Page 42 of Always Mine

Luke sighed.“I liked Daisy.”

This made Anthony look at him and frown.“I thought you had a thing for Tabitha.”

“I did, but that ship sailed long ago in high school when she kept turning me down, telling me it was a waste of time.Trust me, I don’t make it a habit to keep making a fool of myself.”Luke groaned.“Daisy was different, though.She was still loyal to the club, but like me, she only wanted to survive.It was easy when we were the only two in some classes.We both had the same agenda.Survival.It was like neither of us were there.Daisy doesn’t deserve to die.”

“She’s not going to fucking die,” Anthony said.

“Sorry, man.”

Anthony gritted his teeth.

“It seems to me you and him have a little bromance thing going on,” Lash said.

“Dad, stop it.We both knew what his club was doing was wrong.There was no hiding it, and he didn’t like it either.”He was not liking the fact he actually liked this guy.That was the worst thing about all of this.

“I’m so sleepy,” Luke said.

“Dad, you checked him for wounds and stuff, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Then why is he acting like he is going to die?”Anthony asked.

“He’s not had any sleep for a couple of days, and I have been messing with his head.We’ll get him to the clubhouse, and it will be fine.”

“When are the Billionaires getting here?”Anthony asked.

They were all on a deadline.

“Soon,” Lash said.“We need to find that shipment of girls.We don’t know how long it was before the Dogs last checked on them.”

He already knew the finer details.The girls were locked up in a small, confined space.The Monster Dogs were not exactly known for being nice.

Anthony didn’t know how many women and girls they had saved that could have been handled by the Monsters.Everything was so fucked up.

They arrived at The Skulls’ clubhouse, and he wasn’t surprised to find Killer and Nash there, ready to help with Luke.Anthony climbed out of the car and rushed forward to take care of the doors.Opening them and making room to get the “all clear.”

They took Luke to one of the spare rooms they usually kept for random families they saved.The Skulls helped all kinds of people, not just those who were kidnapped and sold on the black market.They helped domestic abuse victims as well.Those that called, desperate for a way out with their families, and no one willing to help them.

The guys didn’t drop Luke off in the bedroom, but moved him into the bathroom.

“The kid fucking stinks,” Killer said.

Anthony couldn’t have agreed more, considering he was tied to a chair, then he figured the only way Luke had gone to the toilet was in his pants.

With Killer, Nash, and even Lash’s help, he was able to get Luke cleaned up.He had old scars, which told their own story.Luke was the president’s son of the Monster Dogs MC, and it looked to Anthony he didn’t have an easy life, not by a long shot.There was pain in his eyes.Lash had hurt him a few times, and the scars were proof.

Anthony thought of their time through high school.It wasn’t like he had paid that much attention to Luke or the Monsters.He had only taken notice of them when they were causing a nuisance.He didn’t give a fuck about them.There was never a time that Luke showed any kind of pain, yet the scars told a different story.

He glanced over at his dad, and for a brief moment, he was pretty sure he had seen guilt.Luke had been beaten ...and survived.

This surprised Anthony since he had always assumed Luke was a cocky little prick, because he was in line for the Monster Dogs throne.Not once did he think the kid was being beat.

“Don’t mind the scars,” Luke said, coming out of his sleep.“They’re my father’s way of showing love.”

And that was fucked up.This was not how he wanted to deal with Luke.He didn’t want to fucking feel anything.Before Daisy went into the hospital, she was the only person he cared about.With Daisy in a coma, it was like his own being had been shattered open, and it was allowing all kinds of fucked-up mess, and that he couldn’t accept.

Luke was just a guy.His enemy.Nothing more.

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