Addicted (Outlaws Book 2) Read Free

occurrence, Pike reacted like a normal person instead of the emotionless robot Lennox had grown accustomed to. The man’s eyebrows shot up, his mouth twisting in a frown. “Me?”
    “And him.”
    Connor nodded toward Rylan, who reacted like the sex-crazed fucker he was.
    “Hell yeah. She wants us to service her? Sign me up.” Playful blue eyes shifted to Pike. “I don’t mind sharing, but if you want to sit this one out, I won’t cry myself to sleep about it.”
    Lennox snickered. It was no secret that Rylan had been trying to get into Reese’s pants for a while now, but the woman was a total ballbuster and wanted nothing to do with the blond outlaw. Lennox wasn’t sure why, considering that Reese had no problem fucking everyone else, himself included.
    “She doesn’t want your dicks.” Connor looked unusually cheerful as he shot down Rylan’s hopes. “She wants your fists.”
    Pike’s frown deepened.
    “Foxworth’s having some trouble protecting itself,” Connor explained. “Two ambushes in the last three months.”
    “Enforcers?” Xander said sharply.
    Connor nodded. “One run-in with an Enforcer unit, and then a bandit attack not long after.”
    All the men sneered. Bandits were the lowest form of life in the Colonies. They were men without morals. They roamed the free land, robbing, raping, and generally posing a nuisance to the outlaws who were trying to make a life for themselves in this shitty world.
    Lennox hesitated for a beat before speaking up. He still wasn’t sure how much to confide in the group – all the secrets he knew would take years to divulge – but now that he was living at their camp, he didn’t feel right withholding certain pieces of information.
    “Reese has deals in place with the Enforcers, Con. She bribes them and they stay away. Why would they attack her town all of a sudden?”
    Connor didn’t look surprised by the intel. “I guess those alliances are on shaky ground. Shit’s changed since Commander Ferris took over the unit.”
    “What does she need us to do?” Gone was the mischievous look in Rylan’s blue eyes. He was all business now, hard and menacing.
    “Train her people. Only a handful of them know how to fight. Most can’t even shoot a weapon.” Connor leaned back in his chair, looking unhappy. “She wants you and Pike to spend a few weeks in Foxworth and work with her people, show them everything you taught all those recruits back when you two were still part of the army group.”
    Pike didn’t look thrilled by the idea. “Can we say no?”
    Connor’s voice roughened. “She lent us her chopper so we could rescue Hudson from the Enforcer compound last month. We owe her.”
    “Then give her something else,” Pike grumbled. “I’ve got better ways to spend my time than to teach a bunch of clumsy hacks how to shoot a gun.”
    “This is what she wants. It’s
all
she wants. Trust me, I tried to negotiate, but she wasn’t having it.”
    Rylan interjected. “Hey, it’s not the worst favor she could’ve asked for.” He turned to Pike with a careless grin. “A few weeks at Foxworth, sparring during the day and screwing at night? Not a terrible gig.”
    Pike still looked unconvinced.
    “What’s the real deal here?” As always, Connor seemed to read his man’s mind. His sharp gaze fixed on Pike, who responded with a stiff shrug. But Connor was like a dog with a bone. “You don’t want to go. Why?”
    Lennox watched in fascination as the most tight-lipped bastard he’d ever met caved under Connor’s shrewd hazel gaze.
    “Don’t want to leave Hope,” Pike muttered.
    There was a beat of silence. Then a loud snort from Xander, who’d just lit a cigarette from his perch on the railing.
    Connor was equally dumbfounded. “Are you kidding me? You want us to face Reese’s wrath just so you can stick around here and hang out with your fucking
pet
?”
    Lennox swallowed his laughter. The pet in question had caught him by surprise when he