Shore Leave: Good With His Hands: Season 2 by Ember Davis

Author:Ember Davis [Davis, Ember]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

KADE “DRILLER”

Knowing what you have to do and doing it are two very different things. Once you decide the right path in life, actually walking it can still be difficult. It’s a feeling I can’t shake as I head toward Mom’s house because I know what I need to do, what I’ve wanted to do for a long fucking time.

I’ve always allowed her guilt to stop me before. This time is different because the girls are older—almost out of the house entirely themselves—and I have a more important reason to keep both feet firmly planted on the shore than I ever have before.

There’s no way I would survive going months without seeing my woman. While she’s not ready to let me in fully and admit that she’s mine, there’s no doubt in my mind. It’s only a matter of time before I prove to her that she can trust me completely and that she’s my top priority.

The last three months felt like years were being taken off my life. While the guilt of how everything went down didn’t help matters, I don’t want to find out how much harder it would be to deal with the distance between us after fixing this shit with my woman and giving her a place in more than just my heart, but in my life as well.

Then there’s the other elephant in the room—why do I have to continue to put my dreams on hold? Mom falling back on her pride instead of leaning into the family Dad provided us is on her, not me. Maybe I was willing to write it off as grief years ago, but the longer this has gone on the more I wonder if there isn’t a whole lot more to Mom’s insistence not to help.

She’s become a bitter woman. Honestly, she was never overly warm and fuzzy, but she wasn’t like this. Maybe giving into her and allowing her to manipulate me and push away the club has done even more harm than I realized.

I don’t think she’s physically abused the girls, but I wouldn’t be surprised about some psychological warfare going on. And with teenage girls I’m not sure which would be worse. But it’s not really a matter of better or worse is it?

Emma and Miley deserve better. Fuck, I deserve better.

Now it’s time to really step up and be the brother I should have been years ago—to both my sisters and the club. It’s time to be the man who deserves my woman’s forgiveness and time for being able to share in her dreams.

Because they’re mine too.

Not being a man used to nervousness, it’s jarring to walk up to the front door of Mom’s house and not want to enter. Granted, there have been plenty of times when I didn’t want to face her because I knew it was going to be a heavy burden, but this is different.

Her words are going to be cutting.

Her ire is going to be burning.

I’m going to have

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