Forbidden Love by Carter Steele

Author:Carter Steele
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-04-18T04:00:00+00:00

4

Liza

I couldn’t hang up the phone soon enough.

I couldn’t think of a more awkward explanation than to tell Parker that the reason I had to go was because Sheriff Jones and I were about to meet, in-person, with all of the Savage Kings at their clubhouse.

Parker didn’t strike me as the kind of person that would turn on his own people, but I knew it wasn’t a good look. Even though this was strictly a professional visit—one that I wasn’t exactly in support of, one that made me want to believe Sheriff Jones was still dealing with a few head problems—I knew that Parker might believe me being here signified something else.

That was just how boys were. When they got desperate and tried to get something back, even something that was slightly out of place was grounds for causing an uproar. Guys often liked to believe that they were the more grounded sex, the one that was more objective and less emotional, but in my experience, there was little that could trigger a guy more than the knowledge that an ex was in the company of his friends.

It was like a trigger that could automatically explode a thousand emotional and mental bombs. And Parker, especially since he had started to reveal how much he liked me, was making me paranoid about setting off that trigger.

It also wasn’t helping that the more time that I spent away from Parker, the less I communicated with him, the more I was starting to come around to his view on if we were a good thing or not.

An older man—older only in the relative sense—greeted us at the door.

“Petey,” Sheriff Jones said. “This is Officer Burton, in case you haven’t met. I’ll introduce her to the officers. Appreciate you giving us the space to communicate.”

“We could thank you as much as anything else,” Petey said after shaking my hand. “We could use the force of the badge behind us. Gives us a little more credibility and makes it a little more risky for the Anarchists to fight back.”

“Very true,” Sheriff Jones said.

For now. Until the Anarchists become unafraid of the consequences and start launching strikes at us. Then we’re in deep trouble.

“Come on in,” Petey said.

I followed Sheriff Jones inside, waiting to see the inevitable onslaught of different vice-based aromas, including sex, cigarettes, weed, drugs, alcohol, and everything in between.

And while there was certainly the smell of alcohol, it was a subdued sort of smell; it wasn’t the kind of smell that suggested a giant booze orgy had taken place in the last twenty-four hours or so. It was like that of a bar.

“A lot nicer than a lot of clubhouses I’ve been to,” I said.

“We try and keep it clean here,” Petey said. “We wouldn’t want to live in filth ourselves. We’re here all the time.”

How refreshingly mature. Come to think of it, Parker’s place was kind of clean. It wasn’t perfectly clean, but compared to some places I’ve been? It was pretty nice.

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