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“Before,” was all she would say. “I’s why got pegnant. Protection. Blackmailed me.” Her words sounded slurred, and I imagined she was having a hard time getting them out considering the damage Star had done to her mouth. She said that was why she got pregnant. Poor Kip. He lost the love of his life because my sister cooked up the ultimate ‘catch a man’ plot because she thought he could protect her. Didn’t seem like it did much good, considering she’d been pimped out since having the baby. Maybe before then.
“He’s with The Violent Order,” one of the older club brothers who stood closer to me stated. I guess he thought I wasn’t aware who Malcolm Larson was. Not only was he the man we suspected behind the videos in Creepy Dave’s house and the threats against me, but he was also the man who I shared DNA with.
Bagger whispered something to his woman, but Star shook her head before demanding, “Put her in the shed and let me finish her off.”
Star was told that what was left of Ashlynn was Kip’s problem to deal with. Breakneck directed the prospects to take Ashlynn to a room in the clubhouse. I assumed she was being taken to whichever room they’d stowed my father away in when he was a hostile guest of the club. Breakneck turned and moved immediately until he was standing toe-to-toe with me.
“You okay, sweetness?”
I nodded my head but wasn’t able to stop the tear that escaped and ran down my cheek. “He could have been hurt,” I mumbled and leaned in to kiss Knoxville’s head. “He could have been hurt and it was my fault for leaving him.”
“None of that shit was your fault, sweetness. His own fucking mother took him while she turned tricks. She was probably doing it before you got the job as a nanny, too. Really, you saved that poor kid months of being dragged around to dirty hotel rooms and worse while his mom fucked every swinging dick in the surrounding counties.”
I shivered at the thought of that. “Poor Kip, what if she gave him something?”
“Don’t think Kip fucked that bitch once after knocking her up on accident, so probably not a problem.”
“Poor Kip,” I huffed out again. If that was true, then there really wasn’t a single better father alive on this planet than him. I knew that he stayed with Ashlynn out of obligation, and I’d been there a few times when she’d threatened to take his son away and never look back every time she felt Kip stepped a toe out of line.
Kip had been at his breaking point with his wife back when I fled from Breakneck’s cheating and she hadn’t been around much since I got back. This revelation was next level. I wasn’t sure how Kip was going to be able to handle it without wanting to kill her. Even I wanted that kind of justice for him and his son. It didn’t matter that she and I shared blood, I wouldn’t have saved her.
“I should get this little guy back to his house for now.”
“I can’t leave just yet until I know how Kip wants to handle this shitshow.”
“I understand.”
“Sending someone to watch over the two of you, especially since we haven’t been able to nab Mal yet. Would prefer if you stayed here at the clubhouse.”
It was getting dark outside, and I knew what that meant. The club whores would be hanging around and truthfully, I wasn’t ready to be confronted with them just yet. I shook my head in answer to his preference. “Kip asked that I be here for the cookout, and I couldn’t deny him that since it was a family thing and to raise money for Coral, but I can’t go in there, not now. I just can’t.”
Breakneck blew out a frustrated breath and tugged at the back of his neck for a minute before he nodded. “Fucking sorrier than you’ll ever know that I ruined my clubhouse for you.”
There really wasn’t anything for me to say to that because it was the truth. He’d ruined it with his actions and the fact that those men inside that clubhouse had either been in on his cheating with him or had known what was going down and allowed me to walk right inside to find what I found. Then again, maybe I should thank those men who never stopped me. They did me a favor by letting me see for myself what was going down.
We were saved any further awkwardness when Vivian came over and hugged me and her great nephew all at once. “Come on, we’re going to go to my place and stay for a bit while the boys handle business. The lawyer is meeting Kip there after he drops Ashlynn off at the hospital to fix the damage done by his sister.”
“He’s just dropping her off there?”
She shook her head. “He’s calling the police and getting law enforcement involved in what she was doing.”
“Won’t they want to know about Star beating the crap out of her?”
“No, I don’t think they’re going to care about that.” She winked at me, and I didn’t need to know anymore. Apparently, they had someone on the inside who would make sure no questions were asked. Considering she put her son in harm’s way repeatedly, I didn’t have it in me to care that she wouldn’t be heard. Instead, I packed Knoxville’s things up while Vivian doted on him and got ready to go.
Breakneck leaned in and kissed my temple. “Be around later to check on you, sweetness. Keep Viv company and take care of Knox. If you need anything, call. We’ll have a man stationed outside Viv’s house, too.”
Chapter 44
Breakneck
It took two fucking hours to sort through the mess left in the wake of hurricane fucking Ashlynn. That bitch was handcuffed to her hospital bed and as soon as the doctors cleared her, she’d be off to jail to await arraignment on charges ranging from child endangerment, neglect, abuse, and of course prostitution.
Her best bet would be to roll over and rat on Mal, but I didn’t think she would have the nerve to do that. Either way, thanks to the charges lobbed against her and the preponderance of the evidence collected against her, she would never have custody of their son. That was a fancy term Kip’s lawyer tossed at us when he met Kip at the hospital. From the way the lawyer talked, she would be lucky if someone showed her a picture of Knox once he reached adulthood.
Knowing Kip was busy there, his father was also at the hospital with Coral and Davina, and Mack had gone to check on his wife, Knox, and Nova; I headed to the clubhouse to make sure all was good there.
Someone had already organized the cleanup, but there was a bonfire raging out back where most of the members and club girls were congregated. Before heading out to check on everyone, I moved to the bar and reached over to grab myself an energy drink. It had been a long-as-fuck day with the promise of more to come.
