Page 51 of Everlasting

“I love you so goddamn much, Ever Donavon!

Chapter 29

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My return home, after Durbin cleared me to go, was more than I expected. To be honest, I just wanted to walk in my house, snuggle up with my wife and kids on the couch, and just enjoy being in the same place with all of them for a while. Missing an entire year, and still not having all of my memories intact, or trustworthy, was something I was still coming to terms with.

There was a party waiting for me when I walked through the doors instead. It had been two months since the men found me in Canada and brought me home. Two very eventful months in which the remaining brothers of The Trinity Group sent an apology for what their younger siblings had done, and their father before them. Their apology consisted of eight figures being dumped in the Aces High MC coffers, to be split evenly among the chapters. I was asked if I was okay with that outcome. I didn’t really think it had fuck all to do with me though. The people who worked so hard to hide me away and destroy the person I was were both dead and buried now. I was tired of fighting the ghosts of that year and the itch I had to make myself feel better the easy way.

We also lost Trunk to retirement. His announcement had come just two days earlier as I was getting ready for my home coming. It had been the reason that he had been acting a little shady around everyone. His woman had been pressuring about a move to be near her family out west and he felt she had sacrificed enough for his lifestyle. It was time he sacrificed a little for her too. The problem had been the fact that Trunk was thrust in the top spot while I was away and stepping down then would have left the club in the lurch. Trunk had been stuck fighting an internal battle about who he should be most loyal to, his club or his woman. He chose right. He gave the men time to find me and then he hauled ass to catch up to his woman who had left two weeks after I was brought back to Charleston.

Ghost was the first to greet me after the initial shouts of “Surprise!” and “Welcome Home!”. “Did you decide what you want the club to do with that money? I think you’re entitled to a healthy portion of it, yourself.”

“I don’t want their money to touch my life. If it helps the club, fine. Personally, I don’t want that shit.” It hit me then that no one had discussed Sasha with me. I hadn’t even thought to ask about her after we found out the baby wasn’t mine. “What about the bitch and the rat in the club?”

“The rat wasn’t in your house. She was infiltrating the S.H.E. MC through some new, young buck they had training with Redemption Inc. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time to overhear when intel came in. Then, like the dumb, cocksure, young bucks tend to do… He fucked and talked into his pillow post orgasm.” I laughed at the description. It was true enough though. Too many men were brought low when they spilled secrets after sex.

“Sasha?” I asked the question again because Ghost seemed disinclined to tell me about what happened with her.

“She’s cooling her heels at your woman’s house, whenever you’re ready.”

“My woman’s house?” I glanced around at the home I’d bought all those years ago, the one Ever and I had shared since the very beginning.

Ghost seemed shocked that I didn’t know what he was talking about. “Maybe, I should let Ever tell you all about it.” He called out to my wife and then bugged the hell out of the area like his life depended on it.

“What’s going on? Why did Ghost call me over and then run away?”

I gently grabbed hold of Ever’s arm and dragged her away from the people there to celebrate my homecoming. I waited until we were locked behind a bathroom door to whisper-hiss my question. “Ghost said the bitch is cooling her heels at my woman’s house. Considering this is your house, I was knocked a little off my fucking axis to think you’d put our kids in danger by housing that cunt here.”

Ever looked angry for just a moment before the emotion faded away and looked more like amusement. “She’s not here,” Ever insisted.

“Did you buy a house I don’t know about?”

“Nope,” she told me. “Remember when I told you that I had a story to tell you about Toby and why I believed you saw him when you were missing?”

“Yeah,” I managed to get out, though it sounded more like a question, even to my own ears.

“Well, it’s all a part of that, and I was waiting until you were home and settled to launch into that bit of craziness.”

“Can you give me the short of it?”

“I met a psychic, she helped me find you, then she died and left all of her worldly possessions to me, though she asked that I hang onto all of it for a year and a day from the time she died, and so that’s where I stashed the cunt-faced troll who tormented you for months on end. That’s where her baby was delivered. She’s still there, waiting. I just checked on her day before yesterday. I have some help doing that,” Ever informed me before adding, “Trusted help.”

“Okay, when this party is over, we’re going to touch on both of those things, but for now, I need to tell you that I don’t care what happens to that cunt, but I want nothing to do with it.”

“What? Why?”

“If I go there, she will win. If I come for justice and try to take it out on her, I’m just feeding her delusion that I’m in love with her and will save her. Do what you need to, let the club have at her, it doesn’t matter. I just know that it can’t be me who does it. She’ll enjoy that too much.”

“That’s just so wrong,” Ever shivered visibly at the thought. “I’ll handle her after your party.”

“I love everyone out there,” I told her. “You know that, right?” I waited for her to nod. “You know what I wanted as a homecoming?”

“What?”

“A night with just you and our babies, cuddled up on the couch watching the goddamn Disney Channel.”

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