The bald guy shoved hard from behind.“Move it.It’s fucking cold out here.”
Shooting daggers at the asshole, he followed in Sadie’s and Snake’s footsteps.Inside the door, he stopped to look around.Tinker already had Sadie sitting on a wooden chair over by the fireplace.Snake was adding wood to the coals to get it going again.Tinker stood behind her with a hand on her shoulder and a gun pointed at her head, ensuring Jed’s cooperation.
“Come over here and have a seat.”He tipped his head at the empty chair facing hers.“Keep your hands where I can see them.”
“How long have you been squatting here?”he asked as he took a seat, resting his arms loosely on the arms of the chair.He did a quick head to toe scan of Sadie to make sure no one had hurt her while he’d been out.
“Few days.Had to find somewhere to lay low.Didn’t want Race catching up to me before I was ready.”Tinker’s closed-mouth smirk pissed Jed off.
“Take their coats, Lyle.”
Tinker’s prison buddy smiled like a grinning idiot, happy to do everything Tinker said.He brought some rope over and ordered Jed to remove his coat.He then tied his arms from wrists to elbow to the arms of the chair before moving to Sadie and doing the same.
“Okay.Now you’ve got us.What now?”Jed wanted to keep Tinker talking, hoping to give the club time to mount a rescue.
Instead of answering him, he turned to the other four men in the room.“I need you guys to do a perimeter check.”
“What?Outside?”Snake’s look was incredulous.
“Yes, outside.That would be where the perimeter is.”Tinker talked to the man like he was an idiot.His sarcasm was completely lost on the guy.
“But it’s cold out there,” Snake continued to complain.
“Do you want to do as you’re told or do you want me to quit supplying you with EZ Lay?”
Snake seemed to debate whether it was worth freezing his dick off in order to keep getting his EZ Lay fix or not.In the end, he followed the other men outside.
Once the door closed behind the last of them, Tinker turned his attention back to Jed.“I want to thank you for making this so easy for me.”
“How did I make what easy for you?”
“You made getting my hands on the two of you easy by going to her apartment.I waited in the shadows for you to leave and followed you until we could run you off the road.”
Fuck.Had he been so wrapped up in his conversation with Sadie that he hadn’t been as vigilant as he should have been?Was this his fault that he and Sadie were being held prisoner?Yes.It was his fault.He knew better.He should never have told Cutter to bring her to him.Instead, he should have called her and asked her what she needed from the apartment.She would be safe back at the clubhouse right now had he not been so overconfident in his skills of keeping her safe.At least Oliver wasn’t with them.
Tinker walked to the fireplace and back.“I’ve waited for this day for over ten fucking years.All I thought about while I lay in my bunk every night was how I was going to get my hands on you and make you suffer before I finally killed you.It’s all your fault that I went away.If you had saved me instead of Dagger, I wouldn’t have lost ten years of my life!The club should have been mine after Monk died!I should have been running things!I helped create this fucking club and what thanks do I get?”He continued to pace back and forth, getting more agitated the longer he talked.“I’m treated no better than a goddamn prospect!No one tells me anything.I had to find out from a fucking waitress that the club owned the goddamn strip club.I should have been treated with respect for being an original!You’ve all turned the Sons into a bunch of sniveling pussies.You’ve got ankle biters running around the club for God’s sake.You have old ladies hanging out instead of a stable of whores.And you gave the fucking whores rights!Who the fuck does that?!”
He stopped behind Sadie and put his hands on her shoulders.She flinched as he gave her a rough squeeze.“Even the dancers and waitresses should be dropping to their knees and sucking our cocks anytime we want.Instead, you let them think they don’t have to service the brothers to keep their jobs.What the fuck?”
He fisted her hair in his hand and jerked her head back.“You think you’re too good for me, but you’ll spread your legs for him?Seriously?After you fucked the moose, Darren?”He shoved her head roughly forward.“I mean, you’re carrying another man’s baby, for God’s sake.And you still have this one panting around after you like you’ve got a golden snatch.Hmm?Is that it?”He reached around and grabbed her between the legs.She stiffened, but otherwise, she didn’t let on how much she despised his touch.
By the time Tinker took a moment to catch his breath from his tirade, Jed was desperate to get him away from Sadie.“You know what?I didn’t save you because Dagger was closer, and honestly, I just never liked you.I was glad to see you go to prison.”
Tinker stomped over to Jed and backhanded him so hard, it was a wonder his chair didn’t tip over.He heard Sadie gasp, but refused to look her way.He had to keep Tinker’s attention on him.He laughed and spit a mouthful of blood on the floor.“That the best you’ve got?”
Tinker backhanded him again, then punched him in the stomach, knocking the breath from him.He shouldn’t be shocked that the man could hit so hard, considering he had nothing to do all day long in prison but work out and lift weights.
He watched Tinker move back to Sadie.He grabbed her around the chin, his fingers digging into her face.He pulled out a hunting knife and ran the dull edge along her cheek, then down her throat.Jed clenched his teeth hard to keep from shouting at him to leave her alone.It was exactly the kind of reaction he was trying to get out of him.He fisted his hands on the ends of the chair arms, his whole body tense from waiting on Tinker’s next move.He didn’t have long to wait.
The bastard used the sharp edge of his blade to cut Sadie’s shirt up the middle.She held her breath, not moving an inch as the two halves fell to the sides.
“Hey.I was wondering something.”He needed to draw his attention back to him.“They say in prison, everyone is someone’s bitch.Who did you belong to?Lyle?”
Tinker roared as he raced back to Jed, red staining his cheeks and his eyes wild.He reared back and shoved the blade into his gut, causing him to grunt and double over in pain.Sadie screamed, but he couldn’t make out what she was saying over the roaring in his ears.The wet sound of the knife being pulled out of his body was something he’d never forget.If he lived that long.
“You always were a smart-mouthed son of a bitch.”Tinker stood over him, his smile pure evil as he held the knife at his side with Jed’s blood dripping off the tip.
“You’re fucking dead,” Jed panted.
