WALKER (The Men of Whiskey Mountain Book 1) by Frankie Love

Author:Frankie Love [Love, Frankie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-16T16:00:00+00:00

17

Walker

The next two weeks pass in a blur. I want to tell her more, everything. Well, almost everything, but how the hell am I supposed to tell her — the girl who loves me — that I am not the man she thinks I am?

If she knew the truth, she would run from me the same way she ran from my brother.

Because Maker is more than a drug dealer — he is my family.

And our family business is what killed her sister.

The idea of telling her this, a woman so fragile and scared, that I am more than her lover — that I am a monster — is too painful to consider. I don’t want to hurt her. Won’t hurt her. I can do that at least.

So, I keep the truth at bay. I kiss her hard and soft, all over, up and down. I listen as she tells me about her mother, her childhood, how she hated school but loved the ocean. How Alaska is more beautiful than she imagined. How even though the commune was a cluster fuck, she feels like it all worked out for a reason. To bring her here. To me.

I’m a liar and each hour with her I know I am digging myself deeper into a hole I can’t dig out of. But I can’t devastate her now, not when she is just learning how to stand on her own two feet. Not when she is grieving the loss of her family, her entire world. Not when she has been running for weeks and now… now she needs to rest.

“What about you?” she asks. We’re out on a motorboat in the middle of my lake. “What was it like for you growing up?”

I knew the question was coming… and Waverly deserves the answer. Deserves the whole wide world.

“It was good… while my mom was alive. She made Sunday Sauce every week, enough pasta for everyone at the table. Poured wine with a heavy hand and smiled wide when my brother and I took a second helping.”

“And your dad?”

I swallow. “He was a good man, in his own way. Until my mom died when I was ten. Then…” I shake my head. “He changed. I’ve found that death does that to people. Hardens them.”

“How did she die?”

My jaw tightens. The truth too harsh for her to hear. “She was killed.”

By my father’s enemy. The cartel. The men who put her in their car after she got off my brother’s yacht were probably the sons of those men. It all comes back to drugs. To power. To money.

“Oh. my God, Walker,” Wavy gasps, sitting in my lap. “That’s horrible.”

“The men were caught,” I say. By my father’s men. Gutted and left for dead. The fight became about more than power then. It became a game of revenge.

Now my father is dead, and I’m gone, and Maker is all that’s left.

A man without a heart, without a soul.

The only family I have.

“Life was hard after she was gone.

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