Page 32 of Always Mine

“I have no game plan other than to end the pieces of shit I grew up with.Trust me, it is easy to believe as kids that what we’re part of is important.That is what I thought.That is what ...I believed.I thought my dad was a good man, a kind man, an honest man.”

Anthony couldn’t help but burst out laughing.“Seriously?Even I knew my dad grew up in a whole different way.I know what my dad is capable of.”He knew of the stories to protect Angel—he once snapped a man’s neck with his bare hands.

Now, he would have believed that of Killer, seeing that the man was built like a beast.There was a time he had doubts about his dad.Only, it was impossible to have doubts when there were men and his own mother who witnessed it.There was no way to deny the truth then.His father, when it came to Angel, his family, and the club, was a machine.

“So, what do you say?”

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AFew Hours Later

“What did you say?”Daisy asked.

She handed him a mug of hot chocolate, and he thanked her and took a sip.It was so close to tasting exactly like his mother made.The hot chocolate was still tasty, but there was just something missing.

“It’s good,” he said.

“I know, but it’s not quite right.”

Angel rarely kept secrets, but her hot chocolate was one of them.

He sighed.

“So, come on, tell me, what did you say to Luke?”

Anthony gripped the back of his neck.He looked down at his woman, as she blew across the surface of her hot chocolate.

“I told him sure, that he could join the Skulls, but I warned him it might not be quite as easy as my word.”

“Do you think you should go to your dad now?We’ve got someone working on the inside.”

“No.He would stop it, probably put Luke to work, and I’m not going to do something that could jeopardize how far we’ve come.”

“You’re not worried?”

“Not yet,” Anthony said.

He sat down on the coffee table in front of her and reached out to stroke her cheek.

“You didn’t use the potential for him getting closer to Tabitha to help sway his thought pattern?”Daisy asked.

“No, I actually asked him if that is what he was thinking because there is no way in hell that is happening.”

Daisy nodded.“From the time Simon and Tabitha were kids, their fate was sealed.”

“So was yours,” Anthony said.

She looked at him.

“The day I first saw you at the nursery, I knew you and I were not going to stop.”

“Come on, Anthony, we were not quite like Simon and Tabitha.”

He looked at her and smiled.“Yeah, we were better.”

This made Daisy laugh.

“I love you, Daisy.I have loved you for a long time and I know a lot of people see it as verging on obsession, and maybe they’re right.I don’t give a fuck if they are or not.I knew the moment I looked at you that you were who I wanted.You were the girl I fell in love with.Sure, it wasn’t as easy as Simon and Tabitha, but that doesn’t mean you and I don’t have our own love story to share.Look at us now.”

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