Bridget seemed round on the three of us, then patted me on the shoulder as she handed. “Your flip, huh?”

Layla checked out Rom with a query in her eyes, however he shook his head and took her hand. Then he glanced at me and Mac. “Let me know if I’m wanted,” he stated earlier than strolling away together with his bride.

“You already know who’s hurting her?” Mac questioned.

“Fairly certain it is her father,” I snarled, feeling much more angered that she was struggling by the hands of somebody whose job it was to guard her.

“Fuck,” he muttered.

“One thing about the best way he checked out her, nearly determined. And the irritation in her expression when he dragged her away. I believe there’s extra to the story. I must get her away from him.”

“No query,” he agreed. “But when it’s her father or mother…” He stared on the wall for a second and stroked his beard. When he met my eyes once more, I knew what he was about to ask.

“I don’t understand how previous she is. If I needed to guess, I’d say over eighteen, however I received’t know for certain till Gray tracks her down.”

Mac sighed and crossed his lean arms over his broad chest. “You already know we’ll deal with this both means,” he assured me. “However it’ll be a fuck of quite a bit more durable if she isn’t authorized, particularly if the abuser is a father or mother.”

“Understood.” I’d already thought by means of many, many eventualities. “Yet one more factor.”

Mac raised a silver eyebrow and waited.

“She’s injured. Patch is headed dwelling within the morning, and even when he wasn’t, he doesn’t have a clinic right here…” I trailed off, understanding he would choose up on my request with out my needing to voice it.

“You need me to place in a name to Fox.” It was an announcement, not a query, so I didn’t reply.

Patch was our membership physician. He had a clinic hooked up to our clubhouse, however we have been in Outdated Bridge, the place Layla was from—a few hours from the Silver Saints compound.

Via Gray’s previous girl, we had a connection to the VP of the native MC, the Iron Rogues. The prez, Fox, ran their membership in the identical means Mac dealt with the Silver Saints. Their actions weren’t precisely authorized, however they weren’t concerned in soiled shit like medicine or the intercourse commerce. They revered girls and have been identified to assist individuals who wanted to vanish. However most significantly, they’d their very own physician.

“I’ll give him a name and allow you to know what he says. Go on again to the lodge so that you’re prepared when Gray has her location.”

I jerked my chin up in acknowledgment, then turned and headed to the car parking zone.

3

TESSA

Glancing down at my cellphone because it rang, I noticed the title of one in every of my highschool associates flash throughout the display. I wasn’t within the temper to speak to anybody, however that didn’t cease me from answering. On the very least, connecting with Sarah was a short lived reprieve from the bone-deep loneliness I used to be feeling.

“Hiya.”

“Hey, woman. I really feel prefer it’s been without end since we’ve seen one another.”

Flopping in opposition to my mattress, I stared up at my ceiling. “Yeah, it does.”

“That’s why it’s essential to come to the lake with us at this time,” she recommended. “Brian’s dad stated he may take the boat out, so it’s gonna be a blast.”

A lot for Sarah offering a contented distraction. Her invitation solely made me really feel worse as a result of the final time I went out on the lake with my associates was the day earlier than my mother’s deadly automobile accident. She’d packed a cooler stuffed with meals and despatched me on my means with a smile. It was the final time I’d seen her, and the reminder of that day plummeted my dangerous temper even additional.

The invitation additionally drove dwelling why I couldn’t flip to my previous associates for assist—their lives have been centered round themselves. If Sarah had actually needed to see me, she would’ve recommended something apart from a day on the lake. A great good friend would’ve stopped to consider how a lot the reminder of my mother would damage me.

Barely holding again tears, I mumbled, “Thanks, however I can’t make it. Sorry, possibly subsequent time.”

Not giving Sarah the prospect to answer, I ended the decision and buried my face in my pillow. Simply after I thought my day couldn’t get any worse, I needed to be reminded once more of what I’d misplaced when my mother died.

Any hope that I had of getting my previous dad again disappeared after I handed the finished paperwork over to the financial institution worker yesterday. He hadn’t cared that he’d gambled my future away. All he’d needed was the cash my mother had scrimped and saved to present me the training she’d at all times needed.

I had no thought how I might pay for my faculty subsequent semester, however I wanted to determine one thing out so I wasn’t caught dwelling with my dad for any longer than I wanted to. Even when I needed to drop out of faculty and get a job to pay for lease, I needed to get away from right here earlier than the top of summer time.

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