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“Why?”

She gritted her teeth, glaring athim.

“I’m not going to stop with myquestions.You may as well answer them.From the look in your eyeyou’re back to feeling guilty again.”

“I was selfish.I wanted one morechance to see Whizz, and when I did, you all took out my club.”Shestopped talking.Her hands were shaking.“I deserved to die withthem.They died because of me.”

“You’ve got that guilt and blamedown to a tee.You lived because of Whizz.”He leaned over thetable to get close.Out of the corner of her eye she saw Angel andPrue were ordering their food.They were in a long queue, whichleft her alone with Gash.“If it wasn’t for him, you’d be deadalong with those men.Your crew, the fuckers who thought they couldmess in our town, would have gotten you killed.”He held his handup to stop her from talking.“Did you agree with what they weredoing?”

“It doesn’t matter if Iagreed.I went along with them.”

“You didn’t agree with them.You,Lacey, you came to the hospital to make sure we didn’t kill Butch.You’re not like your club.Whatever guilt you’ve got, you have tolet it go.It’s not worth it.”

“Why are you telling me this?Whyare you trying to help me?”she asked.“I’m not part of theclub.”

“I’m doing this to help Whizz.Hedeserves it.I’m helping him, and I see the way he is with you.I heard whatthe guys said from the moment you entered Whizz’s life.You’re bothfucking broken, and together you can fix each other.Don’t feelguilty.Those men who thought they were getting revenge would havekilled you eventually, not with their own gun, but by their ownactions.”

He pulled away, smiling as the othertwo women placed the trays of food on the counter.

“Hey.We loaded up oneverything,” Angel said, taking a seat beside her as Prue satbeside Gash.

Laceypicked up the burger filled withgherkins, sauce, tomatoes, and everything else.Taking a bite shesavored the flavor as they all started to talk about what theyneeded to do when they got home.Would it be so wrong to let theguilt fade?

They killed yourclub.

Closing her eyes, she let out a moan todisguise the pain.No matter how many times she thought about whatthey did, she couldn’t hate Whizz.She didn’t know what she wasgoing to do.

Chapter Seven

Whizz took his shot on the pool table.Tiny was playing in the games room while Eva cooked dinner for theclub.Lash and Nash were arguing over cards.Steven watched thegame, drinking a beer.Zero kept looking at his watch.

“Why aren’t you guys worriedabout yourwomen?”Zero asked, giving into his frustration.

Glancing over at the clock on the farwall, Whizz saw it was only a little after four.Lacey had beengone for most of the day.He missed her, but he hoped she had fun.When he asked for her to live, he’d not planned to keep her aprisoner within his home.This was his home.He’d not gone andbought a place like the other members.He would look into getting aplace later.

“Gash is with them.I’msure they’re okay,” Lash said.

Sophia walked into the room goingtoward Nash.She wrapped her arms around his neck to kiss hischeek.“How are you feeling?”he asked.

“I’m fine.Rachel’sspending some time with Eva and the kids.”

Whizz took his shot, listening to thecouple.Rachel was Nash and Sophia’s daughter.Unlike Lash andKiller, who had sons, Nash had been blessed with a daughter.Sophiawas also pregnant with their second child but only a few weeksalong.

“Can you believe he’scoming to town?I was talking to him the other day and not once didhe tell me he planned a visit,” Tiny said.

“Ned does what he wants.Heprobably is just coming to check on his daughter and grandkids.”Whizz watched as Tiny took the shot.The ball was going too fastand smacked into the side only to careen the balls all over thetable.His head wasn’t in the game.

“I don’t know.I’ve got themoney I owe him back.Our funds have gone back to normal, thankfuck.Child services have also taken a step back.There’s nothingwrong with our kids,” Tiny said.

“Rachel had a rough night aftergoing with child services.She wakes us up in the middle of thenight now only to make sure we’re there.The bastards put the fearof God knows what into her,” Nash said.

“She’s getting better,” Sophiasaid.“It’s taking some time for her, but she’s gettingthere.”

Whizz was thankful he didn’thave any kids to worry about.Unlike most of the couples, they hadkids whohadbeen taken for one day and night before they were able to get themback.All of it was because of Gonzalez.Now Gonzalez was out ofthe picture, and all of their lives were returning to normal, or asclose to normal as they could with Ned Walker coming for avisit.

Devil and the Chaos Bleeds crewwere out ofthe picture as well.He’d helped them before he told Tiny that he’dgiven them a heads-up about Gonzalez knowing they were back intown.Whizz wouldn’t be responsible for anything happening to theother crew.He couldn’t live with himself if something did happenbecause of Tiny’s order.When he did tell Tiny what he did, Tinyhad thanked him for acting right.

It was all water under thebridge.

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