Rycks by Marteeka Karland

Author:Marteeka Karland [Karland, Marteeka]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIN 009841-03192
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Published: 2021-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Rycks

When Venus backhanded Lyric the first time, I hadn’t felt the satisfaction I thought I would. In fact, I’d had an almost visceral negative response. Before I could stop myself, I’d taken a step toward. Vicious, the bastard, laid a restraining hand on my shoulder. I was both thankful and irritated. If Vicious had noticed my discomfort, had anyone else?

Then Venus hit Lyric again. Lyric said nothing, just rocked back in her seat before looking back up at the other woman. She didn’t give Venus a defiant look or in any way challenge her. Lyric just met her gaze steadily. Resigned. She didn’t look defeated, exactly, but she looked like she knew the situation was only going to get worse from here, and there was nothing she could do about it.

“Trying to be brave, my little precious?” Venus grinned at her, as if she were getting ready to deliver the punchline of a great joke. She lifted her hand where those long, pointed, razor-sharp nails of hers hung like a guillotine in front of Lyric. “I have something that might make you think twice about holding back.”

Venus was going to cut Lyric. Maybe her face. Maybe her arm, or something else. All I knew was that I absolutely could not watch it happen.

“Stop,” I said softly.

Venus glanced my direction and shrugged dismissively. She raised her hand for the blow.

“I said stop!” Shrugging off Vicious, I moved to Lyric’s chair, stepping in between her and Venus. “She’s my responsibility. I’ll take care of things from here. I’ll get this out of her.”

“This is Salvation’s Bane territory, Rycks,” Thorn said. The man had a hard mien about him. Harder than I’d ever seen him. To say he was furious over this was an understatement, and I couldn’t blame him. If someone came into Black Reign and bugged the place, we’d likely not take the time to get the location of all the bugs. We’d kill the fucker and drop the carcass on the offending organization’s doorstep. “She did this in our fucking home. Her punishment is our right.”

“She’s Black Reign. Punishing her is my responsibility.”

“And you’ll be responsible for letting us take over,” Thorn growled at me. “Our house. Our rules.”

“Would you do the same if she were my woman? Because she might as well be. There’s every possibility she’s carrying my child even now.”

Thorn didn’t back down an inch. “Then it’s your fucking bad luck to have been stupid enough to fuck the bitch in the raw.”

“Everyone just take a step back,” Vicious said, coming to stand in the center of the room, between Lyric and me and the table where Thorn had risen and stood with his palms flat on the surface. Vicious was a voice of reason no one wanted to listen to.

The door on the other side of the room shut, and I watched Justice hurry in. “Stop, Thorn,” he said, his voice firm.

“Justice, you’re my brother and a very important part of this club, but you’ve tested my patience enough the last month.

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