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He squeezes his eyes shut before taking me into his arms. I hug him tightly as he rasps, "You'll always be our family, and Flame will never give up on you or allow you to leave. Just take a few days before taking action, please, Starfish."
I nod before stepping back, and I point at him and say, "Go grovel, Leo."
He smiles and nods his head before I climb into my car and spin it around in the clubhouse car park. My tears that have welled up fall when I hear Zayne as I leave club grounds, seeing Axel andDagger holding him back, but I don't stop; I need to think away from them to figure out what's best for me and my son.
"STAR!"
Chapter 21
Flame
Two days, two fucking days, I have been stuck in this bed, laid up with my shoulder bandaged up. I've called Star several times, but she never picks up, and I'm starting to worry. I know she won't take our son from me, but the longer I'm away from her, the more her mind will come to the conclusion that we shouldn't be together. I need to get to her before that happens. Taking a deep breath, I pick up my phone. A picture of Star and our son pops up, and I smile. No one in the club except for the council brothers knows about Theo; they've all agreed to keep their mouths shut.
My mother is going to be pissed.
I get Star's number up, pressing call, and her voicemail hits after it rings several times. I sigh. "Hey, this is Star; I can't get to the phone right now, probably hanging with Flame, but leave me a message and I'll get back to you."
I wait for the beep. "One truth, baby; the love heart you drew on your workbook when you were eighteen, I had Ink tattoo it on my ring finger, not sure how you haven't noticed it yet.
I miss you, Firefly, and I miss our son. Please call me back, please.
I love you."
Sighing again, I shake my head as I hang up. I can't do this anymore; I need to see her, and I need to see her now. I gingerly climb out of my bed at the clubhouse and slowly put my t-shirt on after removing the sling and then my cut before putting some joggers on. I slide my feet into my biker boots, grunting in pain but ignoring it, heading to the door, ensuring my sling is back on, knowing Doc will be pissed otherwise.
I lock my door before slowly making my way to the common room, my fucking body aching. It seems to be full when I enter the room, and I notice Slicer with Meg, and we make eye contact. I nod my head to the door, and he smiles, nodding his head back, knowing what I want before getting up, kissing Meg on the lips as their daughter grins at them. Fuck, I want that with my Star, but the question is, will she be willing to try because I know there's a lot for her to try and forgive!
I make my way over to the door where Slicer is waiting when I hear my mother's voice say, "And where do you think you're going?" Everyone quietens down, and I sigh before turning and raising a brow at her, but she shakes her head and says, "No, I'm sorry, son. As much as I love Star, she's shown her true colors leaving after you got back; it's bad enough she left for so long with no explanation, leaving her family; her mother worried sick but you were shot; her father was found; and she doesn't stick around; no, just no."
I shake my head at my mother. I know she's upset, but she's out of order. I go to open my mouth when Bones growls out, "What is that supposed to mean exactly, Ella?" making my father stand up and put his hands up, backing a still weak Bones because he knows the truth: "Alright enough. Ella, sit down and leave our son alone!" My mother narrows her eyes, and I sigh. Here we go. "Are you seriously going to stand in between us instead of standing up for your son? She left him Theo, left him. She comesback, bringing his bike, then fucks off again without a word and not one to her mother, not even an apology. Her father was found alive, and she left him, leaving our injured son. NO." She shouts the last bit, and I grind my teeth, trying not to snap at my own mother.
I see Emma in the corner of my eyes grinning while Shayla nods her head in agreement with my mother, and my anger takes hold. Slicer grips my arm and says, "Think about it before you explode, brother; this is her story to tell."
I nod. "I am thinking about it, but I'm fucking fed up with people thinking Star is some spoilt selfish bitch who abandoned her family when in reality we all abandoned her, and it's not just her story; it's mine too. I won't mention Theo or what her family did, but everything else is coming out on the table." He nods and makes a loud whistle, gaining everyone's attention. I make eye contact with Axel, who nods his head, anger in his eyes, before I clear my throat, making eye contact with my mother.
"I have a story to tell you all, and it's not fucking pretty. It's ugly, and it's painful. Do you want to hear it?"
