My fists connect with the bag until my knuckles start to bleed.I lean back against the wall and let my body slide onto the floor.
My face falls into my hands.
Please, let her be okay.
Please.
“He sent the address,” Blade says, as we all arm ourselves with knives and guns.“I traced his phone location, and it says they’re at that old hospital, you know, the one that shut down?”
“Maybe half of us should go there,” I suggest, wondering if he has some plan not to stick to his end of the bargain.Prez called a lockdown, so all the women and children are currently in the clubhouse.
“I agree,” War comments, testing the weight of the gun in his hands.“Who is staying behind with the women?”
“I’m going to leave behind Lore, Romeo, Omen, Scorp, and Blade,” Prez states, glancing over at us.“How many do we want to take to the meet?”
“Six should do it, and keep two close by,” Angel suggests.
“Me, War, Ghost, Bones, Skull, and Angel,” Prez decides, studying us.“Curse and Rune can wait nearby in case we need them.Haze, you lead the rest of the men to the hospital, then circle back toward us.”
We all get on our bikes and ride out in formation.
Two in a row.
If anything happens to Xanthe, I don’t know what the hell I’ll do.
I’d likely be joining her.
I’d rather be with her in death than alone here in life.
Maybe that’s how my mother felt about Charlotte.I refuse to believe she took her life because that’s how she felt with my father locked away in prison.
Shutting out old Ghost, I focus on the task at hand.
Save my woman.
Lock her away for eternity so no harm ever comes to her again.
Marry her.
Give us a daughter with Xanthe’s dark eyes and Charlotte’s smile.
Kill anyone who is a threat to her.
And live fucking happily ever after.
XANTHE
I don’t know what’s going on, but Henry leaves me alone in the room with another man.He has dark eyes and equally dark hair, and is wearing a cut that reads ‘Isle of Insanity MC’on the back.
“Isn’t he trading me for the money?”I ask, my brow furrowing.“Why is he leaving me here?”
“Plan’s changed.”He smirks.“He told us that if we help him out, we get to keep you as our reward.”
My mouth opens, then closes.“Keep me?”
“Yeah, we’re just starting our chapter up again, and we need some new club girls.We had Daisy, but then you fuckers killed her.So now you owe us a woman.”He shrugs, like we’re talking about something casual like the weather.
“Who killed Daisy?”I croak as he voices a thought I’ve had in my head but had been trying to avoid.
