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The urge to pick it up and throw it across the room is strong. I just need a few minutes of quiet to collect my thoughts.
Instead, I answer it.
“Hello,” I answer, not bothering to see who it was.
“He’s awake, Bitsy,” Steel says. “He wants to talk to you.”
Chapter Seventeen
Viper
“Ouch,” I say as I try standing. “They didn’t even touch my legs. What the fuck is going on?”
“I see his mind is in working order,” Steel says. “Your legs are fine. You just haven’t been on them in a while.”
“Blaze said Bitsy is alive,” I say. “How’s she doing? I need to get home because she has a treatment tomorrow.”
“Why are you standing?” Ghost says as he walks into the room.
“I had to piss,” I glare. “Why isn’t my woman here?”
“The doctor said he woke up ready to hit the road,” Steel laughs. “He’ll be here for a few more days and then he can leave.”
“Your doctor came in here and told you that you were injured so extremely that you need to stay here for a few more days and yet you still think tomorrow is the day for Bitsy to have a treatment?”
“What? Was I out for the whole day? Who took her? Is she okay?”
“You might want to sit down, brother,” Ghost says.
“He didn’t give the doctor a chance to tell him anything,” Steel says. “He demanded a release form and told him to get his ass out of the room and to do his job.”
“If the doctor says you can’t go home for a few days then you’re not going home for a few days,” Ghost says. “If I have to pull President rank, I will.”
“Fuck you, Ghost. Where’s my woman?”
“Sit down and I’ll tell you everything.”
Fucking bastard.
I hobble to the nearest chair and sit.
“Out with it,” I demand.
“First, you need to know that Bitsy is perfectly fine,” he starts. “Right now, she’s at home with Ma, Pops, and Venom. She’s worried about you, but she’s fine. Now, you need to tell me what you remember. When Thorn and his men took you, did they say anything?”
“You mean when they tied me up and beat the shit out of me?” I ask sarcastically. “Yes, actually. They kept asking the same question over and over. They wanted to know where the rest of my club was.”
“Right,” Ghost mutters. “And I know you well enough to know that you just laughed in their faces. Well, the day Bitsy had her seizure and you rushed her to the hospital, I had Pops oversee the task of having everyone moved to different safe locations. Less than an hour before you were attacked, someone broke into the club. I was alerted but they left by the time we arrived.”
Ghost clears his throat and continues.
“They didn’t destroy anything or leave any messages,” he says. “It’s almost as if they saw that it was empty and then they just left.”
“They were looking for you,” I tell him. “I guess Thorn had borrowed money from a loan shark to buy some guns. The guns he received weren’t any good and he couldn’t resell them. He thinks the Bulldog fight was rigged for him to lose. He was supposed to use the money he bet as a partial payment for his loan so he didn’t get killed. From what I understood, he made additional bets to try and get an extra three grand. So, he lost five in total.”
“Well, he’s dead now. He gets a pass on his payment.”
“Maybe so, Steel,” I say. “But whoever this shark is that he borrowed money from is still going to want his money back. It’s something we need to deal with before it gets out of hand. Bitsy’s life isn’t to be put in danger because of some stupid ass idiot who made the wrong decisions.”
