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“I don’t doubt it. Did you see Lyric on the back of Rage’s sled?”

“No, but maybe he doesn’t care.”

Vi poked him in his firm gut. “Oh, silly boy, he cares. I bet you a hundred bucks that she’ll swap out her cut to his before walking through those shrubs.”

“I’d be a fool to take that bet.”

“Well, you’ve proven you’re a fool by falling in love with me,” she teased.

“Thanks for rubbing it in,” he said dryly.

She squeezed his cheeks, giving him duck lips, and touched their mouths together. “Love you.” Damn, saying that was weird.

“Love you, too.”

“Fool.”

He laughed. “Guess I’ll go snag another sausage. I’ll need my energy later.”

“You certainly will, stud.”

With another laugh, he smacked her ass and spun on his boot heel.

She watched his sexy ass in those perfectly fitted Levi’s as he headed toward the food. He rarely wore jeans but when he did, it was a treat.

Holy fuck. The current trajectory of her life was so unexpected.

She’d be an ol’ lady soon.

She was in love with a man who respected her and wasn’t a complete asshole.

And crazy enough, he was in love with her, too, even despite her family being… well, her family. She couldn’t say they were normal.

Normal was boring, anyway.

“You’re one of the last club sisters that I ever thought would choose the DAMC run over our own.”

Vi turned her head to see Lexi, the AFMC president, approaching. “I didn’t choose anything. Reaper asked me to ride with him.”

“Just because you ride him doesn’t mean you need to ride with him.”

“Maybe we need to schedule our runs on different days,” Vi suggested.

Lexi groaned. “You’re going to let the guys dictate what we do? That goes against the whole fucking reason we started our own club.”

“We started it to be a thorn in their sides. It worked. And even if we schedule our run another weekend, it’ll still bug the shit out of them when us women go off on our own.”

“If they aren’t busy with their own run, they’ll try to get involved with ours. You know how they are.”

Her cousin was probably right. “We have to consider Lyric. It’s not fair to make her choose between us and Rage.”

Lexi rolled her steel blue eyes. “Bitch, you’re not speaking for Lyric because we all know she can speak for herself. You’re speaking for yourself. Nothing is going to change if we keep giving in.”

“Lex, this shit has been ingrained into the club for generations. It’s not going to change.” Vi couldn’t believe she was defending the brotherhood. That was so not like her.

Apparently, falling in love had given her brain damage.

“That’s a shitty attitude to have. Be the change you want to see.”