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“She’s gone, boy”

My gaze snapped up fro out a text to Rory “She already go hoht now Her mom just died, Jenks She needs to be with people who care about her right now Me and you both know the godda make sure she’s okay”

Jenkins scratched at the stubble on his chin, a sign I’d co about what he was about to say “The reason it took so long to get you out was because Michaels and Caes up to statutory rape They had the girl scared to death that they would be able to convict you and put you away She’s vulnerable fro clearly If I’d been able to talk to her, I could have convinced her that her father didn’t have shit for proof, but they wouldn’t let anyone near her”

I had suspected rape was bound to be talked about in so the way Rory had been found in my bed I still hadn’t been worried Jenkins was the best defense attorney in the damn state That hy he worked for the MC

But that didn’t explain what the fuck he one

“You said she’s gone,” I half growled even asdown, ready to stop at any second “Where the fuck did she go?”

“Hell, I don’t know All I know is that she agreed to go with her father if he agreed to drop all charges against you A chartered plane left an hour ago, son Michaels told Bates to hold you until the plane was gone”

Chapter Two

Rory

Three Years Later

NERVOUSNESS CHURNED IN MY STOMACH as I stepped into the grocery store and glanced around

He’s not here, I tried to assure rocery store was one in afor food e’d dated three years ago Even as relief calmed some of the butterflies in hten

I had only gotten back to Creswell Springs two days ago While I’d been gone, I’d drea back here a et the chance, that as long asMatt’s freedo me if I ever dared to contact anyone in the MC, he would have Royce Campbell issue an arrest warrant for Matt and anyone else I so le ith

The only reason I was back noas because soon I would turn twenty-one, and I would inherit everythingto ht sheto leave me a trust fund that would let me have a comfortable life But once the will had been read, via Skype by Mr Jenkins, I had been bloay by how generous Mom had been

Everything It was all e of twenty-one Stunned was too tame a word for how my father had taken the news He had exploded, and for the first time in my life, I had been physically afraid of thethe floor littered with broken glass The walls of the house randparents had left her had been full of holes that had needed patching days later when my father had finally calmed down