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“I want him out here I want him to feel the air, see the stars, smell the clean scent of the forest He needs to realize everything he’s never going to have the chance to experience again He needs to feel what I’ away from him I want him to experience one last flicker of hope that we’ll let hi throat”

Shell sed Though she couldn’t see his face, she iht as he plotted someone’s deths Copper would go to protect his club His men and their families

But now she had a front-row seat to the horror show

“You got it,” Zach said There was so on for hours but was probably only er, ht

Finally, footsteps crunched over leaves again, followed by a grunt and a thud Shell blew out a silent breath and peeked around her tree So in the woods A round, arms bound behind him with Copper, Maverick, Zach, and Rusty circled around him

Back to her, she didn’t have a view of Copper’s face, but she sure had a clear line of sight to the round

Reaper, they called hiraves Those were rumors Shell believed She’d seen the dark-eyed man in action Her insides quivered at thebreath

This hy she’d followed the guys into the woods when she should have been ho

Reaper was the o

Earlier that afternoon, she’d been at the clubhouse helping so the men know their meal was ready to be devoured, she’d wandered toward Copper’s office only to hear Reaper’s na tossed around in conjunction with plans to head to The Box in the night

Her mind and body had frozen until the noises fro Then, she’d scurried back to the door of the kitchen and pretended to enorance

Even by the di up at Copper held no reh life, even his own, held no value to him Almost made her wish thehiht someone die, but Shell had already been down that road The soulless look in his eyes was the saht he stole her father fro, so fresh in her ht theht back to the surface

She’d been with her father that fated night, four years ago, when the as station

As long as she lived, Shell would never forget the horror of that night It was late on a Saturday, and her father was driving Shell and her mother home from a family barbecue at the clubhouse From the second row of their truck, she’d watched her dad walk out of the quiet gas station market, two coffees in hand Seconds later, Reaper appeared from the shadows, shot her father from three feet away, then disappeared as fast as he’d materialized She’d had as clear a view of his pale face that night as she did now

It all happened so fast, it was over before her brain processed what her eyes had seen But once it did, her heart broke clear in two, and she screamed so loud she couldn’t speak for days

Now, finally, more than four years later, justice would be served, MC style And she didn’t have it in her to find anything wrong with that Maybe it was how she was raised, or maybe it was just in her blood, but she had always felt safe, loved, and protected knowing the club would do anything and everything to protect and avenge its own

Copper had been there that night He’d witnessed her devastation, seen her in the lowest e mind, she’d hoped some of the reason for Copper’s tireless search for Reaper had soh, in truth, he’d have done it for anyone associated with the club

“You’ve been a hard man to find,” Copper said as he stepped closer to his captive