and so all is revealed. Who is Michael? What does he have against the club?
Chapter 20
Juice and Harley had been talking for about an hour when the nurse with the short black bob scurried in. Harley hadn't told Juice she might be pregnant and was struck with the fear that she might say something. Her eyes took in the scene before her, she was about to say something but seemed to think better of it. A smile spread across her face and in light of recent events Harley found herself hating the little nurse.
"You have a call"
"Can you bring the phone in?" Juice questioned. The nurses face darkened.
"She isn't an invalid" she said her tone sharp.
"It's fine Juice" Harley soothed as she threw the covers off of her. For the first time she noticed she was wearing a hospital gown, her cheeks flushed with embarrassment. As she shuffled along to the admin desk she tried to keep the back of her gown closed.
"Hello?" she asked into the phone.
"Harley?"
"Dixie I told you I can't talk to you right now"
"Please Harley it's… it's dad" Harley thought she heard someone in the background saying do it.
"What's wrong with him?"
"We need to talk to you. We're at the club."
"I'm in hospital Dixie and even if I wasn't I cant deal with this drama right now"
"Please Haley"
Harleys heart started hammering in her chest. Haley? She said Haley. She tried to keep her voice calm.
"Ok I'll see if I can discharge myself" with that the line went dead. Harley ran back to her room searching for her clothes.
"What's wrong?" Juice questioned starting to panic.
"Something's wrong at the club we need to go"
"What do you mean something's wrong?"
"Dixie called me Haley"
"So?" she started yanking on her jeans.
"So she doesn't call me Haley she knows I hate it. She would only call me Haley to tell me something was wrong"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes come on" she said tugging on her t-shirt
Harley raced past the doctors and nurses, a bewildered Juice trailing behind. When she reached the car park she looked around frantically.
"My bikes over here" Juice gasped out of breath
As they pulled up to the club they knew something was wrong, it was too quite. All the bikes were lined up outside, but there was no one around. An eerie silence made them feel unwelcome.
"Stay here" Juice commanded.
"No"
"Yes, here call Hale" he said passing his mobile to her. Reluctantly she took it.
"Be careful" she whispered as he crept towards the club.
She dialed the police station and got a surly woman
"What is it?"
"You need to send Chief Hale to Teller-Morrow"
"Why?"
"There's something wrong"
"Like?"
"I don't know please hurry" she whispered as she hung up. She looked around before deciding she couldn't wait and dashed into club. The first thing she saw was Juice lying on the floor, then Dixie and Thumper in front of the pool table tied up. Her eyes flicked around the room to see everyone else lined up against the wall. She dropped to her knees to try and wake Juice up.
"Juice"
"Don't worry he's only knocked out. I wouldn't want to hurt your boyfriend" Came a voice behind her.
She spun around to see Michael standing there with a rope in his hand.
"Michael?"
"Oh you remember me. You can see why I'd be confused, what with you kissing me then having him in your bed at the hospital" he sharply nodded towards Juice. "You know we could have been good together. But you chose this… this thug instead of me"
"Michael"
"Save it. I should have stuck to my plan"
"Plan?"
"To find out who killed Josh"
"Josh?"
"AGENT JOSHUA KOHN" he screamed. She flinched away. He took a deep breath. "You know that friend I told you about the one that came here a couple years ago, loved it so much he never came back. The reason he never came back was because one of you killed him."
"I… I don't know who that is"
"Of course you don't your so oblivious. He was Tara's boyfriend, one of my clients." He turned to Tara. "I bet you don't even remember me" Her scared eyes stared up at him from there position next to Jax on the floor. "I was his lawyer when you took out that…that restraining order. You were such an ungrateful bitch he gave you everything you could ever wanted. Even when you came running back to this piece of shit" he kicked Jax's boot "He tried to save you. Even after you killed his baby. And look what he got for it, he's lying somewhere in a ditch. BECAUSE OF YOU" He spun around to stare at Harley who had spotted a gun resting on the bar. "But you would know all about that wouldn't you. I'm a successful lawyer and you chose that. But you see I wont try and save you. You've made your choice. Never mind what I've done for you."
"What sending me creepy photos?" she scoffed.
"Oh that wasn't me that was your sister."
"What?"
"Little Virginia sent it. She told me when I was helping you"
"Helping me?"
"Get rid of her. She was nothing but trouble, making your life difficult so I arranged for her to have a rude awakening. It's amazing what you can pay these hillbillies to do. The Wrech boy almost peed himself when I gave him money to drug little Virginia. She didn't even make it hard jumping out the window and running over to his house. She was so high she told me all about Dixie shooting your mum. It's a shame I had to call the police, you never know how many other little secrets she was keeping"
"YOU BASTARD"
"Don't get high and mighty. You wanted her gone, you didn't even question the Ketamine I planted. Deep down you knew it wasn't hers and you didn't care. I wanted to free you from this life… from these murderers. But it's to late."
She jumped to her feet and scrambled to the bar, Michael saw she was going for his gun. He raced to reach it first.
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