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“Get lost,” she grumbled, threw back her shot and made a face as she swallow
ed the liquid.
“What’s in the box?”
“Dicks.”
“What?”
“Yeah, I like to cut them off of men who try to hit on me in bars and keep them as souvenirs.”
“Oh, and what makes you think I’d let you get anywhere near my dick?”
She scoffed, and before I knew what was happening she reached out and grabbed the front of my jeans. My reflexes kicked in just in time for me to back away, but not before her hand grazed my junk.
“Shit,” I shouted out in surprise, and she threw her head back and laughed.
“My, my, my. It would be shameful for all of that to go to waste.”
“Trust me, it’s never wasted, sweetheart.”
“Hmm, tell you what. If you buy me a drink I may let you keep it.”
“That’s not how I do business. It’s only fair that if I do something for you, you do something for me.” She narrowed her eyes and pinched her lips together.
“Name. Tell me your name.” I grinned and her face visibly relaxed.
“Harley.”
“I’m Mack.”
“I’m thirsty.”
“I’m on it.”
Several shots of tequila later, she was in my bed. Things started off easy between us. We had fun and we got along. We knew a lot of the same people, went to some of the same hangouts and caused equal amounts of trouble. We never made any promises or had any expectations. Or so I thought.
The biggest mistake I’d ever made was getting shit-faced at a party one night and taking some chick, whose name I can’t even recall, home with me. It was the look on Harley’s face when she found the two of us naked in my bed I’ll never forget.
After that, I’d lost her. The person she had been with me was gone forever, and the light in her beautiful hazel eyes went dark every time she looked at me. I knew she didn’t have anyone and I let her lean on me because aside from my brother, I was alone in the world, too. I didn’t know how to fix things between us and eventually had gotten to a point where I didn’t want to fix it. We were never going to be right for each other, but that didn’t mean it hurt any less for her to stand in front of me and choose to be with someone else.
“Harley, tell me you didn’t leave me for this dumb fuck? Are you with him?”
“I am.”
“Aagh,” I growled. “I’m so sick of you fucking with my head. It’s cool, though. I’m done with you, too.”
That’s when I walked away from them, grabbed a bottle of Jack Daniels from my car, and made my way across the field and through the woods. This was also the reason I found myself stumbling around in the darkness in the middle of fuckin’ nowhere. I stopped for a second and looked from left to right trying to decide which way to go. The sound of a car engine fast approaching caught my attention, and I stood still as a set of headlights grew closer. My feet didn’t move and I couldn’t think of a reason to make them.
I’d loved cars ever since I was a kid. My uncle Eddie gave me a set of Matchbox cars for my fourth birthday and they became my pride and joy. I took such good care of them and played with them for hours. I’d also kept my cars carefully hidden in a good place so that no one would ever find them and take them away.
Uncle Eddie also was the one to give me the Shelby. He let me work on it with him for two summers, and when I finished high school he gave it to me as a graduation present. A few months later Uncle Eddie went to prison, and since most of the men in my family, including my father, were there already it was sort of like a little family reunion.
So it seemed fitting that my love for cars would also be what killed me.
I lifted my arms out to my sides, looked up at the sky, and studied the shape of the moon. The roar of an engine and the screech of tires didn’t even cause me to flinch.
It would all be over soon.
