King's Wrath (Sydney Storm MC 5)

Understanding smashed into me. But this puzzle was still a long fucking way off being solved.

“Fuck! Tony is the one behind all this?”

Hyde moved closer to Ivy, anger clouding his face. “What the fuck did King take?”

She looked at Hyde. “He took me.”

I drew a long breath and then slowly released it. “How the fuck did I take you?”

I hadn’t had any contact with Ivy since the day she walked out of our house. This bullshit her husband was carrying on about enraged me. Fuck, he’d killed a woman and her unborn child today because of it.

Ivy’s eyes came to mine again. “You didn’t, but he thinks you did. He thinks I’m leaving him because I never stopped loving you.”

My chest tightened as my mind went into overdrive in an attempt to keep up with my rapidly-firing thoughts. I might have broken Ivy when I told her to go, but living without her had completely annihilated me.

I met Ivy when I was eleven.

I promised her forever when I was twenty.

I fucked it all up when I was twenty-four.

“Is that true?” I demanded.

I didn’t want to know, but fuck, I needed to know.

She stared at me.

Didn’t answer my question.

And then she blinked. “No.”

Her lie blazed between us.

It was in her blink.

Ivy always blinked when she lied.

Fuck.

We could never repeat our history.

Never.

It would fucking kill us both.

“Round everyone up, Hyde. We’re heading back to the clubhouse.” I reached for Ivy as I issued the order. To her I said, “You’re coming with us.”

She attempted to shrug out of my hold. “No, I’m not.”

I gripped her arm hard. “This isn’t the fucking time to argue, Ivy.”

Her eyes turned from cold to angry, and her body tensed. “I didn’t come here for you to stop my progress with leaving Tony. I’m flying out of the country today, so take your damn hands off me and let me go.”

I shook my head. “Change your plans. This isn’t up for negotiation.”

“I see you’re the same old King you always were,” she spat. “Always completely focused on what you want. God forbid what anyone else wants.”

My fingers dug harder into her skin as I lowered my face to hers. “I’m not going to say this again, so listen up close. You came to me with information I need to check out. While I do that, you’ll stay with my boys. And you’ll do this willingly, Ivy, or else you and I are going to have a big fucking problem, and you won’t like the outcome.”