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Holy fuck. I didn’t mean to cause them any trouble.
Chapter 5
Eve
Sobered by the fact my tears were causing a scene, I went back to Royal Road to set things right with Hallow. I’d tell him everything whether he wanted to hear it or not. My biker sat in the round corner booth, the one without a table like he was god damn Kingpin. Flanked by four strippers, Hallow looked like he was having the time of his fucking life.
I stood before him, not caring if tears streamed down my face. Speaking loudly, so he could hear me over the live band, I declared, “Hallow, this ends now. Come and let’s talk this over.”
“I don’t want to hear your lies, Eve,” he said, pulling one of the strippers to him. He kissed Cali right on the lips.
“How dare you?” I screeched, stomping my foot.
“I’m a single man, baby,” Hallow said.
I about bowled over. Instead of staying and being humiliated further, I ran to Paisley’s room above the clubhouse. I’d cried so hard over at the Big House. I couldn't believe I had more tears to shed. Hallow had called me a liar, and I’d lied to him. I deserved this. Self-pity consumed me until I didn’t have any more tears.
“Paisley, is that you?” I heard a sound at the door.
Then came a knock, no someone was banging. Lordalmighty. “Hold your horses, I'm coming,” I called out, thinking Paisley had locked herself out.
Opening the door, I got a shock. Hallow towered over me, his face mangled. He grabbed me, snatched me by the nightgown. Without a word, he bundled me up and took me across the room, and threw me on the bed with so much force that I bounced like a ball.
“What in the tarnation do you think you’re doing?” I screamed in the midst of it. Then I propped myself up to get a good look at him.
Hallow scratched his face, making it bleed more like he relished the pain. “Eve, how could you do that to me? And then have the nerve to have fucking Kingpin come and tell me, of all people. You send that batshit crazy psycho. You can't talk to me yourself? It's a goddamn slap in the face to our relationship. Sending my fucking Prez to beat my ass. That motherfucking twig. He wanted me to come to you. Here I am. I could’ve been fucking two bitches tonight. At the same goddamn time. Yeah, I got my dick sucked already.”
I gasped, “Lordalmighty.”
“Yeah, you heard me. I'm not some pussy. You can't just stand me up. Leave me at the altar and think that I'm gonna come crawling back to you. I’m going to get mine. I could have any woman in this joint. They be on their knees begging to suck my big dick.”
“Hallow, I sent Kingpin to explain. It's all just a big misunderstanding, I promise. I didn't wanna leave. I didn't know what to do when Hob showed up with the Asphalt Gods MC. Y’all would’ve killed my brother.”
“Your brother wouldn’t have been here in the first place if you hadn't called him. If you hadn't planned to leave me. If you weren't just pretending that you were going to marry me. Your big fucking wedding that was so important that you couldn't marry me right away because you had to have it all, the friends, a bridesmaid at my club.”
“My best friend died, Hallow,” I shouted back.
It was no use explaining. He wasn’t listening. Drunk, he slurred, “You've made friends with everybody. We have a big wedding that we had to plan for months, and then you don't even want to be there. And I know why.”
“Why? Kingpin tell you that, too?” Shit. He must’ve known I was lying about Hallow knowing about the miscarriage.
“Kingpin doesn't have to tell me. I hear all the bikers here after you go to the Big House saying you’ve gone for your hot beef injection. You do whatever the fuck you're doing there with our Prez and all the sudden you have no problem getting up on stage and singing. You used to be this timid, sweet thing. And now you’re clearly comfortable up on stage, even with the skanky hoes taking their clothes off right next to you. And you sing your heart out when you’re singing with him. He's done something to you. Fucking you, probably. Turned you into one of his whores. Cause you sure as hell haven’t been fucking me.”
Hallow confused me. He still didn’t know about my miscarriage. We'd not had sex many times since I’d lost a baby, no. Since I hadn't told him about it, I couldn’t explain why I didn't want to make love to him lately. But him alleging I slept with Kingpin was a bridge too far.
Rage coursed through me. “How dare you accuse me of such a thing. I've been nothing but faithful to you, Hallow. I fucking spent months waiting on you hand and foot while you were a goddamn invalid recovering from gunshot wounds.”
“Gunshot wounds from saving you.”
I softened. “Yeah. And I'm mighty grateful and I love you. And I wanted to marry you. And I'm sorry I got cold feet. I get nervous. You know that. But I’m not a whore. How dare you? I can’t believe you’d suggest I’d sleep with Kingpin. You know I never liked the man.”
“That was before. The old Eve. You used to get panicky about him all the time, but you've changed. You're keeping something from me? Kingpin told me that much, that you have a secret. He didn't say what?”
“I don't have any sort of relationship with him,” I swore.
“I have eyes, Eve. I see how you two are.”
“Yeah, I give him a hard time. I'm tough with him. Because I have to be. You brought me into this world of bikers. Of outlaws and assholes. You brought me close to a man like that. I have to hold my own. If I didn’t, he'd have power over me. I don't want Kingpin to walk all over me. I did, however, let him help me get over my nerves, that's all. Plus, I’m singing at Royal Road to help with finances.”
