“No, she knows of it, but she’s not part of this world. Why?”
“Come here.”
I moved over to where he stood, turning to see what he was looking at. I peered at the wall of photos, until my eyes landed on a couple of familiar faces.
A younger Rowan was smiling at the camera, Frankie in the middle and on the right, Raf’s scowling face. They couldn’t be older than seventeen.
“What is this?”
“Clearly she knows more than she’s letting on. Obviously, this was taken a while ago, but it does show that she and Raf are more friendly than we originally thought.”
Pure anger rocked me. She lied. She told me she knew of this place, not that she’d been here. What else was she hiding from me?
“Where’s Raf?”
Chaos moved past me to walk out of the room. I grabbed the photo off the wall and pocketed it, before I followed him. The Pit was active tonight which could only mean it was a big fighter in the Pit. Old school gladiator style. One champion faces as many opponents as possible.
“Who’s on tonight?” I asked Chaos as we made our way around the centre of the dome. It was a sunken level, with railings all around it. Two fighters beating the hell out of each other down below.
“Vicious,” Chaos said, speaking of the ex-MMA fighter who turned to bare knuckle boxing when I was coming up. He was fierce, but he was also on the wrong side of the war. He took the Ironborne oath, and made us instant enemies. It was a shame. He could have been good for the Sons.
“He beat Beast?”
“Oh he wasn’t in the ring when that happened,” Chaos chuckled as he pulled up at a corner table. “Turns out our little Beastie has a married lover. Husband happens to be a promoter here.”
“Fucking idiot.”
“What are we doing, Chaos?”
“Look to your left.”
I turned slowly, my eyes adjusting to the bar to our left and further up, a lounge area with booth type seats and low tables. Raf was sitting on the leather couch, women on either side of him, but he wasn’t paying attention to them pawing at him. He was looking at his phone, in his hand.
“He’s been looking for Rowan here.”
“Here?”
Chaos nodded. “Yeah, prez.”
“Not Trey?”
“Nope.”
Fuck.
Had I gone and fallen for someone working for the Ironborne? Had she got Trey mixed up in it?
It had taken a lot for me to trust a woman, and she’d wormed her way into my heart so easily. Fuck. Chaos looked at me with an expression I couldn’t read.
“Speak.”
“Frankie mentioned something about her past one night…something about Ro.”
“Am I going to like what I hear, because tonight has been real illuminating.”
“She’s been looking for her Dad for a long time. Her Mum won’t tell her anything about him, but she found some paperwork. I think…I can’t be sure, but–”
“Spit it the fuck out, Chaos.”
