Page 38 of Everlasting

We were too fucking late again.

“I swear to you, I saw him going out the back. I called to him but he looked completely out of it. They tossed him into the back of a black sedan and took off out of here like a bat out of hell.”

“Then what are you still doing here?”

“Hard to follow when the only car I had access to back there was blown to shit,” he growls in frustration. “So fucking close! How the hell do we go home to our family, to Ever, and tell them that we just missed getting him back?”

“We don’t. That’s not a fucking option,” I snarled back at him.

He ran both hands through his hair and tugged the shit out of it as he did. “What now?”

I took my cell out and hit one of my top three contacts.

“Keys,” she answered immediately.

“We were about 10 seconds too late,” I admitted.

“Noooo!” She whined into the phone.

“Listen, J-Bird caught sight of them putting into a dark sedan. Gonna put you on with him, get what details you can, and track them.”

“On it,” she answered as I handed my cell over to Jay.

“Look who the fuck was slinking through the basement while we raided the place!”

“You can’t hurt me! Declan will kill you! I’m carrying his baby! He loves me!” The stupid bitch was shouting down the whole place as we all stood there and watched some of our men from our other chapters dragging her ass out.”

They brought her directly to me. “What do you want us to do with her?”

“She’s coming with us,” I informed them.

“Do you know who I am?” She hissed in my face, or as close as she was allowed to get to it.

“I sure as fuck do.” I glared down into her eyes and finally, saw the fear that she had been missing in this situation. “The question is, do you know who I am?”

“W-what? Why would I know who some dirty, old biker is?” I laughed at that, as did some of the other men standing around. Her eyes darted this way and that as she took in everyone’s reaction.

“Well, it’s really funny that I’m the one here deciding your fate, considering that boy you took is like a son to me. In fact, in the eyes of the law he is my son,” I paused for effect. “In-law,” I finally added and watched as her eyes grew rounder with her surprise. “That’s right! It’s starting to sink in, isn’t it? The woman you’ve been attempting to taunt with your sick and twisted little games and pictures, she’s my daughter.”

“She’s a whore!” The woman spat, clearly unconcerned for her own safety.

“Nuh-uh. She’s married to the man. Been so for a whole lot of years. Speaking of years, you helped take her man away from her for damn near a whole one. Took him away from his kids, his parents, his brother, our family.” I spread my arms out, indicating all the leather-clad, ‘dirty’ bikers she had surrounding her. “What do you suppose the punishment is for stealing a year of a man’s life? You stole a year of my grandbabies having their daddy with them too. What the fuck do you think the punishment for that is?” I was screaming in her face and the bitch just smirked at me.

“Doesn’t matter because you can’t kill me if you want your precious Declan back. My brothers will demand a trade, at the very least, and that’s if they haven’t killed him already.”

“You better hope like hell they haven’t. If we find out any further harm has come to him, I will rip that baby from your belly and make your death so slow, the year I draw it out will feel like a goddamn eternity!”

“You would kill Declan’s baby?”

“No, I’d take it from you and never even give you a chance to see it. I’d toss it to some poor sap family who can’t have their own and my daughter and son-in-law would be told DNA was done and it wasn’t his.”

“But it is,” she argued.

“Says you, and even if that’s true, you missed the point where I don’t give a fuck. We’ll sell the fucking baby just so it never causes an ounce of hurt for our family.” I would do no fucking such thing. I had no doubt that Ever would raise that child as if it were one of her own if it turned out to be Deck’s. The cunt in front of us didn’t need to know that though.

The bitch spit in my face. She missed, but she still attempted it. Jay stepped up then and slapped the shit out of her. Normally, I’d say she had what was coming to her, but she was pregnant, and the truth of it was, we didn’t know if that baby inside of her belonged to my son-in-law or not.

“You’ll get your turn with her,” I told Jay as I pulled him back a little. The little cunt’s eyes flared with interest.

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