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“He called when he was trying to find you. Said that someone confronted him in the hospital after the doctors told us Dad didn’t make it. They warned him to keep his mouth shut and stay out of it. He thought it was someone from Silent Phoenix.”

“Oh,” I mumbled, before sinking down onto the grass. There had never been an elaborate plot to alienate me from my family. Nate had been trying to keep me safe. “But why go after him?”

Lauren gasped. “Because he did the surgery! He would’ve known that Grey was alive. I’m right, aren’t I?”

Dakota grimaced. “Yeah, but I wasn’t supposed to tell that part until he talked to Kate.”

I’d all but begged for details from that night only to be pushed away, yet he’d given up all his secrets to my sister.

At my crestfallen expression, she quickly added, “All he knew was that Dad was stable, Kate. He was in another surgery when they told him that he’d passed away.”

“We need to pull those tapes,” Lauren commanded. “See if we recognize the person that confronted him—”

“We already did,” Zane said, scratching at his eyebrow. “The only person seen on tape interacting with Nate is Bear.”

I thought of the footage I’d been sent, the man in the hoodie. “Wait, I was sent something—footage from the hospital, I mean. There was another man he talked with; at first, I was convinced that it was our dad—”

“Why are you just now telling us this?” Dakota shouted, and I squeezed my eyes shut, longing for a dark room and eight hours of uninterrupted sleep.

“You just admitted that Bear has Dad’s vest,” I said calmly. “When I showed Mama the video, she said it wasn’t Dad, so I didn’t see the point of bringing it up again. We do need to tell her about this, though. Maybe the guy in my video is the one who threatened Nate.”

Dakota’s face paled. “Well, that’s part of the problem…”

“Where’s Celia?” Mike asked, looking around the empty yard.

Her lip trembled, and another stream of tears fell from her eyes. “I’m sorry. I didn’t have all the facts when I showed her the footage and told her about the vest. I didn’t know she’d react—”

“Dakota,” Lauren said firmly. “Where is she?”

“She went to the clubhouse,” she admitted through a sob. “She said she’s going to kill him.”

Chapter Fifteen

Celia

Angel frowned at me. “You wanna explain why you wanted me to meet you here of all places?”

Wolverine exhaled a stream of smoke from his mouth with a raspy laugh. “We’re gonna torture the shit out of ya, Angel.”

Muscles and veins strained against the skin of my forearms as I looked up at the storage facility with clenched fists. “Because there’s a chance they brought Jamie here—”

“Celia,” Wolverine began. “You and I both know that the Sons wouldn’t get within ten feet of this place before the club knew about it.”

I checked the magazine on my gun and forced a smile onto my face as I said, “Oh, I think they knew more than they’re telling you. Now, are we staying out here all day or can we get on with it?”

They pulled their weapons with simultaneous sighs of frustration before following me up to the door.

“Thought I told you on the phone that just because you had a video of Bear chattin’ with the doctor, it don’t mean he’s behind it all,” Angel grumbled.

“Dakota found Jamie’s vest on Bear and Molly’s bed,” I hissed back, wishing that she hadn’t chosen today to give up the traitor. I would have liked to have spent my first hangover lying in bed.

“You’re sure it was Jamie’s?” Angel asked, keeping an eye on Wolverine. What he was really asking was whether I was ready to start a war over it. Angel might’ve lived like a mercenary, but Wolverine would bleed Phoenix red until the day he died.

The former Pres had made it explicitly clear that he’d only shown up to prove me wrong. If he got wind of the intel I had on the club, I’d lose my ally from the inside.

I nodded discreetly as Wolverine unlocked the heavy door and shoved it open. “See? Not a goddamn thing in here—”

“This place gets raided by the cops, do you think they want my husband strung up like a goddamn Christmas tree where anybody could see him when they walk in?”

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