Page 9 of Golden Atonement

“Did he tell you to protect me if I was the one who killed him?” I challenged.

Maxim’s head whipped to Montana’s, who stood firm, not moving an inch as Mercy and Vladmir both glared at the man. Yeah, I was betting Montana hadn’t told them that little piece of information. It wasn’t every day the wife of a MC President admitted to killing her ol’ man, but I was so tired of all this shit. Ijust wanted it all to end and killing the President of a well-known MC would do that.

I just hoped they’d show my kids mercy.

When Maxim turned back to me, he sighed. “All I know is that we need to get you out of here. I made a promise to him, and I plan on keeping that promise.”

“Moi malenkiy lev,” Vladmir whispered, kneeling before me. “I know you are hurting right now, and you have every right, but please, let us get you and the kids to safety. Someone extremely dangerous is looking for you. Please?”

Staring at the man with the soft blue eyes, I felt myself calming, almost like a fog was being lifted and I could breathe again. It was a weird feeling. The man was unfamiliar to me. I remembered seeing him when Maxim and the others came to help the club get rid of theSociety. I never talked to him when he was in Tennessee, but I remembered he watched and saw everything.

With no idea what to do next or where to go, I nodded.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire, I went.

April 27, 2023

Reaper

“I’m going to fucking kill you!” I roared, trying to get out of the restraints holding me to the bed. How the fuck I woke up with Montana and Maxim looming over me, I had no idea. The last thing I remembered was telling that cunt Wendy to back the fuck off. She’d been trying to get down my pants for weeks, and I’d had enough of her shit. I knew she was one of Maxim’s whores.

Fucker thought he was so slick sneaking her into my club.

Like I didn’t investigate the bitch.

Please. I wasn’t a fucking newbie.

And thatmotherfucker, Montana.

When I got my hands around his neck, I was going to rip his head off and shit down his throat!

“Where are my wife and kids?!”

“They’re gone,” the fucker stated flatly, holding up picture after picture of that cunt Wendy fucking me in my office.

“YOU SON OF A BITCH!” I rabidly railed, trying to break the binds that held me. Motherfucker was damn lucky I couldn’t get my hands on him, but I was patient. One day. I didn’t know when, but one day I would, and God help that motherfucker!

Maxim stepped forward.

“Reaper, we need you to listen. Shit is getting bad. Remi is in trouble. She was in danger. We had no choice.”

“The fuck you didn’t!” I roared. “You could have called me!”

“I tried you, jackass,” Montana sneered. “You never picked up!”

Glaring at both men, I growled, “What the fuck did you do? Have that bitch set me up? Remi will see right through that shit. She knows I would never fucking cheat on her. I’d rather cut out my own fucking heart than hurt her like that. So, what did you do?”

Maxim looked at Montana, who sighed. “We forced your hand. You were getting out of control. We needed to contain you before you did something stupid, like fuck everything up worse than you already have. All you had to do was lie low and let us handle things. But you couldn’t even do that. Could you?”

“What did you do?” I sneered, spittle shooting from my mouth.

“We had Wendy slip something into your drink,” Montana admitted, then grinned like the two-timing son of a bitch he was. “To make you more amiable. Then, when you were fucking whacked out of your mind, she stripped you naked and made it look like she was fucking your brains out. I had someone take pictures and send them to your wife. I thought she would just leave, but she didn’t. Instead, Remi walked in on the scene and shot Wendy dead. The bullet went through Wendy and into you.”

I went still as I tried to process everything the lying piece of shit had just said. I couldn’t believe it. No fucking way.

My Remi was gentle, kindhearted.

Fuck, I knew she had a temper on her, but she would never harm another living soul. Not after everything she endured growing up.

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