Page 43 of Venom
I pull up outside the club in my spot, my mama's shouts echoing, and I gently rub my fingers over my neck, tracing my girl’s name, the need to put her name in the database filling me, but I swallow it down.
A week, I’ll give her a week, and in that time I’ll throw myself at the club and work, and if she doesn’t answer me, well, then she’ll give me no choice but to break her trust.
Chapter 16
Raya – A Week Later
Cale:
I left it a week, kitten, to give you your space, but we need to talk. If you don’t answer me, I’ll have no choice but to put your name in the database. What were you doing with Hayden Gillies on the day Viper was run over?
I chew my bottom lip as I read through the message, trying to keep the light from my phone hidden under my plain black baggy hoodie.
How could he know I saw Hayden when he was only in my presence for five minutes tops before Ivy sent me the SOS?
“If you don’t leave town, then I’ll want you as my wife.”
The soon-to-be-dead man's laughable words echo in my head as I put my phone back in my pocket, and I grip the metal pole in my hand.
I don’t know why Venom cares so much. Okay, I do. He’s Ivy’s brother, andthat woman,who was supposed to love and cherish her daughter, sold her to the sicko, all because she wanted to look like a plastic Barbie.
She chose cosmetics over her daughter.
But surely he doesn’t think I’d ever go there? I mean, Ivy is my best friend, even if I’m not really talking to her at the moment, I would never go there with Hayden, even if he were the last man on earth. Not just because he looks like he’s dipped himself into a barrel of grease.
He signed his death warrant when he allowed his men to set a house on fire with kids inside, killing my dad in the process.
My grip tightens on the pole in my hand.
Ivy would be so disappointed in me if she knew what I was doing, if she realized why I distanced myself from her so quickly. I promised her I’d back off on my revenge, but I lied.
I’m a killer, and she doesn’t know I haven’t stopped, no one knows, well except for Lake, and keeping myself from everyone makes it easier to do what I have to, even if it means using the fact Ivy didn’t tell me about Venom and that woman Angel.
I wonder if he cups her baby bump, if he gently kisses her temple…
I swallow hard and shake my head slightly as a door opens, and I quickly move back behind the wall, hearing the voices.
“I swear, I’ll pay double tomorrow, Kenny, I swear, just tell Hayden I’m good for it, he’ll listen to you, you’re his cousin,” a man pleads.
I chew my bottom lip and quickly look around the wall to see a skinny black haired man on his knees, his face bloodied and bruised as he begs for mercy while a stocky, bald man with several tribal tattoos stands over him.
Guess he couldn’t pay them back…
The pole feels hot in my hand as my grip tightens.
I wonder if Lake hates me right now.
Instead of being by her side, trying to help keep Viper in the hospital bed, I’m here about to kill my twelfth man.
Viper woke up after four days, and thankfully, despite being banged up and covered in road rash, he is okay, but he’s itching to get out of the hospital, not that I blame him. I spent three months there, and it was torture.
Though I was there because of my mental health, he nearly died three times.
“Sorry, Bucks, you know Hayden doesn’t work that way, and I won’t lie to my cousin. You either pay up now or pay with your life along with all your loved ones,” a deep voice growls while the skinny guy, Bucks, trembles with fear, his one good eye wide.
“What-what about information instead?” he tries, “Cherri, you know the-the clubwhore at the Dark Angel’s, she’s been fucking the men in your group, to get information for-for Blade…”
I swallow my snort, but big guy doesn’t as he chuckles, “Actually, she’s been giving us information. How do you think we knew Viper would be at that intersection?” my eyes widen as he sighs, “Albeit he survived and crazy Kitty most likely didn’t but it was worth a try without losing one of our men.”
