Ruin“Where the hell is she?” I screamed it in Truths face. I didn’t care that none of this was his fault. Same as he didn’t care that I was shouting right into his face.It had been hours, and with every passing second, a pit of dread was opening in my stomach, threatening to swallow me whole. The longer she was gone the more it grew. Avery was in trouble I knew it. And where was I? Kicking my heels in the clubhouse when I should be out looking for her. I wasn’t used to sitting back and let others do the work for me.It was killing me.“We will find her, Ruin we will. You don’t even know for sure something is wrong.”But I did know, same as I knew that if she was hurt, I would never forgive myself for letting her down again, even if she forgave me.“I know, I know that son of a bitch Dean is hurting her.” “Dad’s hurting my mum?” Parker sounded small, like a lost boy. Whirling I held my hands out to him. I hadn’t even realised they were back. “Parker.” I took a step forward, I hadn’
AveryIt smelt funny, wrong somehow even half asleep it made me want to gag. And the bed I was laying on felt wrong. Hard and lumpy. It made even my bed back at my fathers feel like it was made from a cloud.My eyes fluttered open, and the dim light sent a wave of white-hot pain through my head. That’s when it came back to me.It was all wrong because I wasn’t at home, or at my father’s. I was in a bar and my asshole of an ex-husband had punched me in the face. It came back to me in a rush, everything that had happened.That son of a bitch, groaning I forced myself to sit upright. Glancing around me. No wonder it felt like a plank of wood was under me, it wasn’t a bed at all. It was a table. A long table. With what looked like chains at either end.Now, why would a table need chains, unless? I swung my legs off the table, and they dangled, swinging wildly as white-hot pain speared my brain again.That son of a bitch had knocked me out. He had closed his fist and sucker punched me.
RuinThe waiting was killing me. She was in there. And that son of a bitch was doing god knows what to her. Maybe not even just him.He was charging for the privilege of hurting my woman. Charging them, it made my blood boil.Waiting had never been something I was good at but Truth had been right. We couldn’t go in there all guns blazing. There was no way of knowing exactly how many men were in there or whether they were armed. I couldn’t save Avery with a bullet in my head.I had to wait for Truths signal. How he had even managed to get inside was anyone’s guess. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to know. What I did want was Avery. Out of there and in my arms. “Wh….” I snapped my mouth shut as Wicked held up a hand, silencing me. His eyebrows pinched together in concentration.“Shut up I’m trying to listen.”Listen to what? Truth had said he would signal us but hadn’t gone into detail. Maybe that’s what Wicked was listening for. Some kind of signal.“Now.” Wicked moved with more speed tha
AveryHe was avoiding me.Not ignoring me but definitely avoiding. He kissed my cheek anytime we were in the same room, which wasn’t very often. He was polite but he couldn’t hide the distance in his eyes when he looked at me.He was gone. I could tell. Whatever he had seen in that room or thought he had seen had changed the way he felt. And it stung. It stung so much it was like a knife carving out my heart. But I couldn’t blame him. Me having a crazy psychotic ex-husband hadn’t been what he had signed up for. As long as he was there for Parker that’s all that mattered.Or at least that’s what I kept telling myself as the days passed. It was worse somehow this awkward politeness between us than anything else I had been through. And then there are the club girls. Girls who I knew I shouldn’t be jealous of that hung off his every word and touched him every chance they got. I hadn’t seen him get freaky with anyone but I wasn’t stupid. I had grown up here so I knew how things worked.
Truth Tattoos.It was time for another one. It had been time for another one for weeks. My body was covered in them, bright, colourful ones that women loved.My own personal story of violence and death.Sure they were beautiful but wasn’t death beautiful? In its own macabre way?Who was I kidding? Death wasn’t beautiful. I only told myself that so I could sleep at night. I had been telling myself that every day since I had first squeezed a trigger and ended someone’s life. Snuffed them out like a candle flame. That had been during conflict. A war where I wasn’t even sure who my enemy really was.Now I knew who they were. It was a different type of war now, sure, but it was still a battle. Of sorts anyway.Pushing open the heavy door, I scanned the large shop front. My eyes squinting. Usually, this place was a hubbub of activity. The sound of the tattoo gun filling the air with its whirl, but today it was quiet. No one sat in the chair by the window. And there was no sign of the man
Cali Drumming my fingers on the worn wood of the table by the corner, I let my eyes scan the bar around me. My eyelashes fluttering against my cheeks. The room was almost full. But then that was to be expected on a Friday night. There couldn’t be many places to party in a town like this. Maybe one or two bars at a push. And it seemed like Cooks was the place to be if you were a leather wearing biker or the women that gravitated towards them. I was neither, but I had to admit I liked the atmosphere. I enjoyed watching people I had since I was a child, and there were plenty of people to watch here. Each one of them with their own hidden story for me to untangle. I liked the mystery of it all. I had always been good at reading people ever since I was a child. It was something I prided myself on. Again I drummed my fingers on the wood just inches from my beer. He was late. Glancing at my watch, I frowned. He wasn’t just late; he was really, really late. Over an hour, to be exact.
TruthSomeone said my name, and my eyes flew open. The woman with the eager mouth instantly forgotten as just for a second, my eyes met those peeking out beneath pinky-purple curls. She looked shocked for just a second, and then she schooled her face into neutral indifference, but I knew she had seen me. My cock, still firmly in the club girls mouth, jumped and twitched. Swelling even more. She made a sound in the back of her throat that told me she thought it was for her. And I wasn’t about to tell her otherwise. No woman, even one as desperate as the one sucking me off, wanted to hear that it was another woman that had gotten you so excited. It was a sure-fire way of getting your dick bit off. And I liked my dick firmly attached.Even more so now that she was here. The bright-haired angel from earlier. I wasn’t even going to question how she knew Gemma. I didn’t really care. “You like that baby?”“Did I say you could stop…” glancing down at her. I felt myself go limp. My cock
CaliGemma was super lovely, but she sucked at being a hostess. If it hadn’t been for Gent, a name that made me smile. The same man who had been tattooing my ass, we wouldn’t have gotten back to her tiny apartment. Or she would have tried to drive, and we would have ended up wrapped around a tree or in a ditch somewhere. ”Gem?” I said her name quietly from her half-open bedroom door. In answer, she turned, snoring softly as she rolled over. It was useless. She wasn’t going to wake up. I had been trying on and off for the last half hour. Not that I could blame her. She was going to have one killer hangover when she finally opened her eyes. The girl could seriously put back shots.She couldn’t handle them, but she could put them back. Still, I couldn’t wait. I didn’t want to miss my bus. I would just have to leave without a real thank you and goodbye.,I had expected a lot of things coming here, but her kindness hadn’t been one of them. It was unexpectedly sweet. And I hated leaving