Cupid's Arrow (Devils Rejects MC 4)

Melissa says CT is asleep still but her little Jimmy is waking up. She starts toward the stairs right at the time Uno is coming out of the hallway. They bump smack dab into each other and when their eyes meet there is fireworks between them. I can practically feel their attraction pebbling across my skin.

The girls an I exchange looks, and Sara elbows me nodding toward Stephanie who has steam coming out of her ears. She is like a raging bull as she charges toward them. Melisa’s eyes widen, and she rushes upstairs to avoid the confrontation.

We all snicker, and Uno shoots us a shut-up glare. Stephanie is getting in his face threatening to go stay at her mom’s and he says, “Bitch, I wish you would.” I lose it. Everyone in the room does because he has never spoken to her like that. At least not in front of anyone that I am aware of. Even her bitch friends are laughing.

“Maybe I will.” She huffs out an angry breath and grabs her purse.

Uno simply hangs his head and shakes it as he goes back down to the basement.

His cunt wife sneers at us as she makes her dramatic exit.

Chapter Twelve

—Cupid

“Fucking bitch!” Uno slaps the file on the table in front of Hades.

“I know you aren’t talking to me.” Our Prez growls up at him with a face that could turn weaker men into stone.

“Sorry. Fucking Stephanie is acting like a Goddamn cunt.” You could hear a pin drop in the room it gets so quiet. Uno is the most pussy whipped motherfucker any of us know. I am fairly certain most of our jaws are on the floor. He never speaks of her in this manner. Ever. Sure, he might gripe or vent, but the dude is fired up.

Normally Hades wouldn’t stop church to counsel us in marriage, but this is highly unusual behavior and warrants a discussion. “What’s going on, man?” Hades questions him.

He runs a hand over his head and down the back of his neck before lighting up a cigarette. “She’s fucking crazy. Accused me of making eyes at Cocky’s sister.”

“Were you?” I ask.

His shoulder rolls. “I don’t know. I was just going to get the damn file and she was sitting with Sara and the other old ladies. She caught my eye. Then on my way back through she bumped into me. Nothing happened. Hell, I barely spoke to her. Said excuse me and Steph was jumping up out of her seat like I had grabbed her ass or some shit.”

“Get a leash on her or I will,” Prez warns.

“Boogeyman, It’s time you have a sit down with my wife,” Uno announces and Boogeyman grunts.

“Now that we have the cunt squared, let’s take a look at the surveillance Reaper and Terror have on Tiny.”

Church continues but we aren’t any closer to bringing that bastard down. All the intel proved was that Tiny doesn’t stick to a daily routine. The bastard doesn’t even use the same car. He seems to alternate between them randomly. We can’t just go in guns blazing. He’s a powerful man with big connections. He needs taken out quietly. No one can know what we are planning or else we risk exposure. We all have our reasons for wanting him gone. I’ve never been the best of men, but I loathe him for what he’s made me become. I never touched a woman in an ill way, never even thought about it. But when he threatened Sara and I found out he was the one he killed Harper it changed me. Changed the way I think. The way I feel. I want my revenge. I want to make him bleed for Harper and for me.

I loved her…well I loved the idea of the girl I thought I knew. The girl I followed to Hell and back. She wasn’t always a crazy bitch. She was my first kiss. My first of many things but she was important to me. He ended her life and robbed her of motherhood. He took away her chance at being a mother—the one thing that could have redeemed her. Raising CT could have made her better. Restored her to the girl I knew. To the sister Danny loved.

“You okay? You have a funny look in your eye.” Zo Zo scoots his chair back and I blink, coming out of my thoughts. Everyone has gone from the room but the two of us.

“I’m good. Was just thinking about Harper and how she’ll never know her son. I just think about her sometimes and wonder if he would have changed her, ya know? She deserved the chance.” As I talk about Harper and what she will never get to experience I can’t help but feel guilty at wanting to deny Zo Zo of the same right.

“She was one fucked up lady.” He smiles with a light chuckle. He moves to get up from his seat and I hold an arm out to prevent him from leaving. He squints at me. “What’s up? Got something else on your mind?”

“Yeah, brother, I do. There’s something I need to tell you. I probably should have talked it through with MaryAnn more but there is something you should know. She’s pregnant and the baby could be yours or it could be mine. I didn’t want to tell you because she’s my old lady now and that makes her baby mine. I need you to understand that I don’t want you in the picture, but I’d be fucking asshole if I kept quiet and well that ain’t my style.”

His mouth moves but no words come out. I understand I felt the same damn way when she first told me, though I tried to hide it from her. We sit in a tense and awkward silence for I don’t even know how long before he pats me on the back and says, “Congrats, man. Really happy for you.”

Confusion crosses my face as I quirk a brow at him. “So that’s it then.”

Bastard gives me a crooked smile. “Just wanted to make you sweat for a minute. I’m sterile. Have been since that wreck three years ago. Just do me a favor and treat her right.”

“I will.”

“Good because if you don’t, I’ll come at you.”

“Noted.”