Page 54 of Captive Obsession
“Just Aoife here telling us about how she tamed ol’ Eamon, the Dia.”
“How did someone as sweet as you hook one of the most feared men in Dublin?” I asked, wrapping my arm around Darby.
“Well…it started with him being absolutely blindsided with my undeniable beauty, of course,” Aoife smirked. “And then he needed a fake fiancée…I needed money and he was willing to pay all my debts and then some. How could a girl refuse?”
“How indeed,” Ryleigh laughed. “Now, you’re the wife of the Dia and have all the wealth of Dublin.”
“Dreams do come true, right?”
“You totally need to write your love story into a book,” Darby said.
“Maybe, one day I will,” she smirked at her and sipped her drink. The door to church opened and Eamon walked out with Wolf, Ace and Hawk. I hadn’t even known Wolf was here but he looked tense. He never looked tense.
Eamon collected Aoife and said his goodbyes just as Wolf stood to the side of the bar. I moved over to where he was.
“What’s going on?” I asked them.
“Wolf’s had a hit put out on him,” Ace said. “He’s going to need to leave Ireland immediately.”
The whole clubhouse stilled. He’d been instrumental in saving us countless times, and now he had to leave. This meant that the threat was serious and we couldn’t help him in return.
“My brother is a President of a club in Sydney,” Wolf said. “I’ll head there. She won’t attack me all the way over there.”
“Who?”
“Tasi.”
The woman who saved Darby. He’d called in a favour, and now this appeared to be payment for that. Shit. I held onto her tighter, knowing that I owed him everything for her.
I kissed her on the head and followed them out. Wolf’s bike was close to the gatehouse. He swung his leg over and waited. Ace and I stood with him. The brothers all lining up behind us to bid him farewell.
“How do you know the Markov’s, Wolf?” Ace asked him.
“Tasi?” he replied. Ace nodded. “She and I were once a thing. Now, we barely tolerate each other. She lusts for power, and all I want is freedom. We’re bound together for life, though, so when I call, she answers.”
“What did you have to give her for Darby’s freedom?” I asked him. He turned to me, a sad smile on his face. He started the bike and turned back to me.
“Our daughter.”
There was a silence that descended on all of us. None of us knew much about Wolf but we trustedhim with our lives. I could tell that no one had known he’d had a child, either.
“Now she’s hunting you?”
“She doesn’t want me to take her back from her. She thinks I will come for our kid so her only option is to take me out.”
“You don’t seem too distressed about it,” I offered.
“I’m looking forward to the sun in Australia,” he replied with his signature cocky grin. Water off a duck’s back as they say. He took off, his bike disappearing into the distance.
Ace clapped me on the back. “Come on, we have a party to organise.” The gates of the compound shut tight, our logo cut into the steel at the top.
It was a fierce gate, and it said one thing… “Fuck around and find out.”
