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He strolls through the living room and wraps a big beefy arm around my shoulders. “Look, Bella, I know this is hard for you and you’re going to feel pissed at him. That’s okay. He’s doing this to make sure Roman’s crew doesn’t go back on their word.”
I feel heat through my whole body. Hearing Roman talk about what he wants to do with me has me scared. I know that Roman would do everything he could to fuck with me and bring me down.
That’s when I burst out in tears.
I cry for everything I’m missing in my life and that’s school. I cry for my freedom that I lost for my safety and as collateral. I cry for it all.
Dragon tucks my face into his chest. I breathe in the scent of his cologne and the strong scent of man he smells like. My tears are soaking his shirt, but he doesn’t seem to mind.
“Bella, I know you’re going through some shit, but Beast won’t let anything bad happen to you. You have to know that.”
I shake my head. “If that’s true, why is he avoiding me?”
Dragon chuckles. “He’s avoiding you for more reasons than I can even tell you. That’s something you will have to ask him.”
“Dragon, what’s going to happen to me?”
“If you follow directions, you’ll be okay. You just have to remember that we’re here to help not to ruin your life.”
“Yeah,” I mumble into his shirt. “I just… I’m lonely.”
“Did he leave you with a cell phone?”
“No!” I shout. “He took the phone from me in case Roman or Charger tried to call me. I’m alone here. I’m alone in so many ways.”
Why is everything so much louder in here when I’m thinking about all the things I’m missing? Damn it.
Dragon rubs my back soothingly. “I can’t tell you what to do but if he’s avoiding you, it’s probably for something more than just club business. Bella, you have to do what you want. However, I will tell you there is no place safer for you.”
Safe.
What does that word even mean? I’m so lost and confused I don’t know where I’m going. Well, I can tell you I’m not leaving here since I have no way of leaving.
“Why are you here?” I question.
“I’m here because we need to have a talk about your dad.”
It was as if he threw a bucket of water on me. I feel a chill run through my whole body at the thought of my dad. It’s funny I’ve been in Beast’s house for the past couple of days and I’ve already forgotten about my past life.
“What about him?” I push my body off his and sit in the recliner across from him. I curl my legs underneath me to get more comfortable.
Dragon takes a seat across from me with a determined look in his eye. “Do you know where he would have gone?”
After my mom died, I started to find different ways to cope with my life. One of those ways was school. I began to over extend myself in school to get the best grades and join the most clubs there too. It wasn’t as if I was trying to break away from the club, it was at that moment I knew how dangerous the club was.
I snort. “I have no idea. I don’t know where he would have gone off to or anything like that. He didn’t talk to me about that much since I started college.”
“He doesn’t have a safe house?”
“The Spiders had something outside of town where some of the guys would go if they are running from their wives or something. I doubt he’s there since he ratted.”
I could handle the fact my father was a biker. I could handle the fact he wasn’t the suit wearing type of guy. I couldn’t handle the fact he ratted on the club. Then he ran off to who-knows-where leaving me all alone.
Vulnerable.
When someone rats on outlaws, there’s payback and it will be paid one way or another.
Dragon smiles. “There’s nothing?”
