Chapter Four
His leg clamping didn’t stop her from feeling hung out to dry. Cat absolutely hated being hung upside down and she pounded on his back in protest. “Put me down. I’m not going in there. I don’t belong here!” As he walked along while carrying her, she grabbed his belt and hung on as nausea rolled in her belly. “I’m gonna be sick!” she called out in panic.
Titan just grunted as he strode inside the clubhouse. He gently lowered her to the floor.
When she stood on her own two feet, she clamped her hand over her mouth and looked around the room carefully. She saw an open door and ran for it. Moments later, she upchucked everything in her belly. Her tea tasted so much better when she drank it earlier but not so good now.
Titan stood just inside of the bathroom for a few seconds then stepped inside. Pulling the door shut behind him, he shook his head at the sight of her kneeling on the floor while hanging over the toilet. He squatted down beside her, flushed the toilet, and handed her a wet wash cloth to wipe her mouth. “I don’t know what you’re so scared of, but we’re not going to hurt you.”
She reached up to brace herself against the toilet and shook her head. “Why couldn’t you just leave me be? Why drag me out here for nothing?”
Titan gently raised her chin with his finger so he could look into her eyes. “My president and friend are in some serious trouble. I don’t know why, but I feel like you have information that will clear him and we need your help.”
Cat shook her head. “I can’t help you.”
Suddenly, someone pounded on the door.
Titan sighed and stood again. Holding out a hand to her, he lifted her up and set her on her feet. “Come on, Hawkins wants to talk to you.”
Cat snapped her mouth shut but glared at him.
Titan shook his head and explained, “Hawkins is Kota’s dad and when he stepped down, Kota took his place and is taking this MC into new territory. For the last six months, someone has been targeting us and we don’t know why. Maybe you know something that could help us.”
“I don’t,” she assured him. “Hell, I didn’t know this MC existed until I saw you in the courtroom. I can’t help you.”
Titan scoffed in disbelief. Opening the door, he hauled her out to the main room.
Cat found herself facing a double line of unhappy men.
The older man she saw outside stood there with his arms folded over his chest and a frown on his face.
She shrank back from him and tried to hide behind Titan.
He wouldn’t let her. Pulling her around in front of him, he held her in her place. “Hawkins, this is Cat.”
She wouldn’t look at him and instead, she stared at the floor.
Undeterred by this, Hawkins stepped closer and reached out to raise her chin. Then he met her eyes and his frown deepened as he stared into her eyes. "What is your name, young lady?” he growled.
“Cat,” she whispered.
“Cat what?” Hawkins raised a brow at her.
“Cat Lamond.”
“I don’t know that name.”
“And I don’t know you, so can I go now?” she asked sweetly.
Titan wrapped his arm around her waist and growled in her ear, “I don’t think so sweetness. We still have questions and you have the answers.”
“What does that mean?” Hawkins stared at Titan.
Titan told him what he saw, “When we stood in the courtroom and the bailiff read the charges against Kota aloud, she was shaking from head to toe. We saw tears in her eyes. She knows something about what’s going on here and I want to know what that something is.”
Hawkins stepped closer and grabbed her jaw, leaning in he asked, “Well, what do you have to say, woman? You heard his question, what’s your answer?”
“I don’t know anything.” Cat snarled as his fingers tightened their grip. “I told him that already and I’ll tell you the same thing. I don’t know anything.”
Hawkins growled as he released her and stepped back. “I don’t fucking believe you.”
Cat just stared at him. “I don’t care what you believe, I know it to be the truth.”
“Put her in a room and make sure it's locked.” Hawkins ran his hand over the back of his neck. “I want her to be here when she changes her mind and decides to talk to us.”
Titan gave him a nod then showed her to a room down the hall. When she stumbled in, he stood at the door and shook his head. “The one thing you don’t want to do sweetheart, is piss off Jedidiah Hawkins. He can and will bring the fury of hell down on you and it will not be pretty.”
Cat caught her breath when she heard his full name. She knew the name but it wasn’t one she’d heard in a very long time. “Jedidiah Hawkins? Is that his name?”
Titan stared at her and replied, “Yeah, that’s it. Why?”
She didn’t answer him. Instead, she wrapped her arms around her waist and stepped over to the window to look outside. She just stood there silently until Titan finally closed the door and turned the key in the lock.
At the resounding click, she swung her gaze over to the door. She was in so much trouble and if they knew who she really was, they wouldn’t be any kinder to her…that was for sure. Sitting down on the floor in the corner of the room, she simply hung her head for a while. Wondering how to get out of this. Damn, she sure regretted coming here. It hadn't turned out like she thought it would.
Cat felt like crying but the tears never came. After all the cruelty in her life, those tears had dried up long ago.