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“No.BD doesn’t want you back.I’m here to pick up your little friend.”

“Gabbie?”

“Why?”

“You don’t get to ask questions.What you are going to do is apologize to Jessika and not give Woods a hard time with making the divorce go through.Then I’ll come back for when you marry this asshole.Where’s this bitch I’m taking back with me?”

“In here.”I take Tree past the garage to the trailer we’ve been holding Gabbie in to make sure she didn’t make a run for it or tell our business to someone she shouldn’t.

The second he lays eyes on her I can tell he’s got the hots for her, but that’s not my problem and now neither is she.

I leave him to it and return to the garage to deal with Thad.But first, I have one of the guys fetch Jessika so Faye can formally apologize.

“This isn’t necessary,” Jessika says to Faye as she kneels at her feet in front of the entire club.

“The fuck it’s not,” I growl.“She’d be within her rights to do the same onto you as you did to her.Ought to take you out in the woods, cover you in honey, and leave you for the bears.”

“Hurt people, hurt people,” Jessika tells her.“I don’t know what broke you, but it wasn’t me.You’re not mad at me.Not really.”

“You know nothing about me.”

“You didn’t want to be with Woods, but doing so kept you close to Dirty.I was a threat to that.A threat to him finding out the truth and kicking you to the curb.But did you ever stop and think of just being honest with him?”

“Doesn’t matter now, does it?”Faye huffs.“I’m sorry, Jessika.”

She’s not sorry, but her shitty apology will have to do for now.

“Come near her again and I won’t be as forgiving,” I warn her.

I take Jessika back out to the garage where the guys have been giving Thad another beat down.His eyes are nearly swollen shut, but I want her happy and in my arms to be the last fucking thing he sees before I end him.

The guys have the bastard strung up between two engine pulleys.

“You’re a real piece of shit.”I shake my head at him as he stares past me at Jessika.

“Why, Thad?Why lie to me?Hurt me.Use me.What was the reason for any of it?”

“You were an easy target and even easier lay.You ate up the attention.Was desperate for it.I needed someone to get close to Gwynee and find out shit about the club for me.Every time you went there, I bugged your car, your purse.Hell, I even had one in your phone case.”He laughs.

“Joke’s on you, motherfucker.She’s pregnant with your kid, but you’ll never know them.While you’re rotting away somewhere in Hell, your kid will be calling me daddy.I’ll be there for all their firsts by Jess’s side.”I was going to put a bullet in his brain, but I want him to bleed out slowly while thinking about the kid he’s never going to watch grow up.

“Get her out of here.”

“I’m staying,” she says.

“You don’t want to watch this,” I promise her as I pull out my knife.

“Maybe, but I need to.I want to see him hurt.For what he did to me.For how he treated Gwynee and every other woman he’s ever hurt.”

“Okay.”I pull her in for a deep kiss, making sure Thad hears her whimper for me.

Epilogue

“Doyouthinkit’sgoing to be a boy or a girl?”Woods asks me as he gathers another spoonful of frozen Coke on the spoon for me.It’s Willow’s fault that I’ve become addicted to these things.

“I don’t care.As long as they are happy and healthy, that’s all that matters.But having a girl to spoil could be fun.”I don’t voice the thought that I worry about the undesirable traits this baby could inherit from Thad.May that asshole be rotting in Hell.

“I don’t know if the world is ready for another crazy female.”He jokes.

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