บททั้งหมดของ The Devil's Ice (The Road Devils MC 5): บทที่ 81 - บทที่ 89

Three hours later, in a silence that had only fallen about ten minutes earlier, Scars’ burner cell chimed, chimed again. And again. And again.Knowing exactly what he was about to see, Scars picked up the phone, opened the first attachment, then another and another. “And?” King said.“Well, I can’t tell you what the hell might have done this.” Scars held up the phone to show the grisly image of Viper Grant with blood, vomit, and some kind of clear foam around his blue-tinged lips, his back eyes open and locked in frozen pain and horror. “But it looks pretty permanent.”“Can I see?” Ice asked. “I have some unfortunate experience with poison exposure from my time in Afghanistan.”Scars handed the phone over and Ice went through each image carefully, noting body positioning, fluids, and skin color. Finally, he glanced up at the other men and nodded.“If I had to guess, I’d say it was some kind of airborne chemical. Maybe carbon monoxide, since it made them puke everywhere, but the blood

“Holy fuck,” Scars blurted, and Wolf heard him talking to someone. “I’m putting you on speaker, Wolf, so everyone can hear you.”There was a click, then dead air for a second, then a hum.“You still there, Wolf?”“Yeah, Scars, I’m here. Me and the babies.”“Are they OK?” came a voice that was either Dux or Drake. “Are they hurt?”“They’re fine,” Wolf said to whichever twin it was. “They’re sleepin’ on the bed behind me right now.”“Jesus,” said a voice, either Dux and Drake. “I gotta go call Briley, like right the fuck now."“Yeah,” said his brother. “Let her know.”“Before I go,” said the first voice. “Are you OK, Wolf?”“I’m fine, man,” Wolf said, his eyes still nailed on Bones’ face. “Happy to hear from you guys. Lookin’ forward to gettin’ home.”“Wolf?” The voice this time was King’s, and Wolf’s anxiety dropped a few more notches. If Scars had shown up with the twins, and King, then he was organized and fully ready to fuck someone up if necessary. “We’re meeting up with you and Bo

“Something like that, yeah,” Bones agreed mildly. “Also, I didn’t want Viper to be the one to end me. It would be have been horrific, and maybe that’s what I deserve after the life that I’ve led, but I still want to be the one who makes the final call about how I go out. I think it’s a choice we’d all like to make, if we could. I mean – who doesn’t want to just die in their sleep, in a snug little cabin next to a frozen lake? Especially men who have lived the lives that we have, who always thought we’d go by violence somehow.”“I’ll give you that,” Wolf conceded, now wrapping Judge up nice and warm. “But you still could have just run without helpin’ us, seen your snow and ended things your way anyway.”“I know. I just – I wanted to do one good thing before I check out. I don’t think it’ll help me evade hell, if such a place exists, but at least I could leave Utah with a few points in my favour.” Bones shrugged, gave a wry smile. “It can’t hurt, right? And if I was going to blow town a

Three days laterBut people can also love you quietly, without fanfare or noise; sometimes, this is when love is the most powerful, and the most life-changing.For the first time, Ice and Vixen were together in his bed. Ice was in boxer shorts and lying on his side facing her, holding her hand. She was all tucked up in her little pillow fort, looking warm and happy in one of his large t-shirts, if maybe a bit sleepy from their long shower together. That beautiful face was serene, those amazing eyes were his personal little night sky, those lips pink and slightly swollen from Ice’s tender kisses.As he gazed at her, it occurred to him – yet again – that he knew everything truly important about this woman, everything that really counted. He had years of small details to learn, he understood that, and with a jolt, he realized that he wanted to have the years to learn them – he wanted years with her.He wanted a whole lifetime together, for him to find out everything that made Vixen Vixen