Page 51 of JoJo

Steel jumped off the bed and I could see him vibrating with anger. “This is my fault?” He asked no one at all.

“No!” Angel Girl stood and walked to him and made him look her in the eye. “That woman’s choices are not yours. Being jealous of your new relationship after she cheated on you is not something that justifies taking a hit out on someone.”

“I know that, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that my baggage nearly got my wife and child killed.” He scrubbed his hands across the top of his head in frustration. “I want her dead!”

“She’s pregnant too,” I reminded him. “Whatever she’s guilty of, her punishment will have to wait until that child is born.”

Steel let out a primal growl that I completely understood. I would love to be the one to take the bitch out myself. She cost me in a big way. I was hurting, but worse, I now knew the fear of possibly losing my baby. It was something I didn’t want to go through again. Ever. “I want her found. I want her locked up. Then I will wait patiently until she has that baby and I want her dead.”

“You would take a mom from a baby?” Angel asked in all seriousness.

“Would you want a baby being raised by a woman who would put a hit out on another pregnant woman simply because she was jealous of her life?”

“No, I wouldn’t,” she admitted.

“Me either. If she has family, or if the father wants the baby we can make sure it is delivered safely to them. We will have done right by the child that way. She will not get away with almost killing my baby though. What she did to me is nothing compared to the fact that she targeted my unborn child by going after me. She knew I was pregnant too, so there are no excuses.”

“Where are we going to hold a pregnant woman?” Keys asked.

I shrugged my shoulders.

“We have a place,” Steel explained. “I can get her to South Dakota. The men there have a place she can be kept without anyone ever knowing.”

“What if the clubhouse there is searched?”

“Trust me when I say she will be somewhere that can’t be found until we’re ready for that to happen.”

“Then let’s do that. Do we know where she is?”

“Give me just a minute,” Steel said as he pulled his cell from his back pocket and dialed someone. “Hey man. You guys still have eyes on Jenn?” He listened and then tacked on. “Is she with him still?” There was another pause as he listened to whatever the person on the other end was saying. “Good. I need you guys to go collect her and house her.” He paused again. “Then put him on the line for me,” Steel snapped.

After a moment Steel spoke again. “Ice, did Rage fill you in on what I want?” He listened for another moment before an evil grin spread across his face. “I appreciate the fact that you would take me at my word, but I have no problem filling you in. She put out a hit on my wife.”

“She did what the fuck, now?” I heard that through the phone so there was no guesswork as to what Steel was hearing then.

“You heard me. She took out a hit on my pregnant wife, and it almost worked. She’s laid up right now with a dislocated shoulder and she took a bullet to the leg because of that cunt. My wife wants her blood justice once that baby is removed from her belly.” Steel stopped talking and listened some more. “Are you fuckin’ kidding me?” He sighed and shook his head, a look of complete disgust crossed his face. “All right. Just let me know when it’s done. As soon as JoJo can travel we’ll come deal with that.” He hung up the cell and turned back toward us. “She is no longer pregnant. They’re not sure what happened to the baby, but neither her or the father has it.”

My jaw dropped open. “How is that possible,?” I asked stupidly. “You guys had a doc up there in Spearfish right? Can he bring her back after I kill her once? What if she killed it?”

“Babe,” Steel called to me as he climbed on the bed and moved in close. “She might be a monster, but you are not. I think killing her once will be sufficient. Then she won’t be a problem for anyone else.” I nodded. If I was being honest though, I disagreed. Somehow I needed to get justice for her child too. Sure, there was a possibility that the child was given to a good home, but considering everything I knew about the woman, I wouldn’t put it past her to have killed the baby simply because it had the wrong father. Clearly, the woman had leapt over the edge of sanity and wasn’t able to be pulled back.

“There’s more news, JoJo,” Angel Girl admitted, this time appearing somewhat guilty as she did.

“What?”

“We hauled your brother in,” she explained. “It was pretty obvious from the start that it hadn’t been him who took out the hit, but I’m not going to lie. He was worked over pretty well in order to get answers from him.”

I didn’t honestly know whether to be pissed off for him or to be thankful the girls were being thorough when there had been a hit placed on my life. “What did he have to say?”

“He was really concerned about you, honey. He asked those questions of the lawyer because he was worried about Steel trying to kill you off in order to get the business and everything you own.”

“I believe him,” Keys told me.

“I do too, for what it’s worth,” Angel Girl agreed.

“Is he still here?”

Angel Girl nodded her head. “He’s being held over at the Aces High MC for now. We didn’t want the girls to see us bring him in, just in case it had been him.”

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