however, I didn't. I guessed not many people laughed at Talon and lived to tell the tale.
    "Oh, we'll have words no matter what, Talon Marcus."
    I think I had a girl crush. Zara was...amazing!
    "Babe." Talon groaned and looked to the ceiling, as if he were trying to stop himself from strangling her. "Dodge is handling it."
    "Yes, why is Dodge handling it?" she demanded.
    "Zara," Josie put in then shook her head. I could have kissed that woman again because she didn't want to embarrass me over my obvious obsession with Dodge and him keeping me safe. But Dodge came with Josie and her men, and she didn't need any more trouble.
    Stuff it. From the determined look in Dodge's eyes earlier, I knew I had no choice but to play along. They wanted to protect me? Fine. It didn't mean I couldn't help with the protection part, and my help would be in the way of keeping who I could safe.
    I was strong. I had balls when I had to. I just happened to be dazed, confused and very scared yesterday. No longer, though.
    "He's the new president of this charter," Talon announced to the room.
    "Oh, yay!" Julian cried.
    Wow, again. Dodge...Mr Sinful himself, was the president of an MC.
    "Okay, well, okay," Zara said. Talon smirked at her. "Keep that smile off your face. If he can't deal with the protection Willow obviously needs...if I'm getting this right, from her owner ," she snarled, and a look of disgust had her nose scrunching up. "Then I'm calling in the girls and we'll come back here to help deal with keeping her safe."
    A sniff sounded in the room.
    I realised it came from me when all eyes landed on me.
    "A woman's crying, I'm outta here," a large mountain man hissed.
    "Dallas," Dodge growled.
    "Hell no, brother. I'll call in later. Tonight, I'll take care of the cameras in the garage," he said then quickly walked out the front door like his pants were on fire.
    Besides, I wasn't exactly crying. Only a few tears rolled down my cheeks.
    "Dumpling," Julian cooed at me like a little child, which would usually annoy me, but coming from Julian it didn’t. So instead of punching him in the throat, I let him wrap his arms around me. "Don't cry about it. You'll see, once you get into this club, you'll want to stay forever. Our group is awesome and now you're in it so...I officially welcome you to the pussy posse."
    Numbly, I nodded. Never had I felt so much love and friendship in my life.
    "Kitten," Talon growled, which he seemed to do a lot. "We better get back to the kids."
    Zara rolled her eyes at him. She turned and stepped towards me, taking me in her arms for a long hug. "We'll talk soon. I'll call you and I'll call Josie for all the information I need to know about what in the heck is going on."
    "Zara," Talon warned, again.
    She ignored him, smiled and added, "You're in good hands. It's Dive you need to stay away from."
    "Hey!" Dive yelled.
    "Though, Dodge has been known to have—"
    "Wildcat," Dodge snapped.
    Wildcat...I liked that for Zara.
    "Anyway, I'll be in touch, and one day you so have to come to Ballarat to meet everyone." She hugged me again, then hugged Josie, Julian, Matthew, Dodge, Pick, Billy, Dive, Lan, Memphis and a young man whose name I didn't know.
    "Kitten," Talon groaned.
    "Coming," she sang then walked to her man, who placed his arm around her shoulders. He sent a chin lift to the room, which seemed to be normal for these men, and walked out the front door.
    "Right," Memphis started. "Church tomorrow, announce the changes, see if that'll scare any snitch out of hiding. For now, I'm out." He turned to the youngest in the room. "You coming, kid?"
    "Yep," was his reply. He shook Dodge's hand then gave him a manly hug and loud pat to the back, which Dodge replicated, and left after Memphis.
    "Going to get gone, as well," Lan said. He walked up to me, leaning in.
    "Lan," Dodge said with a tone of warning.
    Lan kissed my cheek, causing me to blush. He then handed