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“What now?” Sparky groans.
“I’m not sure. That asshole sent me this message… you know her?”
He passes his phone over to Sparky, who jerks his head away from whatever he’s seen before passing it on, letting the brothers take turns looking, each of them shaking their heads. As soon as JJ takes the phone, his brows nearly hit his hairline as he tosses the phone to me. My stomach drops. Holly’s face fills the screen, her face bruised and dirty, her wrists tied together.
My voice cracks when I acknowledge, “I know her.”
“Who is she?”
“Her name’s Holly. She’s Tal’s girl,” JJ offers up to Cas before I can.
“Why would he go after her? She isn’t your old lady.” It’s so fucking clear his suspicions are growing, but I shrug it off.
“I have no idea.”
He takes the phone from my hand and questions, “Who were you talking to at the gate?”
Fuck! As far as the club’s concerned, I have no family.
“Why do you have to think about it, brother?” Sparky asks, moving closer to Cas.
Thinking fast, I reply with, “I was just wondering why you care. It was just a guy from town.”
Cas snorts. “A guy from town?”
My mouth goes dry. “Yeah. Seriously, what the fuck?”
When his mouth opens, I brace myself for what’s about to come out next when his phone rings again, distracting him.
“It’s Bert,” he announces, putting the phone on speaker.
“Give me Danny’s killer, and I’ll hand over the girl.” Before Cas can respond, Bert hangs up.
“Motherfucker!” Turning to Slade, he barks out, “I want to know everything there is to know about this girl. Let’s hope she has no family in town who’ll miss her if this goes south.”
I keep my mouth shut.
“Yeah, it’ll be nice to know who we’re saving,” JJ mutters, digging out his smokes when Harper slips onto his lap, wrapping her arms around his neck to whisper something into his ear.
Sighing, Leo rolls his eyes. “How are we going to save her?”
“Fuck knows,” Cas grunts, kicking at the nearest chair.
“I know.” Everyone looks to Dex, who makes his way into the middle of the bar. “One of us will have to give ourselves up, and I volunteer.”
The brothers go silent, digesting what he’s put forward.
“It wasn’t you who killed him—it was me,” Cas finally says.
Hearing Cas say it was him is an admission to add in my notebook. Stories about the club back in the day float around all the time, but it’s another thing to actually hear it from Cas himself.
“We’re not going to allow another woman to be killed because of our actions, and I don’t see anyone else stepping forward to help her. We know it wasn’t me who killed him, but Bert doesn’t.”
Dex looks to me, and I swear I can hear what he’s thinking:You should’ve put yourself forward to help her before me.I have every intention of helping to get her back, but he didn’t exactly give me the chance.
“You do realise what you’re saying, don’t you, brother?” Cas says.
“Yeah, you’ll be killed before we’d even get the girl back, and for what? Guilt you still have over Melissa?” Sparky urges. If I remember hearing correctly, Melissa was Danny’s sister.
