Deciding Love by Janelle Stalder

Author:Janelle Stalder [Stalder, Janelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Janelle Stalder
Published: 2016-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

18

Kyle

Rannon racked up the balls as I took a sip of my beer. The music in the bar was loud and mean, the perfect background noise to keep my brain from thinking about things - or beautiful girls in drop-dead gorgeous black dresses - from my mind. Okay, maybe it wasn’t working as well as I thought it was. Even Rannon seemed to notice I wasn’t quite there, but thankfully he didn’t drill me about it.

“You’re up,” Rannon said.

I just started to line up my shot when I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. Pulling it out, I shoved it between my ear and shoulder as I went back to the game.

“Hello?” I said, not even looking at the caller.

“K-Kyle?”

I stood up so fast I almost dropped the phone. The pool cube slipped from my hands, forgotten, as I turned away from everyone. My heart was beating from just the sound of the catch in her voice.

“Chloe? What’s wrong?” Holy shit, my heart raced and she’d only said one word.

“Kyle,” she said again, sniffling into the receiver. I could hear someone banging on something in the background, and every protective instinct inside me reared to life. “I-I need you.”

Fuck.

My heart was going to crack into pieces.

I’d never heard her sound so sad or fragile.

“Where are you, sweetheart? I’ll come get you.”

Rannon came up to stand in front of me, his usual smile gone as his eyebrows lowered, watching me with concern.

“I-I’m at P-Patrick’s.”

“Chloe, let me in,” I heard Jax saying in the background.

“I’ll be right there. Don’t leave,”

I said, heading to the entrance without a second thought. Rannon followed, getting into my passenger side, no questions. I wasn’t surprised. Rannon might be the fun one, but he was always ready to back his friends up when something was wrong. Even when he didn’t know what was happening.

“I’m in an upstairs washroom,” she said. God, she sounded so sad. I was going to kill Jax. I didn’t know what happened, but if he made her sound like this, he needed to meet my fucking fist. I knew that little shit was a fucking waste.

“Don’t leave. I’ll find you.”

“Okay,” she said softly. “Thank you, Kyle.”

“Don’t ever thank me, sweetheart. Not for this.”

I hung up as I started to drive so I could actually make it to her and not crash on the way.

“What’s going on?” Rannon finally asked. “Is it Kitty Cat? Do I need to beat someone?”

I growled, checking my blind spot as I sped around other drivers, desperate to get to Chloe.

“No, it’s Chloe.”

He cursed under his breath. “Is she okay?”

“She’s locked herself in a fucking bathroom at the Kennedy’s, and I can hear that asshole Jax begging her to open the door, so I’m going to go with, no.”

We were both silent for a moment as I downshifted, taking corners faster than I normally would have.

“She called you, huh?” Rannon said.

“Damn right she did.”

He went silent again until he asked, “should I call Colt?”

My head was torn. If this was Cat, I would have wanted someone to call me.

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