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“You?” He laughed a singular ha. “Or are you going to have your muscle do it for you, like last time?” He spoke of how I had him fight Goliath almost a year ago. Before I saved him and Eve’s lives.
“No. This time it’s personal.”
“What the hell have I done that would make you want to get your hands dirty?”
I hated to get my hands dirty. He was right about that. But his bullshit caused me a heap of problems the last couple of nights. Was bound to be trouble for the club going forward, too. Not to mention the pain he’d caused Eve. I tried not to focus on that part. If I did, I wouldn’t be able to stop myself. But I didn’t have time for a fight. After I made up with Sky, that would be another story. I could deal with him later.
“You best sober up and go talk to Eve. You’ve done broke her heart.”
I was used to dealing with my member’s fuck ups. That was my job. I didn’t often get involved in their personal lives unless it affected the whole club. Women were done wrong on the regular around here. That was one thing they could count on. We weren’t called bastards for nothing but knowing how Hallow was treating my new star made me irrationally angry.
“Eve, fuck her. I know you always wanted to.”
That was all it took.
Stomping his boot with mine, I unleashed my fist and struck his jaw, knocking his head clean back. With all the metal on my fingers, it had to hurt him. Blood flew from his mouth, speckling his arm. His lip sticking out, he stared at the blood dripping in amazement.
I’d caught him off guard.
Drunk, he was slower, clumsier. He held his cheek as he returned the punch, missing my face and landing smack dab in the middle of my chest.
Fuck.
My heart nearly stopped. The blow took my breath. Hallow was young and tough, one of my best fighters, but this had been some special move.
I stumbled back for a moment before bending down and ramming my head into his neck like I was targeting in football. That took him down. Once he was on the ground, I had the upper hand.
It wasn’t a fair fight. He might’ve been a cop before he came to the Royal Bastards, but I’d been in and out of the slammer long enough to know how to fight dirty like the pigs did.
Plus, I had the hardest head around, literally.
In prison, when they shackled me, my head might be my only weapon. I headbutted him, about taking him out. Fortunately for him, I didn’t have my knife on me when I rolled him over and pinned him, my knee in his back.
I should’ve stopped then. But I was too far gone. The memory of Eve’s tears egged me on. The fact Hallow knew she’d miscarried his baby but had another woman in this very room cemented my opinion of him. Nothing but a lowly coward, Hallow ran from his problems rather than face them.
And he ran for pride’s sake alone. When he ran from Columbus to West Virginia to the Bastards in the first place, he didn’t want to be mistaken for a bad cop. Then he left West Virginia because of more of the same. He could’ve been blackmailed because he was hiding. The man was still running. He didn’t want to be seen as a bad man but was hiding amongst many. When would he learn he would always be the bad guy in someone’s memory? There was only one thing to do with that knowledge. Use it to his advantage. That’s what I did every goddamn day.
Nevertheless, I didn’t slam his head on the ground or kick the shit out of him like I wanted to. Afterall, he was one of mine, whether I liked it or not.
I used my fists. I pounded his kidneys before I went for his face. I didn’t stop until I no longer recognized him.
However, he was breathing when I left him.
He’d gotten off lucky.
Chapter 9
Kingpin
Unlocking my door, I noticed my bloody knuckles. I hadn’t bothered cleaning up. Beating the shit out of Hallow had me high on adrenaline.
I wanted one thing.
Sky had gotten dressed. She was fixin’ to leave me. I couldn’t let it happen. Rushing to her, I tore her shirt over her head.
“Kingpin, no. I know what I saw. I’m fucking leaving. I’m going back to Fresno where I belong.”
Pushing her back onto the bed, I laid on her, trapping her. My nose touched hers.
