Ivy corners me as I come through the back door leading to the patio and pool.I scan the area looking for Charlie, excited to get our little wager underway.A hand on my chest stops me mid-step.Looking down at the hand touching me, I follow the arm with my eyes, sneering when I find it attached to a certified fucking demon in human skin.
“Don’t fucking touch me without permission,” I say nastily.
She steps a little closer to me.“You’ve always loved the way I touch you.”
I reach up, wrapping my hand around her wrist, pulling it away from my body.Looking around the space again for my Sparrow, I don’t see her.I spin to make my way to the side of the building.
“You cannot tell me you really want that fucking cunt,” Ivy sneers at my back.
Stopping mid-step, I turn on her with an eyebrow raised.“What the fuck did you just say?”
Ivy squares her shoulders, lifting her chin.“Exactly that.We were so good together, and now she decides to give you the smallest amount of attention, and you throw it all away for that.”
“This is your only warning.Choose your next set of words wisely,” I growl down at her.
“Blitz, you can’t truly want some woman that has been passed around a club the way she was,” Ivy’s voice is pouty.
“Ivy, what the fuck are you going on about?I’ve got shit to do.”My tone is cold enough to chill the air around us.
“From what Nova has said, little Miss Charlie was everyone's favorite.That they would get her so high and drunk that she would do anything they wanted her to.”Her face contorts with an evil laugh slipping through.“They would even give her something so that she would beg them to take her.Is that what you want, Blitz?There are even videos out there of some of the unspeakable things she's done.”
The fucking audacity of a Club Bunny who fucking chooses to have man after man do things to and with her, is passing judgment on a woman who had no choice.I take three large steps, backing her against the wall of the clubhouse, and wrap my fingers around her throat, not only cutting off the blood flow but her oxygen as well.
“Ivy, I don’t know what Nova has said to you or what her end game is, but what I will say is this.If you continue to spew the bullshit you currently are to anyone else, then my moral compass of never hurting women will go out the motherfucking window.Charlie is my woman,” I pull her from the wall and slam Ivy back against it."If you continue to run your cocksucker about any of the Ol’ Ladies in the club, I will make sure that you are the one who can’t consent to what happens next.Do you understand what I am telling you?”
I watch her eyes go wide with every word as my grip tightens.Just as she starts to lose consciousness, I let her go, allowing her to drop to the ground.Ivy looks up at me with tears running black rivers down her face.Stepping away from her, I make my way to the side of the clubhouse, looking for my Sparrow.Walking circles around the building, I go back inside, knocking on her bedroom door.The longer I go without finding her, the more my anxiety rises.
Coming back to the great room, I find Tasia, Rusher, and Nova sitting there.
“Hey, have y’all seen Charlie?”I call out.
Tasia and Rusher look at each before looking over at me.“She went outside to stretch for y’all’s run.”
Nova looks down at her hands, playing the perfect victim, but after what Ivy just said, we need to address something quickly.Shaking that thought away right now, I continue my search.I go outside once again, looking around the clubhouse for her.Still not finding her, panic starts to take hold of me.Pulling my phone from my pocket, I dial her number, but it just rings.
“Come on, Sparrow, where the fuck are you?”I whisper to myself, dialing her number again.
Rushing back into the clubhouse to Hermes’s room, I knock urgently.He pulls the door open with a scowl until he sees the panic on my face.
“What happened?What’s wrong?”he questions.
“I can’t find Charlie,” I know I’m begging, but I cannot lose her, not when I just got her.
“Need more Blitz,” he quips, going back into his room and sitting behind his computer.“I don’t think she's gone far or is off property.None of the gates have been opened in the last five hours.I’m also not seeing any movement along the premier.”
“Goddamn it, we were supposed to be meeting for a run.We went our separate ways to get ready and now I can’t find her.”I fist my hands in my hair.
“Okay, man, she's okay.Let’s just run through some cameras.Maybe she just got started without you,” Hermes tries to console me.
“Yeah, yeah,” I nod, trying to call her again.
“Got her,” Hermes mutters.“Yep, there she is.”
I’m at his side in less than a second, watching the cameras as he’s clicking through the videos.I watch as she goes out the front of the club and around the side to stretch.Something towards the back of the clubhouse catches her attention, and she moves in that direction.Standing with her back to the wall, she listens to whatever is going on.It hits me then that I know exactly what she heard, and I will take both Ivy and Nova’s lives.Less than a minute later she looks as if she is seeing a ghost and turns, taking off into the woods at a sprint.As soon as I’ve figured out where she went into the woods, I’m sprinting towards the door to go after her.
As soon as I make it through the tree line, I yell her name.I follow the path of least resistance, hoping it’s the path she took.I’m starting to get winded when I finally see movement to my right.I look over that way and the sight before me shatters any thoughts of trying to forgive either of the whores that played a part in this situation.Slowing my pace, I cautiously make my way over to her.
“Sparrow?”I call out low.
