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“No. This is the part you are going to hate,” I admitted. “I know who Montana Stone is. I’ve known him for a while now. His brother Dakota and I were in the same unit. We served together in Afghanistan, but that’s not what I need to tell you. When the club received Dog’s letter and we found out you were here in Rosewood, I made a few calls. One of them was to Montana, asking that he do some digging into Dog’s past and such. Well, he found something. Only it didn’t have anything to do with Dog. It had to do with me and my past.”
“I don’t understand.”
“I think I’ve mentioned that I was married before. I was young and stupid, and I thought I was in love. The fact was, I tolerated Valerie. She was fun in the sack, and like me, she wanted out of this place. So, when I joined the Marines, she went with me. When I left home, I had every intention of just doing four years and then come home. That’s what I told Valerie in the beginning. She agreed, so we got married. Well, shit happened, and I found myself loving the military lifestyle. I was on deployment when my enlistment came up and, without thinking, I joined up for another four years.”
“And the wife didn’t like that, I take it?”
“No. She ripped my ass to shreds. Looking back, I should have seen the signs. Though she seemed happy with her current position, she never really let go of the club. Valerie always wanted to be an ol’ lady. She wanted my cut on her back proclaiming her as head bitch. She knew the club would be mine after my dad died. She wanted the prestige, the clout, the title. When she learned I re-enlisted, she got back at me the only way she knew how. She called on the one brother who had always had a hard on for her, Havoc.
“I knew Havoc had the hots for Val. The brother drooled every time she came around, but because he was just a patched brother, she never gave him the time of day. Anyway, I had just gotten back from my last deployment when I arrived home to find my wife fucking Havoc in our bed. That’s when I realized she was also pregnant. Fucking bitch, tried to play that kid off as mine. Fucking knew it wasn’t and so did she, but because she was still legally my wife and I was still in the Marine Corps, she got the house and half my pay until the divorce was final and I could prove otherwise.”
“I would have kicked her fucking ass, pregnant or not. I hate women who play games like that. So, what happened next?”
“She made my life a living hell. She refused the divorce. She created so much fucking drama, I had to leave the Marine Corps. With my career over, I returned home.”
“Let me guess, she followed.”
“Yes ma’am she did.” I admitted. “She honestly thought that now that I was home, I would take her back and claim Havoc’s kid as my own. Fucking bitch was delusional. What she didn’t plan on was my family and the resources we had. When her kid was born, I petitioned the court for a DNA test. As you can guess, I wasn’t the father, which allowed me to petition the court to stop all alimony, benefits and request that she return all the child support money I had already given her.”
“Bet she didn’t like that.”
“She fucking hated it.”
“Where is she now?”
“Valerie is the current wife of the mayor of our little town.”
“You’ve got to be kidding me!” Bailey gasped, turning in my arms to look at me. “Mrs. Stevens? Valerie Stevens is your ex-wife!”
“That would be the bitch.”
Bailey chuckled, snuggling back against me. “I knew I hated that cunt. When I went to pay the back taxes on my building, she was there. She took one look at me and thought I was trash. What happened to Havoc?”
“Well, after I found my ex with Havoc, Valerie kicked Havoc to the curb. He knew not to return home because the club would seek retribution. So without a roof over his head and no woman, he was alone. As for what he did, I don’t know and don’t care. What I do care about is what he’s doing now.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s seems Havoc grew some balls over the years and created his own little merry band of misfits, as you like to call us sometimes. Only he fucked himself because when I get my hands on him, I’m going to do what I should have done all those years ago. Havoc is the man you know as Czar. From what Montana could gather, Havoc learned that Dog had a shop in east L.A. So he went in search of him. Montana believes Havoc sought him out to get him to join his little fucked up club. That’s when you saw him for the first time. Only Havoc’s plan backfired because Dog recognized him immediately.”
“How?”
“Dog knew Havoc was a poser and a fucking pussy. What Havoc didn’t know was that Dog was still a patched member of the Sons of Hell and that you were his daughter. You see, Dog left before I joined the Marines. His daughter, your older sister, found out she had breast cancer and Dog wanted to be there for her. When my shit went down with Valerie, Dog knew because my dad kept in touch.”
“That’s why Dog wasn’t scared of him.”
I nodded. “Yeah. Dog was already spending more and more time in California, so he wasn’t around the club much and with Havoc just a patched member, he got a lot of the shit jobs back then. Anyway, because Dog always had a keen eye, he recognized Havoc right away and called him out on his bullshit. Well, you know what happened next. Havoc had your father killed and was planning on taking care of you next, but apparently, he wanted to keep you.”
“Why?”
“Because you are Venom, the biggest up-incoming tattoo artist on the market. You made a name for yourself and people seek you out. You could have been a major cash cow for him.”
“No fucking way. He threatened me and killed my stock boy!”
“Never said he was smart, baby.”
“When you sold everything and moved here, Havoc immediately started looking for you. By the time he found you, he realized I had eyes on you, which pissed him off even more.”
“I get it now. Because of what happened with Valerie.”
