Inside the compound everyone waited, some with more patience than others but finally they all heard the sound of bike engines coming up the drive.
Daisy stood at the windows and she saw half a dozen bikers coming into view.
They all stopped with their engines running.
Satan held his fist up and the bikers all waited.Slowly Satan drove up to the gate and snatched the file from the gate.He just sat there for a moment glaring at the clubhouse.Turning his bike around, he slowly rode away.
When he joined his n men, they all turned around to follow their leader back down the driveway.
Daisy lowered her head and just breathed for a moment.She wasn’t sure how Satan and his men would come in, whether it would be in peace or with gun blazing.
Pope joined her and said, “That wasn’t anything like Satan.I was expecting something entirely different.”
Daisy nodded in total agreement.“So was I but I think he’s curious.Not saying it will last but for now at least he’s curious to see if it is all true.”
“Do you have anything else up your sleeve for when he does come back?”Bishop asked as he walked over.
Torin and Ridge joined the group as well.
Daisy swallowed hard then looked at Pope and asked, “Can you send him a text on Digger’s phone?”
Pope looked puzzled and asked, “Why would I do that?”
“Because he needs to know that my father wrote that file,” she whispered.
Pope looked over at Bishop and then at Torin.Finally, he sighed hard and asked her, “How are you going to prove that?”
“My father thinks so much of himself that he always leaves his own mark on anything he writes.Tell Satan to look on page five.He’ll find the word Demon in capital letters somewhere on that page.Like I said, he is a narcissist and he thinks highly of himself.He doesn’t think anyone else knows about that but I had to clean his office all the time and I’ve seen that give away in all his files.”
Pope stared at her and tilted his head.“Are you sure about doing this?”
Daisy nodded.“I am.Though all of this...”She took a deep breath.“I know it looks bad, all of it.I know this might lead to the...d-death of my whole family.But really, they haven’t been that.They were never like family.”She wrapped her arms around her belly as her body trembled.Looking pale and upset, her body shuddered showing the strain of the last couple of days.
Torin walked over and wrapped his arms around her.He just held her close to him for a moment.
No one said a word.
Daisy felt grateful for just the touch of a warm body.She’d been so cold for many years and Torin’s hug just felt so right.
Torin then moved her to a chair and went to get her some juice and a snack.
Pope grabbed Digger’s phone from his pocket and sent the text to Satan.
Somehow, the ping from hittingsendsounded loud in the silence of the room.
Now the wait began and the tension rose as the seconds passed into minutes.Then an hour passed.The men got lunch and another hour passed.
At this point, the brothers paced back and forth.They kept going between the doors and the windows but no one rode up to the gate.
Finally, Digger’s phone rang.
Pope handed it to Daisy.
After expelling a long breath, Daisy answered the call, “Hello.”
Satan’s snarl came back on the line as he announced, “I read the fucking file.”
“Did you find his name in capital letters on page five?”she asked quietly.
