The Higher You Fly by Debra Kayn

Author:Debra Kayn [Kayn, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: childhood love, young love, Motorcycle Club romance, rekindled love, Biker Romance book, prison hero, older heroine, prison, contemporary alpha hero, second chance, smalltown romance sex, older hero, reunited romance, Idaho, jewelry, felon
Publisher: Debra Kayn
Published: 2017-04-01T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'. —John Greenleaf Whittier

She was going to throw up.

Jolene had to get out of Caiden's house. She stood. No, she had to go to him. How could he believe she'd given up on him? That she hadn't wanted to be together?

She sank back down on the couch. Of course, he believed she'd walked away from him. She had. Not voluntarily, but under duress.

She would've contacted him. The night he'd been taken away in a cop car, she'd already decided she'd steal, beg, lie, and scream on every street corner to get to him. She swore on her life, he would not go through his imprisonment alone.

The thunk of Caiden's boots on the hardwood floor warned her of him returning to the living room. She stopped rocking on the edge of the couch and inhaled a quivering breath. Lightheaded and nauseated, she still feared getting sick.

Caiden sat on the couch. "I get it. People grow up, they move on, there are different stages in everyone's life, and shit happens. It's the matter of accepting that you changed. That you went back on your promise. I couldn't forget. I can't. You had me flying high, Jolene."

She bowed her head. "You weren't alone in how you felt."

"That's where you're wrong. The only thing that kept me away from you were the bars holding me in my cell." He stretched out his legs and hooked his hands under his armpits.

"Caiden, I—."

He held up his hand, stopping her. "Far as I'm concerned, I've said my peace because I owed you a reason why we had sex the other night. I instigated what happened, and I had no right to do that. I'm sorry."

He heaved himself off the couch and grabbed his coat off the coffee table. "Bundle up. I'll take you home."

She stood on shaky legs and put on her coat. After wanting a heart to heart with him since she'd returned to Federal and found him at the gas station, she walked out of his house feeling emptier than ever. He honestly believed she'd walked away from him and never looked back.

Inside the truck, she stared at the snowflakes falling in the beams of the headlights. She understood bars keeping him from the one person who owned his heart. Ten years. God, what he must've gone through. He was stronger than her. He'd always been the one who could handle the hardships in life.

His childhood had been buried deep in poverty, relying on cheese and milk from the government, second-hand clothes from the local churches, and living above a bar. He never complained and instead played right into society's hands on what they expected from him, which was absolutely nothing.

She'd seen how he was ignored, avoided, and looked down on. It was his ability to keep going despite the lack of motivation provided to him that had drawn her to him in the first place. He was his own man and did his own thing.

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