Free Rogue Stallion (Chrome Horsemen MC Book 2) by Carmen Faye

over for a kiss.
     
    After he kissed her, he looked at Brian who was studying traffic through the large windows, "Any word from last night's raids? Rat said his group hit three places and came away with a sizable amount of cash, as well."
     
    "Pillaging is one of the great wealth bringers known to man," Brian said without turning from the window. "There's a car across the street, two men in the front seat. A Cougar, I believe. Red. See them?"
     
    She searched at the same time and found it just as Cole said, "Got them. What's up?"
     
    "They were outside the club at the curb down from where we were. We were most likely the first patch-holders out on the sidewalk this morning."
     
    "I'm not liking where this is going," Cole growled.
     
    "Me neither," Nicole piped.
     
    "How do you want to play it?" Cole asked Brian. When Brian turned a little with a raised eyebrow, Cole said, "Don't give me that look. I'm a street fighter. Learned all I know from gang fights and getting jumped in the wrong neighborhoods. I only have one tactic: kill them. That's as far as planning ever gets with me. However, Jim tells me you're a walking Art of War and I follow directions very well."
     
    "Thanks," Brian told him. "You're senior and thanks for letting me handle this for you."
     
    "Hey, buddy, I like breathing. So you lead. I'll follow."
     
    Brain nodded his thanks again and then looked back out the window. "Well I doubt they are coming in here. If they decide to, we'll spot them long before they get here. Are you armed?"
     
    "Yeah, the cops took mine last night since it was the weapon that was used, but I have extras," Cole informed him.
     
    Brian nodded to the wisdom of this and then asked, "Who is up and close right now? Got their numbers?" Brain asked.
     
    "Yeah," Cole said, taking out his phone and looking over to her. "Hey, baby, eat. It's still good food. Best breakfast in Chicago."
     
    "I seem to be losing my appetite." She murmured.
     
    "Not a good time for that," Cole told her. "You're going to need all the energy you can get."
    She looked at him wide-eyed and then Cole added, "Well, you're going shopping after this, right?"
     
    She didn't quite get it, but when it hit, it was lame and cute, and funny as hell under the circumstances. She laughed and gave him a smile, "That is so chauvinistic. I'm shocked you think of me like that."
     
    He returned her smile and started to eat. She checked the car outside again and followed suit.
     
    Cole reported, after a few calls, that he could get two men there in ten minutes. Brian nodded and told him where he wanted the men to arrive at, what direction they needed to come from, and what to do.
     
    Cole listened and she watched his expression, and the growing concentration in his eyes as Brian's words built up the scenario like a model in his mind. could almost see the plan unfolding in his facial expressions as it controlled the enemy’s movements, forced the men in the car to divulge their intentions, and then killed them after the plan revealed they were looking to do the same thing to the Horsemen.
     
    Through her studies, Nicole came across descriptions of people who possessed eidetic memories – memories that were highly visual in nature. These memories tended to degrade very slowly over decades, not hours, with amazing recall clarity. Cole had told her during their first evening together that he never finished high school -- yet he reads Shakespeare . She felt a low, deep sadness that Cole's life hadn't allowed him to make use of a gift like his, if he in fact possessed such a gift, and the odd connection between them was telling her he did.
     
    Cole had quit eating halfway through the plan, falling into a state of pure mind power as he concentrated on what Brian was laying out for him. When Brian finished, she watched Cole's eyes as they continued to move around the table, as if he were replaying it and studying it from different angles. "Shit, Brian,” Cole announced