“There’s nothing here,” Fury’s voice bounded over the engines as we came to a stop at the top of the fence line. “It had to be someone in the clubhouse last night.”
“How didn’t we hear anything?”
“Silencer, maybe,” Fury surmised. “Maybe we were all passed out drunk. Brogan will probably rush the results so we can find out how they were killed and at what time.”
I nodded, remembering back to last night when Darby told me what Tierney had said about him not being protected.
“Maybe one of us needs to go and help him,” I said. “He does a fucking lot for this club and no one has his back.”
“Coz he’s a cop, Reb.”
“And what would happen if he got himself in shit and we didn’t know about it?”
Fury sighed. “You’re right. We should run it by Ace.”
I nodded, and we headed back to the clubhouse. Brogan had already been and gone, the bodies were gone but by the look on the women's faces on the porch, they all knew.
Darby especially looked spooked.
I put my bike over by the gatehouse with the others and made my way over to her. She hadn’t moved a muscle, waiting for me.
“You okay?”
“How could this happen and no one heard it?”
“Silencer,” Viper held it up. “Tossed by the side of the road leading out of the compound. Whoever it was didn’t care about leaving evidence.”
“Who the fuck would dare kill on our home soil?” Ace asked, his lips pulled tight. He was furious. Our compound was our sanctuary. A place where we kept our families safe while under attack. This was personal.
I took Darby inside and into the room we’d stayed in last night. She sat on the edge of the bed. “Tell me what’s wrong. Your reaction isn’t what I would expect.”
“It reminded me of something.”
“What do you mean?”
“My father would do that to men who betrayed him or who got in the way. He had different ways to maim for a different offence. That way that I just saw now with the Nomads, was how he would deal with someone in the way.”
“He’s gone, princess. I promise you, he’s gone, so is the entire club. No one is going to hurt you.”
“Then how did someone know to do that?” she asked, tears falling down her cheeks. I sat on the bed beside her and pulled her into my arms, needing her to feel safe. “It felt like a message…to me.”
“It’s not a message to you. I promise you, everyone is dead that would know that. It’s a coincidence. There’s no one left to hurt you.”
She sobbed for a few moments before she looked up into my eyes. I saw something there. A secret, or something she was holding back.
“There’s someone that wasn’t in the club that night, someone who disappeared years ago.”
“Who?”
“My mother.”
“Why would she target us?” I asked her.
“Honestly, I don’t know. She took off and left me with those animals knowing what they would do to me. They did it to her, drove her to drugs to feelnumb. Keefe told me a lot about her that I didn’t know because I was so young but I remember the day she left. She told me to be a big girl, that big girls didn’t cry and they did what they had to.”
White hot rage fell over me as I realised what that meant. That bitch had offered her up to those monsters because she didn’t want to do it anymore. Her own fucking daughter.
“Do you know where she is or where she went?”
