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"I'm good. Thanks." He swiveled on the stool and looked out at the room.

He had a feeling Ringtail's problems centered around Twyla. She'd probably gotten her sister involved with a Tarkio member to get information for her boyfriend.

Tomorrow, he'd know for sure what her connection was with the other motorcycle club. And, he'd personally escort her out of Missoula if he found out she was coming after Tarkio.

Chapter 5

Twyla

The breeze pushed the smoke from the campfire in Twyla's face. She stared at the flames until her eyes teared, or by chance, the smoke moved away from her. It'd taken her over an hour to hunt down dry branches in the woods for her to make the fire. She was going to enjoy every second of the heat before she admitted defeat.

She needed to go back to Angie's place and apologize.

After one night of sleeping in her car at the forestry road entrance, she knew another night would make her go insane. Between watching out for any jerk who pulled up, thinking someone had abandoned a car and the back seat of her vehicle, that was too small for her to stretch out on and forced her to curl on her side, she needed some serious sleep.

And a shower.

She couldn't go to work tomorrow, smelling like a chimney and wearing wrinkled clothes.

She hated how Angie expected her to apologize to her. She wasn't the one who'd started the stupid argument.

Ringtail had told her to watch her mouth while arguing with her sister and then had left the room. Apparently, that was enough for her sister to think his leaving had something to do with her when it was the biker that'd come to the house that took Ringtail away.

The last time she looked, there was no golden rule about how two adult females, related by blood, had to talk to each other.

Ringtail probably grew up a single child with parents who believed children should be seen and not heard.

Besides, it was Angie who flipped out and went crazy.

There was no reason why her sister should've gotten upset. They'd argued a thousand times in the past.

But, her sister had changed, and not for the better. Angie was sensitive and lacking self-confidence. Ringtail made her desperate. It was as if her sister couldn't breathe without him around.

When she was with Big, she got used to him coming and going. Anytime another biker showed up at the house, he left without any explanation. She never went crazy, trying to dictate his life.

Why couldn't Angie see that it wasn't her fault that Ringtail had left?

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