like he’s in pain. “I’m not here in an official capacity.”
King shrugs, he’d obviously guessed as much but Thorn looks like he’s getting ready to fall on his own sword and this week has been a fucking clusterfuck so I don’t blame him.
“Look… I still can’t tell you jack fucking shit about Posey and the rest of her family. But I can tell you that getting them involved… fuck, it was a bad move. They’re looking into shit.”
“Yeah, well, we’ve just had half the fucking Chaos Demons roll into our town so my guess is they’re already looking into our shit,” Hawk snaps, and Rue frowns. This’ll be killing him, he can’t take people questioning Posey. It gets him all twitchy and trigger happy.
Thorn shakes his head. “I don’t share custody with that cunt Grimm. I’m not telling you who I do share her with but lemme just say that they’ve killed a lot of people to keep Grimm away from her. They take out any threats that show up on her doorstep. And this… wasn’t a good fucking idea.”
Rue manages to keep his cool but fuck knows how. “We didn’t involve them. Poe called her sister, not us. Fuck, how exactly are we calling some bitch we don’t know?”
Thorn’s lip curls but I cut in because I don’t want to sit around here fucking gossiping when I could be with Angel. “What’s done is done. Is there any new intel or are you just here to fucking run your mouth about what went down?”
Thorn glares at me and then slides a folder over to King. “Yeah, I have a whole list of fucking sins against the club and against you, Tomi, thanks to that stripper that was taken.”
I fucking knew it.
I fucking knew she’d be poison and yet hearing that from him makes me wanna fucking scream.
I ignore the stabbing feeling in my chest.
King starts flipping through the papers and groans. “Fuck me, Tomi. You need to go wipe the security cams and all the records with her on them. Any association the club has had with her needs to be destroyed, and it needs to be fucking now.”
Rue scowls at them both and Speck looks like he’s going to pass the hell out but I lock my shit down tight. “Easy, it’ll be done in under an hour. Is she a fucking Serpent? Or a Demon?”
He pegs me with a glare. “Neither. She’s a fucking kid. A runaway from a shitty home situation. We’ve had an underage runaway taking her clothes off and shaking her titties in our fucking club.”
Fuck.
My stomach drops to the floor and, fuck me, I think I might be the one to pass out. “She showed ID to the girls at the club.”
Thorn scoffs. “It was fake. She only turned eighteen last week. She’s barely older than Poe and she’s been sleeping on the streets, stripping to feed herself, and saving her tips to try to have enough money to put a roof over her head someday. I got a phone call from Poe’s sister about her… personally. She picked up the phone and called me. That never fucking happens and it’s bad fucking news for the club that she did. I don’t care what the hell it takes, the club needs to fix this.”
It just gets worse and worse the more he talks.
Chapter Twenty Nine
Angel
It hurts to breathe.
It hurts to lie there doing nothing, it hurts to sit up and drink some water that Tomi left behind for me, it hurts when Cole arrives back with my bag and I have to get up to grab it from him. I try to avoid his eye but Axe is sitting there outside the door on watch looking like he’s had the shit beaten out of him too.
He gives me a nod and doesn’t move, his gun in his hand like he’s waiting for another Demon to show up so he can have a do-over.
I feel so fucking guilty but I’m clean, I’m safe, and I’m in Tomi’s bed again.
I manage to relax for about a minute before my phone rings. I frown down at The Boulevard’s number on the screen before picking it up.
It’s Diamond, the smugness fucking radiating down the line. “I just unlocked your locker for Cole, I hope that’s everything of yours because you’re fired.”
I swallow. “I was quitting anyway so no skin off my nose. Thanks for the courtesy call.”
She scoffs at me. “You better pray you don’t run into