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chapter Sixteen
Breakout
Beast
Five Years Later…
Stopping in my tracks in the middle of the woods, I tilt my head toward the sky, shut my eyes, and take a deep breath. After five long years, I’m finally free.
The morning after my night with Summer, I watched her sleep for two hours. I thought about taking her and running. I ran the pros and cons through my mind. Gambler did it for years and only got caught when he was ready. I could have done the same. However, not without Hawk, Many, Zel, Lucien and Seth.
I wasn’t going to leave the Church and leave my brothers and Priest behind. They are my family. They deserved to be happy. So, I gave up the opportunity to run with Summer in order to free all of us.
It was the hardest decision I’ve ever made. Even when I turned myself in, I struggled with the choice. That caused me to serve a five-year confinement punishment.
The confinement meant I couldn’t leave my prison apartment in Church headquarters. They tried to enforce a no visitor rule, but Priest ended that quickly.
Although I spent five long years staring at the same white walls, it was worth it. I needed that time to prepare. Now I know in order to get everyone the happy ending they deserve I must finish what Gambler started.
Pushing through the rest of the crop of trees, I come out on the other side to find a simple black sedan. Albany is leaning against the car. Her head is down and she’s looking at something in her hand. I realize it’s a phone when she sticks it back in her pocket. She then looks at her watch.
I purposely kick a nearby rock, causing it to scatter through the foliage on the forest floor causing a ruckus. Albany turns around with her gun aimed at my head.
“Relax, it’s me,” I say, walking out of the trees.
“Everything went well?”
Dipping my chin to my chest, I head to the trunk of the car ready to get started with my mission. The faster I get it done, the sooner I can get back to her. Mine. My Summer.
Even the memory of her has that fluttering feeling in my stomach going off. I spent a lot of those five years studying every detail of that night, of her. I now know the flutter feeling is my desire for her. I clench my hands into fists at my side.
“How are the guys?”
I ask about my brothers because I have to keep myself distracted. If I don’t, I will run to her and him. Now isn’t the time. I pull the black shirt over my head and toss it into the trunk of the car. Picking up the new shirt, I put it on.
“Hawk and my sister are safe. Maybe even expecting their first child.”
I don’t miss the way her tone drops, and her eyes shift down when she mentions her sister. As tough as Albany tries to be, I think the decision she made to leave them all behind eats away at her. But that isn’t my battle. I’ve done all I could to set her on the right track. It will work out. If I know Priest the way I think I do, he will come for her soon.
“Lucien has come to terms with himself, and he and his girls are doing good last time I checked. The kid loves him just like you said she would. Even Many and Zel are in line for their future.”
Taking off the heavy combat boots, I place them in her trunk and quickly put on my preferred ones.
“You can relax now. You did everything right. You deserve a break.”
Not yet. But she doesn’t need to know that. There is still so much that needs to be done.
“And you?” I ask instead.
She laughs. “I already have my future. I don’t need anything else.”
I don’t call her out on her bullshit. She’s in love with Priest and won’t be happy until she has him back in her life. When she told me she was pregnant and I suggested she fake her death, I already had a plan to get her and Priest back together.
She points to a black duffle inside her trunk. I look inside and find stacks upon stacks of cash. What the hell is this? Most of my money should have gone to Summer and him.
I point to the bag without asking a question.
