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Chapter 123

Author: Laramie Briscoe
last update Last Updated: 2022-10-20 14:22:04
"So what do you do on a normal day?" Jessica asked as she ate her toast and drank the orange juice Meredith had poured for her.

Layne glanced up from the bagel and bacon he ate, almost like her question scared him. "Ya know, the usual."

She laughed. "No, I don't know what the usual is. Remember? I've never been here before."

Did he tell her what they really usually did? Protection runs to help in the drug and gun trade, escort strippers out of strip joints, shake down a few people if they were paid enough money? "I usually work at the shop," he told her. "Ya know, mostly oil changes, tire rotations, things like that. I have to go work there today, actually. Will you be okay by yourself?" Funny that he hated liars – what a hypocrite he turned out to be.

Being by herself didn't really appeal to her, but she knew that he also had a life that he had to live. To be honest, she had completely barged in on it, and she couldn't be mad at him if he had things to do. "I will be. I actua
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    Meredith was anxious. Her heart thundered and her hands shook. For months they had been coming to their house when her ovulation kit told her that it was time. While she enjoyed what they did here, it was starting to give her serious anxiety. It wasn't that spending time with her husband was a bad thing—at all, but she wanted this to work so desperately."Why are you so quiet?" Tyler asked as he came to stand in front of her.She glanced up at him, thanking the heaven's above that he was hers. It could have so easily worked out a different way. "Just nervous," she admitted. What if it never happened for them? She was so sick of the way people told her it would happen when it was supposed to. She wanted it now, dammit."Stop." He brought his hand up to cup her cheek. "You've got to stop being so damn hard on yourself. I can't take this, and I won't be a part of it."Tears came to her eyes and panic set in. What if he refused to help her? What if he was sick of doing this on a sc

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    "Do you need me to take your spot on the run tonight?"Layne looked up from where he sat hunched over the hood of the car he was working on. Black Cherry in color, it belonged to a local friend of the club, Cash Montgomery. "I'm sorry, what?""Do you need me to take your spot on the run tonight?" Jagger asked again, wiping off his hands with one of the rags they kept lying around the shop."Why would I need you to do that?"Jagger felt like he was talking to an elementary school kid. "You've got a woman here with you. I figured you might want to hang out with her? After all, she did come here from California." The 'duh' hung in the air, unsaid.Sighing, Layne shook his head. "No, I had that commitment before she came. I'll see it through.""The guys will understand if you need the night off. It's not like any of us haven't done it before, my friend."This was so odd for Layne. He had never had to clear his schedule with someone else since he had been welcomed into the clu

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    Layne was finding it hard to breathe with Jessica wrapped around his body. Her grip was strong and sure as her fingers dug into his stomach. "You okay?" he yelled behind him where she sat.She nodded but knew that he wouldn't be able to see it. The fact was she was scared to death. Not so much because she was on the back of this bike, but because of the way she felt pressed up against Layne's hard back."I couldn't hear you.""I'm fine," she answered when they stopped at a red light. Glancing up at the street signs, she saw that they were at the intersection of Louisville Road and Porter Pike and they were turning left. It looked very dark where they were going."I'm not gonna let anything happen to you," he reassured her. Without a shadow of a doubt, she knew that, but this was all so new to her. "I know," she told him, holding on even tighter as the light changed and he leaned into the turn."Relax," he told her. "If you don't, you're going to be sore by the time we g

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