Chapter 22

Chapter Twenty-Two

Vox

Tears cascade down her cheeks as she stares up at me with an empty look in her eyes. The fact she figured it out has me respecting her a little but it changes nothing now that she knows the truth.

“Was this all a game?” she screams. My hold on her loosens slightly, she turns to Ezekiel and wills him without words to remove his mask. The instant he does she shakes her head. “I guess those two are Hayze and Archer?” I look over my shoulder to see both of them staring at her but neither of them remove the masks to confirm her suspicion.

“Where is the proof?” Ez grits out.

She snaps her gaze back to him, fire swirls in her eyes as she glares at my best friend. “Fuck you.”

Ez smiles cruelly. “He already fucked you enough for the four of us.” She sucks in a ragged breath at his words, I hear Arch and Hayze snickering behind us but they don’t comment. “Answer my question, Nova, I’m not fucking with you,” he roars, she doesn’t cower instead she just turns emotionless and voids her face of every emotion.

“What are you going to do, kill me?” She flicks her gaze to me as she says, “Fuck me until I plead for you to stop? Get me on my knees in front of your friends so they can watch me suck your cock just the way you like?” My nostrils flare as I grind my teeth. “You wanted me here to ask this fucking stupid favor, why? Was this the whole reason, so you could laugh in my face as I admitted I needed help? Was it all a fucking game to you?” she screams right in my face then shoves me back. I release her and allow her to shoulder past me as she makes her way toward her friend. “Get the fuck off him now!” The guys look at me and I nod. Both of them climb to their feet and step back, allowing her to kneel down beside Waylen. She strokes his cheek tenderly. “I’m so sorry I got you involved in this,” she whispers.

When she tries to pull him up, he begins to stir. I turn to Ezekiel, waiting to see what the fuck we are going to do next now that she knows who the fuck we are. Just as the fucker starts opening his eyes both of us place our masks back on, her knowing is one thing but having two witnesses is another thing. Getting rid of one body is easy but when two people go missing that is harder to explain.

“Nova?” he groans out as he sits up. She throws her arms around him and holds him close. The sight has me wanting to knock his fucking teeth down his throat but I refrain.

“Come on, let’s get out of here,” she says as she helps him to his feet. Before they take a single step I motion for Hayze and Archer to block them. Nova spins around and glares at me. “Enough! You are going to let us go, right now.”

“No!” Ez grits out, and before she can announce who the fuck we are, I step in.

“Send the punk to the car.” Her eyes widen.

“I’m not leaving her!” the fucker snaps.

“Want to get knocked out again?” Archer counters. Nova darts her gaze between the four of us and knows she is out matched. When her shoulders sag, I know we have her.

“Way, I’ll be right behind you?—”

“No, Nova. I’m not leaving you,” he rebukes.

“Please, trust me they won’t do shit. Just go to the car and I’ll be there in a minute.” He looks down at her, I can see he wants to argue so I add.

“You don’t fuck off right now, I’m taking her with us.” Her jaw unhinges but she says nothing. It takes her another minute to get rid of him but the moment the weak bitch is gone, I pounce on her getting right in her face. “How the fuck did you know it was us?”

“ Us or You ?” she counters.

“Same difference,” I snarl.

“The prom photos, you held me that same way the other night. You called me witch and that was my first clue but tonight, that’s what sealed the deal.”

“How?” I snap.

She reaches out and grips my hands, lifting them between us. “The lion and the lamb gave you away, dick bag.” I look down and that’s when I realize my error.

I’m not wearing gloves.

“You knowing changes nothing, you asked the favor and owe us a debt, Nova Quinlin. If you think the shit we did before was bad, you just wait until you see what we have in store for you next.”

She drops her hold on my hands and turns to face Ez. “You threatening to kill me, Ezekiel?” He steps forward until his chest brushes against her, forcing her to crane her head back to meet his gaze.

“You knew the rules?—”

“The Filthy Few is nothing but a pack of bored boys playing a man’s game.” Ez snaps his hand out and grips the back of her neck, forcing her onto her tiptoes then bends down getting in her face but she turns at the last minute, her eyes collide with mine and I see nothing but loathing and hatred.

“Your favor will be granted and we will collect our debt. I want that evidence you have on the murders. Hand it over and we’ll take that cunt and his son down for good. And maybe, if you’re a good girl, we’ll even help you get your mommy back.” He releases her with a hard shove. She stumbles back into Archer, who grips her waist on instinct to steady her. I force myself to remain where I am and not intervene.

She tears out of Arch’s hold and steps back, putting space between her and us. She looks between my three boys but ignores me completely. “Fuck you all, I’ll deal with this shit myself and find my mom without your fucking help, you assholes.” She spins on her heel and storms off as we stand here watching her run to her car. I don’t move until her car is out of sight as she speeds away. When I turn back to my boys I’m met with a jab to the gut. I cough and hunch forward.

“The fuck, Hayze?” I snap through the pain.

“You were fucking her the whole time?” he roars.

I straighten and look at the three of them. “Yes.”

“You stupid fuck! Thanks to you she knows who we are!” Archer snarls as he yanks his mask off, the rest of us follow his lead.

“She won’t say anything.”

