“How bad?”
“Sugar…”
“Scar, don't. I want to know. That is my brother fraternity we are talking about. We spend a lot of time with them, and my sisters are dating a few of them. Tell me what happened right now, or I am coming home just to kick your ass.” Scar gives a sexy chuckle, and I can hear his boots walking across the floor of the room he is in.
“Don't threaten me if you are not going to follow through, I would do just about anything to get your hands on me right about now.” Heat pools in my lower belly just thinking about running my hands up his chest and around to the back of his neck.
“Stay on topic. What happened?”
He huffs and then takes a deep breath, “She was sexually assaulted, in every way possible. She had bite marks that took chunks of skin, restraint marks on her wrist and ankles, marks on her throat, and cuts on her legs. She had lost too much blood and the damage to her brain was too much to come back from.”
I try like hell to keep the look of disgust off my face, but I don’t think I succeed.
What the hell is wrong with people, I have been a part of some pretty messed up things, and I have seen the men doing sometrulyfucked up things, but never in the history of the club have any of the men raped a woman and lived to see the next day.
“If I figure out who it is, I’ll kill them.”
“Easy their reaper, why don't you let the club take care of things like that.” I can hear the humor in Scar’s tone.
“I want to be there to see it, doll,” I hadn't realized that Bell was even there, and hearing his voice makes me weak at the knees all over again. I step over to the bench across the concrete walkway and sit down, just knowing that Pyro’s silky voice is going to make an appearance any moment now.
“I am here, and I am capable of doing what needs to be done in this particular situation. I’ll figure out what's going on and if it's more than I can take care of I will call you guys’ in.” Tanner has moved closer, so I make sure to keep my words light and not give too much away.
I learned a long time ago to get the emotions off my face, but Tanner isn't the type of person that is used to paying attention to other people's tells anyways.He probably has no idea that I am getting ready to go to war for a girl I don’t even know.
“You better not be putting yourself in danger, Finley.” There it is, Pyro stepping in. I would have thought that Scar would be the one to be bossy, maybe even Bell but I didn't see Pyro being the one getting all Alpha male, dominating me.
He even used my first name.
“You watch your attitude there. I know my limits; you should know yours.” I have fought like hell to keep these men at arm's length for the last six months. I can't let myself forget that I don't need to fall at their feet just because they are acting as if they care about my well-being. We aren't going to talk about how fucked up it is that I want to take my clothes off a do all the dirty things just because they get bossy and growl at me like animals.
“Damn.” Tanner huffs at my side, he had moved to sit beside me on the bench, so I was careful with the words that I used but it didn't stop the tone of my voice.
“Who the hell is that?” Bell’s voice takes on a whole different tone and I can just imagine him with his arms crossed tight over his chest, cocking one eyebrow up in question.
Even just imagining his eyes makes me melt a little and I want to answer him, I bite my tongue and the metallic taste of blood fills my mouth, bringing me back to my right mind. I don’t owe them anything.
“That is none of your business,” I hang up the phone before any of them can respond.
“Do you know why the party got canceled?” I ask Tanner after we start walking back toward the houses.
“I have heard rumors…” I look over at him and know right away that he is lying. Even if he didn't have a hand in what happened to that girl, he knows something that he doesn't want to share.
“That’s odd, I haven't heard any rumors.” That’s not true but the ones that I had heard didn’t come to anything, and none of them had been about date rape.
Someone is covering it up, and that has to be one hell of a feat.It would take a lot of people, and a whole lot of planning to hide something like this.
Delta Iota Kappa.
Fuck.
“Wanna tell me about those rumors?” I give him my best flirty smile and hope that even though I haven't openly flirted with anyone in several months I am still good at it.
“I don't want to help spread things that aren't true, and I don't know why they did it for sure,” he gives me the same smile that I have seen him give every woman that he has pulled into his bedroom.I want to laugh at the fact that women fall for it.
“Oh, come on Tanner,” I link my arm through his and press his arm against my chest.
Using my body to get answers might not be the best option, at some point, I am going to have to shut him down hard, but right now I need answers.I know that this is the quickest way to get them.