“Knife,” I said. He handed me his knife without question and helped me to get to the bloody mess that wasFlynn. He was still alive, I could see his eyes looking around, dazed, as his life drained from his body.
I lowered myself down to a squat in front of him, the pain burning through my body, but I wasn’t going to miss this.
“Karma, my friend,” I said to him as I dragged the knife across his throat, the skin opening up as the blood spewed out of him. He gurgled as life drained from him faster than before. I stood back up, staggering. Dempsey caught me.
“Take me home,” I told him. He didn’t argue, he held onto me as he led me down a long hallway and outside. Rebel and Bear stood there, taking in my mangled form with fear and concern on their features.
“Everyone’s taken care of,” Bear said.
A man I hadn’t seen before stood beside him. “My crew will clean this up. Noone will know the Rebels were down this way.”
Bear shook his hand. “You call on us anytime you need.”
The man nodded and moved out of view. Everything went dark, and I felt my body falling.
Dempsey
“Fuck,” I grunted as I caught Shae at an odd angle. She was out. “Where the fuck is the hopsital?”
“She can’t be admitted here,” Alex said. “We need to get her up the coast a little bit.”
“Why?”
“No one can know we were here,” Alex told me. “Come on, we’ll get her on the back of your bike and we ride until we get home. Morena will take care of her.”
Shit.
I picked her up and carried her down to my bike, her sweet moans almost breaking my heart. I’d never seen her this fucked up before. I knew the woman was tough, but this was something else completely.
I never liked violence, had always tried to get away without killing but when I saw what Flynn was doing to her, I hadn’t hesitated in taking his life just the way I had been trained to.
I leaned her against my bike and slapped her face. She jolted awake and I steadied her. Her eyes went from being wide to relief flooding through her.
“What hurts?”
“Ribs, wrists.”
I lifted her shirt up to see dark purple bruising over one side of her chest. Fuck.
“We gotta get you to a doctor,” I said. “Can you make it back to Kilkenny, or do you want to see someone here?”
“Kilkenny,” she said, groggily.
“Okay,” I said. “You’re gonna have to hold the fuck on then.”
She nodded. I pushed her onto the back of my bike and climbed in front of her. Wrapping her arms around me, she let out a hiss of pain which hit me right in the chest, but she held onto me. Rebel and Bear were waiting for us and I pulled out behind them as they led us back to Kilkenny.
This wasn’t over.
Not by a long shot, but my main concern was the woman desperately clutching onto me as I took her home.
Morena was waiting for us when we pulled in, ready with her nurse’s kit that she kept in the clubhouse. I grabbed Shae off the back of the bike and hauled her up into my arms. She groaned in pain, slipping in and out of consciousness as I pulled her to the closest bed inthe clubhouse. Morena got to work as I sat beside her, watching for any sign that I’d made a huge mistake in not taking her to the nearest fucking hospital.
“Has she been…”
I looked up at Morena who seemed to be wary of asking me a question.
“Has she what?”
