The sound of knees hitting the floor shook the bar.
The little girl stood in the middle of it all, wearing the silver wolf ring like it had always belonged to her.
The big biker stayed frozen, his eyes locked on her hand.
“No,” he whispered. “He had no child.”
The girl’s lips trembled for the first time.
“He had me.”
No one laughed now.
One of the older bikers lowered his head.
“That ring belonged to Marcus.”
The girl looked around the room, trying to keep her voice steady.
“My mother said if anything happened to her, I had to bring it here.”
The big biker’s face changed.
Not anger anymore.
Fear.
“What happened to your mother?”
The girl swallowed hard.
“She’s outside.”
The room went cold.
Two bikers rushed to the door and looked out.
When they came back, their faces were gray.
The big biker took one slow step toward the girl.
“Who hurt her?”
The girl looked straight at him, eyes shining but unbroken.
“The man who said my father was a traitor.”
A heavy silence fell.
Then she pointed at the scarred biker’s hand.
He was wearing the other half of the wolf ring.
His breath stopped.
The girl whispered,
“She told me the traitor would kneel first.”