Page 50 of Dark As Coal

“Go. Run. Now.”

The moment I stood, the door to the cabin was pushed open as five men walked into the room.

“What the fuck do you think you’re doing?”

The man moved in front of me, blocking me. Protecting me?

This was a current of events I hadn’t foreseen.

“Do you know who this woman is?” The man asked the five of them.

And I recognized one of them… but from where?

“She’s a whore that turned my brother down. And nobody turns my brother down.” And then, that was when I got it. That motherfucking frat boy wannabe.

He was a weasel.

“I get it. Okay. I do. Our brother hates being told no, and no one does it. But I want to know something first. Is there a member of Zagan MC that you're scared of? Because I can name one.”

The man with black hair styled into a mohawk, crossed his beefy arms over his chest and asked, “Why are you asking me that?”

That was when Snaggletooth, stepped to the side and swept his hand up and down my body, “Because the woman y’all kidnapped? The woman behind me isn’t a whore. She’s an ol’ lady now. And she belongs to the one man on this planet that I’m terrified of.”

The man rubbed at his chin. And then he looked at me, “There’s only one man’s name that will have that girl getting free.”

That was when I whispered, “Coal.”

Immediately, the man with the black hair styled into a mohawk snapped, “Prove it. Where’s her property kutte?

“She didn’t have time to put it on after she got off work,” Snaggletooth told them.

“Then how the fuck else is she going to prove it?” Another man asked.

That was when I groaned, I didn’t have a way to prove but all I said was, “My property kutte was in my car.”

“Where’s your car?” One of them asked.

“That won’t be fucking necessary,” My head whipped around the four men that were standing there.

And I smiled. Asher.

But he wasn’t the person that had my smile widening, and then even wider the moment his words sounded out in the rickety cabin, “Cause my woman doesn’t have to prove jack shit to any motherfucker, but me.”

But I saw it, out of the corner of my eye, someone had returned, someone that needed to no longer be breathing, and that someone was holding something black and shiny, and I felt my entire body go rock solid, but only for a moment.

When I told Coal I loved him, I promised I would always protect him.

And when I found out I was pregnant, I made a promise to our baby that I would always protect him or her.

But protecting Coal was more important to me because I knew that he would protect our baby, and me.

Therefore, I did the only thing that felt right.

I dove in front of Coal… just… in… time.

Chapter 12

Coal

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