I moved to the bathroom and retrieved a wet washer, cleaning her up and moving the covers back over her. She was asleep before I climbed back in on the other side, pulling her into my arms and letting sleep claim me as well.
NINE
Dempsey
We didn’t have to wait around for them to turn up this time. The car moved past our gates at exactly 9 AM the next day. I’d slept all afternoon and night with Shae in my arms. The bruising was getting better each day and she was able to stand and walk without assistance now. Morena thought she’d be back on her bike in as little as a week.
I’d had to promise her a repeat mind blowing orgasm to keep her in the room and not come out here now. Not that I minded, but my mind couldn’t be on her sweet pussy right now.
The car only had one person in it.
The woman from yesterday.
“We expected a few more to head this way,” Alex said as she came up to us.
“You don’t need to worry about the rivalry anymore,” she said. “We’re done. I’ve instructed my son to disband the MC, but if you so choose, you can set up in that town now. Enough blood has been shed, don’t you think?”
I was more than a little surprised.
“You can have them patch over.”
“Jeremy is too high strung like his da,” she said. “He’s gone, you don’t need to worry about him. He and his idiots took off after I stripped their cuts. The prospects have told me they wouldn’t mind patching over. They don’t know of the bloodshed as much or the rivalry between the clubs. Under Cooper’s leadership, I’ve seen this MC grow into what I had hoped for the Reapers one day. I think the Reapers need to be done, what say you?”
Alex and Hawk both nodded. “We can do that. We can patch them over. We just wanted to protect our own.”
“I know,” she sighed. “And as most women know, men act in violence first and ask questions later, which caused all of this.”
“Our women keep a tight handle on our actions,” Hawk told her.
“Good,” she replied. “That’s how it should be.”
She turned on her heel without so much as a goodbye and reversed out of the gates, speeding back down the dirt road into Kilkenny.
“What does this mean?” I asked after a few moments.
“You’re clear, brother,” Alex said, putting his hand on my shoulder. “Wolves and Reapers have been cleaned up. You don’t have to run anymore.”
I couldn’t believe it.
How could it have been so easy? Surely there was something that was going to come for me.
Surely it couldn’t be as simple as it had been.
“Come inside, drink, we’ll toast to you patching over with us.”
My head snapped to my brother. “I can’t. I’m an Outlaw.”
“Do you really think they want you back?” Hawk asked. “You broke their code, your vow to them. You’re lucky Wolf talked them out of hunting you down.”
“Where is Wolf?”
Hawk shrugged. “Off hunting, I guess. That’s what he does. He’ll be back when we need him.”
The pit in my stomach told me something was still undecided, something was going to come for me, and I knew I’d be powerless to stop it.
I knew the day I took my vow what I was signing up for. Neutrality.
The second my family had been in trouble, I broke it. There was no way out of this. I was a dead man walking, and anyone connected to me was walking alongside me.