“How the fuck can you know that shit, Vox? If she blabs her mouth, then people are going to start piecing together that we were behind the disappearances of the other members.” I shake my head, this wasn’t our first favor. We have forced members' children and friends to ask a favor, in return we have eliminated those members and disposed of the person, making sure none of it could be traced back to us. We are no saints, but we needed intel and the only way to get that shit was to torture some of them.

None of them gave up what we needed.

“She won’t because she would have to admit to liking me , she told me more than once she was seeing someone only for it to be me she was fucking. She is too proud to admit to anyone that she has been fucking the guy that has made her life hell.” The three of them eye me with disdain. I ignore their disapproving looks and head back through the woods to where we parked. We all change out of our clothes and slip the tuxes back on before climbing inside the car and heading home. It’s a Saturday night, so that means these three will be crashing at my house, so I head there. When we pull into the driveway, I see Vivian’s bedroom light is still on. I can’t stop myself from looking next door, Nova’s car sits in the driveway but no lights are on in the house.

“I want that proof, Vox. If I have to hurt the bitch to get it, then I will,” Ez declares. I scrub a hand down my face and nod.

“We’ll do what we have to, we won’t let Thomas get away with this shit,” I say.

“Even with the proof, we need more than that to stop the Haven Saints. The laws clearly state that the new lord has to be a female! Unless one of you fuckers has another idea then all of this is for fucking nothing!” Archer snaps as he shoves his door open and storms off toward the house.

“He’s right, killing Thomas won’t change the fact that the next in line is Vivian, Vox.” I bare my teeth at Hayze. “Dude, I don’t want her in this shit, I never have. Vivi is too good for this bullshit and way too good for this place. All I am saying is we need to figure something out and get her out of this place or find another way.” Hayze climbs out and follows after Archer, leaving me and Ez alone in the car.

“She means nothing to me,” I say after a few minutes of tense silence.

“Then prove it and destroy her, Vox, or make her give up the proof she has. I need to know what the fuck happened to my father… I have to know. Get me that information and I will let this shit go, but if I am forced to do it myself there will be nothing left of her. She is nothing to me and I won’t have any issue slitting her throat and tossing her off the canyon like the others.”

“We’ll get the proof, take down Thomas, get rid of… the little witch then we deal with the Haven Saints.”

“He gets back tomorrow.”

“I know. We need to press Nexus when they get back about why they were gone and what the fuck they were doing,” I say.

“If they really did do something to her mom, then we need to find out why she is so important and who the fuck this relative is that has been sending her letters.”

It hits me then and I turn to Ezekiel.

“He was the fucker that was in my house!” I snap as I shove my door open and race around the back of Nova’s house ready to kick her back door in, but to my surprise I find her sitting on one of the loungers with a photo clasped between her hands and tears trailing down her cheeks. I hear Ezekiel come up behind me and the both of us share a look before I step forward. The second she stiffens I halt and wait for her to say something.

“The whole house is bugged, he has cameras everywhere and knows what I did. He knows what we did in his house.” I move forward and sit on the edge of the lounger beside her and drape my hands over the tops of my thighs.

“How do you know that, little witch?” I ask. She grabs her phone beside her and unlocks it then tosses it to me.

“Congratulations, asshole, you're famous and just ruined my life.” I press play on the video and my stomach sinks, it’s a video of me fucking Nova against the filing cabinet in Thomas’ office. It doesn’t show the full video but at the end of the thirty second clip a message appears.

Nexus

Now you’re mine to do with as I please, piggy, or this goes on Pornhub with your name attached to it.

I look back over my shoulder at Ezekiel who looks murderous. My own anger is rearing inside me. Yes, I fucked her and made her do things without knowing who I was, but she was consenting to that shit. Nexus and Thomas did this without her consent and that fucking bullshit won’t fly. You may not be able to tell it’s me thanks to my mask but you can see Nova’s face clear as day.

“Nova—”

She cuts me off. “Read the message from Thomas.” I purse my lips and do as she says, when the message thread from Thomas appears on the screen my mouth hangs open and my eyes widen.

Thomas

Time to learn how things work, be a good girl and mommy stays safe. Be a naughty girl and mommy pays the price.

The image attached is of her mother in a plain green gown strapped to a bed with a doctor injecting her with something. Before either of us can say a word she stands and snatches her phone out of my grasp. I stare up at her and flinch at the sight of hatred and disgust in her green eyes when she looks down at me.

“You want the proof and your identity to remain a secret?”

“Yes,” I say without hesitation.

“Help me find my mom, take down Thomas and his cunt of a son and I will pay whatever fucking debt you want,” she says with such conviction I know she means every word.

“He’s going to come after you,” Ez says.

She shrugs. “I live with the bastards. I have no choice but to take what they give until I get my mom back. Don’t worry, there are no cameras out here,” she adds the last part as an afterthought.

“Who is the relative helping you, Nova?” Ezekiel pushes.

She shakes her head. “I have no idea. I don’t even know who my father is but my long lost uncle told me he’s dead. Help me and I will help you,” she says, then turns on her heel and heads toward the house but as she grips the handle she pauses and looks back over her shoulder meeting my gaze. “Don’t ever come to me again, Vox. You stay the fuck away from me.” She darts her gaze to Ezekiel. “He comes anywhere near me. I'll burn the evidence I have about both your fathers. Oh, and if any of you ever touch Waylen again, the deal is off!” Both Ez and I suck in a ragged breath at her threat.