Protecting Blaze's Mark (Devils Riot MC: Originals) by E.C. Land

Author:E.C. Land [Land, E.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knox Publishing
Published: 2021-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Raven

Fear is an unspoken part of life. Everyone feels it at some point in their life, whether they want to or not. I can’t count how many times I’ve felt it in mine.

I’ve feared monsters jumping out at me in the middle of the night. I’ve feared what could happen if my car were to be hit by accident while I was driving. I see it all the time on the news where someone’s child goes missing, or there’s been another man or woman arrested for child pornography. Or murder. I could keep going on and on with my list, but there’s no point in it. Fear can be a consuming feeling that leaves you dreading what comes next.

Over the course of a month, I’ve tried to let the fact the Boogeyman is still out there get to me like he wants. It sucks the fact it is. He’s been out there, and it’s been years now since that fateful night I thought I killed him.

I wish I knew how he survived that night.

During the days while I spend time at the clubhouse working off a laptop, I take care of our sons and talk to those that are around.

A few days after I told Blaze about who the Boogeyman is, Bear finally came home. I thought it was best if I tried to stay scarce by staying in the room with the boys. Bear didn’t seem to think the same thing. Instead, after one day of it, he found me, and we talked.

“Why are you staying in here when you can be out there with everyone else?” he asks, leaning against the door frame to the room after opening it.

“I don’t know,” I answer, unsure of what to say or feel. His emotions are not as they were when he left. The pain that surrounded him has faded.

“You do and so do I,” he states firmly. “Everyone knows Momma B’s death isn’t on your hands, Raven. Same as my daughter’s death isn’t on mine.”

I frown, wondering what he means by his daughter’s death. I knew she’d died years ago when she’d been kidnapped and raped by a man who belonged to some cartel.

Bear comes into the room and sits in the chair closest to Mark, and lifts him off the floor before placing my son in his lap. “Momma B and I had a lot of years together. You see, we met years ago, and I took the opportunity to make her mine the first chance I got. When we lost our daughter, we both felt guilty, but we found out after the autopsy, like her momma, she had cancer. Only where her momma had breast cancer, my daughter had cervical. I hate the way she died; she didn’t deserve to die that way. She also shouldn’t have had something that could potentially take her away from us. No one knows about what the autopsy claimed. What I’m trying to get at, Raven, is . . . no one can know what’s going to happen when a split-second decision is made.

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