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“Son,because a wo point She’ll stand by you if you kill so point, she’s done with you There’s no getting her heart twice”

“It’s not her heart I want” His young, arrogant voice still sounded in his ears after all these years

A sad look had come over his father’s face “Make sure, Cash, or you’ll spend the rest of your life wanting so you can’t have”

Chapter 17

Rachel was sitting on her bed,notes on her computer when a knock sounded on her door

“Come in”

She thought Mag would open her door; instead, Cash stood leaning on her door frame

“Busy?”

The pinched look on his face showed he hadn’t fully recovered from his accident

“No, do you need so?”

A brief silence oing on in Ja me a ride? I want to look for a new bike”

Rachel started to mouth off and ask why he didn’t ask Bliss; instead, she slid off the bed and put on her shoes He probably didn’t want any of his wo him when he wasn’t able to hold hie of hiht; it wasn’t an iet

In her car, Cash slid the seat back as far as it would go then leaned his head back on the headrest

“Did you take anything for pain?” Rachel asked as she drove toward Jamestown

“No I would have smoked some weed, but I was too scared of what your brother put in it”

Rachel stifled her laughter

“I didn’t take you for a coward,” she teased

“I’m not I just don’t want to smoke cat shit”

Not able to hol

d back, her laughter filled the car

“You’re not going to tellaround?”

Rachel took her eyes briefly off the road to see his head turned toward her “Sorry, Tate and Greer are both vindictive a-holes”

“Tell irl duh school because he thinks she dumped him for me”

“She did He had saved his money to rent a limo to take theht only to find out you had beat hi with her”

“She told me he had broken up with her”

“She lied,” Rachel informed him

Cash remained silent the rest of the drive

When Rachel glanced over again he was sleeping His vitality was so overwhel from an almost fatal accident Instinctively, she reached out to touch his arm but then drew back She didn’t want to wake him needlessly

Her hands gripped the steering wheel The powers that had helped save his life were gone She had prayed they would co hiret; she only wished she had it now so she could help with the pain he attempted to keep hidden from everyone

Cash took his loss of strength as a weakness while she saw it a completely different way Even without her help, he would have lived Cash was a survivor who didn’t give up easily; his recuperation was a testa about his walking Now he forced hiht no one was observing hiht li other than the scars from his accident remained to remind him of his brush with death

Cash woke as she parked at the packed motorcycle swap meet

“Looks like every biker in three states is here,” he re as he closed the car door

Rachel gazed at the rough looking crowd ofthe motorcycles on display Several were for sale and so shown off by their owners