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He chuckled. “I see, your reputation was notwrong. You are known for being a hard nut to crack.” He reached out and strokeda finger down her cheek.

Petal jumped back as Kim attacked. Within secondsshe had the man’s hand in her mouth and was biting down. He screamed andclearly wasn’t expecting her to bite. The truth was, even Petal wasn’texpecting it. Kim wasn’t being gentle either, and she was sure she saw blood.

Men attacked, pulling Kim off him, prying her jawopen, and she couldn’t help but wince as the now injured man slapped Kim hardacross the face, sending her falling to the ground. There was no noise. Kimbarely made a sound.

Petal’s heart was racing. She knew she was no easytarget but what Kim did took balls, and in that moment, Petal knew she wantedto be just like her. Kim flicked her head back and with blood streaming out bothsides of her mouth, she smiled.

“Now that you know who I am, how about you tell mewho you are?” Kim asked. She got to her feet, shoving away the men that triedto pick her up.

Petal didn’t know what to do. She didn’t know ifhelp was coming and it didn’t seem logical to piss these men off, but thatseemed to be what Kim wanted to do. There was no plan. They didn’t even havetime to come up with a plan. She tried not to panic. Panicking never solvedanything.

She and Kim were in a bad situation. Glancingaround, she saw they were in the middle of nowhere. The house looked like ithadn’t been lived in for years. Where the fuck where they? Petal didn’t have aclue. She didn’t notice anything. There was no one to be found. She couldn’teven see anything of relevance. It looked like they had traveled down a privatelyowned road, to get to the shithole house where they were now.

This was not good.

There was a garden shed that had so many holesaround it. It looked like it had been in a gunfight and freaking lost. They hadnowhere to run, even if by some miracle they found a way to escape. This washopeless. She had never been in this kind of situation before.

Then she remembered the day at the garage.Gabrielle had wanted the homecoming party for Rosalie to be perfect. Several ofthe guys had offered to drive or ride Gabrielle to the store. Petal had knownhow skittish she was around men and opted to do it herself.

Then the sound of the gunshots. The feeling as shefelt two bullets hit her.

Pulling out of the memory, she looked at the men,knowing there was no out for them. She and Kim were going to die. She felt thetears fill her eyes. This was insane. She was terrified.

The man smiled and then bowed before her. “I’mPredator, and it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance.”

“So what’s the deal here? You’re just going tofinish off what Daemon started, is that it?”

“You speak of him as if you don’t fear he mightcome back and haunt you?” The smile on Predator’s face was mocking.

Petal glared at him. “Deamon was a piece of shit.”

His gaze turned back to her.

“Who is this little bitch?” Predator asked.

“A pain in the ass, but she persisted in being aproblem while we took the one you wanted, and seeing as she was with thatparty, we figured you’d want her.” One of the other men spoke up, and Petaldidn’t avert her gaze as she stared at Predator.

“A very happy pain in the ass in case you werewondering,” Petal said.

The man smiled.

“Well, in that case, you’re in luck because you’regoing to get to see me kill your little bitch leader.”

He had to come up with better insults, and she wasjust about to tell him that, when his words seemed to flood her brain and sherealized exactly what he’d said and what he was about to do.

“What the hell are you doing?”

“I have it on good authority that to make Warden alittle more interesting, I’ve got to take something that means the world tohim. I thought about taking his clubhouse, killing his son, but then Iremembered he has a wife.” Predator tutted. “And we all know no man in thislife should have a wife.”

Kim was shoved to the ground and Predator pulledout a gun. He was going to shoot Kim in the head.

Petal didn’t want to see that. Her thoughtsquickly went to her best friend. Rosalie had already lost one mother, and Kimwas fast turning into Rosalie’s second mother. She thought about the baby, ofWarden, of the men at the Satan’s Death Riders MC. None of them would be ableto deal with Kim’s death. She didn’t know if it would ruin the club completely,but it was one of those moments she knew they were not going to survive. Shecould not allow that to happen.

She had to come up with a distraction. The menneeded time. Warden would not be sitting on his ass while his wife’s life wason the line, of that she was sure.

She burst out laughing. The sound was completelyfake, but she got into it, as it stopped Predator from firing the weapon.

“Stop it,” he said.

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