Redemption_A Defiance Novel by Stephanie Tyler

Author:Stephanie Tyler [Tyler, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2013-11-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

You spin me

Mathias

Jessa followed Tru out of the clubhouse, looking back over her shoulder at me before she exited. Her look begged me to understand why she’d hidden the fact that Charlie was her husband—her fucking husband, for Christ’s sake—but it didn’t do anything to stop my feelings. It just made me want to wrap my hands around Charlie’s neck for the way he’d treated his wife.

“You all right?” Bish asked quietly.

I didn’t think so. But I played like I was just goddamned fine, because Caspar had called the voting members into the room for an early church, which was code for their meetings. Like confession, what went on inside this room stayed in this room.

When the men were seated, Caspar briefly filled them all in and for a long while, no one said a word. The tension thickened with every passing second and finally Rebel said, “What if someone’s in bed with Keller? That’s way fucking worse than the LoV.”

“Doesn’t make sense why Keller’s hanging with the LoV to begin with,” Hammer said, and he was right, because the LoV had nothing much to offer Keller except women—and violence. It wasn’t enough to keep them indispensable to Keller’s mafia. They knew Keller would drop them in a second if Defiance suddenly agreed to split profits.

“None of this shit matters. Matters that we’ve got a traitor here with us, and I figured we were done with that shit.” Caspar’s voice was a knife through the bullshit and all eyes turned to him. “Anyone hear any rumblings? Doesn’t matter how small the complaints.”

“Old gen is still pretty pissed,” Rebel pointed out.

“’Course you’d blame the originals,” grumbled one of said originals, nicknamed Goose.

“Got somethin’ to say, old man?” Rebel’s voice was dangerously low and his eyes glittered in a way I’d never seen before. He’d been pretty even-tempered, but the not-so-silent war between the old and new generations of Defiance was wearing on everyone.

Bish glanced at me. I knew what he was thinking—do we really want to be part of this shit?

But hell, we’d created some of it. And if we wanted to help Jessa, we had to figure out the best way to do so.

“She’s married to the guy and she didn’t tell anyone. That’s pretty fucking convenient, right?” Goose snapped.

“He’s got a point,” Rebel said. “She had to know that’d make a difference.”

“Or else she’s scared,” Hammer said slowly. “Anyone else starting to notice how fucking scared these women are? Forget Jessa. I’m talking about a lot of women within Defiance. They’re worried about what’s happening out there. Worried that the violence of this club’s going to be taken out on them.”

“It was always that way, Hammer,” Caspar said quietly.

“That’s bullshit and you know it,” Hammer told him. “It was never fucking like this.”

Bish was next to me, leaning against the wall. He banged his fist lightly against it, and the entire room filled with tension, the way it had since Aimee was attacked. We didn’t have a place

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