“New trouble or old?” He asked.
“Possibly both.” I answered as honestly as I could.
He grunted, “Is your identity burned?”
Trevor’s attention was jumping between us.
“I think so…”
“You think or you know?” His voice was gruffer than I remembered, rougher with age.
I closed my eyes for a moment, thinking about everything Angelsaid… assessing how much Cypher could have found. Thinking about the things Razor had taunted me with.
Opening my eyes I took a deep breath, “I know.”
Marvin clicked his tongue in disapproval, a sound I knew too well. Then he kicked out the chair beside him and nodded to it.
“Sit, eat… and then you are going to tell us what we need to know to fix this.”
Trevor waited till I was seated before he let out a ragged breath and then turned, moving through the kitchen grabbing a few items from the stove. I let my eyes wander and noticed a slight imbalance to his gate.
Marvin must have noticed where my attention was because he grunted and shook his head, “Boy got himself blown up and medically discharged. That’s why he’s home.”
Trevor froze for a moment, his body tense over the stove. I knew enough not to push for more in front of Marvin. So I tucked that information away for later and sat at the table from the few years of my childhood that I ever felt like I had a semblance of a home.
Conversation moved back to the gym, Trevor told me they had opened it up and expanded it since he’d been home. It was now a full boxing gym and training centre.
I gave them the important information, leaving out the drama as Marv would call it, really he wanted the emotions left out and to stick to the facts. A lesson that made me really good at my job…
My job. Something that I was just coming to terms with that I may have also lost, something else I may have to leave behind. I had called and asked for an indefinite leave of absence citing a family emergency… but if Rebecca Pierce was no more…
I pushed the thought down and let myself settle into the rhythm of my past. I would need to figure out what came next,whoI became next. But that could wait for tomorrow.
CHAPTER 28
CLUTCH - THAT LOOK
I wouldn't let anyone touch the room after I trashed it. I sat on the floor with my brothers until one by one we got up and left the destruction behind us. I had gone back in to grab my things, but the door remained open, the room destroyed as a visual reminder of what we had done, what this club had become.
No one asked questions, they didn’t need to. A strange sort of silence had fallen over the clubhouse, it was like something had died and we didn’t know how to come back from it.
Two more weeks had passed with several so called sightings of either Razor or Bex, but none had panned out until we had finally gotten a lead that Razor had been seen leaving Mara’s doctors office late one night and Cypher was able to verify it by hacking into a traffic camera across the street. Mara had been concerned that the doctor could be in danger if Razor went back looking for information on her or the baby.
So here we were approaching them with offers of security, until the threat had passed. Mara’s doctor, an older man with a clean cut salt and pepper beard and hair that matched, hesitated at first until his son had stepped out onto their front porch, scanned us all with a scowl on his face and then stopped when his eyes landed on Mara, a punch drunk look blanketed his face as he stopped mid sentence staring at her. Angel glared, his dad chuckled taking in the scene and Mara didn’t seem to notice until her doctor elbowed his son saying “You’d think because he was a doctor that would make him people smart.”
Mara, seemingly noticing the newcomer, snapped her eyes to his and a blush I had never seen on the club princess blanketed across her cheeks as she smiled softly at him.
Angel pulled her closer to his side and growled out, “Do you want our protection or not?”
This was now Mara’s turn to elbow him in the stomach. I heard a chuckle from Torch, who was standing guard by his bike, with a grumpy and silent Axel beside him.
Instead of learning from my mistakes, at least two of my brothers had decided to follow right behind me and were currently suffering the consequences. It was like we couldn’t help but fuck up, say the wrong things… Side with the wrong people.
“I am so sorry Dr Hart, I dragged you into this without thinking about how this could impact you or your family.” Mara stepped forward and sighed looking off in the distance before focusing back on her doctor. “Enough people have been hurt because of me…”
I flinched at her words knowing exactly who she was talking about. I felt Angel’s eyes land on me but we had barely spoken in the last month, not sure what was left to say.
“...and I would hate for anything to happen to you or your family because you just so happened to be my doctor.”