Page 4 of Cage's Fall

I was the first one to hold Autumn apart from Emily. James didn’t even go to the hospital. Things only got worse from there. But I had no idea the abuse was so bad, till I arrived at her house to have a word with James about a shipment.

End result.

Found Emily with choke marks around her neck. Told her then, I’d help her leave.

I wasn’t stealing his woman. He didn’t fucking own her. And he had never deserved her.

No matter how much of a relationship Emily and I had, I knew she wasn’t prepared for anything else other than friendship. So I was going to get back behind the friend line. I pulled away from her, seeing the concern in her eyes.

Come tomorrow I’d act like it hadn’t happened- for her. But right now. I was bathing in the fact I had gotten to kiss Emily.

Chapter Three

HAWK

Loyalty. At the end of the day was what the club survived on. When that loyalty bends or breaks, that is when your commitment to the club weakens. As a prospect it is engrained in you, that the club comes first and I had never gone against that.

Stood by shit that most couldn’t stomach.

I was nothing like my father, I followed the club lifestyle as if it was a bible. But now… as I looked around the table of members that weren’t speaking to me. I knew I had burnt bridges that wouldn’t be unburnt.

I didn’t regret the decision of letting Emily move into my house. I didn’t regret going up against my President. But everyone was expecting me to turn on Emily, everyone was expecting me to regret the day I went against my President.

But that wasn’t the case.

James addressed everyone at the table but me. He was freezing me out. But I wasn’t giving up my patch. He would have to kill me first.

He brought the hammer down on the meeting, the room emptying.

Not one of the boys had the guts to speak to me. James wanted me gone and as far as they were concerned, that was happening.

After all, what the President says, we do. But he knew he couldn’t take my cut without me breaking more than a moral code.

I think they were all under the impression that I was fucking Emily. Which wasn’t the case. I was sleeping on the couch. Her welfare came first to me. Making sure she was protected was the first thing I was doing. Protected from the back lash of the club and her husband.

EMILY

Sitting the kids down. Autumn was demanding to know why she couldn’t play on her tablet. Jacob was quiet.

“I need to tell you two something.” I was nervously sitting in front of them at the table. “It’s about Dad.”

And both their eyes widened. “Can we go home?!” Autumn said delighted.

Jacob however scoffed. At the age of thirteen, he had features of James I couldn’t ignore. But he didn’t have his father’s attitude towards abuse.

“No Autumn, we aren’t.” I blew out, okay I can do this. “We are going to stay with Hawk for awhile. In fact, we won’t be going home at all. Your father and I are separating.”

Autumn’s face wiped of expression.

Jacob however looked me dead in the eyes. “Good. I’m sick of you having accidents. Can I go outside now?”

I blinked.Good. I’m sick of you having accidents.Replayed in my head. It then occurred to me while Autumn didn’t know about her father’s abusive ways, Jacob did- and now I realised the abuse hadn’t gone unnoticed by my son.

Chapter Four

HAWK

The men were throwing comments at me left right and centre. I was trying not to react but seeing James drinking at the bar after he sent me out on a endless task. Collecting rent was for rookies. Not for the STG of ARMS. However, I fucking did it slapping the money down in front of him at the bar.

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