Dirty For Me (Motor City Royals) by Jackie Ashenden

Author:Jackie Ashenden [Ashenden, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2016-07-25T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“Okay, so now you’ve got us all here, what did you want to say?” Rachel leaned back, her elbows on the step above her, platform-booted feet on the step below where she sat. “’Cause if this is another ‘exciting surprise’ like Levi coming back was, I’m outta here.”

Gideon, leaning against the workbench, his arms folded, said nothing. Zoe, sitting on the bench beside him, her legs swinging like a child’s, frowned. “We’re not going to like this are we?”

Zee sat on a plastic chair, his elbows on his knees, his hands clasped between them. He felt calm, surprisingly so for a man about to reveal to his closest friends that he’d been lying to them for the past ten years.

But he had no choice.

After he’d seen his father’s henchman at the fight, he’d spent the entire night walking the streets trying to find out where the prick had gone, the unquenchable rage he’d thought he’d dealt with years ago boiling in his veins. Yet the guy had disappeared, leaving no trace.

Eventually Zee had returned to his apartment, still burning, and had paced around and around, trying to figure out how the hell Joshua Chase had found him and what the fuck he was going to do about it.

It had taken him the whole damn weekend, working himself into exhaustion in the gym, to come to the conclusion that it actually didn’t matter how Joshua had found him, the real problem was that he had. And what the fuck was he going to do about it?

If he’d still been seventeen, he would have run. But he wasn’t seventeen anymore. He’d built a life here, had a future here, friends who cared about him, and he’d be fucked if he’d abandon everything just because that prick was sniffing around.

Anyway, running wouldn’t help and would only put his friends in danger, because no doubt, if he left, his father would want to know where he’d gone and wouldn’t have any compunction about putting the pressure on Gideon, or Rachel, or Zoe. And Zee couldn’t have that. If anything happened to them, he wouldn’t be able to live with himself.

Unfortunately though, that left him with only one option. Staying put. But if he was going to do that, his friends needed to know the truth about him and who he really was. And they also needed to make a choice. Zee had no idea what his father wanted, but if he stayed and his father came after him, it might prove just as dangerous for the others as if he’d left. They had a right to know that. They also had a right to decide whether they wanted him to leave.

He didn’t want to, but if they thought it was better he go, then he would.

Waiting until Levi had gotten out would probably have been a better idea since then he could tell everyone at once, but if Krupin was hanging around, he couldn’t afford to wait.

Fuck, nothing about this was going to be easy, was it? Then again, when had his life ever been easy?

“No,” he said flatly.

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