want you to.”
Bringing my tied hands up to soothe the side of my face, I stare at him. “You think he cares about me? You think he’ll come for me? He uses me, then spits me out for breakfast.”
“And that’s why we know he loves you because he keeps coming back… that, and you’re not dead like his mother.”
“What do you care?”
His eyes widen. “We don’t kill women. Sure, we may hurt them but kill…. no. Wraith took it a step too far.”
“He strangled his mother because she was a prostitute who abused him, who let the men in her life sexually molest him. He had every right to kill her to stop the pain,” I blurt out protecting him but probably saying way too much.
Sava rolls his shoulders. “He didn’t just strangle her, Prinie, he sent her into a coma. With the drugs she had in her system, it made her coma worse. She didn’t die at his hands, sure, but a year later, we had the task of deciding whether or not to turn off her ventilator. She wasn’t the best mother on this earth, but she was a mother… to more than Wraith knows.”
I widen my eyes. “Wraith has siblings?”
Sava clicks his tongue to the roof of his mouth like I have stumbled on a huge secret. “Two brothers, different father to Wraith.”
“Why didn’t she make time for them?”
“She did. Why do you think Wraith was alone so much? She spent time with her real family.”
So many emotions roll through me. “How do you know this?”
His eyes narrow on me. “Because I’m one of her sons.”
I let out an audible gasp. “And the other?”
“Damir.”
It all makes sense now, why Damir picked on Wraith back in juvie. He knew, but Wraith was oblivious. “You’ve had this lifelong vendetta against him. Why are you enacting your revenge on Wraith now?”
Sava eyes me up and down. “Because now he has something he cares enough about to die for.”
“But how did you even know about me?”
Sava grins wickedly. “Our men overheard Wraith talking about you when he dropped by to see your brother in jail… Wraith is quite fond of you apparently… he will come for you—”
Suddenly, the doors of the church burst open with a thud making us all turn to the entrance. Wraith storms in carrying some huge type of gun. Texas and Neon flank his sides, but no one else is with them.
Instantly, I know the others are surrounding the building.
It’s the Defiance MO.
“You have something that belongs to me,” Wraith calls out aiming his huge machine gun at Sava as if on cue.
I stand holding out my tied hands in front of me. “Wait, Wraith, you can’t kill him.”
Wraith’s face scrunches as he starts walking down the aisle toward me. “They came into our club, took you from us… give me one good fucking reason why not, princess.”
Sava chuckles coming in behind me, using me as a shield. “Because, we’re family, Talon.”
Wraith stops still on the spot as I slowly nod at him.
“I have no family.”
“Wrong. You thought you killed your mother, but before you, she had two other sons.”
Wraith hesitates, curling up his lip. “And I’m meant to believe that shit?”
“Her name was Zora. You should look up where Zora comes from… or better yet, I’ll give you a little lesson… it’s Serbian. Zora came from the Triglav Clan, but they kicked her out when she started using drugs. Then she got pregnant by one of her… clients… with you.”
My eyes droop as the expression on Wraith’s face falls like this is all making some kind of sense to him. “I’m half Serbian?”
“Yes, and I’m Sava, your half-brother and so is my brother.”
Wraith’s jaw wracks from side to side. “Who is your brother?”
“Like you haven’t figured it out, Wraith. I know you better than that.”
Anger sweeps through Wraith’s features. “What does Damir want? Why is he doing this?”
Sava wraps his arm around my waist pulling my back to his front, pressing a knife to my throat. I gasp as Wraith aims his giant gun at us both, but it only scares me more.
“Damir and I want you to watch while I kill the one person you love because you are the reason we had to kill the one person we loved.”
Wraith takes a hesitant step forward as Sava presses the cool tip of the sharp blade into my skin further. “What are you talking about?”
“You thought you left our mother to die… no, she went into