Page 3 of Ulysses

“Is that why you came here to see if he was dead?” Ulysses asked.

Aisha snorted. “That’s partly why but not all of it.”

“What’s the rest of it?” Titus wanted to know.

Aisha snapped her head up and glared at the men standing by the door. “That I don’t have to answer and I’ll be damned if I will. But the whole family deserved to die today.” She scooted back down in the bed then grunted in pain as she painfully turned her back to the men and threw the blanket up over her head.

Ulysses saw what she did but a moment later he felt her whole body shake and he knew she was silently sobbing. He didn’t say anything.

Finally, the men at the doorway turned and left. Ironman went with them to see about the prisoners since Lily was out cold. He told Pyrite to send for him the second she woke up.

Ulysses reached out and touched the girl’s shoulder. “You’re safe here at least. Just rest and heal.” Then he pulled his chair closer while Pyrite cleaned up his medical areas.

After a moment, her hand sneaked out from under the blanket. She barely touched him as just their fingertips met but it was a moment for him at least. Then her hand disappeared under the covers again.

Chapter Three

It was nearly dawn the next morning when Aisha’s eyes popped open at the soft click of the door. At first, she didn’t know where she was and who had just come into the room. Then she smelled the aftershave the intruder wore. Moving ever so carefully she slid her hand over very carefully and grabbed the small scalpel she found earlier. Their doctor had left it on the table near her bed when he cleaned up last night. She didn’t trust anyone and she felt she needed something to protect herself.

When the man stepped closer, she took a deep breath and that’s when she smelled it. Fresh blood. She knew right then and there whoever was in the room now, was part of the family that had come here to kill this MC. She didn’t move for the longest time, hoping to know the man’s name before she killed him.

When the room brightened enough to where she could see movement she readied herself. He was probably here to kill everyone inside the clubhouse, thinking he might find members of the rest of the family that had been taken against their will. She then heard him gasp softly when he went over to the other bed. She hadn’t seen the woman on the other bed but Ulysses had asked about her so she must be someone important. She gently lowered the blanket and saw the man standing there with a big knife in his hand and she knew who he was just by identifying the knife. One of Bruno’s sons.

While he had his back turned, Aisha slowly lowered her blanket and glared at him. Then she looked at the man who had rescued her...Ulysses.

His eyes were open and he was looking straight at her without moving.

She slowly raised her finger to her lips for him to be quiet, then she slipped off the bed without making a sound. Then she stood and began to move quietly toward the intruder.

He just kept staring at the woman in the bed. Then his arm rose and with that the knife in his hand rose as well. He leaned down poised with the knife to stab the wounded woman in her sleep.

Aisha did the same. The blade in her hand struck first as she plunged it into his back.

The knife-wielder froze then he slumped over the edge of the bed. His blade clattered to the floor.

The woman in the bed suddenly awoke and screamed as she kicked at the man that half covered her.

Another man had jumped up from a chair next to her bed and saw the attacker with the scalpel sticking out of his back. He pulled the dead man off the wounded girl and gathered her into his arms.

Doors opened and slammed in the hall. Then the door to the room flew open and the one that led to the side room.

The doctor came and knelt to the dead man then he shook his head.

Ulysses grabbed Aisha and pulled her away from the bed. Gently wrapping his arm around her shoulder, he waited as the other men froze in place.

“What the hell is going on here?” A booming voice shattered the silence.

The doctor looked up from the dead man and snapped, “It seems you guys missed one and he just got in with murder on his mind.”

The older man next to the loud one at the doorway shook his head. “Who the hell is he and how the hell did he get inside?”

Aisha sighed hard. “He’s one of Bruno’s sons. As for how he got inside I don’t know, but he was staring at her and moving in for the kill.”

“And you stopped him?”

She glared at him and asked, “What the hell else was I supposed to do, let him cut her throat?” Suddenly, her knees gave out and she would have fallen to the floor but Ulysses tightened his grip on her. Swiftly, he swung her up into his arms and carried her back to her own bed.

“Bouncer,” the doctor looked over to the older man. “It seems the man was wounded in the firefight but managed to crawl away before we went out there to find him. I don’t know how he got in here, but she’s right he had a blade in his hand and she stopped him.” He moved the body and a blade was indeed under him.