Page 35 of Denial

“Where the fuck is my sister?” Faith asks Ice who isn’t paying attention to Faith as she tries to get free from the leather strap holding her in place.

When Ice ignores Faith, she steps up even closer and pulls her fist back. The crunch of her fist hitting Ice in the nose fills the cell we’re in and blood immediately begins to spurt. Ice is finally quiet as she looks up at Faith like she’s seeing her for the first time.

“Again, where the fuck is my sister?” Faith questions the bitch in front of her.

“I don’t know where that crazy bitch is,” Ice says, hate filling her voice as she glares at Faith and doesn’t look anywhere else but at her.

“When did you put all the cameras in the clubhouse up?” Gwen asks, stepping up next to her daughter.

Ice starts laughing like the crazy bitch she is, throwing her head back and closing her eyes as if she’s not surrounded by people who want to fucking gut her. For several long minutes, we all wonder what this bitch is laughing at until she brings her head back down and looks between Faith and Gwen.

“That was the easiest thing I’ve ever done. No one pays attention during the day when we’re all left alone in the clubhouse. You’re really too trusting if you ask me. I went from one room to the next and placed the cameras and bugs. My boss wants to get all the dirty details about this club and tasked me with finding the information. He provided all the equipment, minus the ones I purchased myself to put in Jinx’ room. The only room I wasn’t able to get inside is where they meet,” Ice states, pride filling her voice as she lets her eyes drift over to me and I glare at her.

“How the fuck did you get in the bedrooms?” Shy questions her, stepping up and folding her arms over her chest. “And who the fuck is your boss?”

“I took a key from one of the guys and made copies. Returned it to him before he even realized it was missing. And my boss is Becker. He’s going to take down this fucking club and I’ll be at his side to rule over Pine View,” Ice informs us as we all look to one another knowing this is something we’ll have to discuss in church once everything has settled down.

“Becker isn’t going to do anything. These men will get him and make sure he pays for the crimes he’s committed over the years. See, we don’t fucking forget a damn thing that’s been done to anyone in the club. You fucked up, Ice. The men won’t touch you, but the same can’t be said for us,” Gwen informs her as she grabs a pair of pliers from the tray near her.

I watch on with Killer as his wife removes every single one of Ice’s nails. Ice screams once again and doesn’t stop when Gwen sets the pliers back down and grabs a knife. Faith takes the knife from her mom’s hands and proceeds to cut small slices all over the skank’s body. She removes Ice’s shirt and stands in front of her, doing something no one else can see. I look on and wonder what the hell is going on as Ice screams and tries to get away from Faith. Gwen and Shy start laughing as they step up closer to see what Faith is doing and I look over to Killer. He’s smiling like a fucking madman as the three women back up and we all start laughing our asses off.

Faith has carved words into Ice’s chest. Slut, Skank, Bitch, and Traitor now decorate her body as Shy takes the knife from Faith’s hand. Shy proceeds to add cuts to Ice’s body before bringing the knife up to the handful of hair that she’s grabbed. Even I know you don’t fuck with a woman’s hair. Especially one as vain and narcissistic as Ice. Shy cuts the length of hair from Ice and lets it fall all over her lap and the floor beneath them. When Ice realizes what she’s looking at murder fills her eyes.

“I’m going to kill you!” she screams out, trying once again to get out of the straps while trying to lunge for Shy.

“You’re not gonna do shit. I suggest that if you have anything else to say that you do so now. Like, where the fuck is Becker. The pussy is hiding out and no one can find him. Even his parents don’t know where he is,” Shy states as she steps back and lets Gwen move forward with a lemon in her hands.

Gwen squeezes the lemon and rubs the juice all over Ice’s body as she starts screaming in pain. The juice goes down into the cuts the girls have marked her body with.

“You’ll never find Becker. His boss will hide him and keep him safe from you. If Hope is missing, and I really hope she is, then you’ll never find her either. She’s as good as dead and you’ll never get her body back. No, I don’t know who the fuck is above Becker either. No one does. That’s why they’re so successful. You’re all too fucking stupid to pull off the shit they have,” Ice says, her voice cold as she shows that she does actually have a brain for the first time since any of us met her.

