These Reckless Hearts by E. M. Moore

Author:E. M. Moore [Moore, E. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 56123394
Published: 2021-02-08T06:00:00+00:00

18

Ninja pulls around the circular driveway, kicking up tiny pebbles as he locks the brakes. I haven’t said a word to Stone since he told me the news and informed me that the Chief of Clary Police was currently at the house, trying to get Cole to leave. Cole must have been the one to tell Ninja to get us here as quickly as possible, and I’m thankful for it.

I love this house. It’s not just walls and windows with a spectacular view, at least not to me. This is the first place that ever really felt like home. I have my own room. I have my own thoughts and decisions. Within these four walls, there is so much love, and the idea of Lance taking that—of him stealing another thing away from me and making his son homeless—makes me want to shank his ass. Stone, Wyatt, and Lucas even lived here as a family before they brought me into it, and look what Lance is trying to do to them. It’s fucked up.

I get out of the car and march right up to Lionel. When he sees me coming, he glances away, and I hope by the grace of sanity that he feels remotely bad about the last altercation we had when my house blew up. He called the destruction a gas leak for fuck’s sake. Just because it worked out for the better doesn’t make it right. Now, he’s trying to take another house from me.

His jaw feathers. “Hello, Dakota.”

“Lionel.” When he was telling me they had to call off the search for my father, I didn’t push. I didn’t argue. Because to me, it was just another example of this town letting me down. Now, though, I’m not keeping quiet. I don’t know if it’ll make any difference, but I’m sure as hell not going to sit back and take it. “What’s going on?”

“It’s a private matter.”

“Oh, as private as a gangster blowing up my house and you calling it a gas leak?”

He swallows hard but has the decency to look properly scolded. I’m sure he doesn’t get paid very much to be the Chief. Money is most likely an enticement for him, but he’s on the police force to protect the people he serves, not watch out for himself.

“Yeah, that was wrong.” Cole tsks from the front walk. “You shouldn’t have done that.”

I turn my glare on him. I kind of want to hit my new friend upside the head at this moment.

Lionel nearly splutters, eyes bulging out as he gazes in surprise at the leader of the Dragons. “I—”

Stone pulls me aside and drops his voice. “Legally, the house is my father’s. He can do whatever he wants with it.”

“It’s not right,” I fume. I’m sick of everyone taking everything from me; of making decisions for me while I have to ride the wave of consequences. I don’t care if it is Lance’s house on a technicality, it’s ours.

“It isn’t,” Stone growls. “I’m as pissed off as you, but this is what my father does.

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