Hunter (Brothers of Chaos MC)

Thunder sat down with a thud. He looked stunned.

The whole room filled with an eerie silence as her words sank in.

From the kitchen came a crash of glass and a cry of pain.

Sinner stepped into the kitchen and found Misty standing there with a look of utter devastation on her face. She was holding her hand which was dripping blood from a cut when she broke the glass.

He hurried her over to the sink to wash out the cut then wrapped her hand in a dish towel. Helping her out to the main room, Sinner hustled her down the hall to their infirmary. She was sitting there with a stunned look on her face while he bandaged the cut.

When they walked back out to the main room she heard Thunder ordered his IT man Wizard, “Find her, track her little ass down, so we can go and get her and bring her home again.” He then left the main room.

Misty felt a little weak in the knees at his words. She had kept in her heart the dream of finally being with Thunder someday… alive all these years and now, damn she knew it would never be. She knew she couldn’t meet anyone’s eyes right now, so she ducked back into the kitchen and busied herself cleaning up the mess she’d made earlier when she heard Thunder’s roar.

Tears dripped down her face as she worked. So much so, she didn’t notice the door swing shut on the figure who just looked in on her.

Sabrina gathered her things together and put them back in her bag. Then she reached in and pulled out a charm bracelet. She’d gotten it from her mom for her tenth birthday about two months before they died.

Tears sparkled in her eyes as she gazed at the bracelet and she remembered her mom’s face that day. Her fingers crushed the tiny metal band as she brushed away the unfallen moisture. She turned toward Phoenix and walked over to her. “Here I want you to have this.” She handed over the bracelet. “My mother gave it to me when I was ten. I think she gave your mom one too, a long time ago.”

Phoenix looked at the bracelet and frowned. “Yes, I think she did. I remember something like this when I was younger. My mom used to let me wear it sometimes.”

Sabrina nodded.

“So you’re my mom’s sister ?”

“And you’re my niece?” Sabrina smiled. “I’ve waited a long time to meet you.”

“Do you suppose they’ll find her and bring her back here?” Phoenix dared to ask.

Sabrina turned to watch the men as they poured over the map on the table. “Was she happy with him do you think? I mean a biker, really?”

Phoenix nodded and sat down. “Yes from what I remember, they were very happy. I’m told I was one day short of my ninth birthday when we were taken away and after that, I don’t remember too much until the day I came back here looking for answers but I do remember they loved each other very much.”

Sabrina smacked the table with her hand. “We have to find her. We just have to.”

“If anyone can find her they will.” Phoenix nodded. “I hope,” she whispered under her breath.

Sabrina looked up at her and nodded. “Me too. Shelby needs to come home.”

“She won’t as long as there is a danger out there.” Phoenix sighed.

“Odin?” Sabrina knew this without a doubt. “That bastard needs to get set back on his ass.”

“What happened this morning?”

Sabrina grinned. “Your dad and his men came riding in like avengers. They barged through the front gate, tipping over a line of bikes, and circled the clubhouse. Shots were fired everywhere and then Burr stepped out. They roped him and dragged him out of there.” She paused then chuckled. “Then the last rider stopped just at the gate and threw a cocktail on the pile of bikes and they all blew up. He had everybody scrambling for cover. They looked kind of funny actually.”

“Is that when you got hurt?” Phoenix asked.

Sabrina nodded. Then she looked over at the men again, and whispered, “Are they good men?”

“I hope so, I don’t really remember.” She paused, “but since I’ve been back, they’ve been great.”

Sabrina studied her for a moment then asked, “But?”

“But it pisses me off when they won’t let me do what I have to do,” she replied disgustedly. “I was going to wait until they left then go off and find my mom but Snowman wouldn’t leave me alone. I couldn’t hardly go to the bathroom alone.” She gritted her teeth. “And Rambler stole my car keys again, before he left. She smiled. “That blasted thief.”

Sabrina nodded. “I think in this instance, we have to trust that they know more of what they’re doing.”

The kitchen door swung open as Misty began carrying out platters of food and setting them up along a table at the side of the room. She wouldn’t look at anyone but on her way back into the kitchen, she cast Thunder a look that Phoenix caught.

Phoenix gasped as she grabbed the edge of the table and just glared at the other woman long after the door swung shut behind her.

Sabrina reached out and took Phoenix’s hand. “What’s wrong honey?”

“I think I know how Burr found us that day,” she whispered heartbrokenly. “I remember her face being there, in the background. She was watching the whole thing as it happened.”

Sabrina could barely hear the words but she turned to look at the closed door, then remembered something she heard the man say earlier that day. She turned to look at the men and found one man in particular looking back.

Hunter. He watched the exchange from beginning to end and didn’t look happy at all.

Hunter turned his head and gazed at the kitchen door speculatively. He hadn’t seen it so clearly before but now, he did. Suddenly, everything Burr told them this morning made sense. He said someone had called him and told him where to find Shelby. It had been a woman.

He glanced over at Snowman and saw the same look on the older man’s face. Snowman knew as well. He saw the other man nod and then he watched as Snowman got to his feet and went into the kitchen.

Hunter tapped Thunder on the shoulder and motioned for him to listen.

Everyone became quiet as voices rose in the kitchen.

“What the hell are you talking about, old man?” They all heard Misty ask.

“How did you do it?” Snowman demanded. “Better yet, why did you do it?”

“Do what? I have no idea what you’re talking about, you old fool.”

“Really? That’s the story you want to go with?” Snowman growled. “All these years, how the fuck could you live with what you’d done? You betrayed the man you’re supposed to be in love with.”

“I did not betray Thunder!” She claimed. “I could never hurt him like that.”

“You took away his family because you were jealous of his woman.”

“I did not. I was the one in love with him. Not her!” Misty cried out. “She never deserved him. He belonged to me. I loved him first.”

There was a loud smack and then the kitchen door flew open and Snowman dragged Misty out by the hair. He stopped in front of Thunder and threw her to the ground at his feet. “I found your fucking traitor.”

“What the fuck?” Thunder growled out loud.

“All these years, I’ve been watching her while she’s been waiting and watching you. She’s been thinking that once you get over Shelby, you’ll fall into her bed. I think she’s the one who called the Vikings in to snatch your woman and kid away.”

Rambler glared at her. “Burr did tell us this morning that he got a phone call that told him where Shelby was all the time she was gone. That was when he finally knew where she was.”

“And he knew right where to go to get his hands on her. The cake shop,” Hunter reminded them. “That’s where he shot Mac as he forced Shelby and Phoenix in his car.”

Thunder reached down and grabbed Misty by both arms, hauling her close to his face. “You better tell me the truth bitch, did you make that call? Did you bring the Blood Vikings here to steal my woman?”

Misty winced at his grip. “You’re hurting me.”

Thunder shook her hard. “Did you make that fucking call?” he shouted.

“Yes!” she screamed out, as his grip almost snapped her bones. She screamed again as Thunder threw her across the room and she slid into the wall. She lifted her head and stared at him with tears in her eyes. “I only did it because I love you so much. What did she have that I didn’t?”

Thunder took a step toward her, looking like he might just kill her.

Hunter and Rambler held him back.

After a brief struggle, he stopped and glared at her. “Get her the fuck out of my sight. Lock her in the cell for tonight. I need to cool off some before I talk to her again, and I want her here when I do. She’s got a hell of a lot to answer for.”