Page 6 of Creed's Vengeance

My father would have assumed because Hades lay in a coma that his cause would stop with him. But he was wrong. He wouldn’t be expecting me to be executing the Mafia’s right-hand man as it sent a clear fucking message.

Alec was the first man to teach me to hold a gun. He was also standing on the sidelines when my father whipped me with his belt for not beating a girl for disrespecting me. I remembered the day clearly because it was that night that I left the family. Living on the streets taught me a lot, mainly that I could carry my own without my Mafia bloodline.

However, I still had that fucking dreaded Winston last name. No matter how much distance I put between my blood and myself, my last name always tied me back to them. I adapted to being called Creed on the street because it was easier than handing my full name. The shame I felt when I heard the name Winston—fuck, it would never leave.

I refused to be like my family. In fact, I ruled out all criminal gangs before the age of fifteen. I was determined to make my own name on the streets. When Wrench, a biker, and I got into a fight, he told me I had the blood of a biker.

It was when I saw the patch on Wrench’s back, Satan’s Bastards, that I connected him to the bikers my family had always had a turf war with. I wasn’t expecting to patch to the club. I met Hades on the basis of believing I could extend their trade on the streets.

However, when he looked me in the eyes after hearing my last name, I had a feeling I wouldn’t have been leaving that meeting with my life. In some ways, I didn’t because I gave my life to the brotherhood that day after Hades said something that still rang clear today. “Our blood doesn’t dedicate our future. Our actions do.”

I held my bike upright with my legs as I ungripped the handlebars. The slight spattering of Alec’s blood on my hand caused me to wipe it on my jeans before kicking out my bike stand and leaning it to the side.

I killed my father’s right-hand man today. But not just that, I killed the Mafia’s right-hand man. Had I brought the chaos on the club? Or was I simply answering the chaos that the Mafia had started?

My hands trembled slightly from the death grip I had held on my bike while riding here. I found executing Alec as easy as breathing. I pulled the trigger, cold and collected, prepared for what would unfold. My anger was controlled.

As for right now, that couldn’t be said. Holly Kincaid was the only person breathing that I loved. She wasthewoman. The one that I would die for, but, more importantly, the one I would keep living for. She breathed life into my soul and controlled the madness within me. She had this ability to calm my serial killing mind. She gave me peace on this earth, and the bastard I was currently walking toward had touched her.

Now, I was a jealous type of guy, so just knowing they had a relationship was enough to piss me off. Knowing he had seen her naked, fuck, even knowing he had made her smile—at least once—pissed me the fuck off, causing my ability to control my temper to slip. And if it slipped, I could easily execute two men today.

I watched as he pulled out his phone, and he had no idea that a monster who wanted his fucking blood was approaching him. But as people started to step out of my way, he must have felt it because he looked up, and I watched his face pale.

He had one badly bruising eye, which I guessed was Kobra’s doing.

“Doctor,” I said, coming to a stop in front of me.

“Sorry, sir, I don’t think we’ve met?” he asked and took a step away from me.

I glanced up and saw he had stepped back into view of the camera.Oh, come on, cunt. I’m smarter than that.

His eyes ran over my clenched features.

“You raised a hand to my woman.” I tilted my head just slightly, and the fact that he was in the security cameras’ view—ones the club couldn’t wipe—pissed me off.

His lips twitched up. “She was my woman when it happened,” he said, and if he thought those were wise words to be said to me, he was wrong. “I was fucking her, and unless she was cheating on you”—he faked a frown, and I noticed he got cockier when a security guard stepped out for a cigarette—“must mean she needed something from me that you couldn’t give.”

I cracked a smirk, but it sure as fuck wasn’t friendly. “A man like you should know better than to piss a man like me off.”

He crossed his arms. “Kobra and Hades are out cold, which just shows you all aren’t as untouchable as you think.”

“You’re right, mate.” I stood to my full height, which was fucking taller than him. “But I ain’t, and neither are hundreds of members that will have you choking on dirt if they knew you raised a hand to Holly.”

“God, you all act like she is some saint,” he muttered. “She’s just another pussy to the lot of you that some call home for a night. Stop acting like she is some shining fucking light.”

I wasn’t going to kill him. I was just going to threaten him. But now, yeah, fuck it, I just needed him alone.

“Well, that’s my break over. Some people actually work for their money.” He smirked. “Hope you enjoying fucking somewhere I’ve been.” With that said, he walked back into the hospital.

I pulled my phone out, messaging Viper.Need a car. Organized a meeting with Reaper tonight.

Trey walked back into the hospital, and I watched his back. The bastard had better enjoy his last few hours breathing because when the end of his shift came, he’d be seeing the darkness in the boot of Viper’s car that he stole. It looked like I’d be doing two executions today. Viper buzzed back, asking the time. If there was one thing Viper was good at, it was driving a fucking getaway car.

My stomach twisted and turned sharply when Creed didn’t come home with the rest of the boys. I asked Viper where he was, and he just shrugged his shoulders, which told me that he knew where Creed was but wasn’t going to tell me.

Viper then disappeared when his phone vibrated.

I wanted to message Creed to ask if he was okay, but I stopped myself because I wasn’t his girlfriend. I had no right to monitor him. Yet I saw his expression this morning when he found out about Trey.

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