Total pages in book: 86
Estimated words: 81603 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 408(@200wpm)___ 326(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 81603 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 408(@200wpm)___ 326(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
Now, that he could understand.
“You know what I’m doing is not sanctioned by my dad,” Anthony said. “He doesn’t know, and once all of this is done, there’s a chance I won’t ever earn my patch.”
Luke threw back his head and laughed. “Trust me, you’re going to earn your patch. You’re too good not to.”
“Trying to kiss my ass?”
“No, stating a fact. I don’t play fucking mind games. Not in high school and certainly not now.”
“Becoming a Skull will not get you any closer to Tabitha. If that is what your game plan is.”
“I have no game plan other than to end the pieces of shit I grew up with. Trust me, it is easy to believe as kids that what we’re part of is important. That is what I thought. That is what ... I believed. I thought my dad was a good man, a kind man, an honest man.”
Anthony couldn’t help but burst out laughing. “Seriously? Even I knew my dad grew up in a whole different way. I know what my dad is capable of.” He knew of the stories to protect Angel—he once snapped a man’s neck with his bare hands.
Now, he would have believed that of Killer, seeing that the man was built like a beast. There was a time he had doubts about his dad. Only, it was impossible to have doubts when there were men and his own mother who witnessed it. There was no way to deny the truth then. His father, when it came to Angel, his family, and the club, was a machine.
“So, what do you say?”
****
A Few Hours Later
“What did you say?” Daisy asked.
She handed him a mug of hot chocolate, and he thanked her and took a sip. It was so close to tasting exactly like his mother made. The hot chocolate was still tasty, but there was just something missing.
“It’s good,” he said.
“I know, but it’s not quite right.”
Angel rarely kept secrets, but her hot chocolate was one of them.
He sighed.
“So, come on, tell me, what did you say to Luke?”
Anthony gripped the back of his neck. He looked down at his woman, as she blew across the surface of her hot chocolate.
“I told him sure, that he could join the Skulls, but I warned him it might not be quite as easy as my word.”
“Do you think you should go to your dad now? We’ve got someone working on the inside.”
“No. He would stop it, probably put Luke to work, and I’m not going to do something that could jeopardize how far we’ve come.”
“You’re not worried?”
“Not yet,” Anthony said.
He sat down on the coffee table in front of her and reached out to stroke her cheek.
“You didn’t use the potential for him getting closer to Tabitha to help sway his thought pattern?” Daisy asked.
“No, I actually asked him if that is what he was thinking because there is no way in hell that is happening.”
Daisy nodded. “From the time Simon and Tabitha were kids, their fate was sealed.”
“So was yours,” Anthony said.
She looked at him.
“The day I first saw you at the nursery, I knew you and I were not going to stop.”
“Come on, Anthony, we were not quite like Simon and Tabitha.”
He looked at her and smiled. “Yeah, we were better.”
This made Daisy laugh.
“I love you, Daisy. I have loved you for a long time and I know a lot of people see it as verging on obsession, and maybe they’re right. I don’t give a fuck if they are or not. I knew the moment I looked at you that you were who I wanted. You were the girl I fell in love with. Sure, it wasn’t as easy as Simon and Tabitha, but that doesn’t mean you and I don’t have our own love story to share. Look at us now.”
“We live together in secret.”
“That we do, but only because no one gives a fuck what we’re doing.”
“Do you really think we’re doing the right thing now?” Daisy asked. She pressed her cheek against his palm.
“At the moment, it’s the only thing we can do.”
“He is still the enemy.”
“True, but he is an enemy who has only ever wanted to survive, and I can understand that. He didn’t want to fight through high school. Our circumstances changed all that.”
“I don’t know if we should trust him.”
“Then trust me.”
“That, I can do.”
****
Present Day
“It was a mistake,” Anthony said.
Still, he couldn’t help the niggle that seemed to go off in his head. Luke had been the one to save Daisy, and in the process killed Daniella. That had been a big deal. Daniella had been one of the girls that hung around him at high school, hanging on his every word.
Anthony rubbed his eyes.
“Nah, I don’t think it was much of a mistake. Someone messed up,” Miles said.