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finally letting up a bit, when she ended her silent treatment.
    “It was your brother, wasn’t it?”
    He glanced at her.
    “Aidan McKinnon, your club’s tech guy. I looked you up; I just didn’t put it together until now. He was the one who found out who I am, not you.”
    Connor returned his attention to the road. He wondered what else she had found out, but wasn’t going to ask. People tended to do more talking if you kept quiet and let them.
    She went on, her voice cool and calm, her heart a little panicked. “I’m guessing your harmless MC is a cover for something else.”
    “Why do you think that?”
    “Because, your brother did a search on me, looked into who I really am. If you were just building Frankie a bike, you wouldn’t have needed intel on me.”
    Smart girl, he thought, but said nothing.
    For a moment she stewed in her own thoughts, maybe waiting for him to prompt her. The woman had little patience.
    “You could be a rival of Frankie’s. Some guy who runs his own dogfighting ring looking at the competition, maybe planning to sabotage it.”
    “I look like a dogfighter?” He allowed himself a smile, wondering if she knew how ironic that was.
    “No.” She had pulled a foot onto the seat and had an arm around her shin. She rested her cheek on her knee and stared at him. “You look like a biker, I guess. You’ve got the tattoos and that dangerous something about you.”
    Good. She realized he was dangerous, just didn’t know why.
    “I bet your brother didn’t find much, though, did he?”
    He answered with silence. She smirked.
    “Obviously I didn’t do a good enough job since your brother was able to connect Jenny Cartwright to Casey Keene. I wonder how he did it.” She sat in silence a moment, pondering the genius that was Aidan McKinnon. Even Connor was in awe of his younger brother.
    “I know a lot about you, though,” she said with a satisfactory lilt in her voice. “Thirty-six years old. Parents, Jackie and Donald, live in Alaska. Your club’s leaders are all brothers, three of an original seven. Most of your club is related. You’ve never married. You don’t have any social media accounts. You’ve never left the East Coast. And you’ve never been sick, never gone to the hospital, not even as a child.” She glanced at him as she revealed this last bit, as if she didn’t quite believe her own intel. Who never got sick?
    He didn’t. None of his family did. Ever.
    He found it odd, and more than uncomfortable that she had been able to find out as much as she had. He would have to attribute it to her hacker skills and not some fault of a club member letting information on his family get on the Internet. He would let Aidan know, though. He could get rid of it.
    She sniffed and pushed strands of loose hair out of her face.
    “I don’t know why you’re here, but I do think the bike is just a cover.” She went back to staring out the window in silence.
    Connor sent up a small prayer of thanks, and then he heard the screeching and felt the drag in the trailer behind them.
    “Ah, fuck.”
     
    Chapter Fourteen
     
    Casey felt a moment’s joy as they pulled over to the side of the highway, but it vanished when Connor grabbed her wrist, squeezing hard enough that she wanted to cry out, and glared at her, his face way too close to hers.
    “You run, you finish this ride in the trunk.”
    She rolled her eyes, going for cool and uncaring, but inside snakes twisted in her belly. As Connor climbed out of the car, going around to the trailer, Casey realized she was afraid of him. But why? Because he was stronger than her?  A lot of people were. Because he was bigger? Silent? Mysterious?
    None of those things explained the fear she felt in his presence. All of them together? Maybe.
    He sat back in the driver’s seat and punched a number into his phone. “Tire fell off,” he grumbled.
    She glanced out the back window to see the trailer sitting an angle. “Didn’t you check it after