Cupid's Arrow (Devils Rejects MC 4)

I pull up down the street from Zo Zo’s. “Stay here,” I tell Mandy.

I close the door after I exit the car and move through the grass silently. The front door is locked but I go around back and find Terror, Reaper, and Cocky getting ready to kick it in.

Cocky has a gun at my head and I take a deep breath. “Goddamn motherfucker. Don’t sneak up on us like that,” he grumbles. “You’re lucky I didn’t shoot your ass.”

“I knew he was there,” Terror says.

“I did too,” Reaper adds on.

“You assholes could have said something.” He puts his gun back in the waistband of his jeans.

“You didn’t give us a chance.”

“Enough,” I bark. “Cocky take your trigger happy ass to the front door. Reaper will let you in.” He nods and takes off the way I came.

Terror kicks the back door in and we move in. No one is in the kitchen, but I find MaryAnn’s cell phone busted in the sink and in the living room, a homemade movie of Zo Zo and MaryAnn plays on the big screen. Terror points to the hall and Reaper moves to let Cocky in. I’m frozen in place unable to look away as he touches what’s mine on the screen.

Cocky’s hand on my shoulder pulls me out of it and he turns it off. I nod at him and we follow Terror. The first three rooms are empty. The fourth room we find them and my heart breaks into icy shards that stab at my insides. Terror and Reaper are pulling Zo Zo off MaryAnn’s lifeless body.

Anger, sadness, and guilt. They all course through my veins. I’m going to feed him his own dick before I kill him. His death will be slow and torturous.

“Fuck,” I hear cocky breathe out as he checks her pulse.

Zo Zo is fighting against Reaper and Terror but one of them subdues him with the butt of a gun to his temple. I stare down at my world feeling like the biggest piece of shit on the planet.

“She’s alive,” Cocky announces. “But we need to move her out of here fast and get her to the hospital.”

“No hospital. Too many questions,” Terror tells him as Reaper hog ties Zo Zo. “Amber is already at the clubhouse. We’ll take her there.”

Cocky looks to me and I nod in agreement. I go over to the bed and ease my hands under MaryAnn’s beaten and bloody body. When I start to lift her, she moans in pain. I can’t stop the tears that rain down my cheeks as I hug her to my chest. “I’m so sorry, baby. I’m so sorry,” I murmur repeatedly unsure if she can hear me, but her hand comes to my neck and I pray that she’ll be okay.

Cocky follows me out of the room and tells me to wait by the back door, he’s going to pull Mandy’s car up. When I get to the living room she’s standing there. She takes one look at MaryAnn in my arms and begins to cry with her hand to her mouth, to muffle her scream. “I didn’t know.” She shakes her head back and forth. “I didn’t know. Oh God. Please forgive me,” she sobs.

“I told you to stay in the fuckin’ car.”

“Is she…”

“Barely. Open that back door so I can get her in the car,” I order. She keeps gaping at me. “Move,” I roar, and she jumps but then does as she is told.

I lay MaryAnn across the backseat of Mandy’s car and Terror and Reaper haul Zo Zo to the back of the SUV they drove over. Cocky stays behind to clean up and drive MaryAnn’s car back to the clubhouse.

First, I’m going to make sure she’s okay and then I am going to bleed Zo Zo out for what he’s done. I call Hades while Mandy drives. Her hands are shaking but she gets us to our destination. “I told you I’d call you,” he snarls on the other end of the line.

“Doesn’t fucking matter now does it,” I snap back at him.

“I’ll meet you there.”

I end the call not giving a Goddamn what he does right now. All that matters is MaryAnn. We arrive at our destination. Amber rushes outside to administer pain medication and access MaryAnn where she lays before I attempt to move her again. Mandy is slumped over the wheel sobbing uncontrollably. I don’t have time for her right now.

Amber looks at me with a somber expression on her face. “She needs to go to the hospital. I can do what I can but…I worry about internal bleeding.”

“She’s pregnant…at least she was,” I inform her.

“Help me get her inside and I will do my best.”

After we get MaryAnn in a bed, I go back downstairs because Amber forced me out of the room. I find Mandy sitting in a booth. Her bottom lip trembles as she looks up at me. “Ry…”

Holding my palm up, I tell her, “Don’t. Save it for someone who gives a damn about your bullshit. You might not have predicted this, but this is on you. MaryAnn was pregnant too. Do you know how happy I was when she told me? I had never been fucking happier. I had never wanted anything more. Do you know how I felt when you told me that you’re pregnant? I felt a chain tightening around my neck. I hated you in that moment and I hate you now. You disgust me. I don’t want shit all to do with you. As far as our child goes once he’s born I want a DNA test. If he’s mine, then I want you to sign away all your rights to me. You will never be in my life after you do that. Until then, the house is yours. You can stay there until the baby is born, after I want you gone from my life. You’re nothing. Now take your ass to the house and get some sleep.” I turn my back on her and go down to the basement to deal with Zo Zo.