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“But how long can we really go on living this way?” he asked, a bit of longing filling the words.
The truth that we’d been living thin, even though we’d promised that having each other’s backs would be enough. This mismatched family that had been forged through the flames. Through desperation and treachery.
Just a handful of fucked up kids living on the street who’d come to rely on each other to survive. And once we’d become members of Trent’s MC, Iron Owls, we’d taken it full fledge.
Out of it, we’d discovered the one thing we had tooffer this world.
“Don’t know,” I told him honestly.
“Do you ever wonder what would happen if we made this thing legit?”
Surprise jolted through me, disbelief at what he’d implied.
We’d started this thing crooked because that’s what we’d been, and we kept it that way because we were a whole shit-ton more effective without having laws and chains and parameters to hold us back.
Thing was, it also made us criminals, and he and I both knew there was no going back.
“Maybe you need a break.” I struggled to keep the dread out, the way my pulse had gone offbeat at the implication.
Otto sighed. “Nah, man, I’m just rambling. No need to worry.”
A frown pulled at my brow. “You sure you’re good?”
“Yeah.”
“All right then. Take care, brother.”
“Yeah, you, too.”
The line went dead just as I was making the turn into the parking lot at the side of the building where Moonflower and Charleigh’s apartment were housed. I pulled into a spot, looking up at the white bricks, wondering what the fuck I thought I was doing.
Did it anyway, though, because I couldn’t sit back and be complacent, and I dialed Cash’s number.
He answered on the second ring. “What’s up, brother?”
“Need you to dig something out for me.”
“Yeah?”
“Need all the information you can get me on Charleigh Lowe.”
TWENTY-NINE
CHARLEIGH
“Is there a restroom I can use?”
Call it deflection, but I needed a second to gather myself. My body still burned from River’s overpowering kiss, burned from the direction I’d been sure we’d been heading.
Then River had just left without an explanation, and I wasn’t quite sure what to say or do with the way Raven was studying me right then.
“Right this way, Miss Charleigh!” Nolan sprang into action, grabbing my hand and hopping backward as he hauled me past Raven and back through the kitchen archway, down the hall, and to the door across from the laundry room.
“Here you go!” He pulled me inside the small powder room. “There is toilet paper and soap and a towel and every single thing you need but if you can’t find somethin’, you just let me know because I’m always at your service. I gotta take good care of our special guest.”
He said it in his adorable lisp, and my heart rattled in my chest, taken by this child.
“I’m very happy to be your special guest,” I told him, unable to do anything but run my fingertips over the dash of freckles on his chubby cheek.
