Forgiving Nancy (Last Hangman MC, #5)(62)

“How dare you blame us! We looked for you for years!” My father bellows.

“Let’s see, you banned me from even saying hello to them the moment they stepped foot next door. Then there’s the fact that you kept calling them dirty criminals or how about the fact that you accused him of kidnapping me. I mean really? You forced me to break up with him and had you not forced me to go to that stupid party I wouldn’t have been kidnapped. Do you see my point, Father?” I glare at them.

“You want to see things that way? Fine, but don’t forget something young lady, we have connections, we know people who could shut his club down and put him in the ground at a moment’s notice. He won’t be so lucky next time. The choice is yours. You know where we live.” My mother snarls before storming out the room with my father following closely behind.

Fuck, I really didn’t need this right now. I climb onto the bed next to Bennett and curl into his side. All the stress from these past couple of weeks with people following me, threatening me and my friends and then almost losing Bennett finally hits me like a truck and I lose it. I break down into body shaking cries and climb off of the bed and onto the chair next to it so I don’t disturb Bennett. I hug my knees to my chest and let all of the hurt out.

“Shh, it’s going to be okay, Princess.” I hear Callum say behind me before he places his hand on my back and begins to rub it in circular motions to try and soothe me, just like he did when he’d visit me on a tough day.

“How? My parents threatened to kill Bennett again. It wouldn’t surprise me if they were working with the Infernos,” I cry.

“I know, they’re evil bastards but do you really think they have those kinds of connections?” he asks.

“I’m not sure, but I wouldn’t put it past them.” I try to stop the tears but the dam has broken.

“I’m not going to let anything happen to you or Bennett. Don’t worry.” He kneels down in front of me and takes my hands in his.

“Thanks, Cal. What would I do without you?”

“You two f*cked at some point,” a croaky voice calls from the bed and we both jump. Callum recovers from the shock quicker than I do and replies.

“I promise you, Brother. Never touched her that way,” Callum assures him and stands up to face him. “How are you feeling?”

“Rough as f*ck.” He winces in pain as he tries to sit up.

“Don’t sit up, Bennett, you’ll tear your stitches.” I sit on the side of the bed and gently push him back down.

“You don’t say.” He sighs as he looks between the two of us.

“I’ll leave you two to it, you need to talk.” Callum says as he pats my back.

“Thanks, Brother.” Bennett nods at Callum once in thanks and it tells me that he’s not mad at Callum from hiding his brother from him, maybe this conversation won’t be as bad as I thought. But then he looks at me and I know that it is going to be as bad as I thought. “We do need to talk.”

“Go easy on her, she just wanted to protect you,” Callum tells him before leaving the room, closing the door behind him.

“Maybe we should get the nurse to check you over first.” I go to press the button that calls the nurse in a desperate attempt to delay this talk but he stops me.

“She can wait a few minutes,” he says looking into my eyes. I can see sadness and anger in his beautiful eyes and I prepare myself for the one question I know he’s going to ask. “Why?”





CHAPTER 28



Bennett

Consciousness hits me like a ton of bricks. I try to open my eyes but the light is blinding. I struggle to keep them open but sleep quickly takes me again.

I don’t know how long I’ve been asleep for, but the next thing I know is that people are yelling and my name is mentioned by a very familiar voice and one I vaguely remember. The familiar voice is defending me whilst the other one is talking shit about me. I try to keep still and not alert anyone to the fact that I’m awake. Something is hurting and the last thing I want is to have to face people right now. What the f*ck happened? Am I alive? I must be because I would not be hearing Nancy’s voice if I was in hell. The last thing I remember is strangling Richard to death and then total darkness. I have no idea what happened after I saw the light leave Richard’s eyes or how I got here, wherever here is.

My consciousness returns slowly with each minute and I can hear Nancy defending me to the familiar but still unknown voices. Oh shit, it’s her parents. How the f*ck did they find her? My heart swells as I hear her defend me and our relationship, at least seeing me kill my brother didn’t change her opinion of me. Fuck! My brother. I have, well had a brother. A brother that Nancy knew about. Almost immediately, my blood begins to boil. She’s mine, she’s not supposed to lie or keep things from me. I can understand that it was to protect me but that’s the kind of move I’d expect from my brothers, not from my woman.

I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that I had a brother who I killed with my bare hands. On any given day, I’d feel some kind of remorse but I can’t with him. He took my woman away from me deliberately and pimped her out, how can I feel remorse for an * like him? It felt f*cking amazing to literally squeeze the life out of him. It might make me sound like a sadistic bastard, but I don’t care. He deserved it.