Chapter 10

Bridget POV

When I got off the phone with Bells, I looked for Kozik. He was standing with Lee and a couple other guys. I walked over to them. "Hey guys, sorry to interrupt, Bells just called and said that their headed this way. Should be here by morning, she said." I told them.

"Thanks, Bridget. Since we're not having church till they get here, you can set up whatever you need to in there." Lee said.

"Thanks, appreciate it." I said, walking back to the room that I had been sharing with Kozik. Ever since I had arrived at the Tacoma clubhouse, I had been waking up from nightmares. The shit with the Italians had been fucking with my head. I grabbed my laptop and the pictures that I had printed off. I made my way back to the chapel, to set up and make sure that I had everything ready for when they got here. I had just set everything down on the table when I felt a pair of hands on my hips.

"You okay?" Kozik asked me.

I nodded, turning around. "Bells told me something else when she called." I told him. He nodded. "Lexi betrayed the club. She's dead." I said.

"Damn, you okay?" He asked me pulling me into his arms.

"I think so. I just can't believe that she would betray the club … and for what? An Italian bitch who had some hang arounds beat the crap out of my cousin and rape her?" I said.

Kozik lifted my chin with one of his fingers. "Look, Bells is tough. Hell, she's got Hap as her old man… she has to be." Kozik said. I nodded. "When this is all done… I wanna talk about you and me." He said. I nodded and watched him walk out of the room.

In the short time that I had been at the Tacoma clubhouse, Kozik and I had grown close. Of course, we knew each other from the times that Bells, and I had come down for parties, it was just that me being here the last couple of days we had grown closer. Part of me wondered if Kozik and I even had a future.

Bella POV

When we pulled into the parking lot at the Tacoma clubhouse, I sat in my car for a minute to take a breather. Now that we were here, I suddenly felt overwhelmed. When I climbed out of my car, Hap was walking up to me. "You okay?" He asked me.

I nodded. "Yeah, just ready to get this over with." I said.

"That's understandable. Let's go check on Bridget." He said and I nodded, noticing that everyone else was making their way into the clubhouse.

When we walked into the clubhouse, Bridget approached me and pulled me into a hug. "Hey." I said when she let me go.

"Hey." She said with a small smile. Lee and Trevor led me, Lex, Bridget, Clay and Jax into their chapel. The 7 of us sat at the table going over our plan that we would put into effect the next day. Once we were done and everyone knew what was going to happen, Bridget and I grabbed a couple beers and found ourselves sitting outside. "You okay with this plan?" She asked me.

I took a drink of my beer and nodded. "Yeah, I'm the only one that can do it. I need to do it." I said.

I looked over at Bridget and she nodded. "How'd Aunt Gem take the news of you not only being a biker but being the club enforcer as well?" She asked.

I laughed. "Not as good as when she found out that I had Hap's crow." I said.

"I'm sure. That's a big deal… an even bigger deal when you're an all-girl club." She said.

Yep. Now I had to tell Bridget my plan for when this was all done. "Listen, I gotta tell you something." I said and she nodded. "When this is all done… I'm going back home to Charming, with Hap." I told her.

"I kinda figured that you would. I mean, you never wanted to leave him." She said. She was right. I didn't.

"You're not mad?"

She shook her head. "Nope. I've been thinking about taking a step back myself."

"Really?" She nodded. "What changed?"

"Kozik. Since I've been here, we've been getting close. This is the first night that he's let me out of his sight." She said.

"Can't say that I saw it coming. Kozik's a good guy though." I told her.

"I missed you." She said.

"I missed you too, Cuz."