Zero and Beauty's Breath (A Satan Sniper's Motorcycle Club Series Book 3 - 4) novel Chapter 38

“Now no woman can ride on your man's back, we good.” Beggar knocks me a new fucking one when she smiles at Quinn, her words chilled, there is no fucking malice.

Quinn smiles back and I watch them exchange a hug.

Beggar gives me her back, and begins to leave and I feel an instant loss. She turns her head and my mouth opens as her hair swings to the side when she does it. She looks right at me, and it is like she knows so much, it is like she is looking in my soul, understanding why I did what I did and telling me she is okay with it.

“I told you Zero, hope.” She disappears in the small crowd of our men and women. Her words, reminding me of a month ago, when I had her, when she wasn't my brother's killer, she wasn't just a woman, she was my hope.

My feet move to go find her, but a hand claps hard on my shoulder and I turn to see Bull, who gives me a slight shake of his head.

He knows what I want to do, and I know the timing sucks but I just want to talk to her.

“Enough chit chat, alright people we still have a woman to find,” River informs the entire room.

Quinn takes a seat with Chadley and Jade in the corner as Harlow is brought down from upstairs.

It takes me a few good minutes to get my eyes off her, she looks a fuckuva lot different in a tight jeans that does fit her.

The glasses on her face now a deep purple thick framed rectangle bring out her big round eyes.

“Right, now we are going to be working with Thorn on this case,” River says and my eyes go to my brother who is still seated on the sofa across from me, only now he is smiling.

“Stacy Fern was found dead, they found her body in the back of a scrap car, in the Vikings Scrap Yard. Fingernails off, strangled but this time her tongue was removed with scissors.” River carries on and I look to Harlow who is cringing, standing just behind River's imposing form.

“We believe she's gone, Harlow has informed us that Harley will need more drugs and naturally go to one of the facilities. I'm going to pick two of you from Kanla to meet with a few of the brothers and Rest, she's a soldier from the Ohio chapter, the five of you would need to find Harley to bring her back. We not going to kill her unless we have to. Harlow said there is a cure.”

“And she's her sister,” Knight points out sitting on the dining room chair next to Spade and Venus.

“Right,” River says, “was going to get Bull and Zero to go, but we'll have to see who is going to be the third, any volunteers?”

“Me, I'll go.”

Beggar's voice comes from behind me and I don't pause to turn my head to face her, she's leaving.

As much as I want to hold her back, I don't. So I turn my head around and face River.

“Seriously? Remember what I said?” River seems to be having a public but private conversation with Beggar.

“We can stop and see Kylie,” Killer suggests and my gut clenches as I turn to Beggar and see Killer's arm around her shoulders.

She is not mine any longer.

Killer and Beggar on a fucking road trip.

What the fuck do I say to that.

The meeting ends, and it is settled. Killer, Bull and Beggar are leaving tomorrow. She is really leaving.

Quinn takes herself shortly back to work and everybody else goes about their business.

Thorn didn't say too much to me before he went up to his room for the night, besides a congratulations.

It doesn't look like he likes Quinn too much, but fuck he'll come around, always does.

I take a stroll to the water, over the hill. The night sky is always fucking glowing, sometimes it is haunting in beauty, and others it is sparkling with life as the stars flicker.

I don't need to know who it is that sits with their knees to their chest, staring out the water.