I raised my eyebrows, confused. Morena? Sweet little nurse Morena knows about the Reapers?
He nodded and left the room himself. I looked at Alex but he gave a slight shake of his head to tell me not to speak, and I knew that he’d tell me later.
Savage sat there, drumming his fingers over the top of the table.
“Something to say?” Alex asked him.
“Flynn ain’t going to be easy to crack,” Savage said. “You made him squirrel that woman of his away, so we can’t attack him personally.”
Alex shrugged. “There’s always a way in, Niall.”
I rose my eyebrows at that. Savage didn’t seem phased by his real name being called out. Rather he shrugged his shoulders like he thought this wasn’t going to work.
“Right,” Alex said, rising. “We’ll head out. Demps, go and see Tierney. Fuck knows what’s going to happen from here. I’m heading home to fuck my woman.”
I smirked as he left the room. I followed him out to see some of the club’s employees had arrived. Shona was wiping down the bar top as the coffee machine brewed behind her. Maree was fussing with the floorboards, wiping a large broom around as she chattered on her hands- free device.
I hung back, not sure if I should leave yet or not. I didn’t know who was in town, and I had no idea who knew I was here. As Savage shifted to the bar, Shona moved away without a word. His shoulders slumped, defeated, before he got up and moved outside, his pack of smokes in his hand. I wondered what happened there. Were they together?
Maree shook her head as she witnessed it herself, and told me to leave it alone. I nodded quickly and headed out to my bike, bypassing Savage on the porch. I jumped on my bike, pulling my helmet on and kicking my stand out before I tore out of the compound and down the long road that would lead into Kilkenny. I moved down theroad to Tierney’s house and pulled up in the driveway. Her car was in the drive so I knew she was home. I got off the bike and headed up to her door which opened before I had a chance to knock.
Her surprised and delighted eyes met mine and she pulled me inside to give me a soulful hug. I wrapped my arms around my little sister and hugged her back.
“I’ve missed you, you fucker,” she said, her voice strained with tears.
“Missed you, too,” I said. She was squeezing me so tight, I could feel my lungs burning for air. “Let me go.”
She did, wiping her eyes.
“Why are you crying?”
“I just missed you is all.”
“Come on,” I said, motioning for her to move into the kitchen. “I need a strong fucking coffee and we can catch up.”
Shae
My body hummed pleasantly from the sex last night. I’d wanted to stay, and had regretted leaving in an emotional huff but there was no way I was going to lay there next to him and pretend like the last year was okay. He didn’t trust me enough to have his back, and that was whatthe problem was here. I would have done anything for Dempsey, and yet, he’d tossed me away like yesterday’s trash. It fucking hurt.
Instead of relishing in the post coital bliss that came from a rough fucking from Dempsey, I lost my shit and left, choosing to stay at the shop and cry myself to sleep. I looked in the mirror and saw the red ringed eyes.
Fuck.
I’d sworn he wouldn’t be the cause of my tears again, and yet here I was blubbering like a fucking baby over him. The sex had been next level, better than I remembered, and yet I couldn’t let myself just be with him. I had to remember that he would pick up and leave when the club helped him out. That’s what he did.
I still didn’t know why he was here or why the others hadn’t told me he was coming. I would have been almost certain Orla would have told me. She and I had become close since Dempsey broke me to pieces last time.
I moved into the office to grab a stale as shit biscuit to feed myself before I started my day. Work would help.
Work always helped.
My eyes cast over the desk and located the date on the calendar.
Fuck.
Tossing with the idea of what to do about it, I pulled my phone from my back pocket. My fingers hovered over the keypad, looking down at the name, and I felt my chest aching and my eyes burning with unshed tears.
How could one person do this to me?
