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Once everyone is sitting questions fly around. I can barely keep up with the conversations happening. I peer at Paige who is joining in, but her attention keeps wandering around the room. I can’t help it. Now that I know what that bastard, Dylan, did to her—or suspect what he did to her—I want to talk to her about it, but there’s not been a good time.
Is there ever a good time to talk about these things?
Maybe I shouldn’t bring it up. If she’d wanted people to know, I guess she would have talked about it with Wade or even Piper.
“So, you and Dane,” Beth demands suddenly, catching me off guard. “What’s happening there?”
“Are you moving to Manchester?” Jamie asks. “Because that would suck, but I’d understand. I’d move for that hunk of yumminess too.”
I draw my brow together. “Nothing has been decided yet,” I tell them. Beth translates for the others.
“But you want to move in with him and have his babies and live happily ever after?” Sammy surmises.
I smile and a collective ‘aww’ goes around the table.
“I like him,” Piper says.
“I like him too,” Paige adds. “He’s easy on the eyes as well, which really helps.”
This earns a laugh.
The doors open again and Clara steps into the room. Liv shifts her seat aside, as does Jamie to make room for another chair.
“Come and sit with us,” Beth says softly.
Clara moves slowly, but snags a stool and pulls it up to the table. She smiles a little and then glances around. “Where are the boys?”
“Not sure,” Liv replies, bouncing Danny on her knee. “Dean said he had ‘shit to do’ and then left this morning.”
I snort.
“Logan did something similar,” Beth adds. “It’s like they all took the same frigging lessons in biker school.”
“How’s Slade?” Chloe asks.
“Complaining about everything.” Clara’s smile is faint. “Seeing him shot, knowing what happened to Lucas… Put a lot of things into perspective. It made all our arguing seem pointless…”
“Yeah, nearly dying will do that,” Jamie agrees.
“Speaking of…” Sofia says. “When’s Lucas’s funeral?”
“Thursday, I think,” Clara says. “We’re finalising the details, but…”
She breaks off on a heavy breath and the atmosphere grows heavy as we remember the fallen prospect.
“We’ll give him a good send off,” Jamie says, grabbing her hand and squeezing it.
“The best,” Sammy adds.
I can’t help but smile as the conversations continue. I love these women, and leaving them behind is going to be so hard, but I love Dane too. To be with him, I need to be in Manchester.
It sticks in my throat a little, knowing these could be the last conversations we have as a group—for a while anyway. Everything has changed so much over the past few years. Beth found her way back to Logan, Liv discovered a love for Dean, Paige and Wade found each other after a one-night stand, Piper and Jem became an unlikely couple, and Chloe and Weed matched up perfectly. Now, I’m going to be leaving in the next few weeks, and it doesn’t feel exactly good.
“You okay?” Sofia asks.
My emotions must be all over my face.
“I’m going to miss everyone,”I sign and swipe at the lone tear streaking down my cheek.
“Girl, we are going to be in Manchester every chance we get. Those Devils’ boys won’t know what’s hit them.”
I hope it’s true. I love Dane, but I love my girls too.
“And there’s video chats and messaging and phone calls,” Clara says.
“You’ll never be alone, girl,” Paige adds, grabbing my hand and holding it in hers. I squeeze as hard as I can. Letting her know the same. She’s not alone, no matter what she’s dealing with.
“Love you all,”I sign.
Preparing for the next chapter in my life is going to be tough but I can’t wait to settle down with my guy either.
