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“Black Queen, it’s King. We’re outside, and your guard dogs won’t let us in. How many of them can we kill before you get pissed?”
I climb up the stairs, literally looking like a horror movie, and as the trapdoor opens, all eyes turn to me as I climb out.
“Holy fucking shit, Ray.” Dice comes running over to me, stopping a foot or so away. “Are you okay? Are you hurt?” He reaches for me, but I pull back. “Get Doc. Someone call Doc.”
“Dice, shut the fuck up, I’m fine. Now, can you lot shift and let them in? I’ve got dinner reservations, and I need to get cleaned up.”
“She’s fucking lost it!” Ares shakes his head as he moves to the side, and the team drives the truck in and opens the boot. Bishop gets out and lays a tarpaulin out in it.
“Down here, fellas.” I lead the guys down and show them the bags, then I joke about leaving the bag open. Tough crowd.
“Hey, you good?” Elijah walks me to the far end of the room.
I wrap my arms around myself and look up at him. I shake my head once. He nods. “What can I do, Ray?”
“Just deliver him to Cletus’s. He's expecting him.”
“Then what?”
“Once I'm cleaned up, I'm leaving. I need to grab my clothes, but that's it. I don't have any transport, so…”
“I’ll take the guys back to The Tower, and I'll come and get you, yeah?”
“You will?” I say with a shaky breath.
“Always!”
I nod, and he smiles, and he turns and walks away, taking the bag with the head in, tying it in a knot and hitting it against the wall as he walks up the steps. As I hear them pull off, I drop to my knees, nothing holding me together anymore, and I just sob.
When I can physically cry no more, I grab the hose and clean everything down and climb into the shower. I take a bin bag with me and shove my clothes into it. Once I’m dressed and packed up, I head out of the office, leaving the trapdoor open. I won't be needing it anymore. It's been a couple of hours, at least, since the team left. As I climb out, they're all standing there: Ares, Dice, Bran, Dane, Dozer, Blade, Viking, Priest and Tank.
“Hey.” Tank steps forward. “You good?”
I nod and step around them, walking out of the barn.
“Where the fuck do you think you’re going?” Ares yells at me.
“The apartment.”
“That so?”
“Look, Ares, I know you’ve probably got a whole speech planned to rip me a new one, and while I probably deserve it, I’ve literally just bagged all my fucks to give up with the severed parts of my brother and sent them on their merry way, so while I appreciate you’ve got stuff to get off your chest, I just really don’t wanna hear it. I’m grabbing my things, and I will be out of your hair. I’d like to say it's been a wild ride, but most of you can actually go fuck yourselves.” And with that, I stomp past them, leaving them all open-mouthed and in shock.
Ares
“What the fuck was that?” I spit after Ray leaves. “Why the fuck does she make my blood boil every time I fucking see her! Good fucking riddance, the sooner she leaves, the better. I’m done. I’m over it. Let's move on.”
“Go on then!” Tank laughs.
“Go on then, what?”
“Move on, walk away, be done with her, go on then!” He laughs again.
I fold my arms over my chest. “I will! I am!”
“Sure you are.” Priest grins. “Just like the rest of us, we're all so done, and our lives will be so, so, so much better without her and those babies in it. We can all go back to how it was before she even came here, right?”
“Yeah, exactly!” I nod. “Yeah… we will… it will … Fuck’s sake, why does she get under my fucking skin and drive me insane, and why do I not want that to stop? What the fuck’s wrong with me?”
