I shrugged my shoulders. “I don’t know.”
He nodded, looking anywhere but at me. “I’ve got work to get to.”
“I’ll go back to my room.” I said, feeling like it was a gut punch to say. I’d come to think of this room as mine now. “Give you some space.”
Reaper nodded, breaking my heart. “Yeah, that’d be a good idea.”
I dropped the sheet, and grabbed my clothes, scattered around the room and quickly dressed, before I fled without looking back. Tears streamed down my face, humiliation and hurt melding in my chest to form a block, making it hard to breathe.
Entering my room, I slammed the door and ran to the bed, curling up with the pillow pressed to my chest. The sobs overtook my body and the tears ran heavier than they ever had. Even Tee and Tori had never had me cry like this.
What the fuck?
He’s had his fill of you and now he’s going back to his whores,the vicious inner voice sang, making the sobs turn painful.
Fuck you, Wyatt.
Reaper
Freshly showered and ready to take on whatever today had for me, I moved out of my bedroom and down the hall. Hesitating at Rowan’s door, I was about to knock when I heard the telltale signs of crying.
Fuck.
I’d done that. Because I hadn’t trusted her. I’d let Chaos and Raf get into my head and I’d been mad that she hadn’t told me the whole truth. Her explanation had been more than adequate and yet, I’d been so angry that I couldn’t calm down. The second she left the room I’d missed her. I’d missed having her naked among my sheets, I’d missed her looking at me like I hung the fucking moon.
Too fast, old man,that little fucking inner voice screamed. I was falling for a girl who was young enough to be my daughter. In fact, I’d stolen her off my own son, that’s how selfish I’d been and now she was in there crying over me.
Fucking prick.
I pushed away from her door, not sure how to comfort her when I knew I had a job to do. Maybe it was better this way until I could sort out Raf. He’d dropped a bomb on us at the Pit, and I needed to figure out what angle he was coming from.
Heading down the stairs, I saw two faces I didn’t want to see. God fucking damn it. Had it been a week already?
“Hey Prez,” Tee’s ruby red lips crooned as I headed past. I ducked my head in a brief acknowledgment before I headed into the Chapel. Knight, Chaos, Maverick and Shadow sat at the tables. The other guys who only came in for big services sat at the back, Animal, Snake and Pope. Trojan wasn’t here, but Maverick was, so that was something at least.
“What we got so far?” I asked Chaos.
“Not a hell of a lot,” he grunted. “But appears Darian has been working for the Ironborne for decades, since he was a kid. He’s brutal. Probably where Raf gets it from, I guess. He’s listed as the sole parent of him around the time he was enrolled in the same school as Rowan.”
“Does he know about Rowan and who she is now?”
“Doesn’t look like it,” Shadow added. “I’ve been tailing him, but he’s not acting sus or trying to make a play.”
“Troj did say Raf is the one that’s been looking, not the Ironborne.”
“Are they involved at all?”
He shrugged. “I suppose so, they did send Raf after Trey. I think Ro just got caught up in it all.”
I fucking hoped that was all it was.
“Mav…outside.”
He looked up from his phone and nodded, pocketing it before joining me outside. I walked him out of the clubhouse so we couldn’t be overheard.
“What’s going on…you miss call outs, your phone goes unanswered, no witty comebacks at others’ expense. Do we have a problem that needs sorting?”
“Only problem I see is your woman being caught up in this mess with the Ironborne.”
