Wayward Secret (Wayward Saints MC Book 7) by K. Renee

Author:K. Renee [Renee, K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

After my little scene with Canaan, Dixon pulled me into his office. As I’m sitting here staring at the man I’ve called my boss for the last three years, I can’t help but think that I may need to pull away from this case. It’s bringing up bad memories that I can’t deal with right now.

“What happened in there?” He finally asks after we’ve been sitting in the silence for the last five minutes.

“I can’t work this case.” I state. I don’t want to get into it, but I know he’s not going to give me the choice. We don’t get to pick and choose the cases we work. We are a team and we take every case on together.

“Why?” he demands.

I sit back against my chair and stare at the bookshelf behind him. Trying to find the words is even more difficult than I expected. I try to open my mouth and say the words, but nothing comes out. Instead he starts to talk. “I’ve read your file. I know about your little brother’s disappearance when you were a child and I know what happened to your mother. You recognized the brand on one of the victims.”

If he knew all this shit then why the fuck is he asking me. I close my eyes and take a deep breath. “Yes.” I whisper. I feel like all my defenses are falling around me and there is nothing that I can do to stop them. I don’t want to talk about them. I don’t want to remember the pain I felt when I had to go and identify my mother because my bastard of a father didn’t give two shits about her after my brother died.

Instead, I lost the two of the people I loved the most. Well three. After my mom’s death, my father’s drinking got worse and he was never the same. He was angry all the time, I could see the pain in his eyes the minute he sobered up again.

“I can’t go there.” I say with as much conviction as I can muster. It sounds weak even to my own ears, but I let him make the final decision.

“You mean you don’t want to catch the bastards who did this to her?” His eyes never leave me and suddenly I feel like I’m standing next to a fire in the middle of the summer. Sweat is starting to dust my hairline and I can feel the sweat as it starts to drip down my back.

“I just can’t. I want that bastard to rot in hell, but I can’t see my mother’s face every time I look at those photos.” My voice trails off towards the end and I want to get the fuck out of his office. I want to go home and head back to bed. Hell, I would give anything to rewind back to this morning when I had Elijah’s strong arms wrapped around me, holding my body to his.

“You’re not going to like my answer.

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