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My phone vibrates, so I pull it out of my pocket.

Rhea: Just checking in. How’s she doing?

Me: Tired.

Rhea: Let me know if you need anything from us. That’s from mom. Oh, and she says she misses you. I might miss you too.

“Everything all right?”

I look up, and Cut is eyeing me. “Yeah, my sister and mom.”

He leans back in his chair. “Never thought I’d see the day that you’d have such a different reaction to her. From the moment she left, you’ve hated her.”

“Things change,” I tell him when I shove the phone back in my pocket.

“You going to tell me how that came about?”

“Not sure what good it would do. I found some things out, and I saw what she did in a different light. All that shit’s in the past now. I’d like to keep it there. I’m tired of looking back. I’m a total hypocrite if I don’t stop doing that since I always give Sin a hard time.”

“Well, you know if you need anything, and I’m not saying from the club, but from me, you come to me.”

A knock sounds. “Prez?”

“Come in.”

The door opens, a prospect and Louie Jr, enter. He’s alone.

“This has to do more with him than me. That’s why he’s here,” Cut expresses.

I stand and offer Louie my hand. He shakes it then reaches over the desk and does the same to Cut. “Have a seat,” I suggest when I pull the chair next to him.

“What’s going on?” Louie asks, his gaze bouncing between Cut and me. When Cut gives me the signal, I start.

“The day Sienna was taken–”

Louie sits up and leans his elbows on his knees. His attention is pointed at Cut. “Something I had nothing to do with. I wasn’t even in town.”

“I know. That day, they didn’t only take Sienna. They attacked her best friend,” Cut confirms.

Louie leans back. His hand comes up and rubs his jaw as he shakes his head. “All the fucking shit of the past. Never seems to stay buried does it?”

“I take it you didn’t know about these actions?”

“I heard rumors. But like I said, I wasn’t in town. I was scouting for my father. We were trying to build the Diablos, and it was my job to patch in new members.”

This was a fact because Louie Sr. knew what he was planning when it came to taking Sienna. He was looking for more soldiers to fight the war he was planning with Devin. He wanted to wipe out Fury, and he needed the manpower to make it happen.

“I’m looking for a man named Tre De La Cruz.”

“Are you kidding me right now? You want me to hand over another one of my members?”

“He’s the last one alive.”

“Yeah, convenient, isn’t it?” Louie remarks.

“No offense, Louie,” I say, “but it was my woman who was attacked. And I’m putting it mildly when I say that. She was raped by several of your men repeatedly. They put her in the hospital. She was bleeding and broken. She’s lucky she made it, and now I need to the right this last wrong. I need to do it for her and myself. She needs to live whatever life she has left without fear.”

Louie glances at Cut not understanding.