Dark Destiny by Jayne Blue

Author:Jayne Blue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand City Publishing

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“Bro, I’m sorry. I had no idea she was coming over here.”

“It’s okay. There’s no doubt how she feels about me, anyway.”

“You’ve been gone a long time. If she hates you, that could be something.”

“I left her with zero explanation, I stood her up the night I was supposed to meet her family. I’m pretty sure it’s not love-hate, it’s hate hate.”

“Two sides of the same coin. My little Tracy still hates me and we’re married,” Maddox said. I laughed.

It was good to see him. It was good to be with people who knew me. But the Lyric question, well, that was answered definitively. I’d had no idea she even still lived in Port Az.

I wondered what had happened in the last five years. Whereas the road had hardened me, she had bloomed. She was even more gorgeous than I remembered. I supposed college had done that for her. I was glad for her. Whatever had happened in her life had been good. She radiated it. And yet, it still hurt to think she hated me. That she thought I had decided to leave her.

I cut off the ‘what ifs’ in my head.

Looking backward wasn’t helping. It never would.

“Let’s get to the MC,” I said.

We were headed to Church. Maddox had given me a place to crash since I’d been back. But I’d have to get out of there. If Maddox’s wife Tracy and Lyric were friends, I didn’t want to make it awkward for Lyric. She didn’t deserve that.

“Yep.”

“Lyric’s a decorator?” I asked Maddox. I hated having to ask someone else what had happened in her life. It was a life that I’d wanted to be a part of. That I’d dreamed up a future for.

“Shit, more than that. She owns a boutique! She transformed the pawnshop into it, and then today she opened up a new house décor store, I guess it’s called. Tracy can’t stop talking about it. She was at the opening today.”

“Great. Sounds like she’s doing great.”

I changed the subject. This was all I could handle knowing. I didn’t want to know if she was with someone. I didn’t want to know anymore.

We rode to the MC.

Port Az had changed in some ways, but it was also the same. The salt in the air brought me back to when I was kid here, fighting to survive. I didn’t know how much I missed my hometown until I was back.

I’d reunited with my closest brothers, Benz, Maddox, Kade, and Shep. I was back, I wasn’t on the run, and I was supposed to participate in this club. To vote. It was brand new again, as if I was probie.

There were fist bumps, hugs, a few faces I didn’t recognize. Probies that I’d never met. If they had questions about me, they didn’t ask them. We all knew sometimes it was best not to know details about some parts of each other’s lives.

And we had business first.

Bear was at the head of the table and E.

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