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Darkness Chapter 40
AustinCandice was silent the entire way back home. I know it was tough for her to go against what her mother thought was best. She is technically living with a complete stranger. I have a meeting with Snake tomorrow morning and after that I should be able to clear some things up, so she can get back to her normal life. We walk into the silent house together. She immediately walks into the guestroom I designated for her. I can hear drawers opening so I know she is putting away her clothing she got from her house earlier. I walk into the kitchen and look in the fridge to start on some dinner. My mother often comes into my home when I'm not here and fills my fridge and cabinets. I find some steaks and veggies in the fridge and take them out. I start on dinner to give Candice some privacy. Minutes later my phone rings, I look at the collar ID and see Chance's name."Still six in the morning?" I ask hoping he isn't calling because the time has changed."Yeah, far as I know. Reason I'm cal
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CandiceI wake up the next morning feeling amazing. This is the first day I woke up so far that I don't still feel my injuries. Abby had left me some pain killers in the bag she gave me, and I had taken some last night before bed. I am not a pain medicine type of person, I usually like to wait it out, but I knew if I were going to defend myself against another attack, I would need to get better and fast.I take a long shower and go back to the guest bedroom to get ready for the day. I dress in some black leggings and an off the shoulder white top that goes down to my thighs. When I walk into the kitchen charging straight to the coffee machine, I run smack dab into a wall of muscle. I swear, in order to be a part of their club these guys must have had to pass a six-pack test. Minimum. He is ripped. everywhere. Even his arms are muscular. When I back up and get ready to apologize, her gives me a disgusted look. "Um hi, you must be Shane. I'm Candice. We've met before though. You know,
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AustinI ride to the clubhouse with Max by my side and Chance, Shane and Psych right behind me. It's a good thing I can ride to the clubhouse from my home in my sleep because my mind is not on the road. It's too wrapped up in a sexy as hell redhead I've got waiting for me at home. I don't know what prompted me to kiss her before I left. She gave me a panicked look as soon as I showed her the gun. I know she most likely won't need it, but I feel much more comfortable with her having something inside the house to defend herself with.We arrive at the clubhouse and park our bikes. I had called a church meeting right after I left Snake this morning. He was right when he said he had some shit to show us. I walk inside, wait for everyone to line up and then begin the tale of what transpired this morning. I still cannot believe everything I've learned from this morning."You ready?" Chance asks me as I cut my bike off in front of the clubhouse.I met him here instead of at my house because I
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CandiceA ripple of anger and fear courses through my body. I never should have found this man last year. He has done nothing but cause pain in my life. I hate him with every fiber of my soul and as Austin gives me a worried look, I wonder if Nicholas has ruined any chance I may have had at happily ever after."Babe? Did you hear me?" Austin says."Wh-what?""I asked if you were alright? You looked like you saw a ghost." God, why does he have to be so perfect. As soon as I tell him who I really am, I'm going to lose him, and I've only just gotten him. "Oh, um nothing. The name sounds familiar is all. What's he do?" I ask, even though I already know. Fucking small world."Yeah, should sound familiar, he owns half of New York. He is a business mogul and has his own a construction company. Cole industries. That's one of his faces anyway. The other face is a drug typhoon. He controls most of the heroin coming in, uses the company to conceal it. My father used to work for him. Our cl
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AustinI wake to a blaring sound coming from the ground to the right of me. I open my eyes slowly and feel warmth coming from my left side. Candice sleeps soundly on my chest and the memories from last night come rushing back to me. Fuck this woman is something. I wanted to be gentle but that went right out the window when she whispered dirty words in my ear. Candice was definitely made for me in the bedroom, now I just wonder if she was made for me in the clubhouse.The deafening sound starts again, and I realize it's a ringtone coming from my phone. One that I most certainly did not put on there. I don't recognize the song but it's some chick singing and sounds like cats attacking each other. I pick it up before it hurts my ears again and answer the call. "What the fuck did you do to my phone?" I yell to my brother. I hear Candice laughing her ass off, so I know she is awake."Sorry bro, had to. Figured that was your jam." Max laughs at his own joke on the other end. "Fuck y
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CandiceAustin and Max's mother's house is absolutely beautiful. It is an older country style home that sits on at least an acre of land. It is by far the biggest house I had ever seen. There are large windows with white rusty shutters, the paint is peeling in some areas of the outside, a large chimney struck out atop the roof and as we walked further onto the porch, I could see a cedar ceiling that looked newly built under the roof of the porch.As we walk up to the house I could see their mother sanding there by a long white pillar. Of what I could see she is absolutely stunning. She has long wavy brown hair and light green eyes. I know Austin told me that she was on the young side to have grown men for sons, but the woman doesn't look a day over forty. Austin gets out and opens me door. Swoon. Once he has my hand in his we walk up to his mother and he walks up to hug her. Their size difference is almost laughable. She has to be about five foot two inches while Austin is way over s
