Iron Fist (Lords of Carnage Ironwood MC) by Daphne Loveling

Author:Daphne Loveling [Loveling, Daphne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-29T00:00:00+00:00

17

AXEL

Wideglide takes off with a promise to go hard on locating Ray Ray Crew.

As for me, I’m starting to get frustrated as fuck. We’ve been here for days, and so far, we haven’t turned up anything at all. I’m not used to waiting around. I’m not any good at it.

I decide I’m gonna at least try to get one thing done and settle things with Eden. Now that she knows the cash comes from me, I’m just gonna tell her once and for all that I ain’t taking it back. She can burn it in front of me for all I care. But I hope she’s not dumb enough to do that.

If I go to her apartment, she’ll try to force the money back on me. I decide I’ll try to catch her at one of her jobs and try to talk her into just keeping it. There’s no way she’ll have the money on her at work.

I decide to go to the car wash place first. Pulling up the website for Sudz, I see it’s a chain with a few locations around Jax. I decide to try the one closest to where Eden lives.

Bingo.

I see Eden right away. She’s the attendant directing people into the bays, making sure they line up their car right with the conveyor. She’s got one of those mic headsets on and is talking into it as I pull up. The noise of my Harley catches her attention.

I cut the engine and get off the bike. As I walk over to her, she puts one hand on her hip.

“If you’re thinking about taking a motorcycle through the wash, you’re gonna have a bad time,” she tells me.

“Ha ha,” I deadpan.

“What are you doing here?”

“Thought I’d respond in person to your texts.”

Eden’s chin juts out, like she’s expecting a fight.

“You lied to me,” she accuses.

“Yep.”

My easy admission throws her off for a second.

“Why?”

“‘Cause I knew you wouldn’t take money from me.”

“No, why did you give me money in the first place?” Eden throws up her hands. “It makes no sense. You didn’t even know me.”

“I dunno.” I shrug. “Just seemed like the right thing to do.”

“Axel, you know I can’t take money from you.”

“Why not?”

“It’s not right.”

“There’s nothing not right about it. It was my choice to give it to you.”

“Under false pretenses.”

“Under the pretenses that would get you to accept it.”

“Axel…”

Her voice is soft, pleading. And for some reason, it makes me think of the way she said it that night when I lost control and kissed her.

That should be the sign that I need to get the fuck out of here.

But yeah, I don’t do that. I can’t make myself. Why?

Because Jesus Christ, I’m weak where she’s concerned. I can’t walk away. I did it last time and I think I used up all my fucking self-control.

“Tell you what. How about you let me drive you home after you’re done working and we can talk about it then?”

That’s a fucking lie. No way am I taking that money back.

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