“Those two women in the middle,” Shona said softly to me. “That’s Bear and Ace’s mums. Outcasts. Evil women.”
“Just like Clara,” I uttered. She squeezed me tighter. We watched on as Ace questioned his mother. I couldn’t see an edge of remorse on her face.
Why did women have children only to hate them so much that they could kill them?
“Mothers of Chaos?” Ace questioned, a wry smirk landing on his face. “Anything to feel important right, mother? Don’t forget you made your choices, and now you face the consequences. We aren’t the Ghost Rebels you think you know. I’m nothim. This club is a fucking family…and this isn’t the first time you’ve tried to end us. To end me…or Sheridan.”
“This club is poison, no matter what you say.”
“No, Enna, you are the poison and I can’t let it stand any longer. Mother or not.”
He raised his gun and pulled the trigger without hesitation. Enna slumped back against the other woman who screamed out. Most of the women behind her were younger, and probably thought they were doing the right thing. Ace put his gun in his holster and moved back, being swallowed by Sheridan’s arms. He leant into them, feeding his need for her. The same need I had for Rebel.
“Orla?” Bear called out to her. She was at his side in an instant. “This one’s yours, baby.”
She hesitated for a moment before she took his gun and aimed it at her mother-in-law. I could see the pure hatred she had for her, and the look was returned in spades.
“You were never goo-”
Louise had started to spit hate toward Orla but she’d pulled the trigger and watched as Louise slumped down next to Enna. She handed the gun back to Bear who didn’t seem to care that his mother had just been killed. What was it and bad mothers in our clubs? I had to wonder why he’d let Orla kill his mother, but then again, she was probably as evil as mine had been. I understood it.
Brogan came forward, showing his badge. “Now listen here, you saw nothing here today. You came here with the intent to harm and possibly kidnap. That could see you doing serious time in prison and I don’t think you want that. So, we’re going to untie you and you’re going to leave Kilkenny and never return.”
They all nodded vehemently. They were untied by Viper and Chains and they ran out of the clubhouse without a backward glance.
Hawk clapped Brogan on the back. “You good?”
“Yeah, I need to head to the station to file paperwork. I don’t want to know what you do with the bodies, yeah?”
He left the clubhouse and the boys got straight to picking up the bodies of Ace and Bear’s mothers and taking them outside.
Rebel turned to me. “Give me five, princess. I’ll be back.”
I nodded and watched him enter the chapel where Ace and Bear were. I knew of the sanctity of church so I knew we weren’t allowed in there.
Shona turned to me and hugged me tight again. “You good?”
“Yeah, I mean startled for sure, but even though this was scary, I wasn’t near as scared as I was every day in Belfast.”
Shona sighed. “I’m sorry I didn’t come and get you, Darby.”
“That’s not your fault. He would have come after me. I was a commodity he could use.”
“I would have taken your place, baby girl.”
It was at that moment, where I looked into her eyes, and I saw the love and adoration I should have seen in my mother’s eyes.
“I wouldn’t have let you.”
Shona pulled me in for a hug again. It was comforting and nice. I hugged her back, feeling someonejump on my back and hug me from behind. It was Ryleigh, followed by Kayleigh and now Orla. This hug was everything I needed right now. We all started to laugh before we broke apart.
Rebel was leaning against the bar, smirking at me. “You ready to take off?”
“We’re leaving?”
He nodded. “Time to go home, princess. It’s been a long day. I need you in my bed.”
The girls all made woo sounds as I moved into his arms and out of the clubhouse. Everything had been cleaned up already. You’d never know Rebel had killed my mother out here. He pulled me to his bike and I jumped on behind him.
