It was on my side but stretched over a part of my stomach too. I had an urge to pull apart the bandage so I could feel what was really going on underneath.
“He missed your kidney narrowly, that would have been very bad,” she said.
I looked up at her and saw she was trying hard to not look worried.
“But this…this will just take a few days for you to recover. As long as you take it easy and follow all my advice.” She smiled lightly then but I was in no mood to smile.
“Eagle did this,” I growled. Mercy remained silent.
“We didn’t see it happen, but we’re sure it was him. You were out looking for him and we figured he was around here somewhere.”
I pressed my eyes closed, trying to remember but I couldn’t. I had no idea what I was doing before I woke up in this room. What led to the stabbing? Why wasn’t I able to take him down?
I slammed the glass down on the bedside table. I could feel the rage and frustration rising in me again. Mercy must have sensed it too because she stood up. Maybe she wasn’t sure of what my reaction could be. It wasn’t as if we knew each other well.
“I’ll give you some privacy, but you stay here. You can let me know if you need anything. I’ll just be out there in the kitchen.”
I had my jaws clenched as I watched her retreat to the door.
“Spike, please, it’s my professional opinion that you should take it easy right now if you want to give yourself a chance to fully recover,” she said, and then she was gone.
* * *
How was I supposed to just lie in bed like a fuckin’ invalid when that motherfucker Eagle was still out there?
He was the reason for all the chaos our MC had been facing the past year. Over and over again, our business and our men were affected. We came close to losing our power and our allies, but we managed to fight back each time.
All this time, we thought the Silver Knights’ President, Crash, was responsible for all the shit they were pulling. But then we managed to capture him and realized it was his VP, Eagle. Crash was too high and addicted to heroin to have made any of those decisions himself. Eagle was the one who got him hooked. He was the one who made all the plans about pulling us down and wiping us out.
Now that we managed to take over Silver Knights’ Clubhouse and some of their territory, their MC scattered but Eagle was trying to resurrect them from the ashes. He was in hiding. Like a little scum rat. He knew he couldn’t come out in the open and face us like a man. He was trying to operate in the dark, trying to regain power and control of the Silver Knights.
We were out looking for him. Keeping our ear to the ground to try and find him. Ghost got close. He found the cabin he was holed up in, but Eagle had Mercy in his possession and Ghost prioritized saving her life over capturing him.
This was exactly the reason why I made a vow to never get involved with a chick. Not in a serious way. I couldn’t blame Ghost. She was now his woman and it was obvious to me that he had feelings for her. But I was not going to put myself in that position. I didn’t want to have any liabilities and weaknesses.
I was in bed, just as Mercy instructed me. Staring up at the ceiling in Ghost’s bedroom. I was trying to remember, trying to retrace my steps. Where would I have gone in search of Eagle? Did I get any new information on him? Did he intercept me? He stabbed me. So I got close enough to him for this kind of injury.
I couldn’t just lie in bed anymore. My mind was spinning out of control and I needed to move my limbs. Maybe if I went out, back into the woods, tried retracing my steps that way.
I tried to climb out of bed again and that pain shot up my spine, making me growl like a wild caged animal. Fuck that. I’d just have to work through it. I wasn’t going to lie in bed forever.
“Where do you think you’re going?” I heard a voice and looked up to find Ghost at the door. He was shaking his head disapprovingly at me.
* * *
“I don’t fuckin’ remember what happened, but I must have been close enough to get stabbed. So I was close enough to bringing him in myself, alone, I should be able to do it again,” I argued. Ghost was in the chair beside the bed now. Mercy was standing at the back, still looking concerned.
I knew what she was concerned about—that I might somehow be able to convince Ghost to go back out there and help them find Eagle.
“Yeah, you got close. You got very close, but you don’t need to worry about that motherfucker right now.”
“And what am I supposed to do instead? Just shut off my brain and lay here in your house like a cripple?” I snarled the words. Ghost glared at me. I couldn’t even count the years we had been friends for. Brothers in arms. And yet, I knew he was about to pull rank on me right now. He was the MC’s VP after all.
“You’re not going anywhere. You get that in your head right now. If you start moving around, you could seriously injure yourself.”
“According to Mercy?” I growled and I knew I’d said the wrong thing.
Behind him, she hung her head. I knew she was having trouble fitting in. She was a stripper who used to work for Eagle and Crash. Our MC had already taken a
