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Shaking our heads, we go out front towards our bikes before heading to the hospital, wondering what is so important that can't be discussed in our chapel.
We arrive in Doc's office twenty minutes later. It's a tight squeeze, but he nods me forward, and we all look at him with furrowed brows. "Just come take a seat, Gunner; you're going to need it."
I look at Axel, who's sitting in the other seat with Dag behind him and Ink behind the chair; he nods too. I tilt my head but do as he asks and take a seat before he clears his throat.
"Alright brothers, I could get into some serious fucking shit with Leah for doing this, and I mean her disowning me kind of shit and me possibly losing my license." He looks at his son and says, "You heard her son; she calls me dad and even calls your mother mom." Our eyes widen in shock, but he ignores our reactions and takes a deep breath. "When I first met Leah five years ago, she'd probably wished she'd never have to see me again, but instead I became a father to her while Ava, my old lady and wife, became a mother." He drops his head in his hands before running them over his head, stressed, before looking back up. "All of you have to understand the seriousness of what I'm about to tell you. I-I could lose her," he says, looking at his son. "Your mother could lose her, and for that, she'll never forgive any of us for it."
I sit forward and say, "We're listening, brother."
The brothers nod, and he sighs.
"For five years, you have all listened to the crap that has come out of Razor's mouth. You treated her nicely to her face but got the sweet butts and female employees to try and make her quit her job, yet none of you asked her if what was being said was true." The room grows tense. "Your all the next generation, and currently my generation, your fathers and uncles are all noddingtheir heads in agreement with me. You all act like you know everything, but you're still too immature."
Axel clears his throat. "Now, Doc..."
Doc doesn't let him continue, "No, you Axel, treated Annalise like shit before you won her over, and you Dagger did the worst thing and cheated on Mel after she needed time; she had found out her dad wasn't her fucking dad, her mother was a druggie, and she didn't want to scare you away before your one and done fucks nearly killed her and Ink." Ink clears his throat, knowing what Doc is about to say: "You called your woman a whore because you didn't let her explain the situation with her gay friend Todd. You men, whom we entrusted to take our club, OUR legacy, are fucking up left, right, and center."
Axel stands, not liking what he's being told, but Doc doesn't give a shit.
"Dead Shot, the situation with Leah, how would you have handled it?"
Axel slumps down again, dropping his head while cursing, knowing he won't disrespect his own father despite him now being Pres and I sigh as Dead Shot speaks up.
"The accusations made about her, I would have confronted her, not tried to use women to get her to quit or make her feel like shit, putting her down day after day. For five years, the women in this club have put her through hell, sneered at her, and made her feel unwelcome instead of family, my woman included, and even the new lady of the club has done the same thing. It's only recently after I had a word with Annalise about her treatment of Leah that she saw the error of her ways, especially when I asked her when the last time she saw Leah with a man was because the answer is fucking never; she never dates and hasn't had a relationship or a fuck buddy in the time we've all known her. Sophie even confirmed she never dated in high school.
Until proven guilty brothers and you all made her guilty by another brother's word, a brother who hadn't even been patched in yet, he was a prospect. AND SINCE WHEN DO WE FUCKING LISTEN TO THEM WITHOUT FUCKING EVIDENCE?"
The brothers drop their heads, but I keep eye contact with Doc. The emotions in his eyes are telling me I'm going to lose my shit and most likely feel a hell of a lot of guilt.
He clears his throat. "The day I met Leah," he says, taking a deep breath. "It was warm out, and it was late. Gunner and Slicer were holding interviews for waitresses at the bar."
I sit up straighter, my heart pounding; it's the first day we met her. Sorrow shines through his eyes, and my heart pounds hard in my chest.
"She'd been sexually assaulted."
I go to stand while the brothers all curse as Ink grabs my shoulder, holding me down, before clearing his throat. "Does Sophie know this?"
His voice is raw, with pain lacing through it.
The men start cursing louder, realizing this would send Inks girl, who lost so much and tried to harm herself, into another spiral when Doc shakes his head, causing him to bang his hand on his desk, making them quiet. His eyes stay connected to mine. "I have a theory as to who did it, but she never told me, and I never had any evidence except for her injuries," he says, taking another deep breath. "I believe Gunner, by the way, Leah had sobbed it to me that night; you saw it happen but walked away thinking it was something else."
Bile instantly comes to my throat.
NO, please fucking please, no, he was not assaulting her and I didn't walk away, then fuck Cara, please no.
The look in Doc's eyes tells me it's the truth. No.
He quickly gives me a trash can as my face pales and I vomit, making Ink grip my shoulder while Axel booms, "WHAT THE FUCK DO WE NOT KNOW?"
"Settle down, son; Doc's getting to it. He only just filled us in this morning, and Slicer has also been filled in. He'll be home in a few weeks, but he's fucking pissed that he's not been able to be here to help you boys."
Tank takes the trash can once I stop dry-heaving as guilt churns inside me before putting it in Doc's bathroom. Doc makes eye contact with me again: "She came into the E.R., her jeans were covered in blood," the brothers tense even more, "I had just managed to catch her before she had collapsed after driving from the bar to here."
I squeeze my eyes shut, my tears building up before memories of every time I fucked Cara, every time Cara smirked and treated Leah like crap, the woman I love more than anything all over a fucking setup. I open my eyes when he speaks again, his eyes staying on me.
"Before I could wheel her away, she grabbed my arm and begged me not to call the Sheriff before she told me, she was assaulted by a man shoving his fingers inside of her with-with a razor in between them, using it to-to," he drops his head before looking back up, tears in his eyes, "using it to break through her hymen, stealing her virginity from her that I had found out a few years ago she was keeping until marriage."
My whole world tilts as my tears fall, bile wanting to come up again.
