Dark Vow (Dark Saints MC Book 1) by Jayne Blue

Author:Jayne Blue [Blue, Jayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nokay Press LLC
Published: 2017-06-10T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Maya

I could pretend this was heaven. If it weren’t for the rooster. The first morning, I thought it was kind of quaint when he screeched at five forty-two a.m. The second morning, I realized he wasn’t kidding. Groaning, I turned to my side. Axle only snorted once, and turned toward me, still sleeping soundly.

“Are you kidding?” I whispered, nuzzling closer to him. With the window open, a chill had come into the room. Sleeping next to Axle was like having my own personal-space heater. I could get used to this. The speed at which I’d already gotten used to this scared me a little. As he slept, I put a gentle hand to the side of his face. He looked even rougher and scruffier now with three days of his beard grown in. It tickled my fingers as they played along his jaw.

I didn’t know what to make of any of this. Never in my life had I had a stretch of peace and quiet longer than a day or two. With Axle on his grandmother’s farm, it was as if we stepped through a time warp. Everything was slower here, simpler. We were both starting to settle into a routine. We woke just after six. I helped Grandma Hart with breakfast. After we ate, Axle would head down to the barn. There were about a dozen projects she had for him. Most of them involved fixing portions of the fence, working on her car, and various other household maintenance she needed to be done.

For my part, Gran (as she insisted I call her), showed me around the property. It was a small farm, or so she told me. She leased the wheat crops behind her to other local farmers. She just tended to the animals and a garden behind the barn. She had two cows; one had just given birth to a spotted calf. Other than the rooster, the calf made the most noise of all the animals. She had a chicken coop and delighted in showing me how to collect eggs from them every morning. Along with a motley assortment of barn cats and three mutts, two horses rounded out Gran’s livestock.

I couldn’t imagine what it would have been like growing up in a place like this. Monroe wasn’t exactly a thriving metropolis, but I was a city girl. Axle soon figured out I didn’t have the wardrobe for a place like this. Gran, it turned out, was also a bit of a pack rat. She had closets full of clothes for me to pick from.

The rooster crowed again. This time, the sleeping bear beside me stirred. His dark eyes popped open. For an instant, Axle didn’t know where he was. Red rimmed his pupils and his fists curled.

“Axle,” I whispered, running my hand through his hair. “It’s me.”

He sucked in a breath and rolled to his back. I wanted to ask him what terror haunted his dreams, but part of me was afraid of the answer.

“Sorry, baby,” he said, his voice groggy.

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