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“You can’t promise that,Jinx,” Shadow whispered, using Kole’s nickname to address her. I didn’t know how I felt about that, but Kali didn’t seem to mind. “Only the President of the club can decree that.”
“If he knows what’s good for him, he will,” Kali growled, turning her head to look at me.
Sighing, I walked over to my woman.
Placing my hand on her shoulder, I looked at the man laying in the bed and asked, “How are you feeling, Shadow?”
“Sore, but I’m good.”
“I wanted to thank you for coming for me,” Kali said, reaching for Shadow’s hand. “You didn’t have to, but you did. Because of you, I am alive.”
“No. You would have survived. You are a survivor, Jinx. I know that now. What I did…” he said, his voice trailed off as he looked away.
“You righted a wrong, Shadow,” Kali whispered. “And if you will let me, I would like to help you.”
Shadow looked back at my woman, tears in his eyes. “Help me?”
“By forgiving you.”
Shadow shook his head. “No.”
“It’s not your decision to make,Ezekiel. It’s mine. Your hands may have taken the life of my brother, but you weren’t responsible. The mind is a funny thing. When I was lying on that floor in the barn, all I saw was my brother and that he had come to save me. He told me he loved me. I now know that it was you. A true killer wouldn’t have thought twice about coming for me. But you did. That makes you an honorable man. A good man. People make mistakes all the time, Shadow. It’s what we do after thatmakes us the people we are today. And you, my friend, are not a killer. So yes, I forgive you.”
“You shouldn’t,” Shadow muttered. “I’m evil.”
“No, you’re not. You’re just lost. I know that feeling. I was too until I found Kansas. I think if you let me, I can help you find where you belong because I believe there is a place for you, Shadow.”
“You really think so?”
My woman nodded. “I do.”
“She’s right, Shadow,” I agreed. “Maybe you should hang around here for a while.”
Shadow looked at his sisters, who were all silently crying and nodding. Turning back to me, he too, nodded. “I think I’d like that. Thank you.”
“When the doctor’s release you and you are ready, come to the clubhouse. Open invitation. Don’t even need to call beforehand. Just show up. We’ll talk more then.”
“Thank you, Prez.”
“Let me get this straight,” Pence said, rubbing his forehead.
It had been a week since Kali’s release from the hospital and though she was still healing, I still had a club to run. The biggest item of concern was figuring out why the good detective, Justin Conroy, went off the rails and on a killing spree. “The man we all admired killed men because they went with us to Mexico. Sorry, but that shit doesn’t fly. It makes no sense. They killed his sister in the massacre. He wanted revenge just as much as we did.”
“I have the evidence right here, Mr. Pence,” Sypher said, as I looked at the computer screen on the wall. “The police report says it was his DNA at the scene of officer Jake Hanover and firefighter Chuck Miller. When the FEDs ran the blood samples, they came back with an exact match. Justin Conroy murdered Hanover and Miller.”
“But why?” Blackjack asked.
“Well, according to what I found, Hanover and Miller were lovers. They’d been dating for a while, just kept it on the down low because of their jobs.”
“You mean to tell me Conroy killed two men because they were gay?” Keys asked.
“That’s what the FEDs think. They are calling it a hate crime. Conroy is looking at life in a federal prison.”
“Fucker deserves the electric chair,” Whisper muttered.
“He may get that,” Sypher grinned. “Oklahoma still has the death penalty.”
“What about Officer Ben Taylor and his father?” I asked.
