The Savage Outlaw (Sins of Fire Real Anarchy West #4)

Chapter 13

Chapter Thirteen

Confirmed

E den did something she hadn’t done in a really long time. She took personal time off of work. She stacked her normal days off against some earned personal time, giving her a grand total of fourteen beautiful days without work.

That meant staying up late, sleeping in, and having not a single care in the world. Zero responsibility in life. If she needed something to eat, she had her phone. The beauty of ordering a pizza or an entire order of groceries.

She even considered maybe getting away for a night or two. She found a cute, little cabin tucked away in the mountains and woods. Hidden from the world. The perfect kind of place to completely decompress from life. The kind of place that—

Eden’s phone buzzed with a notification. When she looked down and saw the words BOOKING CONFIRMED she let out a gasp.

She had been drinking coffee way too late in the morning and afternoon, finally switching to water and now diet soda. Her head still had a very faint ache. A reminder of her personal celebration the night before when she finished her last shift. A celebration that for some reason included whiskey.

Why whiskey? Really? Why would I do that?

All valid questions Eden asked herself, avoiding the obvious answer. Now came more evidence as to why she and whiskey weren’t exactly going to end up as best friends.

She remembered thinking about getting away. She remembered looking at that cute little cabin, tucked away in the mountains and woods . What she didn’t remember doing— at least not until right now —was actually booking the cabin for a night.

“What?” Eden cried out. “What did I do?”

She hurried to open the email only to discover she did sign up for a stay at the cabin. With no option for a refund because she was literally supposed to be arriving to said cabin in just hours.

Eden closed her eyes, sighed, and swore to the heavens she would never touch whiskey again. The only choice here was to either ignore the email, pay the credit card charge, and laugh it off… Or she could text Liv and Sophia, tell them to pack their bags, they were going into the woods for a night.

Outside her apartment she heard the sudden roar of motorcycle engines starting. That initial snarling sound followed by the intimidating growl. By the time Eden hurried to the window to see what was happening, the two motorcycles were on the move. Drix and Dolph turned the corner and were gone. The howling engines echoing off into the distance.

Eden knew that the two bikers were not near her twenty-four-seven. It was impossible. They had to eat, use the bathroom, get drunk, fuck the mostly naked women who hung around the SOFRAW clubhouse .

It shouldn’t have mattered that they were gone. Something in Eden just didn’t feel right. It didn’t sit well. She blamed the whiskey. The fact that she rented a cabin while drunk.

Eden turned away from the window, went into her bedroom and to the bathroom. She decided on another hot shower. Scald the hangover out of her brain for good. Then decide what to do later.

The shower felt good. A second shower in the same day. Something unheard of for Eden. She also never took days off. In fact, she usually picked up at least one extra shift, sometimes more, every week. Her life revolved around work. She used to feel safe at work.

Used to.

That thought made her touch her forehead. She shivered. Fear tickled throughout her body. She closed her eyes to simply take a deep breath, but when she did, she pictured Priest.

She pictured Priest standing behind that woman, fucking her. The insanely well-endowed size of his dick, thrusting in and out of that woman.

Eden bit her bottom lip. Ever since that moment, she had been battling crazy thoughts and fantasies.

Why didn’t I keep watching? Why didn’t I touch myself? Why didn’t I join in?

Eden opened her eyes.

“No,” she whispered.

It was one thing to fantasize a little. But to think about joining in? Joining in on what? Bend over and wait for Priest to fuck her? To go back and forth between herself and the other woman?

No!

Eden shut off the hot water.

She told herself she needed to go to that cabin. Even alone. All she needed to do was text Liv and Sophia the address, just in case, and then leave. Then again, knowing them— especially Liv —they would show up to the cabin anyway. Probably hoping to find Eden with some mystery man. Or to find her with Priest.

With a towel wrapped snuggly around her body, Eden opened the bathroom and stepped into her bedroom. The air was cool, almost cold. Her blood instantly ran cold. Not from the air temperature.

Cody sat on the edge of her bed, staring right at her.

Eden stood in place in complete shock.

The bikers leave and Cody shows up. Fuck.

Her cellphone was on the nightstand to Cody’s left. She had no chance of getting it. There wasn’t a window big enough for her to escape either. Just a small, rectangular window that was thick and frosted in the shower. She used it as a shelf for her products.

Running toward the bedroom door…? No chance either.

“How did you get in here, Cody?”

“I have my ways,” he said. “Haven’t heard from you in a minute. Wanted to check up on you. See how you were doing.”

“You attacked me, Cody. You hurt me.”

“Please. I hurt you? You hurt me.” Cody pointed to his chest. “You fucking killed me.”

“So, what, you’re a ghost now?”

“Cocky little bitch. You and that fucking mouth of yours. You know what? I have something better for you to do with that mouth. Get on your knees and blow me.”

“Blow yourself,” Eden said. “Oh, wait, you can’t do that. You don’t have the size requirements for it.”

“You have an attitude,” Cody said. “Tough woman now. What the fuck are you doing messing around with bikers too? Do you have any idea who they are?”

