Hard Roads by Lily White

Author:Lily White [White, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mswillisbooks
Published: 2014-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

~ JD ~

I should have kept driving east. I should have continued allowing the wind to break against my face, the rumble of the engine to power beneath me as I tore down miles of highway in search of a life where I didn’t have to worry about the MC, or Diablo, and especially not about Holly.

Those people weren’t my problem.

Not anymore, at least.

Somehow, when I was driving through the pitch black of the night sky, the long desert roads stretched out in front of me begging me to keep going and find peace at the end of wherever they took me, I stopped. Looking up, a thousand white eyes stared down at me like the heavens above were witnesses to my cowardice, my guilt and my greed.

I’d stolen her to save myself.

I’d left her to run drugs to the man who’d ordered her capture.

I was leaving it all behind, as if her life, her safety and her soul were not worth risking everything I’d worked so hard to gain.

Why was my life more important when it was my hand that put her in that place to begin with?

Kicking down the stand, I pulled my leg from over the bike and walked out into the cool breeze that blew across the dust and low-lying plants. Animals could be heard hunting in the distance, but other than that there was only the whisper of wind, carrying with it the secrets and silent prayers of every poor bastard out there who lived a life as bleak as mine. Mixed within that wind was Holly’s voice, the words she said to me before I left her to die and the lies I’d told not only her, but also myself, to make us both feel better about the situation.

I wondered if she’d taken my advice or if the fighting spirit she had inside her revived once I was no longer there to talk her down from the ledge.

I wondered if she was even still breathing.

Why had I stopped? I didn’t even know where she was and who’d taken her. Hector wasn’t a name I recognized. I didn’t even know if it was the name of the man who now held her. Somehow, despite all the roadblocks constructed in my head and the questions echoing through my thoughts, the prayers laced within that silent wind spoke louder. Climbing back on my bike, I turned the key, listening to the engine roar to life beneath me and I turned the bike so that I was now heading back in the direction from which I’d been running.

Returning once again to the life I wanted nothing more but to forget, I rode in the direction of the one person I thought could help me weed through all of this bullshit.

When it came down to leaving everything behind, I couldn’t do it. My last act had doomed another soul to slaughter. I couldn’t ride away weighed down by the knowledge that I was just as guilty and evil as the men I never wanted to see.

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