Chapter 55: Chapter 55

AVERY

Avery woke up a little again with a groan. Her neck and wrists were starting to hurt. They had given her more drugs to keep her groggy, and she had no idea how long she had been there or what time it was.

A different man was sitting in the room now and looked over when she moved, then came closer to give her water to drink.

“Bathroom, please,” Avery mumbled.

The man sighed, knocked on the door, and another man came in. Without talking, the two men half-dragged, half-carried her to the adjacent room, which had bare-minimum plumbing.

Avery wasn’t really with it enough to demand that she get privacy and didn’t say anything as they turned and let her fumble with her dress. She finally went, feeling the relief.

She managed to get her underwear back up and was going to wash her hands when they grabbed her and took her back inside the room. This time they placed her on a grimy couch, tying her hands together.

Avery tried so hard to focus on her surroundings and help herself and her baby, but whatever they gave her knocked her out again, and she lay on the couch, asleep.

JUSTIN

Following the route that Stevo had mapped out, they parked the bikes in the small grouping of trees down from the building.

Justin directed them to park the SUVs close by, just in case they needed to take away any injured brothers.

They had just reviewed the plan when Justin’s phone rang, and they saw the same blocked number as before.

Everyone went dead silent as Justin answered again. “Where the fuck is my wife?”

“So impatient, Justin,” Colin chided. “Have I given you sufficient time to reconsider and negotiate?

“I will give you your wife when you give me my transporting job back and your daughter goes to my lovely girlfriend.”

Justin and the rest of the men couldn’t even believe that this man was asking this.

The man clearly didn’t do his homework on Justin or the club if he actually thought for one second that he would agree to this deal.

It was well known that Justin was fiercely protective of the club, his brothers, their families, and the business. It wouldn’t be the powerhouse it was presently if he wasn’t.

No one fucked with Devil’s Reign because of that reputation.

Justin looked at Stevo for confirmation that they didn’t know they were about to have visitors and there was nothing unusual about the activity there.

Mikey had sent two scouts up to the building to see inside and learn how many men they were dealing with.

So Justin was going to let the charade continue for a few more minutes for recon, then they would storm the building.

“How do I know you will follow through on your end of the deal for my wife?” Justin asked, trying to sound defeated instead of enraged.

“Now it seems you have come to your senses!” Colin said, with a lightness in his voice. “What I need is for you to call up your contact and tell them you don’t want the job and to give it to us.

“Then once I receive their phone call giving us back the job, step one is complete. Step two is that you deliver the girl to our clubhouse, where her lovely mother is waiting.”

“Hi, Justin,” her voice purred through the phone.

Justin looked up to see the recognition on everyone’s faces that Dominique was there, and he was enraged. “You bitch!”

“Now, no name-calling, Justin,” she scolded. “You wouldn’t want anything to happen to that pretty little wife of yours.”

Mitch had to put a hand on Justin to remind him to keep up the act so they could go in with the element of surprise.

“Although I do have to wonder what is so special about her that you changed your whole way of thinking,” Dominique mused.

“I tried so hard to get the ‘old lady’ tag, and so did Heather. And here you are married to the redhead. So what is it about her? She isn’t one of us.”

Justin hated that she had seen Avery and wanted to strangle the skank with his bare hands.

“I’m not going to taint our relationship by telling you about her. All you need to know is that she is the most incredible woman in the world, and you aren’t worthy to carry her shoes!”

“She is absolutely one of us, and you are ~nothing~.”

“If you keep that up, I won’t allow you to see Alexis when I feel like it,” Dominique snapped.

“No more talking!” Colin interrupted. “Do we have a deal?”

Justin swallowed as the scouts came back. He needed to hear what they had to say. “I need to put it to a vote.” He muted the call.

“Well?” Mikey asked.

“There is nothing going on,” one guy said. “There are guys drinking, watching TV, and sitting around. The leader and some blonde bitch are sitting on a couch in the back on the phone.”

The other brother nodded his head in agreement.

“Is this guy really that fucking stupid and naive?” Cash asked in disbelief.

“It appears that way,” Justin said. “Okay, let me finish this.”

He unmuted the phone. “Okay, we had a vote and agreed. I will call my contact and give you the job. I’ll pack up Alexis and meet you somewhere.”

“Excellent!” Colin replied, a smile clear in his voice. “I will be in touch as soon as we get the go-ahead. You made the right choice.” He hung up.

Justin pocketed his phone. “I don’t give a fuck about the rest of the guys, but I want this son of a bitch and the whore taken to Legs so that I can deal with them. I want this building burned to the ground!”

The men all nodded in agreement and pulled up their coverings to hide their faces, just in case.

“Oh, and watch for Avery!” Mikey reminded them.

They all went to their designated doors or windows and waited until Mikey gave the signal. Then they broke in, guns raised, taking over the building.

The group was completely taken by surprise, and it was like shooting fish in a barrel. Justin waltzed in behind his men to the surprise of Colin and Dominique.