Page 39 of Blade

Dad doesn’t say anything. He hangs up, and I sigh again, knowing how he feels about me being here. No one is on my fucking side regarding Luna, and after the shit with Mama, Dad is suspicious as fuck regarding her as well not realizing he’s slowly losing her anyhow.

Shaking my head, I descend the stairs quickly and storm out of the apartment building. I then go to my bike on the curb and mount it.

I look up at her apartment window before starting the bike and gently riding off quietly so I don’t wake her.

I can’t answer the questions she’d have as to why I stayed. I know why, but I won’t voice them because we can’t go further than we already have, even if everything inside me wants nothing more.

I walk into the common room fifteen minutes later, with five minutes to spare as I put my hair up in a man bun, which I always leave down in the evenings because, well, Luna likes it down, only to come to a halt with my steps to see the room full of brothers.

“What the fuck?” I mumble, seeing brothers that normally don’t get up until fucking noon looking pissed off.

“Son,” my dad calls, and I look towards the bar and raise a brow as I drop my hands. He sighs, “Your mother called an emergency meeting, claiming it came from you.”

I scowl hard and look through the men before locking eyes with my mother and snap, “What the fuck gives you the right to act like you’re in charge?!”

She shrugs, a little smirk playing on her lips, shocking me a little, showing she is not one bit bothered and admits, “Because you’ve clearly forgotten how to be a president, and this is an intervention.”

Fuck, is she trying to get herself kicked out of the club?

All the brothers groan, seeing that my mother duped them, while my father looks away from her, ashamed of her actions.

Fuck, he’s going to divorce her at this rate, and she doesn't seem to care.

The brothers all stand. Some go back upstairs to their room, while others go to the kitchen and I descend the stairs, ready to lose it with my mother, who again doesn't look sorry.

“Fuck, I’m sorry, Blade. I honestly thought you called the meeting,” Psycho sighs as I stop next to him with a glare because he should have stopped her.

I snap, “Since when do you fucking take my mother’s words without calling me fucker?”

He winces and replies, “Since my heads up my ass,” he looks over to where Venom is sitting, glaring, and I sigh, knowing two of his best friends hates him right now. He looks back my way and admits, “I tattooed a fucking cat on some dude's calf yesterday, which was supposed to be for Crystal instead of the wolf he originally wanted,” I wince because fuck, and he nods, “Yeah, I have to cover it next month for fucking free for my fuck up.”

I shake my head and mumble, “You need to figure your shit out.”

He scoffs, “That isn’t going to happen until Ivy answers my calls.”

“And won’t happen until you realize you are in love with her!” I snap back, and he drops his head.

“She’s supposed to be going to New York, Blade,” he reminds me, not denying my words, and I huff.

“You are a fucking idiot,” I reply, and he looks at me wide-eyed, but I shrug and state, “Her plan to go to New York was only a plan when she started looking at you with heartbreak every time you fucked someone else…”

His mouth parts in shock, and I pat his back as his horror hits him hard for how he’s just treated her so she can live her dream when her dream is him before walking over to my mother, who is now standing by my father, looking like a stubborn child more than anything else.

“What you did is a cause to get you banned off club property,” I growl, and she nods, again confusing me. I continue, “Just because you are my fucking mother doesn’t give you the right to be this stupid, hoping the punishment wouldn’t be severe,” my eyes dart to Dad before going back to my mother, “You’ve already lost your old lady cut, and now, it looks like you won’t be getting it back.”

Mama tilts her head and says, “Okay," and my mouth parts as Dad’s head shoots her way while she shrugs and states, “I’m looking out for my son,” and Dad sighs, but she continues, “I’m being punished all because I want to look out for you then fine but from what I've discovered, she may be using you,” I shake my head because yet again this is about Luna, but I soon freeze as she brings up a family picture on her phone, shoving it in my face as a little girl no older than twelve who looks extremely familiar takes my notice as mama snaps, “She’s a Fury Leo. Her brother is Axe, so why don't you go and contact your girlfriend, friends with benefits, whatever you want to call her, and question her over this instead of threatening me, your own mother.”

I can feel my heart pounding, and I want to breathe heavily, but I put it off, knowing my mother would fucking relish in her findings, not giving a shit that I’m fucking breaking with the truth staring back at me.

She used me, she fucking used me.

“You are banned from the clubhouse for two months,” I say quietly, trying to control my anger and I swear I see her eyessparkle. I continue, “You step foot inside this building in that time, then you’ll be packing your shit and leaving!”

“Okay,” she says without a care, then looks at Dad, but he’s too busy looking at me, knowing I’m about to blow.

Curling her lip at him, Mama turns and walks away without a fight, shocking the brothers who have stayed in the common room to watch the commotion but I don't think too much about her reaction. As my breathing becomes choppy and betrayal consumes me. Her lying in her bed this morning, murmuring my name, wearing my T-shirt, blinds me.

“Son,” my dad whispers with a little bit of pain because he can see my fucking heartbreak, but I ignore him and storm past him. Knowing I can’t fucking defend the girl that is becoming my everything. Knowing that a picture says a thousand words.

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