Riff (Shady Valley Henchmen Book 6) by Jessica Gadziala

Author:Jessica Gadziala [Gadziala, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Vienna

I knew it would happen eventually.

He would have to leave.

I even knew that this was the longest time the twins had ever been stationed in Shady Valley since they became a biker club. Their life was on the road, even if it was painfully clear to me that Riff was ready for that to not be his reality anymore, and I couldn’t quite figure out why his club brothers hadn’t also seen what I did.

But, I guess, work was work. And a bunch of the other guys had left since I’d come to live with them. They didn’t say, but I imagined it was to drop off the guns that Riff and Raff had brought back from the South. So it was, in a way, their turn to get back to the job.

I just didn’t think it would be so soon.

Not that it was, technically, “soon” by any stretch of the imagination. I mean, we were closing in on February now.

I’d been there through a good chunk of winter, through Christmas, through New Year’s.

I guess I had to be grateful that he got to be with me for this long. Because I couldn’t have imagined Christmas without him there sitting beside me at the table, or in the living room next to the tree, handing me present after present.

I’d been working with the club members for weeks at that point, learning to make items that I could give the others for the holidays, since I didn’t have any money of my own, and I felt weird spending Riff’s money to buy everyone presents.

So with Morgaine, I learned to make some basic pottery and jewelry that I gave to the members of the club, as well as some neat personalized bath products like soaps or cologne.

With Murphy, I made a few fun little weapons, including one I gave to Riff as a present, liking the idea he had something from me to protect himself with since he’d been protecting me since we met.

I even took some lessons with Coach, who I’d grown close to thanks to the meditation and yoga sessions that had become like air to me, something I had to do to survive, not just as a practice, and he’d been teaching me to work with my hands, with tools, and to turn a plain piece of wood into little masterpieces.

I mean, first, we’d built a cool tree-like bookshelf for my/Riff’s room for me to display all the books I’d already read. Then he’d let me take the reins and build a little tree stand for Vernon and Cat by myself. Eventually, we scaled up, making an amazing apothecary cabinet for Morgaine, a new desk for Rook, a set of matching—but not too matchy—nightstands for Colter, and a display cabinet for Nyx’s gym.

He’d been the one to help me decide on, plan, and build a big wardrobe for Riff, since we were now struggling to find places to put both of our things. It was made out of

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