Page 56 of Savage Spades

The entire club was in the waiting room. They took up almost all the chairs.

“Is she okay?” Lily asked.

He nodded. “She’s fine. She can’t talk right now, but she’s awake, and the doctor said she’d be fine."

“Thank god.”

He looked over at Gunner. His face was unreadable.

“I’m going,” Kit told him. He wasn’t letting Venom get away with this, not after today. Damn the consequences. For all they knew, everything Venom told them about the sex trafficking ring was a lie.

“We need--”

“I’m not voting. I’m going with or without the club. So, if you’re with me, I’m leaving now.”

“Hold on, let’s be smart about this,” Gunned reasoned.

Kit shook his head. “No, he has to die.”

Gunner looked around at the rest of the club. Zeke nodded his head in support, Otis nodded next, then Ace. All the way down the line, each person nodded.

“Alright, let’s go.”

*****

It wasn’t hard to find Venom. All they had to do was drive into the city and talk to the people on the corner. For a drug lord, he wasn’t very good at keeping his location secret. They pulled up to the building where Venom’s penthouse was located. Kit was in his truck and everyone else on bikes.

There was no way they were getting inside there. They stuck out like a sore thumb. The couple of people who walked past their line of motorcycles stared at the bikes like they’ve never seen one before. It was dark outside now, so the foot traffic had slowed down a lot.

“What’s the plan?” Gunner asked. He’d pulled his bike up next to Kit’s window so they could talk.

“We’re going to have to wait until he comes out.” The bottom floor was all windows. Kit could see straight through to a lobby area and a receptionist’s desk.

“That could be a while.”

Kit shrugged. “You don’t have to stay. I’ll wait.”

Gunner shook his head. “What are you going to do once we have him?”

“Kill him.”

“Are you sure about that?”

“Why wouldn’t I be? Cam could be dead right now because that son of a bitch couldn’t wait until she sold the bar to get the money that she didn’t even owe to him.” He gritted his teeth as he thought about Cam lying in the hospital bed right now. He should be next to her, but he wasn’t going to be able to relax until Venom was out of their lives permanently. He needed to be killed for what he did to Megan too. Everyone in town had suffered one way or another from the drugs that Venom and his men sold.

“That’s a lot to have on your conscious,” Gunner warned.

“There he is!” Hugo yelled.

Kit jumped out of the truck, almost hitting Gunner with the door. Hugo got to Venom first. Venom was no match for Hugo’s size. He tried to fight, but Hugo easily wrestled him to the ground and put his hands behind his back, as if arresting him.

“Get the fuck off me! You stupid motherfuckers are going to regret this!” Venom threatened.

“Where do you want him?” Hugo asked Kit.

He looked up and down the street to make sure there weren’t any witnesses. “In my truck.”

Hugo forced Venom to a standing position and started walking him to the truck. Kit put a hand out to stop him.

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