Page 41 of Always Mine

“And I love you.”

They didn’t share their feelings with one another often, but it was in these moments he knew them to be true.

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Present Day

Anthony had forgotten about the old storage lots the club used to use for Ned Walker.This explained what Ned was grumbling about when it came to wasted space in Fort Wills.Even after all this time, Ned was still pissed that they no longer worked for him.

Ned was still Eva’s dad, which made him Tiny’s father-in-law, but he was not in any other way associated with the club.

Stepping into the container, Anthony looked at Luke and gritted his teeth.He was chained up on a chair.

Luke lifted his head, and the moment he saw Anthony, he laughed.“Am I hallucinating now?”

“No, this is no hallucination.”

“You could have fooled me, but then again, your dad is right there, and he is only staring at me.”

Anthony stepped forward and started to untie him.Lash made no move to help him.

“Are you sure you’re supposed to be doing that?”Luke asked.“Your dad is right there and he is going to kill me.”

Anthony knew his father had a past, and he was not a man to be messed with.It had been so long since he’d seen any real action that it was easy to forget.

“I’m not going to kill you,” Lash said.

“Why?I would kill me.Regardless that I don’t want to be with them, I’m a fucking dog, aren’t I?”Luke asked.

Anthony glanced back to his dad, who simply shrugged.He had no idea what he was supposed to do with that kind of ...crap.What should he say?This was so fucking messed up.Not that he actually blamed his father.This was just a lot to deal with.

With the ties holding Luke on the chair gone, he reached out for him, but the other man stopped him.

“It might be easier if I died,” Luke said.“I ...I’m dirty.”

Anthony frowned.“What the fuck are you talking about?”

“The club took little girls, Anthony.They took them and sold them, and we all know what happens to children that are sold.They don’t play dollies with them, Anthony.”

“What the fuck did you do to him?”Anthony asked.

“I barely touched him, but I wanted to know where the shipment of girls was, and we need to know.According to my sources, the Monster Dogs are the ones that tend to them before they are shipped to wherever the sale is.With you and all the little fucking Skull brats making your mark and exacting your revenge, well, that means there is currently a shipment no longer being tended to.”

This time, Luke whimpered.“There was another one.”

Anthony reached for him and lifted him up into his arms.Luke gave a grunt.This kid was nothing like Miles’s little brother.Eva and Tiny’s Luke was growing up fast, and he was enormous, all muscle.

“Come on.”He helped Luke make it to the door, and his father was already at the car.

“If you’re not going to kill me...”Luke asked, as they struggled into the back of the car.“Does that mean Daisy is alive?”

Anthony had no choice but to stay in the back with him, although it was the last place he wanted to be.

“She’s ...holding on,” Anthony said.

“Holding on?”

“She’s in a coma.There was a lot of blood loss.”

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