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Of course I couldn’t. I wouldn’t have known had I not seen the pictures he saved to his phone from the video recordings of me.

I should feel disgusted.

I fell asleep instead, feeling anything but.

11

ROMAN

One day passedsince I dropped her off at her apartment building.

One day since I’d seen her.

I kept waiting for the cops to show up at my door, taking me away.

Kept waiting for her bastard father, Bennett Hudson, to show up with that smirk on his face because he finally caught me again.

None of those things happened.

She didn’t call anyone. After checking the cameras, I knew she had gone straight to bed as soon as I dropped her off, and she spent most of the day today working, trying to catch up on what she had missed.

Micah had been watching me closely ever since I walked into the church last night, as if he was afraid something might come out and take me from him.

That obviously didn’t happen.

Dominic looked at me curiously and asked where I went last week.

I told him a part of the truth.

I told him I had gone to the cabin but hadn’t told him about Ryleigh yet.

I didn’t know how to bring that up, and what was more, I didn’t know how he would react.

It didn’t help that my face was looking the way it did. Staying a week at the cabin had helped it heal some, but not fully, and the brothers at the club could probably tell something, or someone had fucked it up.

I told Dominic about the Devil Sinners only because I wanted to know how thoroughly Micah handled them.

I didn’t bother to ask for the details, not when we had bigger problems.

Someone had been stopping our distribution out of state. Someone who knew the route we took to get the drugs out of there. Someone who had the backing of some pretty powerful and smart people, I bet, considering we had no idea how the fuck it had happened.

Luckily the brothers who had done the drop took quick action and destroyed all the evidence that could implicate the MC. But we were looking at over hundreds of thousands of dollars of destroyed merchandise.

Micah had suggested planting someone on the inside for us. I knew who the fuck he meant, and if he thought I would ever send Ryleigh into some shit like that, he had another thing coming.

I wouldn’t send her in even if Dominic dictated it.

I never thought I would go against my president for anyone, but I knew, and judging by the look in Micah’s eyes, he knew I would, too, for her, because he hadn't brought it up again.

What a fucking scary thought.

That I was really too far gone for this girl, I didn’t know how to get back to the way it used to be.

I didn’t want to.

Which was how I found myself standing in front of her apartment door after a fucking long day at the club, anticipation strumming under my skin.

We parted on an odd note when I dropped her off at her apartment yesterday, and I wanted to take that away.

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