“Do you?”

“I’m here to save you. Once and for all. Now suck my dick. I’m getting hard looking at you in a towel.”

“Then close your eyes,” Eden said. “And I am not listening to you.”

Cody’s right hand moved fast, producing a gun. Eden sucked in a breath and her heart jumped into her throat.

“Warnings are done with,” Cody said. “You are mine, Eden. You’ve always been mine. Enough playing these games. It’s not working. It’s not worth it.”

“I’d rather be dead than be with you.”

“Easily arranged.”

Cody pointed the gun at her face.

Eden started to shake. “Okay, Cody. Just… what the hell? What does this get anyone? It’s not going to work.”

“Let’s find out for sure,” he said as he stood up. “Drop the towel or I shoot you. I won’t kill you, Eden. I’ll shoot you in the foot. Or the shoulder. Somewhere that will hurt and make you listen, but you won’t die. Ready?”

“Okay!” Eden cried out.

She touched the top of the towel. Her eyes filled with tears. Obviously this would not be the first time Cody had seen her naked. There were times when they were together that the idea of a choice did not exist. But never to the extreme of being held at gunpoint.

“Move,” Cody said. “Or else I’ll rip that towel from you myself. Is that what you secretly want? Huh?”

“Stop,” Eden said.

She pulled at the top of the towel. As she opened it, she quickly turned around. The towel fell to the floor. That alone made her feel shaky and very uncomfortable.

“Fuck no, Eden,” Cody said. “That’s not what I want. I appreciate that nice ass of yours… but…”

Eden felt Cody move closer to her. He placed his right arm around her right shoulder, resting the gun against her upper chest. It was cool. The metal hard. Cody’s left hand touched her left ass cheek. Cupping and squeezing.

“Guess I can just look down and see what I want,” Cody whispered.

He did so. Eden turned her head to the right, her eyes welling with tears as Cody’s eyes gawked at her breasts. He started to move the gun down her chest toward her right nipple.

“That’s enough!” Eden yelled and she threw herself back against Cody.

He stumbled away, body and gun. Eden spun around and knew this was her only chance to even think about getting to the bedroom door and obtaining freedom.

She ran but Cody lunged for her. He grabbed a handful of her hair and pulled so hard, Eden flew back right off her feet and down to the floor. Completely naked, nothing hidden at all.

Cody looked down at her, the look of pure evil spreading across his face, the gun still in his hand.

“I’m going to miss fucking you,” he growled. “But you’re nothing special. Never were.”

Cody began to smile at Eden. She scrambled to think of a way out of this.

Do something! Anything!

She reached up with her hands to claw at Cody’s wrist.

Suddenly Cody’s head sank down and his chest sunk in a little. He released his hold on Eden’s hair and dropped his gun, both hands reaching for his throat. Blood began to bloom from his throat, gently spraying, leaking by the gallon it seemed, down to his shirt.

Cody gagged and stumbled back. Eden looked forward and saw Priest standing in her doorway. A gun in his right hand. A knife in his left hand.

Priest charged across the bedroom, stepping over Eden, and went right for Cody. Eden didn’t want to watch, but she had to. She watched in shock as Priest pushed Cody back against the wall. A bullet had clearly gone into and probably through Cody’s throat. That alone would kill him.

Not good enough for Priest. Without a split second of hesitation, Priest slammed the knife into Cody’s chest, directly at his heart. Priest grunted loudly and shook the knife, ensuring this was it for Cody and his life.

When Priest stepped back, his hands balled up into tight fists. The room was silent, minus Cody’s gurgles and gags as his life came to an end.

Cody slid down the wall and ended up sitting with his head tilted to the right, eyes open, mouth slightly agape, blood soaked from his neck down his shirt to his jeans and to the floor. The knife still sticking out from his chest.

Eden felt like she was going to vomit.

Priest turned and offered his right hand to her. She grabbed Priest’s large hand with both hands and he pulled her up to her feet with ease.

“Did he hurt you, doll?” Priest asked.

That’s when Eden remembered she was fully naked. She sucked in a breath and felt a little dizzy. Exposed and vulnerable, she started to shake.

Priest grabbed Eden’s jaw, forcing her to look up at him.

“Now he can never hurt you, threaten you, or bother you ever again.”

Priest pulled at Eden’s mouth and quickly lowered his down to hers. She melted against him and groaned. Priest picked her up with one arm, his hand cupping her ass, holding her against him.

With Priest’s tongue thrusting deep into her mouth, Eden groaned, kissed back, and felt him move her toward her bed. Priest dropped Eden down onto her bed and climbed on top of her.

Eden glanced to her left and looked into the eyes of her now dead ex. Priest dropped his mouth down to her left breast and took it all into his aggressive mouth. She cried out. She was in the arms and hands of the devil now.

She grabbed the sheets on the bed with her right hand. With her left hand, she lifted her middle finger at Cody’s lifeless body.

Priest bit her nipple.

Eden screamed.