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“Like what Autumn?” I growled needing answers. Had someone told her about tomorrow?

She sighed. “Like I’m making a huge fucking mistake.”

“You talking about us?” I butted the cigarette out in the ashtray.

“No.” And that was one confident no. I arched my eyebrows at her, waiting for an explanation. She picked up the cigarette packet, pulling a smoke out. Her eyes on it.

“When you touch me.” She blew out and looked at me, my hand instantly remembering I am allowed to touch her, so my hand ran down her back.

“Like that.” She added, and her eyes were off me, she scanned the bar.“They look at you, with this look, like questioning if your sanity is there.” Her eyes dropped.

“I feel like the club has drawn a line and you’re dancing on it, not caring whether they could cut you off.”

My hand wrapped around the whiskey glass.

“Cage, tell me you aren’t endangering your position at the club to be with me?”

Endangering it? I had basically thrown gasoline and a match on it. Members had glints in their eyes, counting down the days until her father was out. Autumn was considered the golden girl of the MC. No man, no sane man would go after her; but then again when I touched her, when I was with her, I wasn’t a sane man. She drove me to insanity.

Knew that there were two options of how this was going to play out. Lose my patch and her. Or become a President.

But come tomorrow, the members would either get their wish to see me murdered or be forced to follow me.

After all Hawk gets out tomorrow, early release, and Autumn had no idea about it.

Chapter Thirty Nine

Autumn

Moments. That is what frames everything. A moment in time, can put your perspective back into alignment. Like the moment Hawk walked into the bar, shocking me to the core. He was out four months early and I had no idea why.

He went straight for the church boardroom, and it had been hours, no one had come out. Cage eyes had locked with mine for a few seconds before he went in, and I felt like he was telling me goodbye within those seconds.

I blinked back tears, because he had been telling me goodbye. I thought the meeting was about nothing, but then I got back to the club after dealing with the books at the gym. That was when I learned that everything had changed.

I went from numb, to furious within seconds and as I brought my fist to his door. I was feeling both emotions.

I heard a come in. So I let myself in, seeing the boxes.

“So it’s true.” I said, looking at the room he was packing up. Seeing him without a club cut on. “You’re leaving.” I choked out the words, and he just stared at me.

Since I found out that Hawk had taken his patch, those two emotions would flood my body. One-minute anger, the next numbness. I closed the bedroom door.

My eyes locked with his, as that anger boiled up in me.

“How could you let them take your patch? You’re meant to die in club colors and what now, ya what?” I hissed, not being able to finish the sentence. “Let them say,sorry Cage, but you can’t be a member anymore! What the hell Cage!”

He walked from the box, but I was already getting emotional.

“You realize what this means right? You and I are over!” And my voice broke, that emotion flooding my body.

“When you ride out of that lot, I’ll never see you again! When you leave, that’s it. Don’t you get it Cage!”

I shook my head, furious again. “I let my guard down and then you do this! You didn’t even fight for us!”

His hand gripped mine, and I pulled backwards, not wanting to be touched by him. But then he gripped me, pulling me into his chest, like he knew that I was seconds away from breaking and as soon as my head hit his chest; I broke.

The tears suffocating me.

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