Page 240 of Deadly Sweet

My baby. My fucking baby. She’s mine.

Fuck. The guys. Oh god.

“Where are they?” I ask, looking around.

“They're in the garage. Duchess went to get Ashley.”

“Ashley.” The growl that leaves me is pure feral. “That fucking bitch. I’m going to kill her.”

“You might not beat Daphne to it,” Lucy says.

My eyes drop to Athena. I don’t want to leave her side.

“Go,” Lucy says. “She’s safe with me. She’s sleeping. We’ll be fine.”

“Are you sure?”

She nods. “Go get the justice you and your guys deserve.”

Leaning over, I quickly kiss Athena’s chubby cheek before rushing out of the room. I don’t care if I’m only in panties and a baggy shirt, I have one thing on my mind: making that bitch pay.

Thor’s chitters let me know he’s right on my heels.

But when I get to the garage, I stumble to a halt.

The sight before me breaks my heart. All four of my men are hurting. Jake is on his knees crying, Walker is tearing the place apart, Caleb is screaming in Ashley’s face, and Leroy leans against the wall with this blank look in his eyes, like he’s lost and doesn’t know how to find his way back.

My eyes find Ashley again. My lip peels back as violent rage fills every cell in my body.

I storm into the room, grabbing the baseball bat that’s leaning against the wall with some other miscellaneous sports equipment.

Caleb sees me just in time to take a step back. With all my strength, I swing the bat, hitting her in the gut. I do it again and again, not stopping when she begs, not stopping when she pukes or bleeds.

She’s like my own version of a birthday piñata! And just like kids with a normal piñata, I can’t wait to see the insides spill out onto the floor.

I finally stop, but only when my arms scream in protest and I’m out of breath.

“You stupid piece of shit!” I scream in her face. “You’re fucked up, you know that.” She tries to plead her case, but I don’t want to hear it. I don’t care that she didn’t know the baby was mine. I don’t care if Corbin offered her all the money in the world.

She did something morally fucked up. She let my men believe the baby they were raising was theirs. They didn’t know about their daughter, they didn’t get to grieve their loss.

She took that from them. She took so fucking much that she had no right to.

“You hurt my pack,” I growl, getting in her face. “You hurt my men. My family. No one gets away with that. Do you understand me? There’s nothing you could say or do that will get you out of this. Your fate is sealed. I hope all that money was worth it, because in the end, it cost you your life. You're nothing but a sad, pathetic woman. Even after all that, you actually thought you had a chance with them? What were you going to do, let them believe the lie for the rest of their lives? Fuck!” I scream, rearing back and punching her in her stupid face.

“Savvy,” Duchess says, grabbing my attention. “Kill her.”

“No. Please, no!” Ashley screams.

“If you don’t kill her, I will. I had some of my people look into her while I was on my way to get her. She’s just as fucked up as the men we kill. This isn’t the only fucked up thing she’s done. Is it Ashley?”

“What else did she do?” I ask, turning to Ashley. “What else did you do?”

“She owed a lot of people money. And when she didn’t have the money to pay them back, even after all of this, she started working for them. Wanna know what they did?”

“What?” I ask, voice filled with venom.

“Omega trafficking. She worked with the same type of people who took Lucy, who took you,” Duchess growls. “She would go to parties, become besties with the Omega, get them drunk, slip something into their drinks, and leave them to be taken.”

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