A horrifying whimpering sound escaped me that had him lowering the puppy to the ground, then reaching to pull me to his chest.
I did that a lot with him.
Cried.
I cried when a wave of sadness hit me. I cried when I was happy. I just… cried a lot.
It had kind of disgusted me at first. All of that old shit from my childhood coming back. But slowly but surely, I started toaccept that crying was normal. It was the lifetime of repressing it that wasn’t.
He helped me with that.
Because he never once judged it.
Not even when I cried over a stupid card he got me once.
He just reached for me and let it happen. He didn’t make a big deal of it. Because, to him, it wasn’t. If anything, he liked that I was comfortable being expressive around him.
I’d been doing a lot of deconstructing of things I learned growing up in a toxic environment. I had a feeling there was still a lot of work to be done. But I knew that Colter was going to be there for me through it all.
Colter - 4 months
The clubhouse door flew open, making all of us turn.
It was church.
The girls and kids knew to stay away until we were done.
But it wasn’t the girls or the kids standing there.
It was a man I’d never seen before.
Face bloody.
Knuckles busted open.
The neck of a whiskey bottle in his hand.
A smile tugging at his lips.
“Home sweet home!” he declared.
I’d never seen us all draw weapons so quickly before.
Because… who the fuck was this guy?
And what the fuck was he doing here?
“Nice digs,” he said, looking around before focusing on the guns aimed in his direction. “Yeah, scary shit. How many channels does that TV get?”
“Who the fuck are you?” Slash asked, taking a threatening step toward him.
He didn’t seem to be armed.
But looks could be deceptive.
Though, unless he had a whole crew of buddies outside waiting to rush in and catch us off guard, he was insanely outnumbered even if he came in with bad intentions.
Seeming to think the exact same way, Saint knocked his brother on the chest, then the two of them moved toward the hallway, likely to exit the back and check the perimeter.
