บททั้งหมดของ The Devil's Pair (The Road Devils Motorcycle Club 4): บทที่ 81 - บทที่ 90

Eight minutes later, Briley and Michael were in a truck, heading slowly down what she now knew was a lonely mountain road. It was stunningly beautiful even in the pitch black, she idly noticed, and she took a deep, calming breath, happy that part one of her plan had gone so well.Time for part two… choose your moment.“Are you OK?” Michael asked her. “He hit you very hard.”She turned to look at the man who had saved her from that monster Crusher, knowing full well that she was in a moving vehicle with a different breed of the exact same nightmare. Michael was a murdering bastard – she’d assumed that before she’d seen it with her own eyes less than ten minutes before, but now it was totally confirmed – who was now so solicitous and concerned for her, anyone would think that he was the father. He’d cut the tape from her wrists, then buckled her into her seatbelt, his hands so careful and gentle that she was shocked. Briley had to keep playing on that side of him until she saw her oppor

Briley took a deep, shuddering breath, turned off the engine, and listened for any noise under the vehicle. There was nothing, but she wasn’t about to go look. She had no desire to see what she’d done, and besides if he was still alive, she wasn’t going to give him a chance to grab her ankle as she stepped out and down. She’d seen her fair share of horror movies where the dead guy was never, ever dead.“OK, babies,” she said aloud, her voice very loud in the absolute silence. “Let’s think here.”She looked around properly for the first time, and it came to her that although she was just off what looked like a main road, there was no passing traffic at all. She also realized that if someone did pass, they’d only see the back of the truck; the front was facing the woods, pointed away from the highway. There was no way that anybody could see under the truck, and she relaxed a bit. As long as she didn’t move, whatever was left of Michael was hidden from casual passing sight, and she just

One Week LaterBriley sat outside Satan’s Bar, drinking green tea and staring at the mountains. She was all bundled up against the early September chill, the blanket that Dux had gently wrapped around her shoulders now hiding her somber, sober black dress. It had been a beautiful funeral, she supposed, as much as one could be and considering that Rebel had died a slow and painful death… all because of her stupid fucking ID that she’d dropped. Everyone had told her over and over that it wasn’t her fault, that Crusher and Michael had had a plan in place for ages. All they were looking for was an opportunity, an opening – it could have been anything at all, and the two goons who followed Rebel would have just followed someone else. She’d have been grabbed up one way or another, no doubt about it. Nothing she did or didn’t do was going to stop it.Logically, Briley knew this was all absolutely correct; emotionally, she couldn’t seem to get on board with any of it. All she knew was that

She started, stunned yet again how it seemed that they could read her mind. How the actual hell did they know she’d been thinking about drifting half-buried corpses, about feeling their chilly fingers clawing and clutching at the babies? In her worst, most terrified moments, she was convinced that she’d lose them both to the darkness swirling around her.“I’m – I’m sorry,” she choked out. “I didn’t want to do this to you. I really tried…”“We know,” Dux told her. “We’ve watched you fight to settle here, to look past all the shit that hurts you. But it’s not good for you – for any of the three of you – and you’ve got a whole life back in Pennsylvania that you love and that’s waiting for you. A beautiful house, a job, friends.” “We’ll pay for everything that you and the babies need,” Drake added. “We’ll visit every month, more often if you need us to. We’ll – we’ll figure this out, OK?”“OK,” she whispered. “Thank you.”They smiled at her now, and the smiles almost reached their eyes.

“It is,” Dux said heavily. “But this ultrasound kind of… I don’t know… it really slammed home that we’re going to be long-distance Dads who visit every weekend, maybe less if something’s going on over here. And we’ve come to realize that we just can't do it.”“Well, we can,” Drake interjected. “But we don’t want to. We want to be there for every minute of their lives, and we mean from before they’re even born.”“Yeah.” Dux shrugged, put the ultrasound image in his pocket now. “We’re missing so much already, like feeling them kick, or helping Briley get up from a chair, or cooking for her. And all that’s going to happen is we’re going to miss so much more once they’re actually here… like, what are the chances that we’re there for their first smiles? First words? First steps?”“And not just the good stuff, the milestone stuff,” Drake said morosely. “Briley will be doing everything by herself, all the night feeds and diaper changes. She’s already doing all the furniture shopping online a