“I’m getting him back,” I said into her hair. “Don’t worry. I got this.”
“I know you do,” she said with a smile. “Go get our boy back.”
I moved out of the clubhouse and joined Bear and Rebel on the bikes. Bear rumbled out of the compound first, followed by me and Rebel beside me.
Hold on, babe, I’m coming for you.
Gods forgive whoever hurt you or keeps me from you. I’ll mow down anyone who tries, and they’ll soon see why they called me Valkyrie.
Dempsey
The sound of clanking woke me from whatever sleep I’d been in. My muscles ached, and whatever I was on felt hard. My eyes opened, and an ache worse than any hangover known to man passed behind my eyes forcing me to close them again in pain.
“There he is,” I heard a familiar and unwelcoming voice say from somewhere close by. “Come on, man, it’s time to rise and shine.”
I braced myself and sat up, opening my eyes once again and looking up at the owner of the voice.
“Bullet.”
He squatted beside me on the ground. I looked around to see I was in some kind of warehouse.
“What the fuck?”
“You knew we’d come back, didn’t you? You took the same vow as we all did. Now, it’s time for you to pay for your sins.”
“What are you rattling on about, Bull? You know the other MC’s are done.”
“Yes, they are, but we’re still pissed.”
“You said it was all good, right?”
“Nope, we listened, we spoke to your brother,” Bullet said and I tensed. I never told them Alex was my brother. “Oh, don’t be so coy, did you really think we wouldn’t find out? We’re the Outlaws, a notorious brotherhoodfrom way back. Look, I like you Viking, but you need to pay something for what you did. Spill a little blood, cop a few uppercuts and you’re done. Free to go about your life.”
I looked up at him then, realising what he was telling me. My only way to live was to be tossed out and to do that, I had to earn my freedom.
I’d seen an Outlaw be excommunicated before. He had to fight in the ring, and it hadn’t been gentle. He’d left barely alive.
I looked around and there, amongst crates and all manner of things from an abandoned warehouse I saw a makeshift ring, complete with barbed wire around the edge for maximum pain.
“Who am I fighting?” I asked, knowing it was futile to resist.
“Oh, that’ll be revealed later,” Bullet said. “Think they’re still deciding to be fair. Don’t worry. You’ll have Wolf in your corner. He’s been your champion this whole time, so the guys know not to cross him. You’re lucky, kid, without him, you’d be on your ass on the side of a highway somewhere.”
I’d be dead is what he meant and we both knew it.
“Where is he?”
“I don’t know. Wolf doesn’t exactly leave clues as to where he is and what he’s doing. Don’t worry, he wouldn’t miss the fight for anything. Come on. We gotta get you ready.”
I accepted Bullet’s hand to pull me up, everything hurt. There was no way I could survive a fight in this condition.
“What the fuck happened? Why am I aching as if I’d already gone ten rounds?”
Bullet chuckled. “Yeah, Pit got a little annoyed when your sister punched him square in the jaw to stop you from being taken. He took it out on you instead.”
Tierney.
I’d gone to help her with a piece of furniture she’d had delivered.
