Everlasting - Christine Michelle Page 0,74

make her pay until she could deliver the baby. It made my stomach roll to think that the reason they had to wait was because that kid might be mine. “You need to pull your fuckin’ head out of your ass, and soon!” Kane seethed the words through his teeth, but before I could respond, Durbin had shut the door again.

“Your brothers love you, but right now, they respect your woman more,” he told me and then he threw some fresh clothes at me. “Get yourself cleaned up, and do yourself and your family a favor, when she comes back today… If she comes back today,” he amended, and that alteration broke something loose inside of me. “Be prepared to face your cowardice and let her in.

Chapter 28

The Test

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I turned to go down the hall where Deck’s infirmary room was, but when I saw Kane standing outside of his door, looking for all the world like he might actually kill my husband, I back peddled. Kane offered a tight smile for me and then mouthed, “Later”. That was enough to know that some intense shit must be going down and I wouldn’t be welcome again. Instead, I turned on my heel, and noted that the clubhouse seemed pretty damned empty. “Are you sure you want to do this with me?” I asked MiMi one last time.

She laughed. “Are you kidding me? I’m the queen of dumb and dangerous decision making.”

I left it at that and the two of us moved as quickly as we possibly could to the entrance to the pit. It was an old, in-ground swimming pool at one time that had been converted to a wet work spot for the club, in case they needed one. They had occasion to use it a few times since I had become aware of it. I knew that was where they were housing the woman and I also knew they had video surveillance down there. I didn’t bother hiding what we were doing. They would all figure it out eventually. I still didn’t know what the hell was going on that we’d been allowed to get that far without someone stopping us, but as luck would have it, we were able to get in, grab the bitch, and haul her ass to the van we had arrived in without a single soul stopping us.

“Where do you think you’re taking me? They won’t like that you’ve taken me!” She was shrieking.

“I need you to understand that I have zero qualms about knocking a pregnant bitch out. Shut the fuck up, or I’ll make it happen,” MiMi threatened her. I had to hold back my laughter, because damn, even I believed she’d do it. The woman had an insane poker face.

Once I found out I was technically the new owner of Ava’s property, I went to investigate her house a bit better. She had mentioned before that her father dabbled in some shadier things, and I hoped that meant that he had a space somewhere in the house that would accommodate those endeavors and be of use to me too. I hadn’t been wrong. The attic, which was technically a third-floor space, had reinforced bars on the windows, but those windows were also shuttered so that no one could see into them even if they were outside on a ladder. The attic door locked from the outside with the aid of several locks, and there was the bonus that Ava had no neighbors within close enough proximity to hear someone screaming.

We were getting Sasha out of the van when a motorcycle came blazing into the driveway of Ava’s house. “What the hell do the two of you think you’re doing?” Christina questioned.

“I thought you were in Canada?” MiMi asked.

“I was. We brought Merc back this morning. Everyone is at the hospital checking in on him.” I glanced at MiMi. That explained why it was so easy to get the bitch out of the clubhouse unseen. “Now, you want to tell me what the two of you are up to?”

“The bitch is about to pop and have this baby. The guys are just going to freak out, pull someone in to help her deliver, and possibly lose her to some fucked up plot her family had to get her back and then Deck will never be safe again. This way, we can interrogate the bitch, deliver the baby, find out if it’s Deck’s. Then, we can figure out where to go from there.”

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