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“Why should he eliminate me?” I gather the courage to ask. “I helped him.”
He chuckles. “You’re feisty. I can see why they want to get their hands on you. You’re a bit older than their usual.” His eyes scan me from head to toe once again. “Although, I’m sure you’d bring a pretty penny.”
A panic attack threatens to suffocate me. My heart is beating in my head, but I can’t show him how scared I really am. That’s what he wants.
“I hope you know,” he smirks at me again, “that him not following my order will only get him killed.”
I gasp in shock at the implication.
“You’d kill me because he saved my life?”
“No, little girl,” he shakes his head at me. “I will kill him because he went rogue on me. He now cannot be trusted.”
My eyes fill with tears while my body starts shaking. I can’t control myself when I press my hands to my face.
“Bricks told me you were selling little kids into a sex trafficking ring. I thought I was helping him stop that,” I cry out. “That’s what he told me.”
A look of pity now takes over his face, but it doesn’t look like it is enough for him to spare my life, or Hawk’s for that matter.
“I had never met Hawk before,” I continue. “You’re telling me that I should’ve known and not helped Bricks because you are the good guys and the roles were reversed?”
I start crying. I am ready to beg for both of our lives even though I don’t think this man would care about anything I had to say.
“You both played with people’s lives.” I point a finger at him, then at me. “With my life. I somehow became a casualty in your stupid games.”
A pause to take a deep breath. The back of my throat feels incredibly tight, to the point where it hurts to speak, but I know I have to.
“I didn’t want to be a part of this, any of it. I was minding my own business, trying to make a life for myself. Until all of you descended on me and decided that I would be a good target.”
I look around the room we’re in. It looks like a cozy home, and if you didn’t know it was a medical facility, it could pass up for someone’s very large bedroom, almost regal in its size and decorations.
When I turn my eyes back to the man on the couch, all amusement from earlier is gone from his eyes. He is actually paying attention to everything I’m saying, and I need to make it count.
“I don’t care about your club. And I care even less about Bricks and Snake’s club. When they put their hands on me and threatened my life if I didn’t help them, I felt like I didn’t have a choice. I was not ready to choose death over you and your club. It is ironic that you want me dead anyway.”
It is now my turn to laugh, although, it is not from the heart.
“I’ll be the stripper whose life didn’t mean anything to anyone. Which is really my entire existence. I grew up in a trailer park, so people thought they could rape me and get away with it.”
I wipe at my nose with the sleeve of my brand new top.
“I then became a stripper, and people just think of me as collateral damage.”
I wipe at my face again. I then look him straight in the eyes, determination clear in mine. I might as well speak my mind since he’s going to kill me anyway.
“Fuck you, and fuck your club. I hope one day, someone close to you is in exactly the situation I am today. I hope they blow her brains out as you watch.”
I finally managed to surprise him. I’m sure not in a good way, but I don’t care. I’ve said my piece, got it off my chest.
A loud gasp, more like a silent scream brings my attention to the bed. Mary is awake now, her eyes looking around in distress. She looks scared, like she’s never seen this place before. And I suppose, given her disease, she never really has.
“Hawkeye,” she whispers right before letting out a scream.
I run and jump on the bed, both hands clutching at her arm.
“Hi, Mary,” I tell her in a gentle tone. “Hawkeye is out. He will be back soon.”
She turns her head and looks right into my eyes.
