Teased(31)

Vida left, feeling the eyes of everyone on her back.

* * *

Colton turned back to the President of The Predators. “Thanks, Ice.”

“No problem. Missed having you around the club the last three years.” Colton and Ice stared at each other, both remembering their friendship and the fun they had partying together. “It’s hard to think of Goldie’s kid all grown up. She’s a definite looker. Didn’t make a move on her out of respect to Goldie.”

Colton didn’t say anything. Ice continued, “Hell of a situation you’re in, man. Wouldn’t want to be you.” Ice started his bike. “Give me a couple days warning before coming by the club. I don’t want to fuck with your parole. How long you stuck for?”

“One year.”

“Fuck. It would kill me being away from the brothers that long. I hope this time you’re smart enough to leave that bitch. I warned you from the beginning Tessa was bad news,” Ice reminded him.

Every one of his brothers had tried to warn him about Tessa. He had listened, but hadn’t played it smart. He had learned his lesson the hard way, in prison. If he got caught at the Predators’ clubhouse, he could lose his parole and spend the last year of his sentence back in prison. He wasn’t going to let that happen. More importantly, if he was seen there, it would open up the possibility of the club house being raided by the police, and he wasn’t about to see his brothers suffer. He had lost the right to be a Predator when he had stepped forward and took the blame for Tessa’s crime. Predators never got caught; they lived and breathed their motto.

“Already took care of it, two more weeks and the divorce is final,” Colton explained to his former president.

Ice nodded. “Need anything?”

“No, I’m good. Thanks, Ice.”

“Anytime, brother.” Ice throttled his motor, driving the bike onto the road with the other club members following behind. Colton watched them leave until the last bike disappeared around the corner in the road.





Chapter 10





Vida was sitting at the table with a baggie of ice against her swollen eye when Colton came in, slamming the door shut.

“What the fuck were you thinking?”

Vida stared at him in shock. She hadn’t expected him to baby her, but she hadn’t expected him to be so angry with her, either.

“What do you mean?” Vida asked, confused.

“I fucking mean, why in the hell would you get in the car in the first place. You should have run like the fucking devil was on your ass. They wouldn’t have run you down on the campus.”

“I was afraid they would shoot Henry,” she explained.

“Again, a campus full of college kids. They would have had a SWAT team on them before they could have gotten away.”

Vida began to feel stupid. “I didn’t think.”

“That’s for damn sure. This whole situation you’ve put yourself in is one big fucking mess.”

“I may have made a mistake with Henry, but the rest I have done what I had—” Vida tried to defend herself.

“No, Vida, what you should have done is what I told you to do long ago, and that was walk away,” Colton interrupted.

Vida began to get angry herself. “I wasn’t about to walk away from a degree that has been hard to earn. Plus, I will also be paying for it the rest of my life. I wasn’t going to leave Sawyer behind, either; we made a pact. She worked a full time job then waitressed at night to pay the bills so I could finish school. We’ve saved and pinched every dime so that we would have enough cash to be able to go where we wanted. I am not fucking leaving without her!”

“I have news flash for you, Sawyer isn’t fucking here. She’s not here for you to leave behind. You’re both going to be lucky if you don’t end up buried next to your friend.”

Vida sucked in her breath at his cruel words.

“You asshole. Don’t you tell me what to do. The only thing you’re attached to is your damn dick. You don’t know what loyalty is; you fuck around on your wife. Not only do you fuck around on her, but you can’t even fuck one woman, you fuck anything that moves and breaths in your direction.” She had no qualms about showing her disgust.

“I haven’t fucked you,” Colton taunted.

“No, you haven’t, because you are smart enough to know I don’t want your skanky ass,” Vida snapped back.

All the fear and loathing she had been holding inside for the last month was released into the harsh words she spewed towards Colton. She should have been thanking him for saving her from Digger, who had hit her and was obviously going to rape her before disposing of her. However, Colton’s words about Sawyer and Callie had brought out the fight in her, which she couldn’t get back under control.