Niner: Motorcycle Club Romance (Savage Saints MC Book 11) by Hazel Parker

Author:Hazel Parker [Parker, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: Carrie

The morning made no sense, and that was causing a lot of pain.

Seeing Lane just walk out the door in a hurry, even with his reassurances that he would see me again, left me feeling used and manipulated. I didn’t have time to ask him about those feelings, and the fact that he kept sounding terrified about what had actually happened with the club left me feeling like I couldn’t say anything to him for the rest of the day. I waited on him to reach back out to me, but he wasn’t doing it.

What was going on? Was it always going to be this way? Was he always going to put the club first?

These were questions that I felt I didn’t need to be asking this early. We had only had one real serious date and one night of sex; even if it was one of the best dates I had ever had and some of the best sex I had ever had, it was still early to be having questions about “always” or “going to.” I just kept telling myself to be grounded, although I guess in some ways, it was good to have the problem of being so satisfied that I wanted to look ahead.

I just wished that Lane had gone into anything that didn’t involve violence. But, then again, maybe that drive to help others could have taken a very dark turn if I had never helped him with his bullying incident. Maybe he was always destined to be in a violent world, and my work had ensured he used his violence for good.

It was a weird thought to have, but it had been a weird twelve hours. I wasn’t exactly in a frame of mind to be thinking clearly.

Mondays required me to be at the shop instead of Caroline, so about an hour and a half before the place opened, I got myself dressed. I knew Sam would be there, but there was no telling if our other employees would make it. I tried to put myself in a positive frame of mind as I entered the building. Even if this morning had gone poorly, there was no denying Sunday had been nothing short of unbelievable, and the restaurant had picked up sales recently.

I nodded to Sam as I walked in, headed to the back, and started running the reports from the prior couple of weeks. We had, indeed, seen an uptick in sales. So much so, in fact, that we had made…

Enough to pay our electricity and rent and half of our employees.

“Shit,” I muttered.

I ran the numbers twice. Had I missed something? Maybe there was some calculation I had missed along the way. Maybe I had failed to account for a day or two’s worth of sales. Margins were always tight in this industry.

As it turned out, I had missed something.

I had counted one of the days twice. We were in even more trouble than I could have predicted.

I’d told myself if it came to this: I would have to sell the store and head back to Georgia.

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