Page 72 of The Echo of Violence

I rub my hand over my face. “Rex and Nico are gay. They danced around each other while attached to the Savage Hearts because being gay was unacceptable. Rex was just a lowly prospect, but Nico was the sergeant at arms. If the MC had found out, they’d have taken his patch and stripped him of his colors. When the club was gone, they didn’t need to hide who they were anymore. But they did for me because it would have been another tick in the box of reasons why Nico shouldn’t have me. They hid who they were until I turned eighteen. I got to stand up on my new prosthetics on my birthday and watch the two men I love most in the world get married. It was the best present I could ever ask for. So, if you mess with that, with them, I don’t care if you’re the president of an MC or the President of the United States, I will cut you open and remove your organs before feeding them to you.”

“You know you can’t go around threatening your president.” He narrows his eyes at me.

“You’re not my president yet.”

CHAPTER TWENTY

Knight

“You knew about her legs and didn’t say anything?” I shove Eightball and watch with satisfaction as he falls into the chair.

He stands up and shoves me back. “No, of course, I didn’t fucking know.”

“How is that possible? I thought you fucked her.”

His face turns to thunder as he snarls at me. “We were in a storeroom. I didn’t take her clothes off. I just bent her over the table and fucked her from behind. How was I supposed to know?”

“Does it make a difference?”

I turn at the sound of Splinter’s voice.

“She, okay?”

“She’s still in with Scope, Kaz, and Wizz.”

I notice he doesn’t say if she’s okay or not. Fuck knows how that meeting will go.

“You didn’t answer my question. Do either of you have an issue with her not having any legs?” Splinter crosses his arms.

“She doesn’t need legs for me to fuck her.”

Eightball punches me in the face. My head swings to the side. Splinter grabs me before I can hit him back.

“What the fuck?” I roar at him.

“Don’t speak about her that way.”

I blink and shake Splinter off, rubbing my jaw. “You like her?”

“Yeah, I do. You got a problem with that?”

“I don’t want to fight over a woman with you.”

“Good, then back off. If pussy is all you’re after, this place has plenty to go around.”

I step up to him so that we’re standing toe to toe. “Don’t put fucking words in my mouth, brother. Yes, I want to fuck her, but that doesn’t mean that’s all I want.” I just didn’t realize it until he hit me. Not that I’d tell him that. Fucking asshole.

“Then we’ve got a problem because I’m guessing Splinter wants her too.”

Splinter nods as Eightball runs his hand over his face.

“I’ve already had her. By rights, I should be able to ask you both to back off. I won’t because I’ve seen how she looks at each of us.”

That makes me pause for a second. “How does she look at us? I haven’t noticed.”

“You’re the most unobservant person I know, Knight. It took you a month to notice I shaved off my beard,” Eightball huffs. “She’s curious. I don’t think she’s that experienced, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have fantasies.”

“Fantasies? Hmm… I can work with that.”

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