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Things are about to change. I can feel it. The world is about to shift on its axis, because I know what I am about to see is going to change everything.

The moment he punches Annika in the cheek sends a rush of rage across my body.

Then it’s an out of body experience as I watch him press Belle against the counter with his body.

The roar that leaves me is primal.

Vicious and frightening.

I have never felt so maddened in my life. Like the rage is going to take a life of its own.

I vibrate with hate.

And I see red. So much red.

I watch with raging eyes, and the moment Gaston reaches for Belle and twirls her hair around his finger, I feel it in my core. A cold rage. The kind that’s out of this world.

Barely containing it, I watch as she smashes the bottle of wine against the counter to protect herself and jabs it into his neck.

Shove it hard into his jugular.

Bram and Lars are watching me.

But it barely registers.

I have to fix this.

I have to… Make. Him. Pay.

“Think about this,” Lars says, stepping between me and the door.

I grit my teeth. “Get out of my way.”

“Gaston can wait. We need you on the right side of the jail walls,” Lars pleads. “Besides, do I need to remind you that you still have a bullet hole in your shoulder?”

“I said get out of my way.”

I storm through the clubhouse and down to the parking garage where my bike is. Damn the consequences, Gaston has to pay for touching my wife.

I findhim in a dive bar in Devil’s Kitchen. The kind of place that leaves you needing a shower after you leave.

Lars, Viking and Bear hang back at the entrance to stop anyone from entering, while I enter the cesspit .

Inside the bar is empty.

Except for Gaston.

He’s at the bar drinking whiskey when I walk in and pick him up off his stool by his Unhinged Psycho’s cut and throw him against the wall.

My brother has always thought he was smarter than me. Because I was bigger, stronger, and better, he needed something to make himself feel better. So he convinced himself he was the smart one.

Unfortunately for him, he proved he wasn’t smart at all the moment he put his hands on Belle.

A smart man would never put his hand on thevery thing that gives me life.

I should have put a bullet between his eyes that morning in the dungeon when I sliced his cut from his body. But I gave him a chance because he is my brother.

I won’t make that same mistake twice.

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