“Oh, we’ll find our girl. Unlike you and anyone you associate with, we actually give a fuck about our loved ones. Her dad and I won’t rest until we bring our girl home. If you know anything about Jinx, then you know he’ll never stop fighting to bring his woman back to him. You’ll never be lucky enough to fucking experience anything like that because you don’t know the meaning of loving another person or what it takes to give the kind of loyalty every single member, ol’ lady, and associate of this club live every fucking day. I’m done with this bitch. I want to find my daughter. Can we end her now?” Gwen states as Killer steps up to his woman and pulls her into his arms when she starts to cry again.

“Yeah, we can end her,” Shy says, taking the gun Slim is holding in his hand.

“No! You can’t kill me! Becker will come for me. He loves me and I’m going to have his baby,” Ice lies because we had the Phantom girls examined when they first came in and Doc told us an interesting story about this skank.

“You’re not pregnant, Ice. See, when you had the exam done by Doc, he discovered in your medical records that you can’t have kids. Due to an accident when you were younger, you had to have a hysterectomy done. So, yeah, you’re about to die. I’d say it was nice to know you, but that would be a lie. Rot in fucking hell,” I inform the room as Ice looks at me with such a deep loathing in her eyes that I’d be afraid if I didn’t know she was about to take her last breath.

“Let me do this,” Faith says as Shy goes to aim the gun. “She’s fucking with my sister and I deserve to be the one to end her life.”

“Baby, I don’t want that shit on your shoulders,” Killer says as he tries to move his daughter away from Shy. “It will change you in ways you can’t even begin to comprehend yet.”

“I know that, Dad. If roles were reversed, I know Hope would be the one to pull the trigger for me. I’m just as strong as she is and I can do this. My sister will know this bitch is no longer breathing by my hand and no one else’s. I’ll be okay, Dad. And if I struggle, I’ve got you to help me,” Faith says, not taking her eyes off of Ice as we all wait to see what’s going to happen.

With a nod from Killer, Shy hands over the gun and Faith aims at the skank in front of her. She doesn’t hesitate to pull the trigger and put a bullet right between Ice’s eyes. Releasing the breath she was holding, Faith hands the gun over to Slim and steps into her parents’ embrace. Killer gets his daughter and wife out of the cell we’re in while Vault steps up and turns to face us.

“Everyone clear out. I’ll have the Prospects clean this mess up. I’m gonna inform Fox what was said in here. King, get back to doin’ your thing on your laptop. I want every known associate of Becker’s so we can figure out who the fuck his boss is. We’ll set up search teams to go out and search Pine View for any sign of Hope. Jinx, you get your choice of goin’ out and searchin’ for your girl or helpin’ King work on the computer. Fox and him will need help. Let me know what you wanna do,” Vault orders as we all start to leave the cell behind and make our way back up to the common room.

Killer, Gwen, and Faith are nowhere to be seen when I get upstairs. Heading for the bar, I take the bottle of water Morgan’s holding out for me and give her a nod of thanks. I make my way to the table King and Fox are sitting at knowing there’s no way in hell I’ll be able to remain in the clubhouse while others are out searching for my girl. I’ll be out there with them until she’s brought home again. Hope will know that I did everything in my power to bring her home because for me there is no other option. I can’t lose her when we’ve already lost so much time together.

Chapter Twenty-Two

Hope

WAKING UP, I find myself locked in a cage that’s no bigger than one of those crates you can buy large dogs to hold when you leave them home alone or something. I can hardly sit up as I try to stretch out my body feeling the aches and pains filling me from head to toe. There isn’t a single inch of me that’s not in pain. It reminds me of waking up in the hospital after dealing with the hitman at work. Opening my eyes, I take in the room I’m being held in. There are so many cages filling the space. Each one of them is filled with a woman or child. Each cage my eyes land on only breaks my heart even more. There isn’t a single person here that hasn’t been beaten and tortured. Everyone is covered in dirt, grime, blood, bruises, cuts, and so many other things. Clothes are ripped and hanging loosely from their bodies as their hair is matted and covered in blood from their various injuries. No one will meet my eyes as I listen to the whimpers coming from some of the cages. I promise myself to get each and every single one of them out of here with me when the club comes for me.

“She’s finally awake,” I hear a man say, whipping my head around so fast it causes my vision to spin and nausea to build up.

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