“That’s it,” Saint snaps, pushing past me. “I’ve had enough of her disrespect.”
He grabs her chin, forcing her head back at an awkward angle. “You talk to our girl like that one more time and I’ll cut your cunt into tiny pieces and feed it to you one piece at a time.”
“Come on, Taylor. I thought you were smarter than this,” Galen says, shaking his head in disgust.
Saint glares at her one final time before dropping her chin.
“I’ll tell you what you want to know if you promise you won’t touch my sister,” she spits out. “She’s innocent in all this.”
“Agreed,” I say, because I had no intention of doing anything to her sister. “But if you double-cross us, all bets are off.”
She nods, and her eyes betray her resignation. Perhaps she is smart.
“Who ordered the hit on us?” I ask, leaning against Saint when he presses up against my back.
Her lips curve into a smug grin. “No one. I did that all by myself.”
Galen scoffs, rolling his eyes. “We heard you were smart, but you’re as dumb as a bag of hammers.”
“I’m telling the truth,” she yells. “I came after you for Parker.” She drills me with a poisonous look. “You killed my sister, and I wanted revenge.”
“She tried to kill me first, and it was self-defense.”
“I don’t fucking care! It wasn’t enough to kill her. You had to set her on fire and try to frame The Bulls for her murder. Do you have any idea what that did to my father?”
“Do we look like we give two shits about your father?” Galen coolly replies.
“And if you think we’re buying this bullshit, you’re sorely mistaken.” I purposely look over at Theo. “Pull up the girl’s location. I think we’ll be paying little sis a visit after all.”
“No!” Taylor shrieks, panic entering her tone. “I swear I did this alone.”
I lean down into her face. “Liar,” I hiss.
She sighs, squeezing her eyes shut for a split second. “Look, it was me and my dad, okay? The club had nothing to do with it.”
“So, Ruben wasn’t coming after me because I killed Luke McKenzie?” I probe.
“Yes. He wanted you dead for that, and that stupid asshole Corr was supposed to take care of you at the training facility, but that was before Ruben was arrested and the club came under new leadership. The order went out that you weren’t to be touched, forcing us to take matters into our own hands.”
My eyes meet Galen’s as I try to work out if she’s telling us the truth or not. His gaze suggests he’s as suspicious as I am.
“If you wanted revenge for your sister’s murder, why target the guys?” I ask.
“They weren’t innocent either. They used Parker’s intel to burn the drug house down, and then they tossed her aside like she hadn’t helped them.”
“Parker was a conniving cunt who was playing every angle,” Galen says. “She turned up at the fight on the losing side. That was her choice, not ours.”
“It doesn’t fucking matter!” she shouts, nostrils flaring again. The chair screeches as she squirms on the seat, her arms straining in obvious pain. “You dragged her into this mess in the first place.”
“Wrong, bitch.” Caz grabs her by the throat. “That honor was Finn’s. He used her as his lackey. He was the one who put her in harm’s way. Your anger is misplaced.”
“Don’t worry. I was gunning for him next.”
“You know where he is?”
She shakes her head. “Pussy took off with his number two. Dad’s trying to find them, but so far, they’re hiding under a rock.”
She reached the same conclusion we did that Finn and Brooklyn took off because they know they have fucked up and made enemies on all sides.
