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She’d actually gotten married and chose the worst guy possible.
All that time and I was there, always there.
Always there, but not good enough for her. Now suddenly I was.
I shook my head at her.
Claudius was wrong.
My girl and my child ... I didn’t have anything of the sort.
I turned and walked away.
I didn’t miss the crude stair Claudius gave me as I walked past him.
I went out to the garage and grabbed my old bike. My good old trusty Harley that had been modified so many times I didn’t know exactly what to call it.
It was just fitting to use it tonight.
I needed something that could take a fucking beating, because I was out for blood.
Elliot Granger’s blood.
Chapter 29
Maria
He was the first man that I’d spoken those words to and meant it.
I actually meant it.
I told Luc once in a roundabout sort of way. At the time I thought I meant it, but I knew he wasn’t mine. It was just something I said so he knew he could trust me. It was during a time when it was hard to trust anyone. Friends and enemies were practically the same thing.
I also told Franco I loved him, but I said it because I was supposed to.
I fell for him, and part of me loved him. Still there was something missing.
I didn’t realize it at all until earlier when I told Dante.
I didn’t realize that the thing that was missing in my life with everyone else I’d ever been with was they weren’t him.
None of them were Dante, and somehow he completed me. He was everything for me.
I was too late though.
Too late and I was packing.
Packing again to leave Chicago. This time I thought I’d travel light. Just a rucksack for me and Flynn with the essentials. I’d buy everything else when we got to where we were going.
I thought this time we’d head west. To Iowa and then maybe on to Idaho. Just get lost in the mountains somewhere. Maybe that would be better than a city. It would certainly be better than coming here had been.
God, I didn’t know what I was going to do, but that was the plan.
It was my plan.
Flynn was playing with his little soldiers and he had a little bag packed too.
Donny and the other guys were still here, but I was going to slip out the back hopefully unnoticed. They thought we were up here asleep.
