Chapter 3 Chapter 3

“Blocker called me,” Diabolus explained. “He was out searching for trouble and he ran across it. When I joined him, I found a wrecked bike and its rider, three blocks away from here. She nailed him in the neck and he got that far before he died from blood loss. She got him spot on, right in the artery, and you ain’t gonna believe what he was wearing.” He then handed the biker’s cut to Zeus.

Zeus glared at his brother then looked down at the cut. The patches on the cut read Dragon’s Breath MC.

Grave Digger picked up her gun holster and stared at the golden disk and read the name engraved on it. “Holy shit,” he swore. He raised his stunned gaze to the girl on the sofa. “So that’s what happened to her.”

Zeus glared at his medic. “What ? What happened to who?”

Grave Digger shook his head. “Boss, this woman ain’t Sam.” He raised the holster and said, “This belongs to Martine Shaw. Ten years ago, she was the best of the best, the top sharp shooter in the nation. What was so unusual about that was the fact she went up against grown men and still beat them.” He shook his head and said, “I actually got to see her shoot once and man, it was a piece of heaven I can tell you that. Pure fuckin’ art if you ask me.”

Zeus narrowed his eyes at him. “So? She’s a crack shot, what’s the big deal? Women can shoot too.”

Grave Digger snorted. “Yeah, women can shoot I agree, but she was barely fourteen when she won this title…just a kid. After that competition, she just disappeared. No one has ever heard or seen her again. Most of the judges and the men competing complained it was a fluke. They wanted a redo but no one could find her.” He shook his head. “Now, I know why. It looks like someone smashed her hand to make sure she couldn’t ever shoot that good again.”

Zeus swung his gaze over at the woman and found her eyes were open. Up close, her eyes were gray but he knew Sam’s eyes were blue, but the two women shared the same heart shaped face, the same long dark hair. They were almost identical in looks… shit, they were even about the same height. Like Grave Digger said, this woman wasn’t Sam Wyatt, but she sure as hell looked like her. “Lady, just who the hell are you?” He stared at her.

She didn’t give him an answer as she turned her head and found Angel staring at her.

Angel smiled and reached out for her.

Zeus was stunned as his daughter hugged the woman. Angel hated Sam. Also, Sam would have pushed the little girl away and made a nasty face saying for her to get her grubby hands away from her. But this woman didn’t act that way. She just wrapped her arm around his daughter and held her close.

“I asked you a question and I never ask twice, sweetheart,” Zeus growled out.

Gray eyes turned back to him and she whispered, “My name is Marty. Who are y’all?”

“We’re the Brothers at Arms MC.” Zeus stared back at her.

Marty groaned and tried to sit up, but she did so with a cute little monkey of a girl and stuffed rabbit attached to her neck.

Grave Digger helped her to sit up and then sat back on his heels. “Are you okay?”

Marty nodded. She looked down at her side and shook her head. “I didn’t realize that biker had gotten so close to me. I never even felt it.”

“You were lucky he didn’t go deeper.” Grave Digger shook his head. “He could have laid you wide open.”

Marty hugged the little girl closer. “He was after her, not me. I just got in his way.”

Zeus sucked in a breath. “That bastard was after my Angel? Why?”

Marty nodded then shrugged. “I have no idea why. After she was tossed out the door, he came roaring down the alley. I thought he was going to kill her. Like I said, I got in his way and he swiped me. I was going to kick his bike and he swerved at the last minute and that must have been when the knife got me. I didn’t even feel it.”

“How the hell did Angel get out in the alley in the first place?” Memphis wanted to know.

Marty leaned her head on top of the little girl and didn’t say anything.

The little girl just gripped her rabbit tighter to her chest as tears ran down her face.

Zeus growled and turned to Diabolus. “Get the body under some cover and set a watch. We need to know if any more of the Dragons are in town.”

Diabolus nodded and disappeared.

 Zeus looked at his brother and said, “Bring my cage around to the back. I’ll take Angel and Marty back to the compound. Angel needs to get to bed soon anyway.”

“You’re taking the woman home with you?” Memphis exclaimed. “We don’t even know why she’s here yet.”

Zeus shook his head. “I’m not letting her leave my side until I get some answers but Angel is terrified right now and I need to see to her. Find Donna and asked her how she lost my daughter in the first fucking place.”

Memphis nodded. “I’ll find out and meet you back at the clubhouse.”

Just then, an explosion rocked the street.

Everyone in the office felt it as glass rained down from the window. The people in the bar were screaming as pure chaos ensued.

Zeus covered Marty and Angel as dust and shattered glass flew everywhere.

The explosion must have been close by as billowing smoke was coming in through the windows when he and the brothers picked themselves up off the floor.

 Zeus got up from the sofa and looked down at Marty. “Are you alright?”

Marty nodded and looked stunned for a moment then gazed down at Angel.

The tiny girl was cowering in her lap and fresh tears were rolling down her cheeks while she still clutched her rabbit.

 Marty held her and began humming a tune nobody else recognized.

Zeus watched in shock as the tune seemed to calm his daughter.

Memphis and a couple other brothers went outside to see what blew up.

Zeus just sat and watched his daughter be comforted by a woman that he didn’t know at all.

Memphis returned a few minutes later, shaking his head. He looked at Zeus and said, “You aren’t driving your truck anywhere man, someone must have put a rag in the gas tank and lit it up. The brothers are trying to put it out now.”

Zeus dragged his hands over the top of his head and swore, “What the fuck is going on around here tonight? First, they try to get at Angel, then the body of a Dragon shows up dead and now an explosion?”

Marty looked up at him. “I swear it wasn’t me. I had nothing to do with this.”