Maren’s face gave her away. She was hiding one thing else. “Poison,” she stated beneath her breath. “That bitch.”

She turned once more, able to shoot Poison once more. With one hand, I caught her and stopped her. I used to be bored with being in the dead of night.

I nonetheless had my weapon pointed at Gimp, however my voice, directed at Maren, was greater than stern. “Do you propose to inform me what’s happening? What do you may have of your ex-boyfriends that’s so rattling essential that the Gods in Arkansas would ignore the very fact you killed their President?”

Maren glared at me, her blue eyes flashing with rage. “I don’t have a factor of Ax’s. You don’t must know the whole lot proper now. Not with all the difficulty we’re in.”

“Bullshit,” I replied, my frustration rising. “We’re on this collectively. I promised I wouldn’t take you to the fucking gallows. I should know what’s happening.”

She shook her head, her lengthy hair whipping round within the wind. Someway, within the midst of the whole lot, it had come down.

I gritted my enamel, feeling a surge of anger. “It’s essential to cease holding secrets and techniques from me.”

“We don’t have time for this.” Ignoring me fully, Maren shifted into her biker persona.

She turned Treasure as she ordered Gimp round. She informed him to get Poison to the hospital and ensure she by no means noticed her once more after that.

The biker obeyed.

“Now we have to get out of right here,” she stated to me, going to my Harley. “We are able to speak once we get again to Galveston.”

I began to argue however knew I had to return to my motel, a minimum of to get my leathers if not my minimize. It was an extended trip again to Tennessee, if I deliberate to cover Maren and go flip myself in. However we couldn’t go away a lifeless physique out in an alley.

“We’re going to should eliminate Beef first,” I stated.

Reluctantly, Maren agreed to assist me drag him and bury him beneath some close by rubble. After we hid his physique, Treasure known as her Cleaner to handle the remainder.

Speckled in Beef’s blood, we rode off. I wasn’t positive what I deliberate to do. However I wanted solutions from Maren, and I’d have them.

Chapter 9

Leviathan

My thoughts wouldn’t choose the trip. Rushing down the freeway, the wind in my face, I ran the whole lot over in my head. Maren had one thing of her ex-boyfriends that the Gods in Arkansas needed fairly badly. They have been prepared to take her alive. What the hell might it’s? Cash? Data? Medication?

Then the belief hit me like a ton of bricks. Maren was pregnant. With Ax’s youngster.

No, she stated it wasn’t his.

With my youngster?

All of it made sense. One thing had been totally different about her. She was softer than ordinary, heavier however not in an off-putting method. The girl glowed. I acknowledged the radiance of being pregnant. Moreover, I spotted there was extra to her, deep down, however couldn’t put my finger on it.

Wound with the implications of this newfound data, I might barely function the machine beneath me. If my plan labored, we’d be on the run, with hazard lurking round each nook. And now, we had a child to consider.

Slowing down, I pulled over on the darkening freeway. A semi honked because it sped previous. I rolled us additional away from the visitors, off the shoulder, into the grass the place it was secure. The noise from the interstate was nonetheless an excessive amount of. Chopping the engine, I turned to Maren, my coronary heart racing.

“Are you…?” I trailed off, unable to kind the phrases.

Maren stared at me, her face softening. “Sure,” she stated merely. “I’m three months pregnant.”

A wave of emotion about swept me over. Pleasure, concern, and a fierce protectiveness all mingled collectively knocked me again. Heat swelled in my chest.

“Why didn’t you inform me?” I requested, my voice faltering.

“You got here to Texas to kill me,” she replied. However that wasn’t all. Her eyes clouded with gloom as she tore her gaze from me. “I didn’t wish to burden you with this. Not when you may have a lot to fret about. And I don’t plan to maintain it.”

Based mostly on our conversations earlier than about her different youngster, that didn’t sound in any respect like her. I shook my head, feeling a gust of resentment. “You possibly can’t simply preserve one thing like this from me,” I stated, my voice rising. “You possibly can’t simply go and try this. Not with out discussing it with me.”

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