Page 83 of Truths

The original crazy man glares at Snake, who still sits on the ground. “What the fuck were you thinking?”

“He didn't like that Lex stood up to him, so he said terrible things to her. She had a good comeback, and then he slapped her. Told her to stay down. He clearly doesn't know her if he thinks she'll take his orders,” Brock says. “Lex got a solid hit out front, and VP knocked him on his ass in here.”

“What's the plan for him?” Psycho asks, his head nodding towards Snake.

“That's a good question,” Dax says.

Finally deciding enough was enough, Snake jumps up. “Look, I'm sorry. She struck a nerve, and I didn't mean to hit her. I never lose my cool with women like that.”

“Lex, what do you want us to do to him?” Dax asks. “Want him out?”

“I vote we kill him,” Venom sneers.

Psycho snaps his fingers and points at him. “I like your idea.”

“I think Everlee and Marnie should decide because I already told him if he ever does it again that I'll slit his throat,” Lex saysand points between Psycho and Dani. “I want to get back to how you two know each other.”

“Let me think on that one for a while,” Everlee says, her arms crossed with such a disappointed look on her face that Lex almost feels bad for Snake. Almost.

Lex slaps Psycho's arm. “After we figure out what we're doing with this whole Kingsmen situation, and how you and Dani know each other well enough for her to call you by your given name, we have to get the story from Venom about putting a guy through a meat grinder. Almost as gross as your eyeball thing with Scarface.”

Tilting his head, Venom chuckles. “Colt mentioned the eyeball thing. That’s pretty gruesome.”

“We're getting off track here,” Lacey says. “Why did you call my husband Carson instead of Psycho?”

“Baby, it's okay. We know each other from a long time ago,” Psycho says.

“Let's get into the Chapel now that most everyone is here,” Jennings says.

The men all filter into the room, and he stops to look back. “Lex and Dani, it might be a good idea for you two to join us for the recap.”

Dani looks frightened, but Lex wraps an arm around her shoulders. “You're safe. Unless you were doing Psycho. Then the safest place for you is definitely in the Chapel, not out here with his wife.”

Laughing, Dani relaxes under Lex's touch. “I didn't do Carson.”

“Psycho,” she corrects and walks inside.

Rather than sit on Colt's lap, she opts to sit cross-legged on the table in front of him. Snake leans against the wall in the corner, and she wants to rub it in how she has freedoms in this clubhouse. Maybe she does kind of see herself as a princess.

Her eyes glance to Dani to make sure she's okay, and she smirks a little when she spots Dani's hand tightly grasping Dax's as they stand against the wall. Dax smiles despite the situation at hand.

Jennings clears his throat. “Okay, what the fuck happened?”

Colt taps her leg, and she spins on the table to face the Griffin's Beach President. “Long story short, two Kingsmen broke into the house and wanted to take Dani.”

“What happened?”

Gaping, Lex finds she's a bit offended. “It's like you don't even know who I am anymore.”

“She shot them,” Dani says before shrinking back against the wall. “Between the eyes.”

VP and TK both laugh, and Jennings shakes his head with a smile. “Stupid question.”

“They said Dani knew too much, and she and I tried to figure out what she could possibly know. What we did come up with makes me want to vomit, though.”

“The President of the Kingsmen wanted Dani. No idea why, but he's the one who ordered her alive. Never told us he had her, so it was for some other reason than trying to fuck with Dax. But then she remembered O'Malley and a Russian working with the Kingsmen,” Colt says, and Lex wants to kiss him for leaving the rest of what Dani mentioned out. No one else needs to know about that right now.

VP's smirk disappears as he straightens. “Dimitri?”

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