Riley's Pride by Sandra R Neeley

Author:Sandra R Neeley [Neeley, Sandra R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Maverik looked from each of the males in Riley’s Pride to Riley, then Maia where they sat silently regarding each other, though some of the tension seemed to have dissipated. “Alright, well, Riley, you got a minute to show me around? I’d love to see what ya’ll doing first hand.”

“Sure, yeah, I’d be happy to. You done with lunch?” Riley asked Maverik.

“Yep, lead on.”

Riley showed Maverik everything they were planning from the mobile home park across the highway to the soon-to-be functioning store and diner, his excitement showing through the more he talked about it.

Richie and Lucas hung around while Riley was finishing up the tour in the store, but were sticking to their respective corner of the diner continuing to work where they’d been earlier in the day. Maia stayed at the house with Cristie — who had reestablished her hold on Maia’s neck and refused to let go — but they were now sitting on the porch in one of the rockers, watching Riley show Maverik around.

After walking the property with Riley and seeing all they had in mind for the store and diner, Maverik finally came clean, “So, I guess you’re wondering why we’re here,” he said, stopping in the middle of the store and turning to face Riley.

“I’m thinking you got tired of waiting for me to fix it so decided to take it in your own hands.”

Maverik huffed a short laugh, “Something like that.”

Riley looked through the picture window at the front of the store and watched Maia rocking on the front porch with his daughter in her lap. “You know now that she’s here, I’ll never let her go. I can’t,” he turned to look into Maverik’s eyes, “But tell me, what’s happened for you to bring her here when I can see she so obviously would rather not be.”

“She’s ready, Riley. She just don’t see it. She’s drifting, not really doing anything but mourning the loss of you.”

“I can’t see her mourning me. What I see is her still so angry with me.”

“She heard what she heard, Riley,” Mav said, his hands on his hips looking down at his own boots, before back up at Riley.

“And still, you brought her to me.”

Maverik sucked his teeth as he allowed his eyes to drift to Maia sitting on the front porch. “Yeah. Yeah, I did. Because I don’t believe what she thinks was going on, is what was going on. And she loves you, and you love her.” Maverik thought about it for a moment then decided to go for broke. “And you’re both suffering. You can’t fix it if she’s six miles from you. And her pain was driving her to make some bad decisions. When a couple of those decisions showed up on my front door step, I decided it was time to bring her to where she was supposed to be, before she ended up in a situation that caused me to kill somebody. Not that the fucker didn’t need killing anyway.

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