Page 56 of The Saviors: Part One

With a sigh, I flop back on the couch. “That happened, Gorgeous, but Axel went back and killed Cole’s dad when Cole came to him freaking out. That’s what set Charlie off.”

“Holy shit,” she whispers. “I knew Roy died, but I never knew how. That still doesn’t explain why they needed to leave me.”

“That part we don’t know, Dragonfly. I think that’s why you should talk to Cole.”

“You aren’t bothered by the fact that we’re killers?” I have to ask. We don’t murder in cold blood, but we are still killers. All of us have blood on our hands.

She sighs and stretches her legs to prop her feet on the coffee table. “I don’t like it. I never have. But I learned to accept it when my stepdad shot one of his lackeys in front of me when I was twelve.”

“You shouldn’t have had to deal with that. None of us should have,” Kai says with a faraway look. All of this is probably bringing up how he ended up with the Saviors.

Chelsea shrugs. “It is what it is. My real dad died when I was four, and my mom met my stepdad. He moved us here shortly after.”

“Where is your mom now?” I haven’t heard her talk about any of her family.

“Dead for all I know. Honestly, I never looked after I left home. She wouldn’t win any mother of the year awards. She was a drunk and never raised me. I raised her. I was cleaning up vomit at the tender age of six.”

“How did your dad die?”

“Car accident. What about your parents?”

“Dad is in jail in Rose Hills. I’m not sure about my mom.”

“I didn’t know my real parents. I grew up being bounced from foster home to foster home, each shittier than the last, until I aged out,” Kai answers.

“I hate that none of us had a good childhood. Do you think our lives would have turned out differently if we had?”

“Probably,” I answer honestly. “But I wouldn’t have met you if things were different.”

She looks at me with a smile. “You’re pretty great. You know that?”

“You bring out the best parts of me.”

I know for a fact looking at her right now, that she’s it for me. I also know it’s too fucking soon to be having those feelings.

“Okay.” She sits up and turns to face me. “I have to know what happened to your lip and eye. I noticed your lip last night, but it’s worse now.”

I know my lip is busted, and my eye is sore as fuck. “Axel,” I reply.

“What?”

“We got into it before the meeting and after. He said some shit I didn’t like, and it escalated.”

Kai snorts. “Escalated? You power drove his ass through a glass coffee table.”

I wave that away. “Irrelevant.”

Chelsea laughs. “How is that irrelevant?”

“He said something about you, and I snapped. Kai choked him out.”

“Really?” Kai says. “You’re throwing me under that bus too?”

“I don’t want to be the reason you guys fight.”

I shake my head. “It’s been building for weeks, and it finally boiled over.”

“He’s right,” Kai adds. “Axel’s been on edge.”