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I wait for however long it takes for her to calm down as I press my nose onto the top of her head,smelling her vanilla scent and noticing the faint smell of paint missing, making me furrow my brows as I gently run my fingers through her hair.
"Firefly? Why don't you smell like your paint?" I ask once she’s calmed down fully, and she tenses, making me tense. "I haven’t painted since I left."
I sigh and shake my head before leaning back, cupping her wet cheeks. "Then that needs to change. Painting is your life, baby."
She sighs, "You're not forgiven, Flame!" I narrow my eyes at her use of my road name, and she just smirks at the little minx and says, "You fucked up big time. You have eleven years to make up for, plus nine months of pregnancy that I had to go through on my own as well as having our son on my own. You had no right to take my choices away from me like that. I'm not some damsel in distress; I have my own mind, and I wanted you, and you blew it big time."
I nod because she's right. I went to the hospital where she gave birth, and she had no birthing partner. She gave birth to our son all on her own, but the way she's talking, it's like we won't end up together, and she's fucking wrong. "I'm not giving up on us, Star. You will be my old lady; you will be my wife, and you will have more of my children."
She shakes her head. "I wouldn't expect you to, Zayne, but don't think I'm going to make this easy for you. It's like I told Leah, You are the love of my life, but right now, I hate you, and I don't think I'll ever be able to forget what you put me through.
What I went through because of you and the club, I may be able to forgive at some point, but never forget."
I nod because she's right, and I also know she's only standing here because of the love she feels for me—love she wishes she didn't feel.
"I'll fight, baby, because I'm not living without you again."
She sighs and says, "Let's turn the car around," before heading to the driver's side, and I growl, grabbing her hand and pulling her to me, "What part of I'm not letting you go again did you not realize, Star, it's time to go fucking home where I can chain you to my fucking bed until you forgive me?"
She tilts her head and raises her brow at me, and I curse. I wasn't supposed to say all of that out loud.
"Call Axel."
I looked at her in confusion, scrunching my brows up because I was certain I was going to have to hide my junk from her again. She nods to my cut pocket, where my phone is, and sighs, doing as she asked for a reason I don't even know why. I'm fucking whipped where she's concerned. I bring up Axel's number before pressing the call button and putting it on speaker. He answers on the fourth ring, putting himself in a really big fucking hole.
"Flame, Slicer tells me you've drugged and kidnapped Starfish. It’s about time, brother; waiting two months was ridiculous; you should have done it straight away."
I wince while Star crosses her arms over her chest. "You're a jackass, Logan!"
I snort at her using his legal name while Axel curses, "Fuck sake, Flame, you could have given me a heads up that I was on speaker; she has a mean fucking right hook!"
I chuckle. "Sorry, Pres." He growls while Star smiles a little. "Star asked me to call you. I'm trying to convince her to get her ass back in the car so we can go home, but she wants to go back to Illinois. She told me to call you for a reason I don't even fucking know, and I..."
Star butts in, "Axel, I need you to go into my dad's room."
I look at her in shock because no one is allowed in there except for her. I mean, fuck, she banned her sister from stepping a foot near the fucking door, and well, I can understand why now because her sister is a fucking bitch who only looks out for herself, but still.
Axel clears his throat, "Star I don't think…"Star butts in again: "I need you to go into my dad's room and turn on my computer; I'll instruct you from there; maybe grab Dagger on your way, but don't tell anyone else what you're doing or why; you have a traitor in your club."
I stand up straight and ask, "What the fuck are you talking about, Firefly?"
She gives me a small smile as rustling can be heard over the phone. "Dagger with me," Axel says, while Star ignores my question but doesn't break eye contact until our boy makes a noise. She quickly checks on him, and I smile. Fuck, she's a good mother, the fucking best, and I'm one lucky fucker to have her as our son's mother.
Now to try and put another one in her. I smile, a plan forming, making her narrow her eyes at me, and I clear my throat as Axel speaks up.
"Alright, Starfish, we're both here; no one knows where we've gone, and the computer is on now. Please explain how you know we have a fucking traitor in our club."
She takes a deep breath, ignoring his question: "On the desktop, you'll find a folder called Hairy." My eyes widen while Dagger clears his throat. "Uh, Star, I thought it was over a year ago he did what he did?"
"It was," is all she says when Axel clears his throat, "then why are there files dating back eleven years?"
She doesn't break eye contact with me as she shocks all three of us with her next words: "Because Hairy is the one who shot at me and my dad when he was only seventeen; he's the one who ran us off the road; he's also the one who dragged me a mile away from the crash site, attempting to kidnap me."
My breathing picks up while Axel mutters, "What the fuck?"
She clears her throat: "When I flew off the bike and hit my head, when I was blacking out, I was telling the truth about hearing Daddy scream my name. When Hairy dragged my unconscious body, attempting to take me, my father, who he thought was dead, attacked him. My eyes widened some more. "You'll find the footage in the first folder. It was hard to get it back, but I did thanks to the skills Tank and you, Zayne, had taught me.
Hairy took my father, who is still very much alive, into an abandoned house in Illinois and held him hostage. I have all the footage as proof in those folders; that's why I chose Illinois. I'm not in art school or anything like that; I work at a crappy café all while watching him fully aware that he's become obsessed with me since he raped me because of who he has in his basement."
