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“Mum killed Nate,” says Luna, and we both share a surprised look. “And she’s threatened to tell the police it was me if I don’t help her.”
I glare at Luna’s mum, who doesn’t look the slightest bit embarrassed by any of it. “You’re a piece of work,” I mutter in disgust.
She grins. “Take a good look, lover boy, because in a few years’ time, she’ll be exactly like me. Like mother, like daughter.”
“Where is he?” asks Axel.
Luna points to another door, and Axel goes to check it out. “Jesus,” he mutters as the stench of death fills the living room. “How long’s he been here?”
“A couple days,” says Luna. “She’s had the heat on, which is fucking amazing seeing as she never usually puts it on.”
“Go back to the club. Scooter is waiting in the car park for you,” I tell Luna. “We’ll talk when I get back.”
“What about me?” her mum asks.
“You can rot in hell,” snaps Luna. “From this day on, you’re dead to me.” And then she leaves.
“Ungrateful bitch,” her mum mutters.
I go into the bedroom where Axel is wrapping the body in the blood-soaked sheet. “What do we do about the witch?” I ask.
Axel sighs. “She can’t live. She’s the type to put this on us, or worse, on Luna. I’ll send someone to sort it later. I’m thinking a cigarette in bed to start a fire. That way, we’ll burn this mattress and it’ll look like an accident.”
“I’ll do it,” I say. “Clean up won’t come to fetch Nate until dark. I’ll stick around till then and slip something in her drink to make her sleep.”
Axel grabs a pot of pills from the bedside table and shakes them. “Sleeping pills prescribed in her name.”
I take them and stuff the bottle in my pocket. “It’s just one thing after another with her,” I mutter, and I feel his eyes on me. “Luna,” I add for clarification.
“At this point, you may as well marry her,” he says, smirking. I narrow my eyes, and his smile fades. “You’ve already done more than any brother has for a club girl. It screams love.”
“In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve not had much choice in any of this. And now, she’s the mother of my kid. I can’t see her going to prison, can I? Especially for something she didn’t even do.”
“What do you think she wanted the money from Reaper for?” he asks.
I shrug. “But if it’s anything else that’s gonna lead to trouble, she’s gone.”
“Gone?”
I give a nod. “When a club whore asks for cash and goes to the trouble of approaching another club, it’s got to be drugs or something else illegal. No whore ever did good with that amount of cash.”
“Whore,” he repeats, arching a brow. “Interesting choice of words.”
“It’s what she is, no?”
He gives a small, unamused laugh. “I think you’re doing it to push her away, to distance how you really feel about her. It’s easier to refer to her as something you hate, then maybe you’ll believe it.”
I roll my eyes. “Next, you’ll be telling me she’s a changed woman.”
“Even I can see she’s trying, brother. She wants to be better than this,” he mutters, looking around the messy bedroom. “And she wants to be a good mum.”
“And if she gives me the right answers, she might just get the chance to,” I say, winking before leaving the room.
There’s an uncomfortable silence that stretches between me and Luna’s mum. I don’t have the energy to entertain this fucked-up bitch. She’s smoked at least ten cigarettes, one after another, and every time I catch her eye, she looks away quickly, like she might die from making contact.
I sigh heavily and light my own cigarette. “So, what happened?” I ask, nodding at the closed bedroom door.
“I know you judge me,” she spits, “but it’s not easy, yah know, bringing up two kids on my own with no fucking money.”
