Page 47 of Kodiak

“Okay, I’m calling time. I think she’s had enough time to stew. Let’s go play, fellas,” I decree. A round of wolf whistles permeate the air as we head to the shed.

I have a chair set with its back facing Peaches. I’m straddled on the seat, quietly watching as the guys set us up. A gleam of excitement races through me when Xavier picks up his carving knife and begins shaving the bamboo stick he keeps in here for interrogations.

“So, let me tell you how this is going to go, Peaches.” She shifts her eyes from where Xavier is working and sends me a pleading look. I don’t let it get to me like I normally would if a woman was in her position.

“Please, Kodiak. I fucked up, I know that and I admit it. But banish me, please don’t kill me.”

Shaking my head in denial, I give her my fiercest, merciless look that normally has those I’m aiming it at shitting themselves. “Should’ve considered the consequences of your actions before you implemented them, huh?”

“You fucked around and now you’re gonna find out what the repercussions are for your treachery,” Xavier sing songs, noteven glancing in her direction. The sound of his knife on the bamboo lends an eerie tone to the atmosphere, which is another mindfuck we incorporate whenever we have someone trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey in our shed, awaiting our retribution.

“Yeah, play stupid games, win stupid prizes,” Risk adds.

I hide my smirk because these guys have all the latest quips thanks to social media apps, but in this case, they work spectacularly, because Peaches starts to sob as she realizes the futility of her situation. It’s hitting home that she isn’t getting out of this because it’s far more serious than taking one of the other girls’ clothes or some of the other stupid shit they’ve all pulled over their time with us.

Plus, it’ll definitely send a reminder to them as well not to fuck with a brother or anyone who’s in his life no matter what capacity. While none of us have old ladies, although Luna is mine, of course, there have occasionally been girlfriends from time to time.

And every damn one of them is untouchable.

Leaning over the back of the chair, I narrow my eyes at Peaches and ask, “I just want to hear from you why you thought that if Luna lost our baby I’d come to you for comfort? You and I, we’ve never had a thing. You’ve never touched my dick; I never gave you any signals that imply that we had something to build on. So why did your warped mind decide you’d be the one I’d seek out?”

“You know that’s not true, Kodiak,” she whimpers. “We’ve had a lot of nights where we shared a drink and talked about the future.”

“A future that didn’t have us together, Peaches. I never said a thing that had us living a life together. What did I say that had you believing otherwise?”

“You never said I wouldn’t be there. You stated that you didn’t want to find an old lady that didn’t understand the lifestyle and when I hinted that I was already entwined into the life, you gave me a look. It was heated, you wanted me… I k-know you did,” she informs me as she hiccups.

“I gave you a look?” I ask, dumbfounded. “It was heated, you say?”

“It was,” she desperately cries out. “You even patted my hand and then squeezed it!”

“Jesus, fuck. She’s whacko,” Xavier states, shaking his head.

Stixx whistles, then says, “She’s got a screw loose.”

“A few crackers short of the stack,” Regulator conveys.

“Definitely delulu,” Risk adds.

“Queen of denial,” Rev advises, adding his two cents into the conversation.

Since I don’t remember this so-called conversation whatsoever, I just shrug. “Peaches, I’m not quite sure what a ‘heated look’ is exactly, but as I already stated, we’ve never been together sexually. We’ve never fucked, you’ve never sucked, and I would’veneverhinted at any kind of a relationship. That’s not the kind of man I am, I’m a straight shooter. I’ve never seen myself having an old lady at all. And while it really isn’t any of your fucking business, Luna is the first person to ever reach that position with me.”

“She isn’t right for you, Kodiak! She’s too naive and she’s a simpleton!” Peaches thunders.

“Did you just call my old lady stupid?” I ask, my jaw stiffens as I stand from my chair. “Are you really that full of yourself to think that by demeaning my old lady you’ll help your situation?”

“And… now the cuckoo has flown the coop,” Xavier drawls.

“No more mister nice guy,” Stixx acknowledges. “You done fucked up now, bitch.”

She has, and she’s fixing to find out how much.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

KODIAK

“Conan,you have things ready to go? I think she needs to understand the pain from being deceived that I felt when I discovered she betrayed not only me. Not only Luna. But the club when she tried to murder my child!”

---