Inside the Church, the tension was thicker than smoke.
Nobody was talking. The long wooden table sat beneath the hanging lights, surrounded by men who suddenly seemed very interested in keeping their mouths shut.
Declan noticed every bit of it.
He had been home for barely an hour, but he knew his men too well to believe the silence was normal. Something had happened while he was away, and judging by the way Cole kept glancing at Rhett and the way Rhett couldn't sit still for more than ten seconds, it wasn't something small.
The first thing Declan had done after returning was call the meeting.
The second was ordering Jace back.
He hadn't cared that Jace was in the middle of club business. His son had gotten the call, handed off whatever he was doing, and returned to the clubhouse wit
