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Chapter One

Chaser

So of stuff, it’s in the undoing of the things that leave you unbalanced The releasing of the people hanging around your neck The albatrosses who drag you under It’s a lesson I should’ve learned a long tio

Instead, thanks to ht cell With no idea whether Andrew is alive or not

Fear digs the deepest graves That's why I' mine in check

I’m innocent

This is all a big mistake

I’ll be out soon

“Adams!” an officer shouts

Please let that be so me out of here

I stand and wait by the cell door The officer approaches, alotta cuff you”

I hold otta do”

“Lot of us are fans,” he says in a low voice as he walks h the corridors

“Thanks” What the hell else do I say? You’d think growing up in an MC, I’d have a healthy hatred of law enforcement And I do, to a certain extent Butrespect until it’s no longer an option Law enforce their job

The gri doesn’t improve as I’m led away from the cells, down a corridor with painted cinderblock walls All less and free of decoration We stop outside a small room Inside, a square metal table is bolted to the floor A crabby-faced detective waits to interrogate me on the other side

He scowls as the other officer walks me to a chair

The guy is most definitely not a fan

Once we’re alone, he sits forward “Let’s go over your story again, Mr Adams”

“This is ridiculous” I spread unshot residue”

“You seem to know an awful lot about the process”

I rollaround free”

“You and Andrew Lane are friends?”

“Yes” Most of the tiuy but I haven’t made a serious attempt, yet

It’s probably better to keep those sentiments to myself

“A nuuirlfriend”

“She and Andrew had a e with Andrew last night”

“Another witness says you threatened to shoot Mr Lane a few nights ago”

“Bullshit” One of the only “witnesses” was Alvin and there’s no way he’d rat me out to anyone Jacob and Garrett technically didn’t see anything I can’t i the story so fast And Mallory would never talk to the cops That leaves so second or third-hand information

“So you didn’t threaten to shoot him?”

“We get into disagreeuys on the road cooped up on tour buses”

Unih his notebook “That doesn’t answer my question”

I shrug

“Does Andrew Lane have a drug problem?”

Does he ever

“No idea”

“What about Jacob Whitfield?”

He’s the whole reason we’re in this mess

“You’ll have to talk to Jacob”

“We will once we locate hier You don’t know his habits?”

“I’, fat lie there

“He’s the one who called you and asked you to meet him and Andrew?”

“Yeah”

“Any idea what they were doing in that part of town?”

“I assu to score heroin

“Then what?”

“When I got there, Andreas already on the ground bleeding out” I squeezeof possibly watching a friend die