Page 44 of Bear Haven
“Because nothing we do or go through together is wrong.”
“You’re so sappy.” She kissed his cheek. “I love you, Gus.”
“And I’m a better man for it.” He placed several kisses to her hands and a soft one to her lips. “I love you, too. Now, let’s get a move on.” He handed her helmet over and helped her adjust the strap, then put his own on. “Did you really get the recipe?”
“Yep,” she said, settling in behind him and wrapping herself around him. It was one of the places she liked to be most. With Gus. On the back of his motorcycle.
“You really do love me. I am one lucky son of a bitch.”
The grin on his face was contagious. She’d never seen anyone love donuts as much as he did.
He powered the engine on and she grabbed hold of his shirt as he roared out in a cloud of dust. He turned in the opposite direction of Michael and Blake.
They would split up several miles down the road with Blake heading south and Michael heading west.
She and Gus would go north, then southwest. It was a diversionary tactic on the off chance they were being watched. Luke and his pack would intercept any trouble.
“I wish I could’ve said good-bye,” Bex said, loud enough to be heard over the motor, but not too loud that it would sound as though she were yelling in Gus’s ear.
“I know. I really don’t think he wanted to say good-bye, though. Much as he’s pretends to be a hardass who doesn’t need anyone, I think he needed us as much as we needed him.”
It was possible. “Maybe.”
“We’ll see him again and he can harass Michael some more.”
“Always an interesting side show.”
Gus took the winding road of the Dragon at a moderate pace and Bex relaxed into the ride, into Gus’s big body.
“We’ll find a new place, pretty girl. You know that, don’t you? We’ll find a place to call ours. To call home.”
“I know we will.”
She was confident in a few things as this chapter of her life faded as quickly as the miles they crossed. They weren’t out of danger. Not by a long shot. Gus loved her more than she ever imagined anyone would love her. She had a father, too. She had good friends. And yes, she and Gus would find a place all their own and one they could open up and share with others.
They would find their own Bear Haven somewhere on the other side of the mountain.
The End
