Total pages in book: 62
Estimated words: 60023 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 300(@200wpm)___ 240(@250wpm)___ 200(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 60023 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 300(@200wpm)___ 240(@250wpm)___ 200(@300wpm)
Mera steps closer to me, her hand reaching for my arm. “You are not hurting her, Wolfe. She didn’t do it. She was only trying to help a little girl. Knox just said they wouldn’t have let her go. She wasn’t going to do it.”
“Step back, Mera,” Wolfe orders, his eyes firm and his voice harsh. “This is club business and you do not get to fuckin’ tell me how it works. Whether she got the chance or not ain’t the point. She was more than willin’ to sacrifice everything I love. That is enough.”
“You’re not hurting her,” she fights back, pulling me even closer.
“Step back,” Wolfe roars.
Talon steps forward, one foot in front of the other, until he stops in front of me, pressing a gun to my forehead. The tears are coming, hot and heavy, as I stare into his eyes, the hurt unlike anything I’ve ever felt. “Betray the club, you die. Those are the rules.”
His voice is empty.
Emotionless.
“Talon,” Mera whispers. “Don’t. We both know you care about her.”
“She betrayed us. She dies for that.”
“She was trying to help a child,” Mera pleads. “Wouldn’t you do the same?”
“No, I fuckin’ wouldn’t.”
His hand is shaking and my heart is lodged in my throat, a fear unlike anything I’ve ever felt washing through me. I’m crying, but no sound is coming out. I don’t move my eyes from his, and when the click of the gun alerts me to him preparing it to shoot, I know he’s going to do it.
For this club, he’ll kill me.
A pained cry leaves my throat as my body shakes with the kind of pain I have never felt in my entire life.
It’s in this moment, I realize I have fallen in love with Talon.
It’s also in this moment I realize it isn’t enough.
“Wolfe,” Mera yells. “Stop this.”
Wolfe doesn’t speak.
Nobody does.
He’s going to kill me.
I only have one option left.
“I’m pregnant,” I yell, my voice cracking.
Everything goes still.
“What did you fuckin’ say?” Talon rasps, his hand still trembling.
“I’m pregnant.”
More silence.
Talon steps back, and then he bellows a curse word so loudly it makes me flinch. He spins to Wolfe, and the two of them exchange a look that I don’t quite understand.
“Won’t take the life of a child,” Wolfe growls. “You know that, Steel.”
Talon turns back to me. “You prove it. If it’s true, you’re not goin’ anywhere until we can decide what the fuck we’re goin’ to do with you. That freedom you were willin’ to give everything up for, kiss it goodbye. You’ll never be free again. Not if I have anything to do with it.”
With that, he turns his back to me.
“She’s just a child, Talon,” I whisper, my legs giving out as I fall to my knees. “She doesn’t deserve to stay there. I had no choice.”
He doesn’t face me. “There’s always a fuckin’ choice.”
Then, he disappears into the night, leaving me on my knees in the dirt.
I’ve ruined everything.
There is no coming back from this.
12
“Here, I have it,” Mera says, walking into the room with a pregnancy test in her hands, not looking at Wolfe even once as she comes over to me.
I’m locked in a room, like a goddamn prisoner, and nobody is speaking to me. Mera is the only person who has said a single word to me since last night, and I honestly don’t know why.
I betrayed her, too.
Yet she has this kindness that I don’t understand.
Wolfe came in this morning, with Knox by his side, and demanded Mera go and fetch a pregnancy test. She did as she was asked, even if she wasn’t happy about it. Now, she has returned, the answer right there in her hands. It could change everything. If it is negative, they’re going to kill me. If it is positive, I’m never free again.
Either way, it’s not looking good for me.
I don’t think I can convince the club to just let me go, why would they? Betrayal isn’t something they take lightly.
Thinking of how I hurt Talon kills me. I want to talk to him, to try and explain, but he hasn’t been in. I don’t know if I’ll ever get the chance to talk to him again. I’ve destroyed every chance I had at being free. Not to mention the fact that I’ll probably never get Lily out now.
“Do it,” Knox growls. “Hurry up.”
Mera’s eyes flash with anger. “At least turn your backs so she can do it with a little fucking dignity.”
The men exchange a look, and then they turn, moving to the doorway, their shoulders tense but their backs to us.
“Come on, honey,” Mera says softly. “Let’s get this over with.”
She hands me a cup, and I go into the small bathroom attached to this room. At least they have given me that.
“Door stays open,” Wolfe growls.
Mera scowls, but she doesn’t argue. She hands me the test and turns her back, too. I pee into the cup, my hands shaking, my stomach twisting with dread. Then, I dip the small white stick in and wait. I watch as it absorbs the urine, slowly creeping up the stick, every millimeter making me feel even sicker.