“It was Prospect,” Cub rasps. He meets my eyes, remembering our conversation about who might have tipped them off about my custody hearing for Mila. We never once suspected him.
Prospect takes a step toward my woman, and I want to put my fist through the television.
“What are you here to do, Serenity?”he asks.
“I’m here to give you your reward for a job … well … done,”she says, tipping her head side to side at each word.
God, she’s sexy when she’s being a sass, but then my brain registers her words and my blood begins to boil. I’m just now understanding that the Scorpions were going to gift her to him for spying on us. What makes it more disgusting is that the Scorpions included her brother.
“Your brother told me I’d be yours. He liked it when I cried. Do you? Would it help if I turned on the tears?”she asks.
Carver’s hand shoots out to place it on my chest, preventing me from hitting something.
“Did he touch you?”Prospect asks the question I also want to know.
“Oh, did he touch what was yours? I bet he did that a lot when you were kids, huh?”She takes a step back as he takes one forward.“I just have one question. Where were you going to keep me? Locked in the basement? Or maybe a box under your bed? Because I never would have gone with you willingly.”
The way he stops and smiles at her has me clenching my fists at my sides.
“I’m not going to keep you at all,”he taunts.
Serenity visibly swallows, and fear flashes across her face.
“I’m going to fuck you.”He inches forward.“Fuck you again, and again, and again, and then I’m going to sell you to the highest bidder.”
My brothers all slowly stand, because they think we are about to ride out and kill him. They don’t know she’s already done that for us.
When he lunges for her, I grab my head. Fuck, I don’t want to watch, but I remind myself that she is in my bedroom. I just heard her tiptoe from the bathroom a few minutes ago.
She swings the bat. He expects her to aim high, but she takes his legs out from under him.
Every man in the room cheers.
“Fuck yeah,” Carver says quietly beside me.
She goes for his head next.
Again
And again.
And again.
“Cry all you want, but stop the fucking screaming. No one’s coming to save you!”she yells in her rage.
And that statement breaks my fucking heart right down the middle, because I know someone said it to her, and it was most likely Prospect’s brother.
“Who is his brother?” I ask Wizzard, barely controlling my anger.
Wizzard sighs. “It looks like he was the Scorpion’s VP … they had different last names.”
Meaning we missed it in our vetting. We missed Serenity’s brother too.
Serenity peels out of her gear, kicks her shoes off by the door, and then walks out. That is where the footage ends.
“I don’t understand. Wolfe went over there looking for Prospect because he was supposed to help at the Trough tonight. He checked all the fucking rooms. Especially when he found the flash drive and quilt on the counter,” Cub explains.
“I’m looking through the footage from the Cage as we speak,” Wizzard chimes in.