I stomp out of the meeting without another fucking word. Son of a bitch wouldn’t listen anyways. He’d be singing a different tune if it was Nicole out there missing. I’ve been messing around with Dani for a month now. I thought it was just sex. Hell, that’s all I’ve ever wanted from a woman. I don’t think I’m built for more—or at least I wasn’t.
Then the damn woman turned shit on me. She got jealous of a fucking night I had before her and I even hooked up. Freak’s woman Nikki had never had a threesome and wanted to. Brother trusted me to show his woman a good time—and it fucking was a good time. Still, it wasn’t something I was looking to repeat. Dani flipped her fucking lid. Sure, she thought it was something more recent, but still. If I live to be a hundred I don’t think I will ever figure that damned woman out.
Maybe that’s what keeps me interested. I don’t know. All I know, is that she is different from any woman I’ve been with. Dani has so many layers, I’m not sure I’ll ever reach the center. The only thing I am certain of is that trying will be a hell of a ride.
The last few days have been special. Something happened when she thought I had screwed another woman while visiting her bed. I don’t know what exactly, I just know it caused her to reveal a little more of herself to me and in doing that I saw this vulnerable side I never knew existed with Dani. She let me in…not a lot, but enough that she spoke vaguely of her past and her fears.
I need to keep her safe. She might not have told me the story, but I saw the desperation in her eyes when she thought of it. I heard the fear in her voice and the hopelessness that was inside of her. I’m not in love; I don’t do that shit. I will never be the type to be owned by a woman like Dragon, or Dance for that matter. But, I wasn’t lying when I told Dragon she’s mine. I’ve claimed her and I will protect her.
So even though it’s against Dragon’s orders, and everything I should do as a member of the club, I’m getting the ATV out of the shelter and driving up to the cabin. I’m going to interrogate the bastard and I will find out where the fuck this Michael is before he can hurt Dani.
*
“Hey Crush, Drag and the boys didn’t say anyone was coming back tonight,” Frog says as he unlocks the shed door after I knock.
“Drag’s stressed man, he probably forgot. He tell you about plans for the piss-ant we’re holding?”
“Yeah dude, I was just about to go in there and let him go.”
“I’ll do it, I’m supposed to relieve you anyways. I got to play shadow and see where the fuck the dude heads out to.”
“Sounds like a fun job—not.”
“Pretty much, but one of the sorry-ass perks of being the club VP.”
“I hear ya’. I guess I’m out of here then. Call me when you need relief.”
“Will do,” I say and barely keep from screaming get the fuck out. Frog pisses in the wind for another ten minutes or so and finally leaves.
I lock the door and go into the back area where the dipshit is chained up. There’s no coming back from what I’m about to do. I know it, but I’m still going to do it. Am I doing it for Dani? Yeah, she’s a big reason but not all of it. Dani screams of fear, she screams of being trapped. She screams with the same scent and brokenness as another woman in my life. A woman I lost long ago. A woman I wasn’t able to help and that won’t be the case this time.
He looks up at me when I walk in. You can tell Dragon has worked him over pretty good; he’s stripped naked and chained from the ceiling, hanging like a slab of meat. Still, the fucker is barely bleeding. That’s not good enough. It also proves to me that Dragon didn’t try hard enough to find out the needed information. If Nicole was the one in danger the bastard would be missing body parts, or at the very least he wouldn’t be able to look at me from two good eyes. To me that is just further proof I have to do this. Dragon is blinded by his need to keep things calm because of Nicole being pregnant.
“Alright fucker, time for round two.”
“I told your buddies the last time, I don’t know anything.”
“Yeah, well, I don’t believe you.”
“Man, you can knock me around for another day, but it’s the truth. I don’t have anything else to tell you.”
“We’ll see, there is one thing that you don’t understand.”
“What’s that?”
“The last time, I wasn’t the one asking the questions.”
“What difference does that make?”
“I’m not going to be as nice.”
“Man, you don’t have to do this! I’m telling you…”
“Yeah, you aren’t telling me nothing yet fucker, but you will. You will.”
I drag a chair over in front of him. I straddle it and lean over the back.
“Looks like my brother worked you over pretty good, too bad you didn’t give him the right answers.”