Page 87 of Hell's Claim

“Jesus!” Ronnie exclaimed.

“As I said, pain and I are old friends.” I faced Belinda.

“What happened to you?” she whispered.

“My foster mother liked beating kids with chains. This is meant to be my beautiful life, but it’s not. Someone is hunting Sunny, and Sunny’s hunting a ghost. This shit needs to end. Primal is the key to everything.”

“You’re Callie Dixon,” Ronnie said. “I didn’t know you were a foster kid.”

“It is not important to what I do now. Are you going to help us, or, I repeat, keep delaying us?”

Belinda and Ronnie swapped a glance before Ronnie spoke again. “We were asked to call Chance if you arrived here. I sent him a text a couple of minutes ago.”

“Fuckin’ wonderful,” Sunny complained.

“Primal hasn’t said anything else.”

“Church… bugged,” a croaky voice announced.

“What?” Levi exclaimed, spinning to check on Primal, who was watching us. His mouth worked as he tried to form words.

“Bugged. Livvy… revenge.”

“You’re saying Livvy is behind this?”

“Yeah… I’m sorry, Sunny…” Primal wheezed.

His body shook, and Ronnie headed for the door and called a nurse.

“I… love you…” Primal stated, his gaze on Belinda.

“Jed,” Belinda sobbed with relief in her voice.

Sunny stepped back as she moved forward and held his hand.

“My… life… you and the kids… best thing.” Primal said, and his eyes closed.

“Jed?Jed!”Belinda screamed. Alarms sounded as the door flew open, and nurses rushed in with a doctor and Ronnie behind them. Sunny moved Belinda to one side as doctors and nurses began working on Primal frantically.

“Get out of here,” a nurse ordered, and Sunny walked the sobbing Belinda out of the room. She fought him at first, butwhen Ronnie took her in his arms, she collapsed in them, clinging to him.

“Don’t mean to be rude. But this is a time for family, and you’ve made it clear we’re not yours. Please leave,” Ronnie said, his eyes on Sunny.

“If shit had been different, I’d have been proud to call you brother, I think. You have my condolences.”

With that, Sunny took my elbow, and we hurried from the ward. Sunny didn’t even glance back as the man who’d helped create him died.

Sunny

“We need to resolve this,” Sunny said. “Primal gave us what he had. I reckon he had more, but it’s no good. He’s dead. How could the clubhouse be bugged? Chance has it scanned once a week.”

“That would mean there is a traitor in the club. How could Livvy be behind this?” Levi replied with a frown.

“There’s only one way to resolve this. Where is this blasted woman?” Callie said as she bit into a burger.

It was hitting late evening, and we’d stopped for a bite to eat.

“The only person who’d know is Tati. She kept an eye on all ex-old ladies.” Levi shoved a fry into his mouth.

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