The Way Home (Lights of Peril) by The Way Home (epub)

Author:The Way Home (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A.C. Bextor
Published: 2014-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”

--Ernest Hemingway

I’ve been ignored for the last hour. Sadey won’t look at me, won’t listen to me, and she sure as hell won’t let me touch her. Hell, I may as well still be dead. I’ve had a few drinks, but I don’t even feel ‘em. Everyone knows I love my whiskey, but right now I only thirst for the feeling or taste of my girl.

“Peyton, finally!”

I hear Sadey greet her friend along with most of the brothers, and Mace as she leaves me sitting in my chair to go greet her. Peyton is young and she’s a cute little shit. Derek though, a fuckin’ real live cowboy in a biker club, looks completely out of place and nervous. The scene would be hilarious if my heart didn’t hurt as it does right now.

Sadey can’t stop hugging her. Finally, though, Peyton’s eyes meet mine. She freezes in my girls grasp and gasps. Guess Sadey wasn’t exactly the last to know of my change of living address, from grave marker to club.

“Sadey … is that … oh, God ... you didn’t tell me. Sadey?”

“Oh shit, honey, I didn’t. It must have slipped my mind.”

Sadey has Peyton in a side arm hug and they are coming right towards me, so I need to stand up to wish her safe a trip and say goodbye. After that, I’m going to my room for the night to end this miserable state of loneliness. It hurts watching how much Sadey’s life has moved forward without me being any part of it.

Mace walks toward us. She’s lit with alcohol, and since she chose not to nurse Ryder, she’s taken a liking to vodka for the night, causing her stumble a bit.

“Peyton, you remember my brother, Hem?”

Peyton doesn’t know what to say, but she gives it her best shot. Sweet girl. Not so good with words, though, other than spelling them out loud as I recollect another trait of hers.

“Yes, I remember, but I thought ... I thought ... didn’t he … I mean…” I smile at her to help ease her worry. She sure as shit wasn’t expecting to see my mug looking at her when she walked in.

Sadey jumps to aid her process in thought … and fails … miserably. “You thought he was dead? Yes, well, me too. Welcome to the club. Your membership card is in the mail.”

Sadey turns to me and glares before she continues her tirade and I feel the kicker even before delivery.

“In all my life I’ve had things; I’ve had a dog, I’ve had a cat, a rabbit, and even a bird, when I was growing up, but never did have a walking corpse.”

That’s it. I’m done with this fuckin’ play.

“Fuck it, Sadey.” That’s all I say before rushing her, grabbing her by the back of the legs, and throwing her over my shoulder. “We are going to sort this shit out now, woman.

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