His mobile went off.
“It’s a trap,” Paul said the moment he turned the phone on. “He’s going to try and kill you, and he’s already trying to kill the man you’ve got travelling here.”
“Why are you helping me?”
“I don’t. I’m not like him. His plan is to get rid of all of you and force that woman to drop the charges against his father. He’s mad, and I want nothing to do with this. I thought I was supposed to do a couple of messages, and that was it.”
Stephen told Paul what was going to happen. By the time he rang off he was pleased to have been planning for something like this for the past few weeks. He hadn’t thought Eugene would attempt something this soon, but he had to live with it.
Ursula sat waiting for them. Sean and Lucas had already left. He didn’t know what they were doing exactly. He hoped they would get what they needed.
“What’s going on?” she asked. He stroked her hair then kissed her on the lips.
“I don’t want you to leave the hospital,” he said. “You’re going to be safe here.”
“No, something is happening. You can’t keep me in the dark, Stephen.”
“This is for your safety. I can’t do this if I don’t know you’re okay.” He ran his thumb over her bottom lip. “I love you.”
“I love you. Don’t go. There are others who can go. Don’t go.” She begged him. The tears filling her eyes tightened his gut.
“Don’t do that, Ursula. I’ll make it back. I love you.”
She held onto him for as long as possible. James pulled him away from her. She watched him go.
“We’ve got a date to set,” he shouted to her.
“What?”
“For when we get married. I want to set a date.”
Chapter Eighteen
She watched him walk away. Tate and Kevin were sitting staring at the door to Rebecca’s room. They looked angry. Violet lay on the couch, her head in her hands. Ursula sat next to the other woman while her heart felt broken. The hours had passed in a blur. The sun was beginning to rise outside the window. She should be in bed with Stephen where none of these problems could reach them.
“How can you sit there?” Ursula asked the other woman.
“Cadeon asked me to.”
Rubbing her hands over her pants she stared at the window outside. The minutes passed, and all she thought about was the worst.
“I know where they are,” Violet said.
“What?”
“I can’t sit here waiting. They’ll go to see Rebecca in a second. When they do, we’ll leave out the front. Cadeon gave me his car keys.” Violet made the plans while staring at the clock. On cue, both men stood to go to Rebecca’s room. Both women removed their shoes and ran to the door of the hospital. They wanted to make as little sound as possible. Violet ran to Cadeon’s car without any footwear. Ursula stumbled putting her shoes back on. The car was fired up as they pulled out of the hospital.
“What made you change your mind?” Ursula asked.
“I’m tired of being left behind. Cadeon is the only person I have left. I don’t want to lose him.”
She buckled her seat belt as Violet floored it. The speed of the car made her grip the handle on her door to try to steady herself. She prayed Stephen was okay. He had to be.
****
Stephen stared at Eugene Black. The disgust he felt towards the other man couldn’t be disguised. Stephen hated any man who abused women. A raise was due to Lucas for finding the way to connect them with his contacts while inside the warehouse. He hoped Isabella and Rebecca would recover in the hospital. Tate and Kevin had promised to keep his woman safe. He saw Lucas and Sean at the back of the warehouse. They wanted to pummel the man who stood in front of him. He hoped everything was in place to take this bastard down. There was a lot of history with Lucas and Sean. Stephen didn’t know if he wanted to understand any of it. Right now, he needed to focus. This fucker could destroy his life and that of his club, the club he’d come to cherish in more ways than he could imagine.
Possession was part of him. The club was part of his own history, and in its own way a part of his father’s. Being part of the club meant he was still with his father in some kind of way.
“So, we meet again,” Eugene said.
“If all you wanted to do was meet, why cause all this to get to me?”
“Fun. I don’t like you. My father hated you for taking over Possession. He thought he’d convinced your father to give the club to him. When that didn’t go according to plan then dad had no choice but to go to Dominic.”
“Why?”