Page 179 of Savage Brothers MC: Tennessee Chapter

I decide right there that whatever it takes I will make sure King never gets his hands on an innocent child.I knew it before, but after this… my brother is even more vile than I imagined.

“Why get me all the way to Whitefish for that?I don’t know your son!I don’t know him and if I did I’d tell him to run!”I cry.I shouldn’t have said that.I let my misery well up and that wasn’t smart.King’s radiating anger even more intense than before.

“You really are fucking stupid.I have to wonder how we have the same genes in our blood.Our mother’s side of the family obviously weakened you.Listen closely, Rory and I’ll spell it out for you.I put you in place because the child’s crack-whore mother has cost me a fortune.I can’t stomach her, but I’ve kept her alive because I thought she might be the only way I’d have to my child.You friending my son, becoming a person he trusts, works so much better.You’ll teach him to trust me?—”

“I won’t do it,” I argue, and then I gasp in pain as he twists my hair tighter.

“You will, because if you don’t, I’ll punish you by making you watch as I teach my boy a lesson.You remember those lessons, don’t you, Rory?”

He asks and I do.I truly do.I wouldn’t wish them on anyone.

“And then, if you still won’t do as I ask, you will die and I’ll find another option.I have too much invested at this point to fail.”

“But I don’t even know?—”

He slaps me hard, so hard I see stars.

Looking back, I probably should have put the pieces together sooner.But, I was in shock from watching Noah die, I was in pain and that pain was almost choking me.Plus, I was swamped with fear about what was going to happen next and how to protect the life growing inside of me.I truly didn’t understand…not until King’s next words.

“God, I can’t handle how pathetic you are.You really don’t get it yet.Why would I kill your lover unless he was standing in the way of something I wanted?”

“Something you wanted?”I murmur, confused.Then an awful horrible thought comes through the confusion in my brain.The pieces click into place and I remember how Noah spoke about Ryan’s mother, I piece together the complicated puzzle and I cry from the horror the thought brings me.

“I see you finally understand.Fucking stupid,” King says with a sigh.He roughly pushes my head away from him, letting go of my hair.

“Load up.Diesel told Ryan to head toward Rory’s.Wolf you and Davis take to the hills and track him.I’ll drag my useless sister back to her place and wait.The rest of you get the cleaners out here before the cops ascend on this place like damn vultures,” King orders walking off.Another man drags me behind King, with just his hand on my bound hands.My back is to his back, I can’t see where I’m going and I’m not doing a great job of getting my feet to work.The pavement scratches into my skin, peeling back the hide.That pain is nothing to what is in my heart.I pray Ryan gets away.I pray he remains free of King’s clutches.

I don’t know what I’ll do if they find him.

The End.

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Prologue to Rory

Rory

Rory

“Hello?”A man’s voice comes across the line and I wince, looking around me.It’s loud, and I can’t afford to attract attention.

“Is this…,” I clear my throat as fear almost keeps the words in.“Is this the man they call Crusher?”

“Yeah,” he says, sounding alert now, whereas before his voice seemed thick with sleep.“Who’s this?”

I swallow.I’ve gone around and around this conversation in my head.I didn’t know how to tell him, and I don’t want him to doubt that what I’m telling him is the truth.It’s definitely irony, but to get this Crusher person to believe me… I’m going to lie my ass off.

“My name is Rory McDaniels,” I tell him, giving him one of the very few truths I can give him.

“What do you want?”he says.

“Cowboy?Are you okay?”I hear a woman ask in the background.

“I’m fine, Hellcat, go back to bed,” he says, his voice muffled, like he put a hand over the receiver.

“Are you there?”I ask him, looking around in the dark.Something about the way he spoke to the woman reassures me that this was the right man to call.

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