Chapter 14
Scarlett glanced at Rayna and Esme before she stood, attempting to excuse herself.
“Wait! Jesus, what the fuck just happened?,” Esme asked.
Scarlett glanced down at her phone before she shrugged.
“I guess Scott called again.”
“Do you…ya know, have a fiancé?,” Rayna asked.
Scarlett smiled sadly before she wiped away her tears.
“No, Rayna. He cheated on me and then dumped me weeks before the wedding. Unfortunately, when he realized I was moving, he started calling me on and off begging to get back together. I guess between all the family drama and Limit I forgot about him,” She explained.
Scarlett shrugged helplessly.
Rayna relaxed considerably before she shook her head.
“Limit had no right to speak to you that way, regardless. Do you want me to hurt him for you?,” Rayna asked.
Her big blue eyes were wide and focused directly on Scarlett.
She glanced at Esme to see if Rayna was serious.
“Oh, don’t look at me, darlin’. If she asks it, she’ll do it.”
Scarlett’s bottom lip trembled violently before she sucked in a breath and looked at Emily, who’d joined them moments before.
“Baby, don’t let that man tear you down. What he said was wrong. He had no right, and I plan on telling him just that the second his surly ass gets out of church,” Emily snapped.
Rayna glanced at her.
“I like you.”
Emily grinned like the Cheshire cat.
“I like you, too.”
Esme snorted before she reached across the table and took Scarlett’s hand in hers.
“I’m really sorry you got your feelings hurt.”
Scarlett smiled tremulously before she tugged her keys from her pocket.
“I need to go home. Em, you stayin’?”
Emily frowned.
“Don’t leave just because of that cock gobbler, Scar! You didn’t deserve that!”
Rayna choked out a laugh as she mouthed the words, cock gobbler?
Esme giggled at the name, too.
Scarlett shook her head.
“I want to leave. I need to get out of here. I’ll check in with you later if you’re not home.”
Rayna caught her hand at the last second.
“Will you come to our wedding? It’s Friday, and it’s kind of a big deal, and it would mean a lot if you would come.”
Scarlett smiled as she nodded.
“Of course. I’m honored that you would invite me.”
Rayna nodded, but Scarlett knew that she could tell how close she was to crying.
Scarlett was so close to letting go, she could practically taste her own tears, but she refused to cry until she was alone.
As the doors to the room where church was held banged open, Scarlett slipped out of the front doors and booked it to her car.
Turned out, Ox was right after all.
Limit didn’t have anything to offer her.
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Esme turned to look at Rayna and Emily, her blue eyes narrowed.
“What the fuck just happened?,” She whispered.
As raucous laughter filled the clubhouse, Rayna and Emily scooted closer to Esme so they could talk amongst themselves.
“Me thinks Limit like her. A lot.”
“Me thinks Limit can suck a dick,” Emily said wryly.
Rayna cracked up before she nodded in agreement.
“Yeah, that too. But, seriously? The man was so bent out of shape! He crushed our girl’s feelings.”
Esme smiled when Fury wrapped his arms around Rayna from behind.
“Care to let your ol’ man in on what you three trouble makers are talking about?”
Emily winked in his direction.
“I prefer to refer to myself as trouble, thank you very much.”
Fury rolled his eyes before Rayna kissed his palm.
“We are talking about the scene Limit just made.”
Fury pulled up a chair before he dipped his dark head and kissed Rayna full on the mouth.
“Uh, yeah. I’m a little confused about that myself. What did she say? She got a fiancé?”
Emily slapped her palms onto the table.
“That ass hat treated her like a fuckin’ door mat. Scott was awful. Always made her feel like shit, like she was less than. He talked down to her, cheated on her, and at times he would be so…controlling. Typical rich kid used to getting whatever he wanted! But, for the longest time he had her convinced that she couldn’t do any better. Then, he dumped her weeks before the wedding.”
Fury sighed heavily before he sat back in his chair.
