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And what was stopping us? “You are married,” I said, like it was out of the question.
“Not for much longer.” Kingpin proceeded to tell me about everything that happened while I was out. Evidently, Hallow left the clubhouse right away, but he didn’t leave the property. Not without Sky. While Kingpin was here at the hospital with me, Hallow kidnapped Sky and her baby.
I could scarcely believe it.
“We thought they simply ran off. I sent a crew after them, but they were long gone. Left Tennessee. I told Maddie Mae, her mother, about it. Wasn’t a week later, when you first recovered, that Maddie contacted me and told me she heard from her daughter. Sky wanted to talk to me. I spoke to her over the phone. She said Hallow took her and her baby by force, but she swore she was fine. Sky explained everything that happened. She swore she was happy to be out of the Mob’s grip. She wouldn’t come back. I’d asked her to for Maddie’s sake, not for mine. I talked to Hallow, too, and afterwards, arranged some new identities for them.”
Like he had Hob. “They’re together?” I meant in love.
Kingpin took my meaning. “By all accounts, yes.”
“That was quick,” I remarked.
Kingpin shrugged. “Maddie knows more about it than I do. She seems convinced they’re telling the truth. Believe me, we considered the possibility. If Hallow forced her to leave, he could be making her lie.”
“Do you know where they are?” I asked.
“I do,” he said. “Won’t tell you here. The walls have ears.”
“What about little, Bo?” They had his baby. I didn’t understand how Kingpin could be okay with that.
“They’ll change his name too,” he said.
Kingpin told me about Brenda, the nurse that was working for the Getty’s when Sky gave birth. She’d gotten a paternity test on Sky’s baby without them knowing in this very hospital. Sky was the one who broke into the vault. She gave away a folder to the Music City Syndicate all so they wouldn’t reveal that her baby wasn’t Kingpin’s. Bo was Ralph Getty’s child, not his. Everything he said before was making more sense now. Sky also gave Paisley the video of me and him in the basement. The sex tape, he called it, with a chuckle.
I didn’t think it was at all funny. All the embarrassment rushed back. “What about that video? How? I didn’t know there were cameras down there? Did you know?” I bit his head off as quietly as I could, so as not to bother the baby.
“No. I didn’t know. I mean, I knew, but I’d had them turned off after Sadist died. New techie prospect turned them on thinking he was fixing something that was broken. I was unaware until he bragged about it. Don’t worry. No one was monitoring them. When I learned about it, I combed through the footage stored and found it. I deleted it but not before I saved it for myself.”
“You mean to tell me this was your fault? Of course, it was,” I quipped.
“I could’ve gotten rid of it, yes. But the drive was password protected and in the vault. Sky found it and gave it to Paisley. Paisley got it to Steph.”
The mention of Hallow’s ex made my blood boil for a moment until I remembered Hallow was gone for good.
“Steph convinced Bull to hack into it. He’s good. Bull swears he had no idea what he was breaking into though. I’d just made him a member. He’s been demoted. He’s a prospect again.”
“Paisley and Steph played it for everyone,” I said what we both knew.
“Paisley planted your rings in Hallow’s jacket with the note in it, but he’d not found it. She got impatient.”
“That fucking bitch,” I whispered since I had a baby in my arms. “Why the hell did she want to ruin my life?”
“She said you called her a whore.”
“I did. Everyone calls her a whore.”
“Not to her face,” Kingpin said, as if that explained anything.
“I hope you take care of her,” I said, wanting Kingpin to get rid of her. Not kill her. I opened my mouth to clarify, but he was speaking.
“I took care of Brenda. She’s fired at least. Not before showing me the paternity test.”
I guess he had to be sure. “The test that said Sky’s baby wasn’t yours?”
“Yep. Part of me thought maybe the Getty’s were lying about that, but why would they care to bother Sky if the baby wasn’t Ralph’s?”
“I’m really sorry,” I said. I truly was.
