Steel My Heart (Motorcycle Club Romance) (Sons of Steel Motorcycle Club Book 1) by Lux Vivian

Author:Lux, Vivian [Lux, Vivian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Velvetfire Press
Published: 2015-01-09T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 36

J.

Everyone was talking too much. Their voices were echoing off the high metal ceiling of the club house garage, making it sound like there were a hundred people behind him, instead of only seven. The caravan back to the city had been whirlwind of triumph, careening down the emptied out highways with Sammie's rattling station wagon carrying all their gear. They had tumbled into the darkened clubhouse, tripping over each other and laughing wildly.

Crash was crowing loudly about beating someone's ass, Teach was quoting some ancient philosopher and Case kept poking J. meaningfully in the ribs. Emmy clutched his arm and looked up at him, her eyes shining with exhaustion and relief.

It was all too much.

"Enough!" J. boomed. His voice reverberated through the empty garage and the rest of the club fell silent.

"I love all of y'all, and thank you for springing me, but all you fuckers need to get the hell out." He looked down at Emmy's ripe raspberry lips. "At least for an hour."

Crash mumbled profane encouragement. Emmy flushed bright red. Case poked him again. "Only an hour?"

J. stroked Emmy's back and smiled. "Get the fuck out, Case."

The sounds of their voices still echoed as they left, fading quieter and quieter until it was only the two of then standing alone in the darkness. Even the traffic noise had died down. J. wondered how late it was.

"Were you scared?"

At first J. couldn't imagine what she was talking about. She was here, how could he possibly be anything other than happy? Slowly it dawned on him that she was asking about the arrest.

"I knew I hadn't done anything wrong," he exhaled forcefully. "But I kept losing hope, you know?"

"Why?"

He took another deep breath. It was time to stop running and face up to the truth. Whether she stayed with him or not, he could no longer lie to her. "Because it felt like nothing changed. Like the past six years didn't matter, all the work I had done was for nothing. It felt like I belonged there, and I hated it."

"Why would you belong there?"

"Because I've been there before."

"Jail?"

"Prison." He waited for her cries of dismay.

"Thank you for telling me," she said evenly.

J. flicked on the bunkhouse light. Her pale face slowly flickered into view as the fluorescent lights overhead sputtered to life. She was looking at the floor, studying her feet, careful to avoid his eyes.

"I spent six years in prison, Emmy. Then another year on probation. The night you met me, we were out celebrating my release from parole."

"Your graduation."

He smiled hopefully. "It was a graduation of sorts. You know, in the moving on to the next step sense of the word."

She made a noise that could have been a laugh. And then suddenly she snapped her head upright and looked him in the eyes.

"I thought Robert told me that to hurt me. But when he was yelling all these awful things about you, I decided that even if they were true, I didn't care. You're a better man than he is.

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