Their Private Need by Goode Ella

Author:Goode, Ella [Goode, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Michigan

Easy stomps into the house. Anger and frustration reek from every pore. He throws a plastic tub onto the kitchen table.

“Roast beef, if you want it,” he grunts.

Curious, I open the container and the rich smell of roasted meat rises. It’s still warm and despite the fact I ate a pizza, my mouth waters. Besides, this is food Annie cooked and eating it will make me feel close to her. I pull a fork out of the drawer and dig in. It tastes as good as it smells and I gobble down half the container before addressing whatever it is that is pissing Easy off. “From the look on your face, I would’ve thought that dinner was a bust but this is great shit.”

“It was a bust.” He throws himself onto the sofa and flips on the television. After about a minute of scrolling through a dozen channels, he hits the power button and throws the remote on the floor. Agitated, he starts pacing and I can’t stop staring because Easy rarely gets anxious. During deployment, the crazier it got outside the wire, the calmer he was. Dude just never gets riled. Now he’s wearing a path across the living room carpet.

“Her father’s a fucking asshole. I don’t know why she is even with him.”

“What’d he do? Spout Bible shit the whole time?”

“I expected that.” He throws up his hands. “He’s a preacher for fuck’s sake, so yeah, I was prepared for the hellfire and brimstone talk and even the questioning of whether I was good enough for her but I wasn’t prepared for him to cut her down the whole time.”

“What?” That gets me to drop the food on the table.

“Yup. He spent half the time criticizing her food, calling her stupid, and suggesting she’s too plain to snag a man and the other half telling me I’m a sinful demon going to hell.”

“Well, you already knew the last half was true,” I joke grimly.

He barks out a short, humorless laugh. “Don’t know why she doesn’t want to move in with us.”

Easy doesn’t get how fear and loneliness can drive you to make bad decisions. Despite belonging to a motorcycle club, everyone still thinks he’s the shit. He still goes to family dinners, still kisses his grandma and generally he’s liked and admired around town.

He doesn’t have a frame of reference for someone like Annie but I get it. Having knocked around foster homes and not really finding a place to belong to until I came here and patched into the Death Lords, Annie’s reasons for staying with an asshole of a father make perfect sense. He’s the one person that makes the world less frightening for her. As long as she believes her old man loves her, no matter how crappy he treats her, she’s not alone in this world.

I’ve felt the same way. It’s how I ended up with my back full of scars. I try to explain it to Easy.

“Remember when I told you that

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