Everyone keeps their attention on me while my mother narrows her eyes, and I nod, fucking hating that I have to do this to Star. I swallow hard as Slicer grips my good shoulder in support.
"Eleven years ago, Hairy was the one who ran Bones and Star off the road." The brothers all stand up in anger as Meghan and Lilah make their way over to Slicer, standing by him and by me in support. "We know this because Star got a good look at him when he tried shooting at them. " Bones growls, "Star was adamant Bones was still alive; he told us all that he screamed for her."
Bones cuts in, "I fucking did; the bastard was dragging my nearly unconscious, injured ten-year-olddaughter away from the crash site before I attacked him, and before I knew it, I was knocked out."
I nod my head while Shayla gasps. I ignore her and continue, "For the past eleven years, with the knowledge both myself and my dad taught her, Star has been hacking every system going, trying to find her father. She became good at it, so good that she had managed to find the footage that was lost, which showed Hairy's attack, and it showed Bones very much alive when a van picked them both up; Killer, Hairy's cousin, who I had killed for selling laced cocaine at Untamed Girls, was driving it."
Everyone's mouth hung open, "she never gave up. She watched Hairy for years, his every movement, and a year ago when he fucked up, he moved a withered-away-looking Bones from a location in DC to Illinois. He was holding him up in an abandoned house one street away from where Star had decided to take up residence. She spent her whole time there watching Hairy for any movement of her father, and then two weeks ago she finally got a hit and confirmed Bones was there. Hairy fucked up, and a street camera had shown Bones being dragged down into a basement where he hadn't covered the window, which is where we came in. After I discovered Star had indeed shown up for Dagger's wedding, I managed to follow her all the way back to her apartment, a fourteen-fucking-hour drive. I spent two months trying to convince her to come home, but she refused until, finally, she told me everything after I drugged her and tried basically kidnapping her. It was the same day she was going to tell me and ask me for help to get her dad back. I called Axel, and he, along with the council brothers, then went to Illinois with Snake, and we captured Hairy while also rescuing Bones, all thanks to Star."
Some brothers stand in shock while I look at Bones. Star said it took a while, but she'd finally found out the reason why youwere targeted by Hairy. To begin with, she finally managed to decode Hairy's mother's diary. She was insane, but it was never clinically discovered. She was obsessed with the then president, but he was and still is to this day very much in love with his old lady. Hairy's mom wasn't happy about that, so she drugged him, knowing he wouldn't go to her willingly, slipped too much GBH into his drink, and gently guided him into his room at their clubhouse, where she proceeded to rape the then passed-out Pres." The women's mouths dropped open in shock. "She used too much; he never recalled what happened; she wrote how hurt she felt when he couldn't even get it up but still thought she could be pregnant despite him not ejaculating; she was that insane."
I shake my head.
"She bought a pregnancy test, but Hairy's father was infertile; he couldn't have any more kids, and he realized she'd been cheating when he found the tests, and at the time when it all came about, Bones was there doing business for the club with Snakes, so she decided to lay claim she was fucking Bones because she thought the man she saw as her 'lover' would be killed. Hairy’s father didn't believe her."
Shayla butts in, "Because he loves me more than life itself."
I nod as Bones tilts his head at her. "Yep, but Hairy didn't see it that way, and when his father killed his mother a few days later, after it was confirmed she was not pregnant, he blamed Bones; he blamed this club; he fell for his mother's lies, and he attacked. Since that day, he's been trying to create a war between the clubs to bring ours down."
I squeeze my eyes shut, not wanting to tell this part, but I know I need to: "Last year, Hairy, fuck, Hairy anally raped Star behind Untamed Fire." The men all look at me in shock as Shayla cries out while the women start to sob,shaking their heads in denial, but I carry on, "He didn't seek her out because of who she was; that was just a coincidence; he did it because she's my girl; he wanted revenge for his cousin Killer, who I'd burned alive for trying to kill our women at the club. Star was the collateral, but as soon as he realized who she was and who her father was, he became obsessed with her, not realizing she knew he was watching her, making it easier for her to follow him and finally find Bones."
