Jax’s POV
I didn't care that Layla found the photos. Let her look. Let her dig. The past was the past. What mattered was the future. And the future was coming for us like a freight train.
Frank was out there. Viper too. And now they were connected to Vance, the mayor who owned my soul, I felt it to my bones. Three enemies circling like wolves, waiting for the right moment to strike.
And at the center of it all was Layla.
The one they all wanted.
The one I had to protect.
I called a meeting that afternoon. Full club. Every Reaper in the compound. They gathered in the main room, standing, sitting, leaning against walls. Fifty men, maybe more. The heart of my operation.
I stood at the front. Grizz beside me. Tyler in the back, arms crossed, watching.
"We got a problem," I said. "You a
