When I hear the pain inflected roar of my brother time stands still for a moment. The flames of hell erupt from my mouth and hands as I scream out my anger and hatred of the wretched fools that decided to attack us. Blaze teleports away from me in the nick of time. My brother, father, Lucifer, and the hellhounds are the only ones immune to hells fire. I'm heade towards Gunner. Flames flowing freely from one hand as my blade swings in the other. Reaper rips and tears into anyone dumb enough to approach me. I stow my blade away and form a small ball of hellfire in my hands. Then make it grow until I feel its big enough. I send it flying in the direction of my father; in order to protect him. Lucifer's arms spread out and raise skyward. Hellfire rains from the clouds. A familiar sensation ripples down my back. Someone is watching me as I fight off another hybrid. I scan the crowd and stumble when my eyes meet the eyes of the male watching me. Chills erupt on my skin as the male stands
I groan in agony as Kieran carries my dying body back into the clubhouse. I'm laid next to my baby brother who is also dying; because I couldn't get to him fast enough. "I'm so fucking sorry." I manage to whisper in his mind. Xavier smiles as he places his hand on top of my head. My body always runs hot, but now I'm ice cold. Colder than a vampire. My eyes grow heavy. My body is lifted at the same time as Xavier's. My breathing is ragged and coming slower. It's getting harder and harder to breathe. Sunlight hits my face as the world goes black. I smell smoke and the rancid smell of burning flesh. My eyes won't open. My body hurts all over. My hound is quiet and dormant. The cold seeps into my veins. I pry my eyes open just a crack and the room is pitch black. It almost feels as though I'm back in Purgatory. Between the cold and pain; I'm too weak to fight. It's the same feeling that Remi described having. Pain shoots through my chest, shoulder and stomach as I try to move. I groan.
When I reach the sitting room the screaming and yelling is not what I expected to hear. How did us all coming together to protect Remi and the twins turn into this? What could have caused everyone to be at each other's throats? I stand just outside the room listening."You're pregnant, Remi! You shouldn't have placed yourself or the twins in harms way! Do you know how Aiden would've felt if you would've gotten hurt or killed?" My mother shouts. "Heaven forbid you had lost the twins! Do you know what that would've done to you and Aiden? Do you care how it would've affected the rest of us?" My mother rants some more. She's so angry you can hear the angry tears that females get in her voice. "I didn't forget that I'm fucking pregnant! And I didn't loose the twins! My mate was dying! My best friend was dying! Do you not give a shit that both of your sons were dying? Do you have any idea how I was feeling at being able to see it all unfold and being helpless to stop it? I did what the he
"You all look horrified and appalled. We're about to school Gunner in the Gunner's book of fairness. First lets start by stating facts. Mace is not your female. You've not sealed a mating bond with her. Secondly, you can't even be sure the child she carries is yours. Now for all the transgressions she has inflicted upon my mate. Mace helped create a poison that nearly killed Remi and the twins. Everyone believes she set Bael, her father and Remi's stalker free. The same Bael that organized the attack on the clubhouse three days ago. An attack meant to either kidnap or kill Remi and my unborn children. Has Mace been punished for any of her crimes against Remi and my unborn children?" I look around the room and eyes fall down to the floor. "Huh, I guess no one has anything to say about that. Well here's where we get to the fairness part. Since you want me to punish my pregnant mate for her crimes against Mace. I'm going to ask you how you'd have me punish her. I want you to think long
I climb in my Jeep and peel out of the drive way. I don't know where to go. I can't go home to the house Aiden and I share because they will look there first. My father's compound will be second. 318 is out of the question as well. I bang my hands against the steering wheel in my frustated state. I have no fucking where to go. Payne starts to argue. We shouldn't have left our mate. We almost lost him. We should be with him. We should've told those who thought themselves worthy of judging us to kiss our ass and go to hell.All I can do is repeat the same thing over and over. I'm not you! I drive until I find a hotel the next town over. I reach into my glove box and pull out my emergency credit card and driver's license. When I get to my room, I flop down on the bed. I'm exhausted. I go to reach for my phone, but realize in my haste to leave; I didn't grab it. Guess that's a good thing. They won't be able to track me. I head to the shower and wash the day away. I hate that I have to p
"Tell that to all the pissed off paras that sit around discussing how dispicable my actions were. Or how I shouldn't be allowed to rule along side Aiden." "Aiden, Weston, Blaze, Gunner and Skullz didn't spend all that time training you for you to be the type of female to back down from a fight. They trained you to be the type of female to fight back. And that's what you did. Blaze, Weston, and Skullz are so proud of the way you came in to help when there was no time to wait for backup. I'm proud of you. Your mother would be proud of you. We raised you to be the type of rule to fight along side your men. Not to hide behind them.""Gunner and Aiden, are not proud of me. Gunner hates me and thinks me a monster. He yelled it at me in front of everyone. Aiden, at least waited until we were behind closed doors before he climbed down my throat about it. You can shower me with all the pretty words you want, but that's all they are. Pretty words you have to tell me because you are my father.
Damn it! I should've shifted before I went in search of Remi when I woke up after the fight. Then maybe when she ran away; she wouldn't have gotten away so easily. I fucked up! Again! I own that shit! I'm still a limping dumbass when I get a call from Xavier. The loud thumping hypnotic beat of music blares through the phone. Xavier yells over the music. "Bro, she ain't here!""Check again!" I growl. I know it's not his fault. I shouldn't be upset with him. But he's here so he catches the brunt of my anger and frustration. "I've checked everywhere! Twice! I'm going to check Tianna's place. Then I'll go over to Nan's. Maybe she's got into contact with Tianna, and Tianna got her to go to one of the two places.""Thanks, Xavi!""FYI, I'm tired of fixing all your fuck ups with my girl." "She ain't yours! She's mine!" Thunder booms from my voice rattling the chandelier. "Remi, maybe your mate! But she was my girl, first!" Before I can say anything else he hangs the phone up in my fucki
Kallista screams bloody fucking murder."I don't want to be here with ungrateful and disloyal fucking paras. Take me home then!""We were never disloyal!" My mother yells at Kallista. "Oh yeah! Tell that to my neice Remi! If you ever fucking find her! Because from where she and I stand; disloyatly was a very fucking good reason for her to leave! She's used to people like the lot of you being ungrateful! It's the fact that her loyalty was being called into question! When it was your loyalty that should be questioned! Remi's loyalty to this fucking MC, her mate, and her twins is what made her join that fucking fight! Her loyalty and her love! And you all ruined it!" Kallista screams right back. I thank all that is holy Kallista is only a sixteen year old child. Had she been eighteen my mother could challenge her for her disrespect. Before I can protest. Kallista says. "I'm leaving!" Her and Blaze blink out of existence. "Great! Just fucking great! Now I have two fucking females, Bla