The Scars That Define Us (The Devil's Dust #2)

“Get your shit and get out,” I say, sitting up on the bed. Just seeing her makes my jaw clench.

“She the reason you can’t get it up?” she asks, her hands on her hips.

Like I said, even the sight of other women angers me. I still try to entertain the idea I want pussy but once I get them naked, I can’t stand to look at them. Knowing it’s not Dani and the fact that the only woman I want is a fucking traitor makes my stomach turn. Once I got this slut in here, I couldn’t even touch her, making me angry at myself. Dani did this to me. She broke me beyond repair. My fucking Firefly threw me into a darkness I can’t escape.

“Bitch, if you know what’s good for you, you’ll get the hell out, now.” I point at the door. “Just your presence makes me want to kill you, let alone the idea of fucking you,” I say coldly. Her mouth forms a gaping ‘O’ perfectly; I’m sure she would give amazing head. I watch her turn in anger as she slams the door behind her.

I get up, get dressed, put on yesterday’s clothes and throw on my cut. Running my hands through my hair, which is in desperate need of a trim and wash, I walk out the bedroom door. I stop and stare at the door across from me, knowing it holds Dani the remedy to my pain, but a toxin to my mind. How could she play me so well? I’ll never forget the feeling I got when her mother picked her up off the ground yelling about how she was a witness. I was told Dani was telling them everything, but I hoped it was a lie and they were just trying to get me to rat myself out. There are no words to describe it, but what boggles my mind more than anything is why did Dani come back?

***

I sit in my spot at the table and instantly smell Dani’s perfume. Her smell of peaches fills the air, making the hair on my neck stand on end. I look across the table and see Bobby staring back at me, his face in a scowl. I’m sure he’s not happy that he and Dani just walked in on what looked like me fucking around. Fuck him.

“Dani’s here,” Bull says, cutting to the chase as he lights a cigarette

“What?” Hawk’s scratchy voice asks, along with everyone else who is just as surprised.

“Yeah, apparently she was just as startled about the whole shenanigans her mother had up her sleeve as we were,” Bull informs us as he takes a drag from his cigarette.

“I think she’s a threat to the club. She needs to be taken care of,” Locks says, loathing high in his voice. Instantly, I’m reminded that Dani knows the darkness, which tempts me. If she said anything to the Feds, I will be on death row for sure.

“You know what we do with threats.” Old Guy nods in my direction, indicating they send me after threats to ensure they never have the chance to talk. I kill them and, as sadistic as it sounds, I usually enjoy it.

“Firefly is not a threat,” Bobby clips, eyeing Old Guy. What was Dani thinking coming back here? I kill threats. If this goes south, Bull could order me to kill Dani. Can I kill her?

“Regardless of her mother, Dani is not like her. She has Devil’s Dust in her. We’ve all seen it come out while she’s been here,” Bull says, catching everyone’s attention. “That fight between her mother and her that day was intense. Dani’s my blood, and she has nowhere else to go.”

I smirk at the memory. Dani just about killed her mother that day. It was great watching her come into her own; who knew a beauty such as herself could be so brutal.

Everyone goes silent as Bull looks at me. He knows the shit I have been dipping in the last couple of days. Seeing how he thinks Dani is innocent, I am no doubt on his shit list.

“Dani is not like her mother. I can tell you that,” Bobby says smiling. What does he know? Why in the hell is he protecting her so much?

“So, what do you want from us?” Hawk asks.

Bull sits, rubbing his scruffy jaw as he thinks.