Page 30 of Never Trust the Living (Battle Crows MC 7)

Three months later

We got married at the courthouse.

None of Bram’s family was in attendance, mostly because they were all mad at him.

In fact, they disliked me so much that not a single one of them would even spare the time to talk to me.

It was, by far, much worse than I could’ve ever imagined.

To make matters worse, Bram didn’t even kiss me as we were married.

My entire childhood, I had nothing to do but think about the future. About how, one day, I would get married and it would be the most magical thing in the world.

Only, that was the exact opposite of what I got.

Which fuckin’ sucked.

What sucked worse was, an hour later, he dropped me off at home in his truck—he’d refused to give me a ride on his motorcycle because it didn’t feel ‘right’—he left.

No telling me where he was going. No explanation about what to look forward to from there.

In fact, he’d dropped me off at my house with instructions to call a moving company to help box my shit up.

Which, I didn’t do.

After telling me to handle getting my stuff to his place that he’d once mostly shared with Mimi, I got in my own car and moved my crap into the one-bedroom apartment.

It took me three hours to do.

Once I had everything moved, I spent the rest of the day cleaning up my apartment to ensure that I would be getting my apartment deposit back.

Only after hours of hard labor did I return to Bram’s house to find him still not home.

I went to sleep on the couch and slept there every night for the next six months.

CHAPTER 8

I have two moods. Sleepy sleepy, and overthinky.

-Dory to Bram

DORY

I’d like to say that life got better after that. But it didn’t.

Bram’s family hated me. Bram resented me.

And, to make matters worse, I finally got to sleep with Bram.

But only because he was drunk off his ass, and he wanted it, he said.

I’d given it to him, as well as my virginity, and he didn’t even notice.

From there on out, we shared a room.

He fucked me, but he didn’t love me.

The day that he graduated from his welding school and got his first job as an underwater welder, I went out of my way to plan a party for him.

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