I hug her tighter as my eyes land on the rope that hangs from the metal bar in the trees. Swallowing the knot that lodges in my throat, I promise to be a better person to her. Because she’s right, our husbands arebrothers,making her mysister.
EIGHTY-SIX
HAIDYN
We’ve moved her mother to a cell, and today is the day we bring out Hudson. He’s strapped in the same spot as Isabella was several days ago. He’s remained silent. Tyson’s men brought him back with them, and he’s been in the hospital. It was the first time I saw Kash actually smile since they rescued me from that hell. His face lit up when he told me my wife shot Hudson. He was so proud of her.
My wife stands next to me while Adam stands on the other side of her. Saint and Kash stand by Ryat, Tyson, and Sin. Bill is still here as well.
“What can you tell us that Isabella can’t?” I ask.
He purses his lips and lifts his chin. I’ve slept beside my wife the past few nights, wanting to put a fucking knife through his chest but have refrained. I know what he was going to do to her, and it makes me sick to even think about it.
I know what I hallucinated wasn’t far off. He’s a sick fucking bastard.
“He asked you a question, motherfucker!” Kash steps forward, and I grab his shirt, pulling him back.
“I know something.” My wife speaks, and everyone in the room turns to face her.
“You don’t know shit, bitch.” Hudson laughs at her. “You didn’t even know that I was in on it. You thought that I was actually interested in you. You’re pathetic,” he spits.
She turns to face me, ignoring him as she speaks. “He was the one who slit your wrists.”
I stiffen at her words, and Kash spins around to face him. “You what?” He looks back at my wife. “How the fuck do you know that?”
“He told me when he and Bill threw me in the cell with Haidyn at Dollhouse. He was bragging. Said that my mother should have let him slit your throat…” Her eyes fill with unshed tears, and she adds, “I just put two and two together.”
Saint steps up to him. “So you were here…? In Carnage with Isabella when she was training us?”
He gives us a cruel smile.
Saint punches him, knocking his head to the side. He spits blood from his split lips. All this time, this piece of shit had been with my wife long before I even knew who she really was. Isabella told me that he set her up for me to find her car on the side of the road. Once I got that call from Adam informing me of who she was, I spent the next two weeks setting up cameras in her house, preparing her basement…he knew all of that. That’s why I never saw him on the cameras. I had her tell everyone that she was going out of town, and it gave him an excuse to stay away, and she never questioned his distance. Then he showed up pretending to be mad when he found her notebook. He had to give her a reason to walk away. To make her feel like she betrayed him. He was just playing with her mind, adding to her mother’s bullshit game. And I never took the opportunity to check the cameras when she told me he had been there while she sat in her bathtub. I was too busy making sure she marriedme that night. If I had just checked them, I would have seen him in her house. I would have recognized him. I never showed her the picture I had of him in my pocket. She never saw it when I showed Ryat and Tyson. LeAnne showed up, and my wife was attacked. It just never seemed important.
“Who is this?” I demand, stepping forward holding out the picture of him and Benny. “How do you fucking know him?” Benny already told us, but I want to hear him say it.
Hudson just laughs.
A cell phone goes off, and Adam pulls his out of his pocket. He reads over something and then sighs.
“What is it?” I growl.
“It’s Gavin. The results are back…”
“And?” Kash snaps when he trails off.
“Benny was telling the truth. Hudson is Benny’s cousin.”
“That’s how Benny got inside Carnage,” Kash whispers. “If you were here with Isabella, then you knew how to get in and out.”
“But…but you didn’t have a Lords crest.” Charlotte frowns, just now learning the information that we already knew.
“That’s because he never passed the initiation,” I add. Not surprised both Benny and Hudson failed.
“Then how the fuck did he get so close to Isabella? No way she would have brought civilians to help her. The Lords would have never allowed that.”
Hudson’s laughter fills the basement. “They let her do whatever the fuck she wanted.”
Kash runs a hand down his face with a growl.
