Wicked Kind of Love by Nicole Snow

Author:Nicole Snow [Snow, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ice Lips Press
Published: 2014-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

VIII: Torn Apart (Emma)

A dream became a nightmare. It was all so surreal, and I couldn't believe the whirlwind that started as soon as Tank was in custody.

Two long days at the police station, Missoula cops and men from the ATF grilling me, asking me everything I knew about Mark and the Prairie Devils MC. The shifty lawyer the club sent told me there was nobody after the club except my dead rogue cousin. I didn't have to answer anything they asked about my involvement with the Devils, so I didn't.

I gave them nothing more than what everybody across the Midwest already heard: the Prairie Devils MC was a group of motorcycle enthusiasts with an eye for business. Their parties were legendary, their charity work put them in lots of folks' good graces, and they were a better support network for all the vets in their ranks than the Feds.

Nothing more to it.

Nothing. If only it were that fucking simple.

At least they couldn't charge me with anything. I had the marks on my neck to prove Mark attacked first. It was amazing what a few seconds of a man's fingers digging into the tender flesh on my neck could do.

I thought the interrogations at the police station were the worst of it. But that was before Blaze.

As soon as I was at the clubhouse, I was in his office, down on my knees. The pointed questions kept coming over and over, offering certain death if I answered wrong, or just couldn't convince him I was telling the truth.

“Did you rat out the club?”

The third time he asked, hovering over me, angry muscle about to explode, I collapsed. I was a stupid, sobbing, screwed up mess.

“Never! I didn't give my cousin a damned thing. Everything he fit me with, I turned off when I was here. It was just one time...and he got shit. Nothing incriminating. Nothing important. I swear, Blaze.” I looked up, trying to see his devilish face through all the tears. “I swear on my mother's life – on Tank's! – nobody got anything about your MC. I couldn't let them. I couldn't wreck the Devils after spending so much time here. Please, I swear...”

When I looked up again, he was gone. The door closed, rattling on its hinges. He was pissed, but he'd accepted I was telling the truth.

I only realized it later because none of the brothers came to make me disappear. At the bar, Saffron tried to console me. I didn't tell her about Blaze's harsh interrogation. He'd been a demon, but he was doing his job as club President.

I tried to drown my sorrows in booze. She offered me my favorite beer, but I refused it for whiskey. Ugh. How the hell did everybody around here drink this stuff constantly?

Dark brown bitter venom bit deep. Tasting it made me cry more because I thought about Tank. It was what he'd sucked down during good times and bad – especially when things between us were really fucking bad.

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