Spawn's Suffering: An MC Romance (Black Reapers MC Book 14) by Trent Jordan

Author:Trent Jordan [Jordan, Trent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TJ Creations
Published: 2021-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

Melissa

One Week Later

It was Friday night, and for the first time in a long time, I looked forward to going out for the evening.

Corey had texted me a few days before, asking if I had an interest in joining him out tonight. I’d asked Hailey what I should do, and she said make it a double date. She seemed almost a little too enthusiastic about the idea as if putting us together would somehow lead to a wedding or something, but I liked the idea. If things got awkward, Sam—or Satan, whatever—would keep Corey in line. And Hailey could do the same for me, I suppose.

“It’s going to be great,” Hailey said. “The two of them are best friends, the two of us are sisters; we’ll keep each other in check, and who knows? If things go well—”

“Let’s just let the night unfold however it may,” I said, trying to keep things tempered. “Remember, we broke up for a reason.”

But every day that passed without Corey getting annoying and without me feeling like I needed to distance myself was a day that put that reason further and further into the rearview mirror. It hadn’t disappeared from view completely—it probably never would, to be honest—but that it was retreating instead of advancing said quite a bit about where things were.

“Just give it an open shot,” Hailey said.

“Just remember whose side you’re on.”

“I’m on the side of good things happening.”

It was perhaps the most honest she’d been about everything.

“Good things take time.”

“I know, but we could use some good news.”

I grimaced. Hailey saw it, and it was as if the facade crumbled all at once. She didn’t start crying, but I suspected that was because the last month had taken up all of our tears. She looked exhausted, beaten down, almost like she’d change her mind at any moment.

“We have each other, Hailey,” I said, “and that’s the good news. We still have family. You still have Sam, as weird as I still find that to be. We don’t have to have any more good news.”

But I understood her concern because I shared it, even if I didn’t explicitly say anything. It was one thing to remain grateful for what you still had. It was another to have a deep-rooted fear that negative momentum would compound, and the downswing would turn into a downward spiral. What next? YouTube would dry up? Sam and her would break up? I’d leave?

“Let’s just enjoy tonight as best as we can,” I said. “We’ll make a rule for tonight, in fact. No talking about the last month, only anything that happened before then. And no talking about the future. Only about what is going on now or way in the past. OK?”

Hailey sighed and nodded.

There was zero chance we’d actually follow that rule. I just thought saying something to that effect would help Hailey out. And judging by the smile forming on her face, it seemed to do well enough.

Strange, wasn’t it, how a night out that was supposed to test how Corey and I might be now was now shifting weight.

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