The blonde, beautiful, evil bombshell smirks at me. “I think I’d know my limits,” she flirts with her thick accent.

She needs to leave. She is barking up the wrong motherfucking tree. Tea already busted my ass for checking her out, and now that I seriously think about it, I think that is exactly why she let that fucker fuck her in the bathroom. Oh, hell no, really? Did I cause that shit?

Fuck no, I’m not!

“Get your own!” I growl. “You should be worried about your sister and not worried about drinking.” My words slur. Oh yeah, that’s the spot, I think as I gulp more of the fire down.

The blonde devil puts her hand on her hip and cocks her head. “Whatever. She has been a bitch since I arrived. If she wanted me to worry about her, she should have been more welcoming.”

I don’t understand half of what she says because of her accent, but I know that whatever that bullshit is that came out of her mouth is pathetic and cruel.

“You need to take your sorry ass on outta here, because you did not say that shit about our first lady!” Tatiana yells in anger.

My eyes dart to Tatiana. Where did she come from?

“Grow up, child.” Sabine spouts at Tea.

I groan, tip the bottle to my lips, and gulp some more before I slam the decanter down on the counter, dig out my cell phone, and type an SOS to ZZ. I can’t handle them both with all this shit I just poured down my throat floating around in my system. When I set my phone down on the bar, things only escalate, and I thank my balls that I sent out a text.

“Grow up? Bitch, please, I am grown. At least I ain’t some spoiled little princess with the worst accent I have ever fucking heard, who had to run to my sister who barely knows me so I could escape a scandal because I slept with a married fucking man!”

That’s the scandal that drove her to the United States? Really?

“Who the—? Never mind, I know who told you.”

Tea smirks at Sabine as ZZ stomps into the clubhouse. “What the fuck is going on in here?”

Thank fuck, I really didn’t want to get clawed to death in a cat fight.

“This child of yours needs to learn how to speak.”

Sabine keeps digging herself a hole, doesn’t she?

“My child needs to learn how to speak? Oh, this, bitch, I gotta hear.” ZZ crosses his arms, daring Sabine to continue.

We watch as her mouth opens and closes while her mind works to find a response. She comes up empty handed, probably because ZZ looks like he wants to snap her head off her neck.

“My daughter graduated with a 4.2 GPA. What the fuck did you graduate with?”

A chuckle bursts through my drunken haze.

“I was homeschooled.”

Tatiana loses it and doubles over as ZZ cackles evilly at Sabine’s response.

“Homeschooled children aren’t stupid, so I wonder who the fuck was teaching your ass. The nursery rhymes in children’s books, perhaps?”

Never fuck with a man’s child.

“What’s going on here?” Mace Jr. asks while striding in with a confident look on his face.

“Your dad was insulting me,” Sabine purrs.

Wait a damn minute here. With his confidence and her purring… oh, fuck no! It hasn’t even been 48 hours! How in the hell did she sink her teeth in him that quickly?

“ZZ…,” Mace Jr. questions. “What happened?”

ZZ looks to his son and then back to Sabine. I see the immediate realization of what I just put together come across his face.

“You didn’t sleep with this bitch, did you, son? I mean, yeah, she’s fine as fuck, but she even smells like a cunt!”

Mace Jr. frowns at his dad as he motions for Sabine to come to him. Seriously! I repeat, less than 48 hours!

“Son, you’re making a huge fuckin’ mistake here.”

He doesn’t look at his dad as he escorts the evil cunt out of the clubhouse to the parking lot. I look up at the monitor above the bar and watch as they get into the car. Rap stops them as they pull up to the gate and motions Smokey over. Once Smokey gets to them, he helps Rap out of his wheelchair and into the car, and then Smokey takes over gate watch. This is the biggest mistake Smokey has ever made.

“Dad, I don’t have a good feeling about any of this.” Tea’s voice trembles.

ZZ shakes his head, throws his hands into his hair, and howls loudly as he storms out of the clubhouse, leaving me alone with a hurt Tatiana.

It kills me to see her like this. Her brother chose Sabine over his twin sister and his dad. Granted, he hasn’t been here long, but still, we always, always stick with family, and I imagine that is exactly what is going through her head as sadness takes over her face.

“My gut is twisting,” she says in a soft, broken voice.

My mouth opens, but nothing comes out as I watch her walk away. Dread fills me as her words replay themselves in my head. My eyes go back to the monitor to watch her make it safely to the other building before I grab the moonshine and drink until I can’t stand straight.

***

Chapter Nineteen

Tatiana

After my brother disappeared last night, I didn’t sleep well at all. Something keeps churning inside of me. It eats away at the lining in my stomach and my skin prickles from the shaken nerves. I don’t understand how Sabine got her claws into my brother in such little time. Days ago, he was all about his newly found family, and last night he was questioning our father?

I have lunch planned with Haden today, so at least I will have a little time to get my mind off everything going on with the club, my family, and even Shadow. I shoot Haden a text to ask him to bring lunch to the compound because I can’t leave. I could if I really wanted to, but I see no reason to put more stress and worry on everyone by leaving the premises.