“Why was he calling her?”
Emily rolled her eyes before she tucked her blue hair behind her ears.
“He goes through phases. Some weeks it’ll be like he never existed, and others he’ll call non-stop. I think he just didn’t think she would move on.”
Fury drummed his fingers on the table top before he glanced at Rayna.
“I’m guessing Limit doesn’t know all of that.”
“Know all of what?,” Esme heard.
She glanced up at the asshole himself before she saw her ol’ man coming towards her, a sexy grin on his handsome face. To this day, she loved his scars. Sometimes Prettyboy still got self-conscious about his burns, but Esme loved every inch of him.
As he sat down next to her and placed a protective hand on her pregnant belly, she kissed his scarred cheek.
“You, dick weed, have royally fucked up,” Emily spat.
Limit’s grey eyes narrowed as he looked down at her.
“Excuse me?”
She stood to her full height of maybe 5’3, and stared him down.
“Scott isn’t Scarlett’s fiancé. He keeps calling her because he wants to get back together, but she doesn’t answer. They’ve been broken up for a while now, but you would know that if you’d have asked her!,” She said angrily.
Limit crossed his arms over his chest as he laughed.
“Yeah? Then why did he say they were together?”
“Probably the same reason you fucked her and then crushed her feelings! You both wanted something from her.”
Everyone in the room went silent at her words, and Esme was just waiting for Limit to explode- he looked like he was close.
“What was I supposed to think when he told me they were together!”
Emily rolled her eyes and planted her hands on her hips.
“Hmm, I don’t know, that maybe Scarlett would have told you the truth had you actually asked her a damn question? Scarlett’s only ever been with Scott, and he was a grade-a-asshole. And, apparently, so are you!”
Limit’s brow furrowed as he watched Emily defend her friend.
“What do you mean?”
Emily laughed as she shook her head, exasperated.
“Scott cheated on her! Treated her like a fucking dog on a leash. He broke it off weeks before their wedding, Limit. That night at the bar? With you? Her first night out without him. Her first time being with a man that wasn’t Scott. Maybe you men here don’t, what was it? ‘Entertain virgins on the regular,’ but to Scarlett, you were more than some glory fuck to bide her time. She may be naïve, and she may be too sweet for her own good, but she deserved better than the way you treated her this morning. And, in my opinion, she deserves better than you.”
Esme watched Emily grab her bag from the back of her chair and push right through the exit, her blue hair flying around her like a halo.
As Esme looked around the room, every member of the Seven Deadlies were watching with rapt attention, including Ox.
Ox eyed Limit before he cleared his throat.
“You disrespected my daughter? After I specifically told you not to?”
Limit didn’t even bother arguing; And, how could he?
He’d said terrible things to Scarlett, and Esme agreed with Emily one hundred percent. In fact, before Limit had ruined her morning, she’d been gushing over how sweet he’d been with her. How he’d held her so gently all night, wrapped up in his arms like he cared about her.
Oh, Esme knew Scarlett’s feelings were crushed.
Now, so did everyone else-including her pissed off father.
“I want you in the cage in ten minutes. No arguments. You’re lucky I’m not cutting your fuckin’ tongue out,” Ox said.
“Hey, boss?,” Fury asked.
Ox looked at him questioningly.
Fury glanced at Limit, his dark eyes filled with anger.
“I want in on this.”
Ox only nodded.
Limit wondered why the fuck his brother would want to beat his ass over a woman, but he didn’t have to wait long to find out. Fury rose to his full height and jabbed a finger in his face.
“Normally, I wouldn’t involve myself in somethin’ that ain’t none of my business, but if you ever talked to my daughter that way, or my wife that way, I would kill you. Scarlett’s family now whether you like it or not. This is bigger than you and your dick.”
Limit sighed as he ducked his head, knowing full well he was in the wrong.
With a shrug he said , “I wouldn’t have it any other way.”