Page 30 of Always Mine

Anthony looked up to find Constance standing in the doorway of Daisy’s room, flowers in hand.

“Hey,” he said.

“Still no change?”Constance walked into the room and he noticed she limped just a little.

There were bruises on her face, just as Anthony had them.He didn’t give a fuck about his cuts and bruises, though.

“None.”

“Can I come in?”

“Yes, Daisy would want you to,” he said and sat back, letting out a breath.Whizz and Lacey allowed him to stay with her, but with the agreement, he went home, changed, and ate.

At the moment, he couldn’t go back to their place.There were too many memories, and right now it was a little fucked up in his head that he’d been living with Daisy, and the truth was, no one fucking knew.

No one knew about him or Daisy, or the fact they were married and had been together since they were sixteen years old.Everyone had been so focused on Tabitha and Simon.The two clubs.Then it was about the Monster Dogs MC.

He and Daisy had been happy to play the roles they had been dealt.Now, though, as he saw the ring on her finger, he didn’t like it.Anthony was pissed off.Their secret relationship shouldn’t have been so easy to pull off.

“She looks so ...tired,” Constance said.

He heard her sniffle.

Staring across the room, he glared at her.“Don’t.Daisy doesn’t need to hear that shit, so if you don’t have it together, fuck off.”

“Dude, seriously?”Rachel asked, coming into the room.

He watched as Rachel, Markus, Miles, John, Blaise, and Damien stepped into the room.They all looked like shit.He hadn’t checked in with any of them.He had been so focused on getting Daisy healed.It was in that moment he realized how fucked up everything was.

“You’re right,” Anthony said.He was not going to apologize.

He didn’t want to fucking talk.

Daisy would often tell him there would come a time he was going to have to talk.He looked at the men and women in his room.Everyone had gone to high school with the Monster Dogs MC.They had all been there when it got ugly.They all had each other’s backs.

When he told them what he wanted, none of them questioned him.They all hated that the Monster Dogs, in essence, got away with that they did.It was time for them to pay the price.

“How are you all?”Anthony asked, biting the words out slowly.

Miles was the first to burst out laughing.“Well, Daisy has her work cut out for her, when she stops sleeping.Seriously, we all risk our asses for this, and that is all you’ve got.”

“We would all risk our asses for this,” Constance said.“No matter what.What started in high school should have ended there but didn’t.Fucking Daniella.When did she turn up?”

Miles nodded.“I don’t know, but she fucked everything up.Daisy didn’t see her coming.”

“None of us saw what was coming,” Anthony said as he rubbed at his temple.

“Well, none of us blabbed,” Miles said.“Someone must have alerted them.They had to have known.They didn’t even fucking know we registered, and then they started to attack.They were ready.”

“Aren’t you curious?”Rachel asked.

Anthony looked at the team they had made, and they didn’t know.He had kept it a secret, because he had known they wouldn’t agree.

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Is This Where It WentWrong?

Anthony drove up to the old lake.The text he had gotten from the anonymous number had been cryptic.He never usually responded to texts like this.

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