Page 39 of Blue

Because her voice was growing louder, Jazzy took a moment to calm herself. “It got bad, Kiss. Crawlers came to the MC. The guys were gone. They came after us. Levi, Hana, and me. Blade’s mom was there, and one of Bullet’s girls.” She grew quiet.

I folded my hands in my lap. “I didn’t know about all that.” But I couldn’t share what I did know. I couldn’t tell her I’d betrayed the Hellers, too.

Jazzy sat next to me. “Kiss, after that night, we changed as a club. Now, it’s good again, like it was when we were kids. Bikes and beer. Everyone laughs. Vance came back. They call him Torch now.”

“It was good to see him, but we didn’t talk.”

“You don’t have to worry about coming back. No one is pushing H or selling guns anymore. Some things will never change. Romeo is Romeo. He likes his weed.”

“Blue smokes weed. I can handle being around it. Black was always my weakness.”

“No one in the crew is doing anything more than a few drinks and a blunt.” Her lips twitched. “What I’m trying to tell you is that you have no reason to avoid your real friends. Those of us that are always going to be here for you.”

“I don’t know how to face Levi and Romeo.”

Jazzy huffed and stood. “I don’t want to come off insensitive to you. And by the way you’ve been with Blue, I don’t think it matters. Levi has always been your friend, and Romeo was never more than your ho.”

“I guess I was his ho, too.”

“Levi and Romeo are disgustingly happy. For a guy that everyone thought was incapable of commitment,he’s totally booed up and completely rocking the daddy vibe— I mean daddy as in fatherhood.”

I rolled my eyes. “You mean not like Rogue rocks the daddy vibe.”

“Exactly.” We both laughed.

After a late lunch of grilled cheese and tomato soup, Jazzy ran another load of laundry into the house, and I gathered up my few possessions and stuffed them into plastic grocery bags.

“Is your dad still home?” I asked her when she returned with clean clothes from the dryer.

“He rode my bike over to my mom’s. His ride is still in the shop, but I sent a text to Torch, asking how quickly he could have it ready. It feels right that he has it back before he retires from the board.”

“I’d love to see the look on his face.”

“You could. Have Blue bring you to the MC.”

I smiled. “Yeah, maybe.” But I already knew I wouldn’t go.

“Dad has no idea I had Hana, Blade’s old lady, paint the tank and fenders. She’s a beast artist. We all have her ink.”

Jazzy spun around and stripped off her shirt revealing a tattoo of a heart with a sword through the center. Blood dripped from the blade and a garland of thorns twisted around the handle.

“It’s incredible,” I said.

“You’ll have to see the tattoo she put on Romeo for you.”

I vaguely remembered Romeo showing me a heart over his chest the last time I was in the hospital after I overdosed. It was his way of letting me go because we were never good for each other.

Jazzy and I hauled my things over to the house.

“You can have my old room,” she said. “It has its own bathroom.”

“Which room is Blue’s?”

She pointed across the hall. “Dad is down the hall, but I promise, he can hear everything that happens in both rooms. The walls are thin.”

“I suppose that’s why he moved you out to the garage when we were teenagers.” I bumped my shoulder against hers.

Jazzy’s lips twitched with a smile. “Right reason, but wrong person. I could hear him and my mom.”

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