Taming Keys: Charon MC Book 12 by Wren Khloe

Author:Wren, Khloe
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-648-68967-6
Publisher: Khloe Wren
Published: 2020-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

Part II

Chapter Nine

Sunday 2 December 2018

Keys

Watching my old lady, the love of my life, kneel to place the flowers on the grave of our girl—whose death I could have prevented—was enough to bring me to my own knees. Once she finished fussing with the flowers, I dropped down beside her. Wrapping my arm around her shoulders, I pulled her in against me, letting her cry into my shoulder. Pressing a kiss to the top of her head, I focused on the stone marker that would always stand as a reminder of yet another person I’d loved that I’d failed.

As I stared at Emma’s final resting place, memories of her as a little girl flashed through my mind. How I’d taught her to ride a bicycle, how I’d stood out of sight, watching her and Donna in the kitchen when Donna had started to teach her how to cook. Her first day of school, when she’d not wanted to leave the safety of her mother and me but once she had braved the unknown, loved school so much she’d not wanted to leave when it was time to come home. My own tears started as I remembered her calling me Daddy and telling me she loved me for the first time in that sweet, little girl voice she’d had.

Where had it all gone so wrong?

Emma may not have been mine by blood, but she was one hundred percent my daughter by love. I’d been the one to rub Donna’s sore feet and talk to her belly when she’d been pregnant, and it’d been me in the hospital room holding Donna’s hand as she pushed her into the world. I’d been Emma’s father, not that piece of shit who’d managed to both create and destroy her. It’d been nearly twenty-five years since Sledge had raped Donna, leaving her pregnant with Em. It’d been two years since he’d ordered her death.

From the very start, we’d been careful to never let anyone know who’d been Em’s biological father. Hadn’t wanted that fucker to know about her. But he had known, and when Em had hit her rebellious teen years she’d somehow found out about him. Gone to him. And he’d given her the drugs that had tainted the sweet girl Em had been, destroying my daughter from the inside out for years before her death.

Donna and I had tried everything we could think of to help get her clean, but we hadn’t realized she’d been traveling to Galveston behind our backs, going to see Sledge, who’d risen to the position of president of the Iron Hammers MC by then. He’d somehow crawled into her head, turned her against us and got her hooked on his fucking drugs. Then he’d used her desperation to know her real father and to get her next fix, to convince her to help him by luring Mac’s woman, Zara, from the safety of the Charon MC clubhouse so they could take her. Her thanks for following her daddy’s orders had been a broken neck.

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