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Austin "How is she?" I ask Miles through the phone."Nervous. Just dropped her off a few minutes ago and she is barely knocking on the door now. She started giving herself a damn pep talk."I chuckle at my girls' crazy behavior and tell Miles to keep me updated. As I hang up the phone, I think back to last night at Candice's mood as soon as Jesse left. Even when we go home last night she seemed off. I tried to get her to talk to me, but she just kept telling me she was nervous about speaking with her mom today. I don't want to push her too far, I know her mom and grandmother are her only family, but I wish she'd be open and honest with me. I know that wasn't the only thing bothering her.I've had women in the past, a lot of women. Went through them like nothing when my father first passed. It wasn't until my mother sat me down and told me she didn't want to be a grandmother yet, that I realized I needed to cool my shit down.I got tested and was thankfully clean. I wasn't always ca
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CandicePinochle is a terrible card game. My grandmother taught me when I was fourteen and I've always hated it. I just always play with her because my grandfather used to and it's one more thing me and her can reminisce about him. As she laughs her ass off her recent win, I get off the recliner and head to the kitchen for a water bottle. As I guzzle down the refreshing drink I think back on Austin and I's conversation a few minutes ago. Austin sounded distracted but it's to be expected. He did tell me that he had another meeting with that Snake guy today, so he is probably still absorbed with that. I hate that he can't be too specific about club business with me, but when I spoke to Abby about it, she explained to me that lots of old ladies feel that way, but it was for our own good. She also told me that after all this is done there won't be secrets between me and Austin because there won't be anything to keep from me. I didn't tell her that I relished in that.I walk back into t
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AnnaMy phone vibrates in my palm once more. I can't answer it, I won't. I already know it's Alan. He has been calling for the last three hours nonstop. His words form last night are still raw and I don't know if I could stand to hear his voice right now. Alan finding out the truth last night has brought me to where I am today.I await the guards to finish frisking me and lower my gaze even further when the lead guard comes over and starts telling me the rules I have already learned. I am let into the room, a different one than the one I am used to being in and wait. Today is the day Jed gets out, and my nerves have given me both jitters and anxiety. I am not only nervous for Jed, I am nervous for me.A loud ringing sound starts, and I look around to see where it is coming from. The sound stops when a door opens, and I see two guards flowing in, followed by my brother. He looks different, almost happy. His long dirty blonde hair is brushed back, and his eyes are bright and vibrant.
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AnnaAnger has never been more clearly evident on someone as it is on me at this moment. As I watch my father waltz into a club full of men who could kill him simply by flicking their wrists, I wonder what his motive must be. If he has been tailing me, and I know he has because he showed up at my apartment the night I flew in from Minneapolis, then he knows what a mistake this is. Alan is here, and if father's plan is to get Alan to see that we still keep in contact, then it's working."What are you doing here father?" I snare at his pungent face. Now that Alan and I are over, something father doesn't know because I bullshited the story of me going over there in the first place, I want him gone even more.After I got home, I was broken. Alan had said some horrible, but truthful things to me and the last thing I wanted was to come home to father sitting comfortably in my armchair. He did what I figured he would. Questioned my trip with the Kings. I told him the very basics. The inter
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AnnaI've never felt so helpless in my life. Not even when Jed turned sixteen and instead of a gift, father made him train with a nasty brute of a man named Serge. Father told Serge not to take it easy on Jed and he barely made it out of the match alive. I was eleven, and mother made me watch because my job, was to hopefully seduce Serge if he went too hard on my big brother. Always a way out. No, in this moment, I feel much more anxious than when Jed was slowly dying ten feet in front of me. Alan adjusts his tie for the hundredth time while the host, Margarette Knowles, asks Paul the next question. So far, the questions have been on the subtle side. Why he chose to run now? What he thinks of his competitor? What sorts of things he wants to change in our government. But I know the questions are far from over. She hasn't even asked about Paul about not going to the formal dinner back in New York."So, tell me Mr. King. What did your family think when you announced you were goi
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Alan"Okay, either our bags were not on the same flight as we were, or I'm blind and need glasses."I look again at the spinning conveyer displaying everyone's belongings, well, everyone's but ours. We have been here for over ten minutes and I still cannot locate our bags. Should be easy enough with Anna's large Louie Vuitton messenger bag but still, I've got nothing. I look behind me and notice Anna is no longer standing behind me but much farther away. She is looking down at her phone and I feel a ping of insecurity. Ever since we landed, Anna has been on her phone and I don't want to be that boyfriend that snoops, but she is being a bit sneaky and it's making me a bit nervous.Each time I've asked her who it was, she hides the phone from me and says Laynie. I tried looking over her shoulder at the phone, but she types so damn fast and places it inside her jacket pocket, I can't tell who it really is."Alan?" I snap out of my daze and see Anna standing right in front of me with
