Duke by Teagan Brooks

Author:Teagan Brooks [Brooks, Teagan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

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The following few weeks were hell, to say the least. Reese would hardly speak to me. I tried several times to talk to her, but each time she told me to leave and threatened to call her brother if I didn’t. I wasn’t scared of Carbon. Yeah, he was bigger than me and would likely whoop my ass, again, but I wasn’t afraid of him. I did, however, respect him, so when she asked me to leave, I did. Even though she didn’t want to have anything to do with me, she did let me see my son whenever I wanted.

I felt like I was stuck, like my life was on hold and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. We hadn’t been able to track down the person or the car that ran Reese off the road. We had nothing on the Manglers, no suspicious activity, no rumors circulating about them. Boar and Omen kept to their clubhouse most of the time. As if that wasn’t enough, my fucking wife had dropped off the face of the planet. Byte couldn’t find that bitch anywhere. That in itself was disturbing. Byte could find anything. So, until we got a lead on one of our issues or Reese decided to acknowledge my existence, everything was on hold, at least for me.

I was sitting at the bar at the clubhouse trying to drink my problems away when Phoenix dropped onto the stool beside me. “You doin’ all right, brother?”

“Just fine,” I uttered.

“Don’t sound like it. Don’t look like it either,” he observed.

“No disrespect, but I don’t want to discuss it.” I really didn’t. I didn’t want everyone at the bar to hear my business. The brothers gossiped worse than the Old Ladies and club whores.

Phoenix nodded. “Ah, I see.” He stood ad gestured toward the hall. “Follow me to my office.”

He didn’t ask so I figured I didn’t have much of a choice. I got my ass up and shuffled toward his office.

I unceremoniously flopped into a chair, my glass of whiskey almost empty. Phoenix reached into a desk drawer and pulled out a bottle of the high dollar stuff he kept hidden from the rest of us. He gestured toward my glass. I swallowed what was left and placed my it on his desk. He filled it half way and slid it back to me. “Sip on that while you listen.”

I picked up my glass and took a sip. Phoenix started talking. “I know what you’re going through right now, probably more than you think. You feel like you’re at a standstill, right?” I nodded. “That’s how it is for me with Annabelle, not knowing what happened to her, if she’s dead or alive. There’s no telling how much shit we’ve yet to discover hidden away out there on that land. Every time we find something new, I think it’s going to be the time that I find something that will bring her back to me. Then, it turns out to be nothing to do with her and I’m right back where I started.

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