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CHAPTER FIVE
Ky
Ten years.
That was how long it had been since I’d seen her.
Ingram. My sister.
I relived the last moment I saw her every time I closed my eyes. The disappointment and hate mixed in her eyes. The expression that told me how she couldn’t understand why I’d turn my back on them. How I could so easily walk away. And why I would want to let myself into the outside world.
I figured the sins on the outside of the fence had to be better than the ones within. In a way, I was wrong. And in a way, I wasn’t.
She’d changed so much. Her frame much taller. Her face thinner. And somehow, the life in her eyes seemed much duller than how I remembered it. Now that I’d been away, I could only imagine the things she had to go through. The kind of hell that place must have turned into. And by the huge protrusion on her abdomen, it was maybe worse than I wanted to picture.
Fuck!
What the hell was I going to do?
There were so many questions going through my head and I couldn’t hold onto one of them long enough to open my mouth and demand an answer.
How the hell had she found me?
I was sure that the moment I walked away, they had been forced to forget me. My name was never uttered again. And my parents suddenly only had one child instead of two.
“How did you find me?” I asked gruffly.
The invite that Chris had thrown out still hung thick in the air, but I wasn’t ready to deal with that just yet. I knew by the end of the night, I’d be at his house, trying to figure out my next step for Ingram.
Fuck, I still couldn’t believe that she was here.
“Grandma,” she answered and her eyes darted around to Iron, Mouse, and then Knight. I was sure for any normal person this was a scary situation to be in, surrounded by huge, scary, rough bikers. But for Ingram and the kind of life she’d grown up in, it must have been utterly shocking and terrifying. “Mom gave me her address. Sh-she told me to find you. Grandma said that she only knew about me because you had told her. I…”
Her words trailed off as she blinked her eyes and looked a bit woozy.
“Here, sit down,” Mouse said before I could even react. He rushed to her side and gently took her arm. He pulled out a stool and helped her get up onto it. “Let me get you some water.” Then he was around the bar, pulling out a cool bottle of water and sliding it to her.
“Thank you,” she said then turned her attention back to me. “I am sorry, Kynaston. That night—”
“No.” I cut her off with a growl that made her flinch.
I couldn’t deny that I wasn’t the same person she once knew. That night had changed me. What had happened back then changed me. I’d been away for so long that I couldn’t even begin to imagine what it would be like to be back there. Through the years, I’d done my best to forget. Everything. Everyone. I had kept my back straight as steel and my eyes forward, afraid of what would happen if I so much as glanced back. I wasn’t about to change that now, not even with her here to tempt the memories into revealing themselves from the depths of the shadows where I’d shoved them down.
“Ky,” Iron said with a firm, but not gripping, hand on my shoulder. “You good?”
“Yeah. Yeah, I’m good.”
“Why don’t you go pack some stuff. We’ll watch your sister, alright?” I nodded without looking at him. “You got a safe way to carry her there?”
“The Chevelle is still here, I’ll take that,” I answered numbly. “I’ll be back.”
My answer was short and cold. I wasn’t thrilled with the idea of leaving her with my brothers. Not because I didn’t trust them. It was more that I didn’t trust the girl that shared my blood with me but felt like a stranger.
“I would rather come with, if that is alright.” Her voice was tight.
“Fine,” I mumbled and didn’t even wait for her to get off of the stool before I made my way out of the clubhouse.
I opened the door to my room, letting it swing wide and it hit the wall with a soft thump. I left it open knowing her shorter legs and off balanced extra weight would take a moment to catch up with me.
