Ruthless Hold (Back Down Devil MC #9)(67)

“That won’t happen, Trev. Not on my watch.”

“Let me hear Eden’s voice.”

“Trev…”

“Don’t f*ck with me,” Trev said. “Ripper will be back any second. Do this right now for me. You have no f*cking clue what’s up here. This is a disaster zone.”

Miller sighed.

A few seconds later Trev heard him say, “Here. It’s for you.”

“Trev?” Eden’s voice asked.

A calming feeling went through Trev’s body. Like a drug just hit his system.

That’s what Eden was. The most perfect and beautiful drug.

“Hey, beautiful,” he said. “Look, I can’t talk long at all here. If I hang up it’s because Ripper came looking for me. I’m here and safe. I’m coming back right now. It’s going to get really messy, okay? I need you and Jenn to listen to everything Miller and Gaige says.”

“Trev, I love you,” Eden said.

“Oh, beautiful, I love you too. Be safe, okay?”

“Of course. So I’ll get to hug you tonight?”

“More than hug me, beautiful,” Trev said.

Eden giggled. “Good.”

“Tell me something good. Anything. I just want to hear you say something to me.”

There was silence for a few seconds. “I could really blow your mind, Trev.”

“Then do it. Hurry.”

“I…” Eden laughed. “Oh, Trev.”

“What is it, beautiful?”

“I’m…”



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twenty-nine.



“… pregnant…”

Eden said the words into the phone as her heart felt ready to jump out of her body.

“What?” Trev asked.

“I’m pregnant, Trev. I got really sick this morning and thought it was because of you being gone. Then my mother said something to Blaine and he had prospects get me a test. So, yeah, I’m pregnant.”

“You’re pregnant.”

“Pregnant.”

“Oh, beautiful,” Trev said. “I don’t know what to think right now. That’s amazing. I’m almost done here, okay? I’m going for one more ride and then it’ll be over. No matter how bad it gets just stay with it, Eden. This has to be done the right way.”

“Trev, I’ll do anything for you. I’ll wait here for you, no matter what. I just have this vision of us together… in your bed… my belly…”

“Who you talking to?” a voice yelled.

“Ah, f*ck,” Trev said.

“Trev?” Eden asked.

Eden heard a scratching sound. Maybe a scuffling sound? She looked at Miller and felt the color leave her face.

“What is it?” Miller asked.

“I think…”

There was another scuffling sound.

“What the f*ck?” Trev’s voice yelled.

“You f*ck…” another voice said.

Then there was a gunshot.

Then the call went dead.

Eden dropped the phone and reached for her mother. Jenn scooped her up.

“What happened?” Miller yelled.

“Gun… gunshot…” Eden let out a weak cry. “Trev got caught.”

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thirty.



Ripper knocked the phone out of his hand and then shot at it twice. The first shot missed, the second hit the phone and made it explode.

Then Ripper looked at Trev. “Care to explain?”

“You really act fast, huh?” Trev asked. Trev kicked the remains of the phone. “That was a goddamn burner I gave to Eden.”

“Why?”

“To tell her to sneak out of the lot and meet me so we could run away together. I told her that the club was going to kill her.”

Ripper curled his lip. “She buy it?”

“I think so. Then you f*cking came out…”

“Damn. Look, I’m sorry. My head’s f*cked up here. Okay? I’ve been sipping whiskey all day now trying to get things calm up there. This is big for me.”

“Me too, Ripper. I figured if we got Eden first, we can use her as leverage against the charter. You know Miller. He’s got a family now. He knows the feeling and all that bullshit. I’ve seen what he does down there. Pancake breakfasts on Sundays with family. That plays right into his hand, Ripper.”

“Shit,” Ripper said. “I f*cked up good.”

“Yeah,” Trev said. “If she’s going to do this, there’s only one place she’ll be.”

“Where’s that?”

“Do you trust me to follow me?”

“As long as we go to Frelen,” Ripper said.

“Then let’s ride, brother,” Trev said.

He put a fist out.

Ripper hit it with a fist of his own.

This was it.

The final f*cking ride…

*

When they crossed into Frelen that’s when it all sank into Trev. This was all going to happen and go down for real. One way or another, it was going to get really crazy.

One thing was for damn sure - Trev wasn’t taking Ripper to the lot. Not with Eden there. Not with Eden pregnant either. That was a risk he wasn’t going to take with her. If something happened to her - to their unborn child - then Trev would never forgive himself.