Riding Shotgun: An Alpha Male MC Biker Romance (Steel Knights Motorcycle Club Romance Book 5) by Ivy Black

Author:Ivy Black [Black, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ivy Black
Published: 2021-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

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Even though I haven’t responded to Colt, I keep checking my phone. Pretty unreasonable of me to think he’s going to keep hounding me when I left in a huff, and I didn’t respond to his texts. My pride is too wounded for me to reply, but it doesn’t stop me from wanting the reassurance of his messages.

I’ve been playing this game with myself for hours since I got home. My mind is starting to feel like it’s been scraped raw. My mother, Ted, and I are all sitting around in the living room. It’s past bedtime, but none of us have moved. I think we’re all afraid to go to bed after last night. Like, if we don’t go to sleep we can be on alert. We finished our movie at least a half hour ago, but we’re all still sitting, playing on our phones or staring off into space while we all start to droop. My mother is nursing a second glass of red wine and chewing at her fingernails while she stares at the carpet. There’s a deep line between her brows.

“Well,” Ted says. He slaps his legs and then climbs slowly to his feet. “Better make sure everyone’s tucked in for the night.”

He means the animals outside. We all know they’re already tucked in, but I don’t blame him for wanting to make another round and double check everything, try to regain some sense of security. Maybe see if Hector has wandered home. He goes out quietly, shutting the door firmly behind him.

I haven’t told them what that asshole at the gas station said to me about the sheriff. Maybe I should, but I can’t bring myself to make this situation any worse for them. But I’m starting to get worn down—I’m wondering if maybe Colt is right.

“Maybe we should just sell the house,” I say after a long stretch of silence.

“I don’t want to do that,” my mother says, shaking her head. “That’s just not reasonable. To be bullied into selling your house.”

“It’s just—” I say. I don’t even know what to say to her that will make her hear me. I guess you can’t make anyone listen. Lead a horse to water and all that. “Things just keep getting worse. And you look like you haven’t slept in days. I just don’t know if this is worth it anymore.”

“I’m not going to do it,” she says. “People like that do things like this because they think they can get away with it. And they do because no one stands up to them.”

“I really don’t think that’s how it works,” I say. “I think they get away with it because they’re willing to do things sane, law-abiding, good people are not willing to do.”

“They’re just trying to intimidate us,” she says. She drains her wine glass before getting up off the couch.

“And it’s working,” I say. “I don’t think they’re playing around, Mom.”

“I don’t want to talk about it anymore,” she says.

I throw up my hands because I don’t know what else to do.

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