“Obviously, but I plan to stay angry the whole time.”
“Fuck yeah,” I breathed, leaning closer to her, and sniffing her hair.
“Creep.”
She didn’t shove me away though.
“You smell good enough to eat, babe. Betting you smell even sexier when you spread those legs though.”
I grunted as her elbow jabbed into my chest, and we both lifted our heads to see Micro approaching. What a cock blocking fucker.
“Hey. I’m just heading off, but… we’re okay, right? I mean, I know we have our issues, but I don’t want any bad blood here.”
Fuck me. He wants to talk about this now?
“We’re good, Pres. I was being a dick.”
“Obviously,” V muttered, reaching down to pick Nixie up and kiss her furry head, “I’ll be waiting inside.”
She disappeared, and with her went my fucking focus.
“Rocket.”
I groaned, turning to face Micro again. I still kept seesawing between liking him as the man he’d become, and the reminder of the friend I’d loved, and hating him as the monster who nearly took me down with him.
“I’m trying. Can you just fucking give me that? I have issues with how things went down back at the OG chapter, and I’m sure you can understand that. These guys here,” I gestured around us vaguely, “they didn’t see what you did. They didn’t fucking witness the fallout of your actions, but me? I was right there. I was seeing it, I was living in fucking lockdown, while I had relationship drama going on. And you know what? It was me getting suspected and accused of your shit!”
Micro froze, dragging a hand down his face as he groaned.
“Fuck me. They did that? I had no idea.”
I jabbed a finger at his chest. “No.You. Fucking. Did. That.”
He sighed, backing up a step.
“I’m sorry, man. I had no idea. I was in my head about all the shit I was fucking imagining and feeling, and I know now it was all bullshit. It was all about me fixating on revenge for a fucker who never deserved it. It was me being out of my fucking face on stuff, and acting like a monster. I knew that. I took responsibility for that, but I had no idea you were getting tainted by all of it.”
“EVERYONE was tainted by what you did! Everyone had to fucking live in fear. Everyone had to stay locked in and unable to ride. Everyone was living in the hellyoucreated! You took your revenge too fucking far, and we all paid the price! And those poor old ladies? They were the real victims, because you went for them. You went for fucking WOMEN!”
Micro glanced around us, dragging his fingers through his hair and huffing out an anxious breath. My words were getting to him, but wasn’t it about fucking time someone said them?
He nodded slowly, lowering his arms to his sides. Everything seemed to have left him in that moment, everything except sorrow and defeat.
“You’re right.Jesus. I thought I was done with all my atonement and shit, but I was just kidding myself. Taking the easy way out. Brother, I’m so fucking sorry that I did those things. That it affected you and your life. We were friends, and you must have felt like I took a shit on you.” He nodded again, clearly making some kind of decision. Something big, something I suddenly fucking feared.
“I’ll call Church tomorrow, and tell everyone everything. It’s time to put all the facts out there, and if anyone doesn’t want to put their faith in me as their President, I’ll understand. I’ll step down. Harley would be a better President than me anyway. He’s all heart. He’d never do any of that sick shit I did.”
The fuck? I opened my mouth to argue, but he was already turning to walk away.
“Wait.”
“No. You’re right. It’s the right thing to do. It’s time to stop hiding from my past. I wouldn’t have had that luxury back there, but here I was able to pretend, and I don’t deserve that. I never did.”
What the fuck did I just do?
V
Imean, there’s hittingon a woman and edging her, and there’s getting her hot and bothered and fucking ignoring her. I tucked Nixie into the little corner Rocket had clearly cordoned off, and slipped back out to check on him. I found him sitting on the bottom step of the stairs, which were just outside his room, and he looked dejected as hell.
