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After turning off the outside light, we make our way out of the house as quietly as we can and load her into the backseat of the truck.

Time to get some answers.

Backing up, driving away, and getting back to club property are all done without haste. This would be the worst possible time to bring unwanted attention to ourselves. I slide my phone out of my pocket so I can let Prez know. I thought he’d wait in the same spot the entire time, but hopefully, someone knocked some sense into him.

Me: I picked up your package

Prez: Good. Any trouble?

Me: Yeah. Bitch at the counter didn’t want to give me it. I won

Prez: See you soon

That was it. Nothing more because nothing else is needed. It’s time to get this awful woman to the cellar and get the answers we need.

“Hey, man,” Copper brings me out of my internal monologue, “you know I don’t believe any of that shit I said, right? I love my girls with every fiber of my being.”

I turn toward him, and when we pass under a street light, I can see the pain etched on his face. He truly is concerned that I could possibly believe everything he said. “I know, man. I see you with them. It’s fucking clear to anyone how much you love those girls.”

“Okay,” he lets out a rush of air, “I also don’t think you should get rid of the baby. But, I gotta ask, is it true?”

I look at him in confusion, even though he keeps his eyes on the road. “Is what true?”

“The baby might not be yours?”

Shit. This was something I never wanted to talk about. We’ve been lying to everyone and haven’t decided if we’re going to tell any of them. But even if we do, it’s not my choice. But, like I told AJ, it doesn’t matter who made him. He’s mine.

“He’s mine,” I say and leave it at that. “I thought it might sweeten the pot for her.”

He chuckles, “That it did, brother. That it did.”

“But now I have to ask, what did you say to her?”

He lets go of the wheel with one hand and drags it down his face as he lets out a groan, “Bonnie has been trying to fuck me since her husband was caught. Any chance she got, she’d say something, touch me in some way. I told her if she could get your kid outta the way, I’d fuck her while you watched.”

“Dude! The fuck!” I shout out while laughing.

“I know, it’s disgusting.”

“Seriously, I don’t want to see your ass,” I tell him, and he looks at me, his mouth agape.

“How dare you!”

We let it go after that and continue the rest of the drive in silence. When we get to the property, we pull up right next to the cellar door.

“Let’s get what we need and kill this bitch,” he tells me.

“With pleasure.”

***

“Time to wake up, Princess Pissy Pants.” Cowboy murmurs and tosses a bucket of ice-cold water on Bonnie as she hangs from the roof of the cellar.

Bonnie’s eyes shoot open. She starts to squirm and panic before seeing most of my brothers standing around her. Butcher is off to the side, slightly behind me. I hear a feral growl escape him as he sharpens his tools of the trade. I could have sworn there was a flicker of fear in her eyes, but she quickly masks it.

“Noah,” she purrs, “I knew you were laying it on a little too thick.”

“It got the job done, so you must have bought it on some level.” Copper says with a shrug, feeling no guilt for what needed to be done.

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