Page 341 of Savage Brothers MC: Tennessee Chapter

“Why, Ice?What can you do here?”

“Well, I mean, I know the police are focused on finding Wolf and my sister isn’t really in trouble, but she goes this week for an interview with the lead detective.She will need an attorney.Her mental state is not good and that’s being nice.There’s just a lot of chaos.Plus, I need to give Harvey at least two weeks’ notice, I can’t just leave him high and dry.He’s been good to me.”

“If I stay here for another two weeks and help you get packed and ready to move, will you come home with me then?”I ask, but I think I already know the answer.

“I can’t give you an answer on that right now, Liam.I need to make sure that Dawn is safe.I need to make sure she’s okay before I just leave.”

“Did you call your mom?”

“Yeah,” she says with a heavy sigh.

“And how did that go?”

“Not great.She’s coming down at the end of the week to be with Dawn for her meeting with the detectives.She refuses to talk to me about you calling.”

“We can’t change the past, Ellie,” I warn her.

“I know.I just hate that they lied to me, Liam.”

“It’s more like they just kept secrets and hid things from you.”

“Semantics and you know it.Not telling me something is just as bad as lying when it affects your life, Liam.Dawn and my mother did it knowing it would.”

“I don’t want to leave Arizona without you, Ellie,” I tell her and I don’t bother keeping the pain out of my voice.

“It’s not a permanent separation, Liam.I’ll come back to Tennessee, I will.It just may take me a bit.”

“You don’t come home soon, Ellie, and I swear to you, I’ll come back and drag your ass back home.”

“Liam,” she says with a smile, leaning up to kiss me.“I promise I will come home to you.I have to.I love you.”

“Promise me, Ellie.”

“I promise, Liam,” she says solemnly.I hate like hell that this is where we’re at.I don’t want to leave her side for a minute.

“How long?”

“What?”she says surprised.

“How long do you need, and if you say a year, so help me God, Ellie, I will wear that ass of yours out.”

“Are you asking me to give you a timeline of when I’ll be back to Tennessee?”

“Is that a problem?”

“Well, kind of.How am I supposed to know how long it will take to get my sister settled and everything done so I can move?”

“Two weeks.You can get all that done in two weeks and give your notice to Harvey,” I tell her, wondering how in the fuck I’m supposed to survive two weeks without her.

“Liam, I don’t want to be away from you, but I need longer than two weeks.”

“So give me a time,” I tell her, trying not to panic at being without her even longer.

“Two months?”she says, tentatively.

“Fuck, no.There’s no way, Ice.I’m not living without you for two fucking months.”

I watch as her eyes dilate and she swallows nervously.

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