Page 93 of Knot My MC
“I’m not your son,” Jag growls.
Do I regret the bet now that we have guests? Absolutely not. Crossing my arms over my chest, I spin on Riley and Hayden and cock an eyebrow. “Speak.”
Knox chuckles under his breath, but the sound is void of humor. He’s not Knox the alpha who snuggles and gives orgasms right now, he’s an alpha and the Prez of the Hell Hounds.
Hayden and Riley share a tense look, as if suddenly realizing they’re here, alone, with three Hell Hounds. At least their fight or flight instinct is working.
“Right.” Hayden’s gaze returns to mine, pointedly avoiding Jag. “We have reason to believe Axel wants your father dead.”
I don’t respond right away, instead taking time to process that statement. How could they know that?
Hayden continues when I stay silent. “What do you know about your mother?”
“What does she have to do with this?” I whisper the question. Truth be told, all I know is what my father told me. She was pretty, feisty, and she stole my father’s heart. He was never the same after her crash.
“Everything.” Hayden swallows, struggling to say the next part. “Her death wasn’t an accident.”
The way Riley’s been acting, them asking to come in to talk, all of it had me thinking something was amiss, but what they’re saying doesn’t make any sense. Dad would have known if something else had happened.
“That’s not possible.”
“It is,” Riley said. “Axel and Kiren never liked each other, did you know that?”
Dad was the VP. He and Axel didn’t always see eye to eye. Axel forced him to do things he didn’t want to, but at the end of the day, Kiren was the VP of Wrecker. He and Axel were brothers in that regard.
“They’re friends,” I say, even knowing that Axel was responsible for his death, to me and everyone else, it had seemed they were as thick as thieves.
“Axel was the Prez of Wrecker. Your dad protected you as well as he could, more than he did with your mother.” Riley’s words sucker punch me.
The night I came home from jail, Dad asked me about Axel’s scent in my room. I lied to him, but Axel didn’t bother me again until Dad died. Had he said something to Axel?
I try to form words, but they get stuck in my throat. Clearing it, I try again. “What are you saying?”
Knox’s fingers lace with mine. “Stop beating around the bush and say whatever it is you have to say. You’re not making this any easier on her.” I squeeze his hand in thanks.
“Axel wanted your mother. He always wanted what he couldn’t have, and your mother was no exception. It didn’t matter that she was mated to your father. She was in a crash, but it was no accident. Her brakes were cut.”
I swallow, trying to wet my dry mouth. “And Axel did it?”
“The night before, he tried to force himself on your mother. She got away, but not before he… well. She came to the station for a test.” Riley grimaces. “Your father didn’t know that part.”
Axel assaulted my mother? He… he forced himself on her?
“He told me my dad killed the people who caused her accident.”
“I’m not sure what he was talking about seeing as Kiren knew it was Axel’s fault.
So Axel had lied to me about that. And now he’s trying to get to me. My stomach turns, disgusted by how despicable Axel truly is. I knew he was an asshole. I’m not surprised by what he did, but I’m sick that my mother had to go through that. I don’t remember her, but no one should have to endure that.
She deserved better.
“How do you know this? You weren’t even on the squad?” Crow asks. At least one of us has enough brain power to question what they’re saying.
Riley ignores the question. “After Kiren was informed about the circumstances of her death, we went to him with a deal.”
My stomach drops. No.
He wouldn’t.
