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“Church, two minutes.”

Streak scowls. “It’s gonna take longer than that to call everyone else in.”

“Naw,” I say, shaking my head. “We can fill them in later.”

They both shrug and as they finish off their beers, Storm turns to me. “I’ll grab Blaze and meet y’all in there.”

He walks off to the office while Streak and Smith join me with a look of concern on their faces. “Everything okay?”

“No, not really,” I answer, shaking my head as we reach the back room. We all file around the table and sit in our usual seats despite the fact that everyone else isn’t here and a second later, Blaze walks into the room with Storm on his heels. Meeting my gaze, he nods a greeting and sits at the head of the table.

“All right, Henn. This is your show today. What’s going on?”

Sucking in a breath, I rub my hand over my face. “On the night I was arrested, Kady was kidnapped.”

All four of them suck in a breath.

“What?” Blaze breathes and I can see the regret shining in his eyes. “Does she know who he is?”

I nod. “Biche.”

Silence descends on the room for a moment as they all stare at me with shocked expressions and the anger slowly builds until it’s like another person in the room.

“That fucking bastard,” Storm seethes.

“Shit,” Smith mutters. “Henn, if we’d known…”

I shake my head. “It doesn’t matter now. All that matters is keeping Kady safe from this monster and making sure he can never hurt her again.”

“Henn,” Blaze cuts in, holding his hand up. “I know you’re pissed and believe me, brother, we understand because we’re right there with you but don’t go doing something that will get you locked up again. Now more than ever, Kady needs you here.”

“I know that,” I growl, clenching my fists on the table. Yeah, I know he’s telling the truth but that doesn’t weaken the rage I feel flowing through my body every time I think about the things he did to her for a whole damn year.

“How long?” Streak asks and everyone turns to him. “How long did he have her?”

“A year,” I answer, my stomach rolling at the thought.

“Jesus.” Smith shakes his head in disbelief as he rubs his hand over his face. “Is she okay?”

I scoff. “No.”

“I realize she’s not okay but did he hurt her?”

“I don’t know,” I whisper through gritted teeth as I picture her reaction when I asked her the same thing this morning. “She wouldn’t tell me.”

Blaze scowls and I meet his gaze. “How did she get away?”

“It was Bobby. He noticed she was missing a week or two after she was taken and he started working on his own to find her. When he realized Biche had her, he started working for him and got into his inner circle where he was finally allowed access to Kady.”

“Bobby…” Blaze whispers, shaking his head as he stares down at the table in front of him. “I always thought he left because he didn’t like the new rules.”

“I think he had to distance himself for Biche to believe that he was on the up and up. And you know how much he loved Kady. She was probably the only thing that could make him turn his back on the club.”

Streak shakes his head, a look of confusion etched on his face. “Why, though? Why would he go to all the trouble of kidnapping your girlfriend after he sent you to prison?”

“Kady said that we went to school with him and he apparently thought he was in love with her when I came along and stole her from him. When we were running drugs for his father, I outsold him and he blamed me for stealing his dad from him.”

“That’s fucking insane,” Smith growls and I nod.