Page 52 of Cage's Fall

He arched his eyebrows. “Come with me.” He said after looking around at the few members who were listening.

“No. We don’t need to take this privately. I’m not keeping anything from you.”

“Autumn. I know I never asked the question, so I’m partly to blame.”

“Blame for what?”

He locked his eyes with mine. “Two men attacked you.”

My heart sunk. Why would Cage tell him? I swallowed sharply. “Can we not talk about it? I’m done with it. It’s in the past.”

“It has to be dealt with.”

“I don’t want it dealt with.”

“Autumn!” he yelled and I jumped. He closed the gap between us. “I won’t have a man walking freely out there, not getting caught for what he did. If you don’t want me to handle it, then we are going to the station.”

I scoffed. “So your solution is to bring the police in?” Was he mental? I didn’t want the cops near this. They would connect the dots between the club and Neil’s disappearance.

“If you won’t let the club handle it. Then yes.”

I gritted my teeth. “Well I’m not telling you anything on this man. Nor am I telling the cops. So yeah. Have fun tracking down a ghost.” I went to leave. And Hawk grabbed my arm. “What now?” I hissed.

“You taking your meds?”

Okay. That was completely left field. Why would that even come up? I looked at him dazed for a second, and then it clicked. Cage had told him about the second man. Cage had told him about the self harming.

I wrenched my arm from his grasp, and stormed towards Cage.

“Can’t you keep your fucking mouth shut?” I roared at him, and his eyes were telling me to reel it in. But I wasn’t listening to him silently telling me off.

“How could you tell him?” and then my eyes went blurry. Before I shook my head. “Oh I know how. You didn’t want the responsibility of knowing it. You hand-balled it. Well, so much for you not telling anyone, anything that happened between us.”

“Autumn,” Cage growled. And I shook my head, putting my hands up.

“I’m done. I said I trusted you, but you should know something about me Cage. Once someone breaks my trust, that’s it. You get one bridge and you just burnt yours.” Emotions were flooding my body. “Stay away from me.”

With tears in my eyes, I left.

CAGE

“What the fuck was that about?” Hawk growled at me, and the tattooist had already taken a step back before Hawk’s fist connected with my jaw, sending me flying back in the chair.

My back hitting the floor, the chair cracking but I knew I couldn’t fucking fight back. So I stood up, volunteeringto take a second punch from him.

“What the hell was she going on about?” Hawk roared again.

“Maybe stop punching the man and let him explain Hawk.” Vod spoke up. As Vice president, he had more pull on Hawk’s actions.

“Nothing,” I said and spat out a mouthful of blood. “I ain’t saying shit.”

Vod and Wild gripped Hawk by his arms, holding him back.

“What the hell is going on with my daughter?” he sneered.

“If you want to know, talk to her.” I didn’t know what else to say. “Cause I ain’t saying shit.”

And I knew then, in that second— after saying that, I had just been more loyal to a woman, then my president and he fucking realized it too. I broke the bikers brotherhood, all for a woman who had just told me she wanted nothing more to do with me.

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