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“They’re both adults and you don’t own either one of them. Get. Fuckin’. Gone,” Zeus yells loud enough the woman finally realizes we’re not playing games with her through the drug haze filling her head and body.
“This isn’t over,” she promises us as she stumbles her way past us.
Knocking on the door, I wait to see if her friend Maggie is in. I’m not about to just barge into the girl’s room if she’s here. After a minute, she opens the door. Maggie stares up at the three of us as if she’s shocked to see us here.
“Can I help you?” she asks after a minute of her staring at the three of us.
“Yeah. We’re here to pack up Jaelyn’s stuff and move it back home for her,” I respond, my voice leaving no room for argument as I stare down at the girl.
“What do you mean? She just got back. I haven’t heard from her in a few weeks, but I’m sure she’ll be back before too long,” Maggie says, trying to force a hard edge to her voice.
“She’s not comin’ back here. Not after she was attacked her first night back on campus,” Zeus says, pushing past her as his patience finally comes to an end.
“What are you talking about? She wasn’t attacked,” Maggie says, stomping her foot and crossing her arms over her chest.
“Yeah, she was. Some asshole drugged her and was goin’ to rape her. She called me and we came to get her,” I inform her, walking by to help Zeus start packing her things up as Cole begins to assemble the boxes and taping them up for us.
“Where the fuck were you when she was gettin’ drugged?” Zeus questions, finally turning to face her as he fills her bed with the clothes in her dresser.
“I was with my boyfriend. She told me she’d be okay with our other friends,” she states, emotion clogging her voice.
“Yeah, well, you all left her alone and vulnerable,” Zeus growls out, turning his back on her.
“I never thought he’d take it this far. The names and talking shit to her was more than enough,” Maggie mumbles.
“What did you just say?” I now growl.
“Some of the football players got mad when she wouldn’t give them the time of day. They would call her a biker slut and spread all over campus how she’ll give it up to filthy bikers, but not guys her own age who could give her a life she deserves. There are a lot of people here who hate her because they think she can open the door to the biker world for them, but Jae has never once said anything about you guys. I don’t know how anyone found out she even knows anyone from a club.”
“That’s been goin’ on for how long?” Zeus asks, the anger radiating off him as his entire body shakes.
“Since the beginning of her starting here. She told me she’d talk to her sister about it before she had to leave the first time. I thought you knew.”
“No, we didn’t. I want every fuckin’ name before we leave here,” Zeus states, boxing up her clothing while I start on her bookshelf.
Cole gets all the boxes set up and starts working on her desk. The three of us manage to pack her entire side of the room up in just over an hour and a half. Maggie makes sure we get all of Jae’s things including from the bathroom they share. Cole gets everything loaded up in the trucks so Zeus and I can get the list of names from Maggie. I will never trust this girl after leaving a friend alone at a frat party, but I know Jae considers her a friend. It’s the only reason I’m not scaring the shit out of her before leaving here. Zeus has no such problem though. He’s growled and barked out responses to her questions the entire time we’ve been here. My friend will not be as accepting of Jae keeping Maggie in her life.
“Is Jae okay?” Maggie asks as we’re heading out the door.
“She’s gonna be fine,” I answer her, not turning around. “Give her time and she might call you. I’m not gonna guarantee anythin’ though. It’s her decision and you need to respect it.”
After getting back in the loaded truck with Zeus, it doesn’t take him long at all to start working on his phone with the list of names Maggie gave him.
“I can’t believe she never said a word about this shit to anyone,” he finally says, not taking his eyes off his phone.
“Really? Jae wasn’t gonna want to worry Hartley about the situation since it was name callin’ and talkin’ shit about her. That’s shit she’d want to try and deal with on her own or just hope it went away on it’s own.”
“She’s gonna learn, that shit’s not gonna fly. At all,” he mumbles.
I can’t stop the laugh from spilling from me. It won’t be long at all before Zeus is ready to stake his claim with me on our girl. I hope Jae is ready for the two of us because once she’s ours, we’re never gonna let her go.
AFTER DROPPING OFF everything from Jaelyn’s dorm room, I’ve made myself scarce. If I’m not going through the list of names Maggie gave us, I’m down at Rowdy Shot pretending to work so I’m not even near the clubhouse. Jaelyn is safe at the compound and still working through what almost happened to her. Not to mention, I’m still working through the memories I work so hard every single day to keep pushed into the dark recess of my mind. Memories of not being enough to stop someone’s demons from haunting her to the point she couldn’t find a different way to put a stop to it. This girl was my entire world before joining the Knight’s Rebellion and now I’m not sure if I can let another woman get that close to me. I’m clearly not good enough to stop the bad shit from happening.
I’m also looking into Jaelyn and Hartley’s mom. I don’t remember if they said she was dead or alive, but it’s been a long time since they’ve seen her and for her to show back up out of the blue is strange as hell. There’s a reason, more than the money excuse she gave us, for this bitch to come back around. Even Lash agrees with my thinking on this one. So, we’ve decided not to say anything to the girls about seeing her just yet. We want to have all the information we can about her before saying a single word to either Jae or Hartley about their mom. As far as I’m concerned, she needs to disappear and forget all about them. It’s not like she hasn’t been doing that for the last several years as it is. Hartley is more Jae’s mom than the bitch we saw at her dorm. I’m just glad we were the ones who ran into her and not Jaelyn. I don’t know if she could have handled the situation.
Sabotage has been letting me get away with pushing Jae away because he knows where my mind’s at right now. Though, when he’s not at work or on club business, he’s right up my ass. I can’t go anywhere without him at my back. He’s my best friend and I know he’s worried I’m going to do something stupid, but I’m not. I’m just removing myself from the situation in any way when it comes to Jaelyn. I haven’t told him about my thoughts on the situation though. I know Sab is gonna fucking hate me when I tell him what’s been going through my mind over the last few weeks. He has to know it’s coming though.
I’ve made a few decisions in the last few weeks, despite what everyone at the clubhouse has seen me doing, I know what has to be done. For everyone to be happy. Well, for my best friend and the girl I have fallen for in the blink of an eye to be happy. Me, well, I don’t think I’ll ever get a chance to be happy again. That ship sailed years ago, and I’ll never get my life back. Not after the devastation I wasn’t able to prevent from happening. Sab keeps telling me it’s not my fault and there’s nothing I could have done to stop the events from taking place, I know that’s not true. I lived through them and there’s always something I could have done, seen, or stopped. It wasn’t the first time I realized I can’t protect anyone I love. Now, there are so many more events that have taken place to prove my case for me.
