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I jump, and Hawk’s arms tighten around my body.

“She’s saying that I was there.”

“You were where?” Sin asks as I shake my head, not wanting to hear the words that I know is true.

“What the fuck is going on in here?” I hear Tylan’s voice.

There are too many people here. I’m starting to feel the beginning of a panic attack. The back door opens and closes again.

“Sin?”

That’s Cut’s voice. I know logically, I’m safe. He wasn’t one of the ones who hurt me then, and there’s no way he’ll be able to hurt me now.

“What the hell is wrong with Tessa? She ain’t feeling well?”

“She was spooked by Cruise,” Hawk explains.

I turn my head to watch Lick. “Of course, Cruise is scaring her.” He strides towards Cruise and moves behind him, wrapping his arms about his neck, putting him in a chokehold. “That’s his fucking MO.” Cruise fights against Tylan’s hold. “Listen you dip shit, she ain’t interested. You need to lay the fuck off trying to encroach on our women. It’s getting fucking old.”

“I wasn’t fucking with her. I just came into the fucking house, and she freaked out.”

“Why?”

The room falls silent.

“Fuck!” Cruise growls. “She freaked out because I was there.”

“You said that before,” Sin says.

“Oh fuck,” Hawk whispers under his breath.

Before I know what’s happening, I’m no longer in his arms. My knees collapse from underneath me, but before I hit the ground, two arms catch me. Matthew.

“You were there?” Hawk spits. Behind blurry eyes I watch Hawk come chest to chest with Cruise. “You were fucking there?” His voice gets louder. He pushes on Cruise’s chest.

I pull at the fabric of Matthew’s shirt as his arms tighten around me.

“Tell me that you weren’t.” Hawk pushes Cruise again. “Tell me you didn’t touch her. Didn’t hurt her.” He shakes his head no but doesn’t say a thing. “I want to hear it. Tell me.”

“I didn’t touch her.”

“But you were there, weren’t you?” Hawk grips Cruise’s shirt in his fist.

“I was there,” he confesses, and a sob breaks my chest. “I was there when the Diablos raped her.”

Hawk

“Fuck!” Sin yells from behind me, and I instantly drop my hand from Cruise’s shirt. When I turn I see Tessa passed out in his arms.

“God damn it! Take her to Sienna’s room,” Cut barks as I follow Sin down the hall. “I’ll go get mama.”

“This is some fucked up shit,” Lick says as he watches Sin lay her on the bed. I brush the hair from her face and grab a blanket from the foot of the bed and cover her with it.

Sin steps back and crosses his arms over his chest. “Is that the reason why she left?”

I nod.

“How bad was it?”