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I smirk. "Feisty."
She shrugs again. "You should have seen how feisty I was when you called me a whore in front of your family and my daughter."
I tilt my head. "That's why we broke up?"
She swallows before looking down, then whispering, "Among other things…" making me nod as my talk with Snake yesterday comes back full force.
I rasp, "Why did you keep Snake from telling Doc you were hurt?" Her head shoots up, tears glistening in her eyes, sending a dagger to my heart, but I push through. "Why would you tell him to save me when you needed it more?"
She sniffles, wiping away a fallen tear before she whispers, "Because you are my heart, and I needed you to be okay."
My heart pounds. "You're in love with me?"
She gives me a single nod and states, "I have been for nearly three years." Her lips tilt a little. "Since then, you've always been mine, and I've always been yours." She wipes her face before walking toward me, placing a bag on my bed. I tilt my head to look up at her as she gently runs her fingers over the stitches in my head, tears filling her eyes again.
"I…uh, I've packed some of your clothes for you but I…uh, if it makes it easier for you, I can take April and stay back at my mom's."
I swallow hard, her touch sending tingles through me before she drops her hand and steps back. I instantly feel cold.
Blinking, I rasp, "No…I wouldn't want you to leave your home…our home, I guess."
She nods before placing her hands in her jeans pockets. "I'm not going to give up, Jonny…."
I furrow my brows as I look at her…my given name on her lips sounds so good.
She smiles a little. "You fought for me for two years, so now it's my turn to fight for you, to help you remember who you are now, and who we are together. But let me tell you this now, even if you don't remember, I'm still yours and you’re still mine, so, if you touch another woman, not only would you regret it when you get your memories back because I will take April and leave, but I'll also rip your balls off after breaking the woman's nose."
I chuckle a little and she just shrugs. She second-guesses herself momentarily before she steps forward and cups my cheek. When her lips meet mine in a gentle kiss, I instantly feel at home, my eyes automatically closing before she moves back, taking the feeling with her, making me open my eyes as my heart thumps hard.
With a nod she turns and goes to leave, her eyes catching the pictures before she smiles and looks at me over her shoulder. "The one of us in bed, that was the first time we slept together."
I smile before she leaves, gently closing the door behind her. My heart is thundering, wanting to follow her, while my head still can't understand our relationship and why I would take on someone else's child when I swore never to have a relationship again.
28
Olivia – One Month Later
I try to cover my yawn as I sit on Doc's exam table at the clubhouse.
This past month has been hell, and I don't know how much more I can take. April has barely slept, crying for Jonny every night, who hasn't wanted to see her; he hardly tolerates me for the four weeks I have tried to be around him.
He's at the bar, I'm there, in the club, I'm there. I'll sit next to him at mealtimes, telling him about our times together, his time with April. I'll text him every day, but every day, he distances himself from me, from April, and it’s hard. He's the other half of my soul, yet he doesn't remember me and, at the moment, he's not willing to remember, if anything, he just gets frustrated with my company, he even asked his dad to inform me that he's Smokey until he's ready for me to call him Jonny again.
Snake expressed that his last memory was when he was living it up as a single man. His mind wanted to continue that, yet his body only wanted me. He told me not to give up at the first hurdle because Jonny never did with me.
I'm unwilling to give up; I'm just struggling without him.
Several times over the past week, I've seen him sitting and laughing with the club whores while they smirk at me. Yesterday, Suzy from Devil's Temptation was covering the bar, and he was actually leaning over the bar to talk to her; his eyes kept going to her barely covered breasts as he smirked at her, ignoring my presence. They disappeared together, and I rushed out of the club. I know I told him I'd rip his balls off, but at that moment, I felt like I couldn't breathe. Rose tried to talk to me, but I just couldn't. I locked myself in Jonny's house.
It stopped feeling like my home a few weeks ago.
I feel like I can't breathe because I know, in my heart, he doesn't want this; he doesn't want me, and I don't understand how I can help him remember when he doesn't want to. Tech messaged and stated nothing happened with Suzy, but I don't know if I believe it. He knew I was watching him, and she looked all too giddy. If this is his way of pushing me back, then he's doing a bang-up job, because there's no coming back from infidelity.
Though is it infidelity when your partner doesn't remember you?
I blink and look up toward the door but blink again as Kallie's bloodshot blue eyes stare back at me, her skin pale and sunken in, blonde hair faded.
My breathing picks up. She's holding Jonny's gun.
