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Joker’s shouting on the phone. “Get them to the clubhouse! All of them. No fucking around. Bring Trigger’s dad in.” He pauses like he’s listening. “I don’t give a fuck if the old man won’t go. Tie him up and carry him in.”
He’s getting the job done and I’m grateful, lookin’ out for my dad and everyone else. I’m finally settling down, the ball of fear in my belly uncoiling as chaos flows around me.
Reaper gets in my space. “Where’d she go, man?”
I shake my head. “I don’t fucking know.” My mind is clearing. “Maybe home or the clubhouse, looking for me.”
My phone rings and my heart jumps. “Evanee,” I say, but I already know it’s not. It’s an unknown number. “Not a good time,” I growl into the phone.
Lyle Whittaker’s panicked voice invades my ear. “Casper!”
“Evanee’s there?” I say as my pulse slows, but it takes seconds for the relief that she’s safe to shift to fear that she’s running away from me. I promised I’d look after her and I fucking failed. This was my doing, the threats, the explosion. It was because of me. Of the Jury. So stupid to play games with Crip.
And she’ll realize it was the Blackbeards. She’s smart, resourceful. She won’t know that our adventure last night was the catalyst, but that don’t matter. Her life’s dream is in ruins, she almost died and it’s my fault.
Lyle’s voice brings me back to the present. “She was here. She accused me of blowing up her clinic, then—”
“Did you?” I snarl. I know better, but the question needs asking.
“No.” His voice creaks before he clears it. “Of course, I didn’t. But she’s hurt and not thinking.”
“Put her on the phone,” I demand. I need to explain, beg her to give me another chance. I need to hear her voice. Know that she’s okay.
“She’s not here!” Lyle’s voice is too high. Afraid for her. Like me. “She came here madder than hell, grabbed one of my shotguns and some shells and left. I don’t know who she’s gunning for, but she needs medical attention. You’ve got to find her and get her to a hospital.”
“I’ll fucking find her, and then when she’s safe, you and me. We’re gonna talk.” I don’t know why I’m threatening her old man, but it distracts me from beating myself up.
“What’s going on?” Reaper says when I end the call. He’s calm like he always is in a crisis. Inside, his monster is pacing.
I call Evanee as I tell him. “Her dad says she was there. Took a shotgun and shells and left again.”
Her phone rings, then goes to voicemail. “Evanee,” I shout. “Don’t know what the fuck you’re doing but get your ass to the clubhouse.” I resist the urge to beg her forgiveness. Now’s not the time. I hang up. “Lyle says she’s hurt.”
Reaper runs a hand over the top of his head. “Who would fucking do this?” He already knows. There’s guilt in his eyes as he looks around him.
“Not hard to figure out,” Red says. “Mad Max and Sadie come to the clinic threatening her. We put Dino’s head in Crip’s bed.” There’s murder in his eyes. “They fucking went too far.”
Ice crystalizes inside me as I think of how vulnerable my baby is. “She’s hurt. She has no fuckin’ idea what those cunts will do.”
Red gazes at the rubble that used to be her clinic. “Think she does.”
Hangman joins us. “Fuckin’ Blackbeards. Gonna end Crip for this.”
“Not if Evanee gets there first,” Reaper says grimly to Hangman. “She’s gone after him.”
I race towards my bike, my whole body shaking. “They get hold of her, they’ll destroy her.”
“Let’s go!” Hangman shouts to the brothers. “We got some Blackbeard ass to kick.”
I’m already gone.
CHAPTERFORTY-TWO
Evanee
Iknow everything about the Blackbeards. Not because I have an interest in them, but after I met Trigger in the mall, I started stalking him.
That led me to both Hell’s Jury and the Blackbeards.
