group for it. Levi left him humiliated and broke, meaning he took all of Jase’s money. Jase’s ego got in the way. He vowed he’d get Levi back one day and this is that day. He’ll drag the girl back but she’ll already be dead when he does. Like I said, he’ll put the blame on either your club or me. But Levi won’t get his revenge on me because I’ll already be dead as well.”
“Why would he kill you?” Patriot asked.
“I’m his competition, you see,” Damen admitted. “I get my choice of the jobs because I’m paid higher than he is. He wants my position in the company. Levi is such a bastard he doesn’t see the danger he’s in with Jase. One day soon, Jase is going to kill him.”
“Why should we trust the words of a killer about any of this?” Gunner asked.
“Because I’m all you got. I’m done with taking orders from men like Levi. Now tell me something will you?”
“What?” Gunner wanted to know.
“Is she happy? I need to know if she’s going to be safe and okay.”
“Yeah, I would say she’s happy,” Gunner replied. “She belongs to the club now. We protect our own. She isn’t going anywhere. One of us has claimed her.”
“Good. I’m glad for her. Randy never cared one way or the other about anyone but himself and her own father is the same way. I was hoping she would finally find someone or someplace to call home.”
“She did and we don’t take kindly to someone trying to rip her away from us.”
They could all hear Damen release a sigh into the phone. “Jase will come after her with everything he’s got and leave nothing but devastation in his wake. I don’t want to see her dead or any of you either, not by his hands.”
“We’ll do our best to make sure that doesn’t happen,” Gunner stated with a growl.
Damen hung up the call and glared at the tree on the other side of the road. He’d almost gotten here too late. Jase was high in the tree and he was waiting for the proper time to get away. Damen knew his procedure very well.
Yes, Damen had thought about what he was going to do for a long time now. The only thing that kept him where he was, would be the fact that he’d hoped to be the one who found the girl Levi had lost a long time ago.
But Levi had another secret he hid from the world. And Damen had discovered it purely by accident. He met and married Tessi for his own benefit. He never loved her and the truth be told, she didn’t love him either. In fact, she hated him and Levi knew it. But he didn’t care. He only married her for one reason and that was for the child he forced her to have. That baby would be his saving grace. He had hoped the baby would be a boy, maybe it would have been Tessi’s one and only saving grace, before Sheen got involved, that is.
Levi tried to hide his medical problem, but Damen knew the man was dying. Some obscure long term disease was eating him alive. Only a bone marrow transfer from a live donor would allow him to live and time was running out for Levi. There was no assurance that even the transfer would help at this point.
Levi had a very rare blood type and he was praying the girl had it too.
Damen had Blacky give him some of her blood and he had it tested under orders from Levi, back when he found the girl, being kept at Blacky’s. The blood turned out to be a match and he had orders to bring her home.
Damen figured somehow, Jase knew this as well and that would be why he would make sure she didn’t survive. That and the deep seated hatred Jase had for Levi was the reason why Jase would never allow her to live.
Chapter Ten
High up in the tree, Jase Brunner hid and watched the scene below him carefully. He was sure the shot hit the girl but was she still alive? It had been a hurried shot but had it done what he’d hoped? That’s what he needed to find out.
When the light went out in the room she was in, he felt like he’d accomplished what he’d set out to do, but he knew he couldn’t leave here until he had confirmation the hit