Page 19 of Cage's Ruin

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Staring at the dinner plate as Jacob and Hawk talk about club business. I zoned out as soon as we sat down. I was so busy wondering what it felt like to be human again, that I nearly didn’t hear their questions.

“Autumn, what’s your thoughts on tea?” Hawk asks.

My thoughts on tea?

“That some club girl has put her heart into it for me not to eat it.” I replied coolly checking my phone.

“What’s going on with you?” Hawk snaps at me, being direct like always. “Acorn. I’m not liking what I’m seeing.”

Was he talking about my weight loss? Or was he talking about my cold attitude? Or both? Regardless zero of it was his business.

“Nothing,” I replied looking up from my phone. Nate was waiting on me. “Just got shit going on.” I added, seeing as they were staring at me like I had two heads.

“With?” Hawk prompted.

My phone buzzed again and my eyes went back to it.

“Autumn turn that fucking thing off!” Jacob hit the table with a closed fist. Causing me to look up.

“I would but I don’t turn on people when they become a problem.” I look at him coolly. Because basically that was what the club did as soon as I became a problem. They threw me out. They turned me over as not their problem.

“Sometimes you’ve got to do what is best for you own good.” Hawk says.

“Your right. Which is why I have to leave.” I said going to get up. When there was a knock on the front door. I rolled my eyes—as Jacob told me to stay seated.

“I want to see her.” A voice growled at the front door. I knew immediately it was more important that I keep the shields up that I had around my heart.

CAGE

I always get what I want. I fucking wanted her. So as I stormed past Hawk into his house. Ignoring his roars for me to leave the house. I walk into their dining room. My eyes landing on Autumn.

I see the body of the woman I love. But I don’t see her—Autumn’s eyes had never been filled with the type of coldness she was shooting at me right now. She looked hollow. How the fuck could Jacob keep telling me that she is fine, when she is clearly unwell.

“You and I gotta talk.” I said to her, keeping my eyes locked with hers.

She looked me up and down. “Sorry got plans.”

“Damn straight you do. With me.”

“No Cage. With Logan.” She replied way to coldly. “My boyfriend,” She adds. “He rides for The Crows.”

“Logan Dean?” I question her. “The same Logan who I just had a fucking conversation with listening to him bitch about a girl that is playing hard to get? That Logan? Who just checked in? Who shouldn’t even be on this side of the border!” I roar now, my anger getting the best of me.

I had just listened to this man bitch about locking a girl down. I had no idea that girl was Autumn.

She just stares at me like it is zero of my business what she does. Doesn’t she know what she has done to my head? How she got inside and fucked everything up. Doesn’t she get it. She fucking got in my head! She is always on my mind. Every single fucking day I feel sick with worry about her. Knowing she is away from me, just made everything worse.

“I’ll make Aaron take his cut off him.” I declare, furious that she isn’t taking me serious.

Hawk steps forward. His eyes on Autumn. “Autumn you love this man?”

Anger rolled through my body. How the hell did I let her have space, giving her the chance to fall in love with someone else? How the fuck, did I let this happen? If she said yes, I had seriously fucked up—beyond repair.

She scoffs, semi laughing. Causing us boys to frown at her reaction.

“Love? Love someone? Anyone? No.” She looks at us coldly. “I stopped loving when I took my mother’s life. I stopped caring when you threw me out of the club. I stopped loving people a long time ago. So no I don’t love him.”

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