She raised an eyebrow. “And you killed him.”
“Yeah,” I rasped. “I killed him. I didn’t want to, but he left me no ch—”
Maisie kissed me before I could get another word out. My face hurt like hell when she did, but I didn’t care. She was safe and she loved me.
“Won’t the Spiders retaliate?” Maisie asked, breaking our kiss.
I shook my head. “The Spiders are done. We closed them down.”
“How exactly did you do that?”
“Warlock and I came to an understanding,” I said, hoping she wouldn’t press further into the matter, but knowing full well, she would.
“You two came to an understanding just before you killed him?” she pressed.
I nodded. “That’s right.”
“That’s not much of an answer, is it?”
I sighed. “I don’t suppose we could just close this chapter without analyzing every word, could we?”
“Connor Wallace, I swear to the almighty God, if you don’t tell me everything you’ve been up to in the past three hours, I will force both your biologicalandclub brothers to come into this room and finish the thrashing Warlock gaveyou.”
“Baby—”
“I mean it.”
“Do you promise you won’t get pissed?”
“No, I sodding do not.”
She clearly wasn’t gonna let this slide and it was never a good sign when Maisie began cursing in her native tongue, so I came clean. “This war between us and the Spiders was never gonna end. I mean, how fuckin’ long have we been going at it with these guys?”
“That’s history, get to the present.”
“When Warlock came after you that was it. A switch flipped inside of me. I knew I had to put an end to all of this. Not me and the club... just me.”
“So, you challenged him to a fight?”
I nodded.
“But you said you killed Warlock and you would have never done that unless…” Maisie’s words trailed off as she mentally processed the situation. “You agreed to a fight to the death.”
“I didn’t want to kill him. I had him beat and tried to show mercy, but he kept coming at me.”
“That’s not the point!” Maisie hollered. “You could have been killed!”
“But I wasn’t. Just a little banged up, and I’ve been banged up before,” I said.
“This is nothing compared to what I am going to do to you once we get home.”
“Baby I—”
“Don’t you dare ‘baby’ me. You snuck out of my hospital room to participate in what essentially amounts to a duel to the death, and I knew nothing about it.”
“I told you I was stepping out for a while and gave you a goodbye kiss,” I argued.
“I was on heavy drugs, and in and out of consciousness, and you know it, so don’t even try that load of bollocks on me.”
