Total pages in book: 82
Estimated words: 77519 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 388(@200wpm)___ 310(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77519 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 388(@200wpm)___ 310(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
“I had a horrible feeling you were going to say that, but sorry, I can’t do that. I mean, I totally could, but I’m not going to.”
He glared at her. “What the fuck do you want?”
“I came to check on you.”
“If you think you and I are going to have a chance—”
“No, no, no, totally, no,” Darlene said, holding her hands up. “Look, I know you think I am only after sex, and don’t get me wrong, I totally am. I love being a woman of the club. I love the salon, and I love my life. I’ve got you to thank for that.”
“You made it work,” Hawk said.
She growled. “Would you stop being a pain in the ass for like two minutes?”
He glared at her. “I can get rid of you just as fast.”
She rolled her eyes. “I know you can, and all right, fine, I’m a pain in the ass, but guess what, it’s not going to stop me from going anywhere. All the club shit aside, I like Nikki. At first, I made it hard for her, because I thought you just had a soft spot for her, and I get it. She’s not like most of the women at the club. She’s different. Fresh. Unique. But she is wasted working at a fast-food place. Totally wasted, and we’ve got Halloween coming up, and I want her back.”
“What do you want me to do? She won’t talk to me.”
Darlene glared at him. “So what, are you just going to give up? Is that all you’re going to do?”
“What do you want from me?” he asked. There was no point in her saying the obvious. He knew Nikki wasn’t around. He felt the loss of her every single day. It had gotten to the point where he was meeting her every day at their motel room. He loved getting close to her, wrapping his arms around her, and he missed her so bad.
“Did you have no feelings for her at all? Was she just a quick fuck to you? For someone who kept her a secret from the club, spent as much time with her as possible, you know I’m finding that hard to believe.”
“Be careful and remember who you’re speaking to.”
“Cut the bullshit, big man boss routine. I get it. You’re the boss. You’re the one in charge. Trust me, I’m not going to be forgetting it in a hurry. I’m trying to help you. Do you miss her?”
Hawk stood up and wiped his hands on the cloth. After his hands were clean, he lifted his head and looked at Darlene.
She let out a growl. “You know what, whatever. I can’t deal with this.” She shook her head. “I’m trying to help you get back the woman you lost. Not me. You. But if you don’t want help with that, you’re on your own. There is always a way back to a woman’s heart, Hawk, but first, you’ve got to want it, and I guess you don’t want Nikki that badly.”
She got back to her car, climbed inside, and he listened to her slam the door.
He waited for her to leave, then he got back to work on the car, but it was getting late and the lights he had were not the best. Also, he was so fucking cold. His hands were going numb.
Closing the shop, he made his way toward his bike, climbed onto the machine, and as he rode out with every intention of going back to the clubhouse, he found himself arriving at Nikki’s trailer. There was no sign of her.
The past week, she’d been going back to her mother’s. He already had the mother checked out, and her story was solid, even to her near-death experience. It was all in her medical records, along with her membership of the church and the job. She turned her life around, and now it would seem she was building a relationship with her daughter. He’d sent Nikki right back into her arms.
Straddling his bike, he stared at her trailer, and in his mind he saw Nikki with that smile on her face as she looked up at him. Damn, he missed that.
He climbed off his bike, grabbed the spare key he had made, and let himself into her trailer. Even though she hadn’t been back, the trailer was still clean. It was cold, so he turned the heat on and then sat at her kitchen table, pressing the tips of his fingers together as he looked around.
He should leave. He had a perfectly good bed back at the clubhouse. Nikki leaving him, breaking things off should have been a good thing, only she broke things off with him, rather than he being the one to end it. He didn’t like it one bit, but Hawk knew he had no right to be pissed.