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When we get to the clubhouse, I ignore everyone while Dagger looks at me with confusion, leading my girl to our room. Yes, our room; she'll come round. I sit her on the bed before I run her a bubble bath, lighting the candles that are spread around the black tub before going back into the bedroom. I take her hand, lead her into the bathroom, and sit her on the counter before getting the disinfection wipes.
I slowly and gently dab it on her lip, making her wince, before I place a kiss on her nose and then one on her forehead.
"Climb in, Angel, and relax. I'll be back soon, and all your demons will be gone."
A tear falls from her eye, and I quickly kiss it away and push my luck just a little by kissing her lips gently.
I help her down before leaving the bathroom and then the bedroom, heading towards the common room. All the brothers are here waiting with furrowed brows, but I ignore them, making eye contact with Axel. He sees my anger and nods, knowing it's about Leah, before leading us down to the basement with me right behind us and the brothers following like sheep who are about to get fucking burned.
They heard Doc, they heard me, they heard the truth yet they still fucking question her because of a brother's word, a traitor fucking word.
This is why she’s fucking shut down, why I can’t get an edge weigh in with her.
When we get into the basement, the brothers frown when they see Adam, while the council brothers sneer and glare at him, and he swallows hard.
"Look, Gunner, please. She was eating my food, living in my home rent-free. I needed the money, and her virginity sold for the highest price with Razor. I knew she'd be safe with him. He's a brother."
The brothers are all tense with realization while I get in his face and sneer, "He shoved a fucking razor inside her, cut her up, and you did get fucking money for her, you dipshit. What you think we're dumb that we don't know that the state gives foster parents monthly checks?"
He starts to sweat, and I turn to my so-called fucking brothers, and boom,
"IT'S COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT MY BROTHERS, MY FUCKING FAMILY STILL HAVE CARL'S, A FUCKING TRAITOR TO THIS CLUB'S WORDS STUCK IN THEIRHEAD. LEAH DID FUCK ALL WRONG EXCEPT BE PLACED WITH THE WRONG KIND OF FAMILY AS A CHILD. YOU ARE ALL STILL JUDGING HER, MAKING HER FEEL UNWANTED. A FUCKING WOMAN WHO WAS ASSUALTED AND THREATENED BY A SO-CALLED FUCKING BROTHER."
Doc's face goes red with anger while Axel comes forward and faces the brothers, with the council brothers at his back, all scowling. The other brothers look down with guilt, and I grind my teeth while Axel speaks up: "She was proven innocent; us council brothers were shown proof, and the only reason why that hasn't been shown to you all is because that's unfair to Leah and humiliating for her. We all failed her. She was assaulted on our property by one of us, then threatened to stay because of greed and jealousy. SHE WON'T EVEN FUCKING TALK TO ANY OF US, INCLUDING HER BEST FUCKING FRIEND."
The brothers look up in shock; they all know how close Soph and Leah are, and Ink clears his throat.
"Soph hasn't noticed yet, but Clitter has basically unintentionally gotten between them, and Leah has let it happen because, well because we're Sophie's family now."
Doc scowls. "Leah is her family too, and mine."
I nod. "She is your family, Doc, but that's how far it goes for Leah. In her mind, she doesn't want Sophie to have to choose if it comes down to it, despite growing up together." The brothers all curse: "Star has been in contact with Leah; she has spoken to her every day for the last two weeks. I may have overheard some conversations; it's how I know the reason Leah has pulled away. She's going to run, brothers. I'm going to lose the woman I love, the woman who won't let me try to make things right between us and grovel because of you and the women in this club."
The men curse again when Jizz steps forward, and he clears his throat. "It's not that we don't believe the trauma she wentthrough or that we still believe the shit Carl had said; it's the fact she's pregnant with supposedly your child. The women have been talking." My anger intensifies, and Trigger steps forward to finish for Jizz before I get my gun out on him. "The women think she trapped you for your patch."
I let out a dark chuckle, ignoring the idiot chained up as he watches us: "The woman whose medical records us council brothers have seen picture after picture of her trauma, notes after notes of confirmation that there is a slim chance of her falling pregnant." The man's eyes widen. "I wasn't saying that shit to Carl for shits and giggles, brothers; I was saying it because it's the truth. If my woman doesn't lose the baby beforehand, there is a high chance she could; if she goes into labor naturally, there's an 8% survival rate for both her and the baby; if she has a cesarean, there's a 50% chance. She didn't plan this pregnancy because, believe it or not, we used a fucking condom, and I know I'm the fucking father because, inside her notes, there are pages and pages of her absolute terror of penetration."
The brothers all swallow, and I lose my fucking rag with them.
"SHE WAS FUCKING SAVING HERSELF FOR MARRIAGE!"
Doc steps forward, anger shining through his eyes. "Which women in the club started spreading shit? I want names, and I fucking want them now."
Jizz and Trigger swallow, and we know instantly that Trigger's old lady Lily is one of them, which isn't surprising before he clears his throat. "My old lady, as well as half the women in the club," he says as he looks at me. "I'm sorry, Gunner, Carl; he was liked by most women; they're finding it hard to comprehend him doing those things."
Axel grabs him by the throat and sneers at him, "I don't give a fuck if they thought he was a god; I am your president; I told youwhat we saw; you should have fucking listened and shut that shit down or come straight to me."
Trigger nods guilt, shining through his eyes as Axel shoves him back before Doc flies out of the room, causing the brother's eyes to widen considering he's the most level-headed brother, while Hawk mutters 'fuck' following him with me, Axel, and Dagger on their heels. The rest of the men stay in the basement, guilt etching over their features. As we get to the common room, it's chaos. Ava is trying to attack a crying Lily who keeps apologizing; Carl was her cousin, so of course the rumor came from her.
I shake my head and walk over to her with Axel, who tilts his head at her.
“H-he was my cousin; I didn’t want to-to think."
I finish her, "He was capable of destroying a woman from the inside out because that's what he did. We've seen the pictures, Lily, the proof; he admitted to it right here in front of everyone."
She sniffles as Axel speaks up while Trigger, who has now joined us, stands back a little.
"You are banned from the clubhouse and all club activities effectively immediately for two months, and you owe Leah one hell of an apology. That woman has been through enough over the last five years from you lot," he says, looking at all the women who sniffle. While Cammy tries to keep a hold of an enraged Ava, he looks back at Lily and says, "You were the worst, Lily, all because he was your cousin." She looks down. "Your Triggers, old lady, and your family, but Leah's family too, had been before you and Trigger became a couple. We brothers just made a huge mistake, but what you did was purposely put her down day after day, you made her feel unwanted and unsafe because of who your cousin was alone, and you prayed on her. We all saw it, but now things stop."
