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The whole club had come to the hospital, Tabitha had seen them.

“They’re not coming to visit her?”Tabitha asked.

Lacey sighed.“Yes and no.They ...Daisy means a lot to everyone, and right now, seeing her like this is too hard for them.I know it sounds selfish of them, but right now Lash needs everyone to stand down.He’s got a lot to deal with.”

And Tabitha understood it.Daisy was one of them.She was loved by the whole club, and she had been hurt.To see her hooked up to the machines and not waking up would anger the club.They would want to go to war with the remaining Monsters on the run.

“I get it,” Tabitha said.

“Yes, I get it.You get it.Anthony gets it.Everyone gets it, but Daisy doesn’t.Even to this day, she doesn’t believe she has a place within the Skulls.”Lacey went through some of the flowers, and Tabitha watched as she watered them.

“Daisy’s biological parents fucked her up,” Tabitha said.

She looked toward Lacey, who simply nodded.

“Yes, I know when she moved out, she was doing it so as not to be a burden, and so we could adopt more children.”

“Daisy moved out?”Tabitha asked.

“Yes, quite some time ago, actually.She and Anthony have been living together, not that they have announced it.They never seem to feel the need.No big deal.”Lacey sighed.“They didn’t even need help decorating the place or moving in.It just happened and because they didn’t want to make a big deal out of it, neither did we.”

“I had no idea.”

“They have their reasons.”

“I just thought it would be something she would have told me,” Tabitha said.“It is a big deal.”

“Why?With everything you’ve got going on in Piston County.Daisy didn’t want to worry you.”

She was a horrible friend.She slumped back in her chair.“There is so much going on in her life, and I didn’t ...it’s my fault.Before I left, I told her she got her perfect little life and I ...my life didn’t go the way I wanted.”That was coming back to haunt her now.

Lacey laughed but it was a forced sound.“And knowing Daisy, she would never want to hurt your feelings, so she didn’t.She kept all the good things that were happening, as well as the bad, to herself.”

Anthony was right.She was not a good friend.

Chapter Eleven

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