Page 73 of The Devil's Ice

“They’re fine,” Wolf said to whichever twin it was. “They’re sleepin’ on the bed behind me right now.”

“Jesus,” said a voice, either Dux and Drake. “I gotta go call Briley, like right the fucknow."

“Yeah,” said his brother. “Let her know.”

“Before I go,” said the first voice. “AreyouOK, Wolf?”

“I’m fine, man,” Wolf said, his eyes still nailed on Bones’ face. “Happy to hear from you guys. Lookin’ forward to gettin’ home.”

“Wolf?” The voice this time was King’s, and Wolf’s anxiety dropped a few more notches. If Scars had shown up with the twins,andKing, then he was organized and fully ready to fuck someone up if necessary. “We’re meeting up with you and Bones and the babies at midnight.”

“I don’t know how soon that is,” Wolf said. “I’m in a cell with no fuckin’ windows.”

“It’s in about five hours,” Scars told him. “You can go with Bones, OK? We’ve got a deal with him, and heonlygets what he wants when he delivers you all safely to us.”

“What are the guarantees that he gets us to you?” Wolf rasped. “And not to Viper fuckin’ Grant?”

“Hasn’t he shown you the pictures?” King asked.

“What pictures?”

“On his phone. Viper, Preacher and seven other Hellions lying dead at a poker game.”

Wolf was stunned to near-silence for a few seconds, then recovered the power of speech. “What?”

“Something about some chemical through an air vent that made them drown in their own lung fluid,” Scars said vaguely. “We don’t quite grasp all the science, but we know this much: Bones wants out of the MC and this is how he’s buying his safe passage, but we don’t make that happen until you’re with us.”

“Got it,” Wolf said shortly. “Where are you guys?”

“Just over the state line in Wyoming, about four hours from where you are,” Scars said. “King has a safe house here, so we’ve just been dealing with a few issues, and waiting on Bones to tell us he’s got you. We’re heading out the second we get off this call.”

“How many of you are there?”

“Me, King, the twins, Ice and Cain.”

“And Denton?” Wolf asked. “Is he available for back-up at this end?”

The silence at the other end of the line gave him his answer.

“Bale killed him?” Wolf asked, but in such a way that it wasn’t actually a question. “He did, right?”

“Yes,” King said quietly. “But we got Bale.”

“Dead?”

“He sure is,” said either Dux or Drake coldly. “He’s helped the Hellions for years now, from what King’s been able to figure out. He’s had it coming to him for a long time.”

“I won’t be sheddin’ any fuckin’ tears for the bastard,that’sfor sure,” Wolf said. “Is everyone OK back in Denver?”

There was another silence, and Wolf tensed up again.

“Scars?”

“Yeah,” Scars said. “Everyone’s alright. We had – there was an incident and Vixen got hurt, but she’s OK now.”

“Vixengot hurt?” Wolf was genuinely perplexed; why would a waitress at Satan’s be injured, but nobody else? “How bad?”

“Bad enough,” Ice spoke up for the first time. “But she’s with Zoe and Keira with some of King’s Men, so we know they’re all safe and protected. Everyone is, man.”

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