“You do the identical, Trudy. Good luck.” I flip and almost run over Maven. “Whoa. My favourite cake girl.”

She grins. “I’ve a cake for you too.” She takes my arm and leads me to one of many tables the place the meals is testing the sturdiness of the wooden. “Everybody has supplied up farewells and gratitude, and I want so as to add my reward to the refrain.” She opens the field, and I bark out fun.

“Is {that a} Viking?”

Her cheeks flip pink as she nods. “It’s what I assumed you had been once I noticed you in my storage after we first met. An enormous ass Viking.”

“You imply whenever you referred to as me impolite?”

She smirks. “Amongst different issues.”

“You certain did.” I chuckle and run my finger by means of the frosting, sucking it off with a groan. “You possibly can name me something you need in case you bake me treats, Maven. Thanks.” I wrap my arms round her, dwarfing the lover baker.

“Maintain your self, Stone.”

“All the time. And you may ship me any baked items you need. I’ll fortunately take a look at them out for you.”

She provides me a playful shove. “Go allure another person, Viking.”

“Yeah, yeah.” I kiss her cheek and take the cake with me, discovering a desk to savor the sugar and the booze.

Finally, the social gathering winds down as a result of these guys have work to do, and Ace stops in entrance of me. “Time to go.”

My brows dip. “Go the place?”

Shades laughs. “You do understand this was a going away social gathering, don’t you? Again to Texas.”

“Now?”

Wild Man nods. “Now. I acquired you a faux ID simply to be on the secure aspect. The ticket is booked on this identify. Come on.”

I smile and get to my toes. It’s simply me and the blokes now, and fuck, if this isn’t some bittersweet shit proper right here. I’m able to go, however I’m reluctant as fuck to depart. “Let me seize my stuff.”

“I’m driving,” Tank says, swirling a key ring round his finger. “Except you wanna maintain me as we cruise up the freeway?”

“Nah, I’m good.”

“Thought so.”

I jog again to my room and seize what little I personal and toss it into the van.

The experience to LAX, the massive airport in Los Angeles, is surreal. It’s quiet aside from the roar of the bikes surrounding the van. I’m deep in thought, remembering how fearful and scared I used to be once I first acquired right here. And now I’m having the identical ideas about house.

Saying goodbye to those males on the airport is a gut-fucking punch. They aren’t simply my protectors, not simply the individuals who stored me from diving off the deep finish once I was away from my household and buddies. These males are my greatest buddies, my brothers-in-arms, and in blood. We’ve fought collectively, bled collectively, and killed collectively. We’re fucking household.

“Thanks for the experience,” I inform Tank. “And the friendship,” I say to Olly.

“No thanks obligatory, brother. Simply don’t overlook about us whenever you’re lined in cow shit,” Olly laughs.

I set free a bark of laughter and shake my head as I pull him in for a bro hug. I’m going down the road, hugging every of the Reckless Souls till I’m in entrance of Ace.

“Don’t thank me. You belong right here. Anytime you wish to come again, our doorways are extensive open.” He smacks a field towards my chest. “We acquired this for you, however don’t make an enormous deal out of it, okay?”

I open the field and smile. “A patch. For me?” It’s the Reckless Souls patch with Viking stitched on the highest and ‘honorary badass’ on the underside. “Fuck y’all. This shit is…fuck.”

Dix laughs first. “Not solely are we gonna make him cry, however we lastly acquired a fucking y’all!” He whoops with extra laughter, and the remainder of us take part, lightening the temper a bit.

“Thanks. All of you, for all the things.” I give them one final look and stroll into the airport with my head held excessive, my shoulders squared, and a big-ass grin on my face.

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