Page 130 of Savage Brothers MC: Tennessee Chapter

I grab it on my way to this fucker, but not for defense.I grab it to knock his legs out from under him.It’s not fair, but someone needs to teach this asshole that fighting fair is just another way to die.

I see the moment he knows what’s up.His eyes go as round as motherfucking saucers, but it’s too late for him to plan his escape or a defense.I swing wide and strike against the shithead’s knees.I don’t do it light.I have years of anger inside of me and I let that bleed through the entire swing.He lets out a scream that will probably bring the neighbors alert and get my ass thrown in the slammer, but right now I do not give a fuck.

No consequences.

Once I have him down, I hit him one more time and not because I needed to.It was simply because it felt good.Then I toss the wood to the side and introduce my fists to his face.He swings and gets in some decent shots, but he’s too caught up in his pain for it to do anything more than piss me off more.I stop seeing his face.I start seeing all of the shit that has been swirling around me, stalking my child and I strike it over and over—which is to say, I fucking strike him over and over—to the point that my knuckles are raw, but I don’t give a fuck.

“Stop!What’s going on?!?!”I jerk up as Rory screams from her door.

The minute I do the asshole pushes against me and scoots away on his ass.

That’s when I look around and see there’s a crowd of people around us.It’s Rory my attention comes back to.

“Tony?”she asks her face going white.

White with fear.

It’s then I remember the conversation I had with Rory.I don’t know why I didn’t before, probably because seeing him like he was and hearing him say he was her husband burned in my gut.It felt like jealousy and that fucking pissed me off too.But now I remember.I remember her words.

“It’s not the hitting that sticks with you, you know.”

Motherfucker, I should have hit him harder and I probably would have, except that’s when the sirens get into range.I hear them and I know that whatever is going on, I’m going to be in jail.

“How did you find me?”she asks, her voice pale.

“You applied for a teaching job, Birdie.You had to know they would follow your references.”

At the use of his nickname, Rory stops going white, she looks almost green and I see her body tremble in a way that I don’t like.

“I applied for an assistant position, I didn’t think they would check for anything I didn’t put on the paper,” she whispers—almost to herself.“I’m so stupid.”

“You always were, Birdie,” the fucker says, his words labored because of the pain I delivered—but obviously not enough.“But it doesn’t matter.Your brother is willing to forgive you.It’s time to come home.”

“I’m not coming back,” she says, her voice still quiet, but firm.“I’m never coming back!”

“You’re such a stupid cunt, do you really think you have a choice?—”

He doesn’t get any further.I saw how Rory blanched at his words.I didn’t like them, but seeing her reaction—Ireallydidn’t like them.They bring her words back to me again and this time they sucker punch me.

“It’s not the hitting that sticks with you, you know.”

I’m done.I go back after the motherfucker and I don’t stop this time.He gets some hits in and some were damn hard, but I don’t let up.I’m still going after him, even as the cops pull me off of him.I’m still trying even as they place the cuffs over my wrists and the paramedics start working on the sack of shit because he can’t walk.

The only time I stop is when they put me in the back of the police cruiser.It starts to rain and I look through the glass of my window, the rain making tracks on it and blurring Rory’s face from my view.All I can see is her glorious head of auburn hair and her hands moving as she tries to talk to the cop.Maybe she’s trying to talk him out of arresting me, maybe she’s asking him to take us both away.I don’t know.

These are consequences.

I should regret them, but I know if that motherfucker was still in front of me, my hands might be cuffed behind my back, but I’d still be kicking the shit out of him.

Chapter20

Rory

“Rory,I’m sorry, but I can’t give you Ryan.”

“But you know me, Mrs.Slater.You’re the one that told me to put in for the assistant job.”

“Be that as it may, Mr.Cross left strict instructions with me concerning the child.”

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