Page 76 of Bound By Temptation

“Answer, Lex. What the fuck is goin’ on?” John clipped, moving closer to her as I took a step back again.

Lexi put her hands up and took a step back, then another. The counter finally stopped her, but John got close in her space. “Answer me.”

“I told Indie that I uploaded the sex video to social media.”

“What!” He exploded. “Have you lost your fucking mind!”

“I was mad.” Lexi started quietly.

“Mad.” John chuckled darkly. “You were fuckin’ mad and decided to get involved in shit that could kill you. Shit that was supposed to be dead and buried years ago! Really fucking smart.” John had gone to school with us, therefore he knew about the tape, but like most people in Sumner it wasn’t even a thought anymore.

“It just came out when I saw them.” She started.

“You’re absolutely ridiculous! That shit just doesn’t word vomit out of your mouth! Do you have a copy of that shit?” John cut her off. Lexi nodded. “Fuck me.” He turned around and scrubbed his hand over his face. "Where?” he barked.

“On my computer, the cloud, and on the flash drive in the safe.”

John whipped back around to her. “You’re insane. Legally insane and need to be in a ward. Three copies? Three. Not just one, but three. Anymore? Because I swear to Christ if you have more and don’t tell me in this moment, your life will be hell until you take your last fucking breath on this earth.”

While I was impressed with John’s reaction, he was taking all the fun, and I hated that shit. But he asked what I needed to know. It also appeared that miss perfect Lexi didn’t live a happy life and knowing her husband would make it hell helped.

“On the drive cloud no one knows I have. But that’s all. I don’t have anything else.”

“You have a fucking drive I don’t know about?” Each word had John getting angrier and angrier. “Did you upload it?” John asked.

Lexi shook her head. “No. I stopped myself before I did it.”

“Maybe you do have a few braincells left in that arrogant head of yours,” John grumbled. “Take what you need. There are tablets, laptops, external computer hard drives and a tower to the desktop. I’ll get the key to the safe,” John said, not even waiting a second to move out of the room. Had to say this impressed me too.

Raid grabbed his phone and dialed out. “Come in. Get the shit.” Deke and Micah were outside in the Tahoe waiting for our call. If these people had this video anywhere, these two could find it.

“I didn’t mean to cause trouble,” Lexi cried as I moved to leave the room and follow John.

Turning to her, I stared her down. “You ever talk about or post that video in any way, you’ll be dead, and they won’t find your body. You stay away from Indie and the bakery. You stay away from the volleyball games or any game that Indie is at. If you walk into a store and she’s there, you walk out. You don’t come near the Ravage MC or anyone associated with us. You do, I’ll turn your ass over to Princess and my mom, and I’ll stand back and watch. Then I’ll put a bullet in your head.”

Her eyes widened as fear gripped her. She had no idea who she was fucking with, which was stupid on her behalf.

“Not fuckin’ around with you, woman. Swear on my life. You do, say, think anything, and I will destroy you.”

Moving to the upstairs, I heard John moving around to the left and went in that direction through the door. He was tossing shit around his office, ripping out the cords to the electronics and tossing them to the ground.

He looked up briefly then back down before grabbing the tower of the desktop and putting it on top of the desk. “I cannot fucking believe her. She’s been in this town all her life. She fucking knows better than to mess with the MC … yet here she goes, bringing up this shit. And she has copies! She has a serious death wish.” His head shook.

John pulled a set of keys out of the top drawer of his desk and moved to the wall. “Fucking moron.”

“Sounds like you love her,” I replied sarcastically.

He huffed. “When she pulls stupid shit like this, it’s fucking hard.”

“This isn’t the first time?”

“She thinks she’s high on the fucking hog and nothing can touch her because I’m mayor, and she has that shroud of protection. Flaunts it, and look here—it came back to bite her in the ass. So fucking stupid.”

“Get a hold on her. I’ll put a bullet between her eyes and not think twice about it.”

He nodded, then put a code into the safe, inserted a key and opened the door wide, not really having any “normal” reaction to me killing his wife. If someone told me they were going to kill Indie, they’d have a bullet in their head immediately. “Lexi! Get your ass up here!” he yelled, and two seconds later both her and Raid came into the room.

“Get the drive now.”

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