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“You ready to go?”
She blinked to clear her vision. All she could see was Doc and the gentle way he treated everyone he came across—his brothers excluded. “Um, yes.”
He waved goodbye to the woman at the front desk. Someone she wasn’t particularly fond of given the way the woman ogled Doc. Isa hurried to catch up, and the bell above the door rang their exit.
“You’re a doctor,” she stated instead of asked once they reached his motorcycle.
He straddled the bike and handed her the helmet. “No. I didn’t finish medical school.”
“Why not?”
“My mom needed me.” He glanced to the busy street. “She had cancer and no one to help her.”
“You gave up your career for her.” Isa’s eyes watered. She would’ve done the same had her mother been given more time. The untimely death barely gave her time to mourn let alone accept it.
“And I’d do it again.” He managed a small smile. “Family will always be there for you. A career won’t.”
She took a step closer and accepted the helmet. “That’s why you came to Colorado. To Macha. Because your uncle asked.”
He nodded and started the bike. “Yep.” She hopped on the back before he added, “And I’m damn glad I did. I don’t want to think about what one of the other guys would’ve done if they were assigned to your protection detail.”
She wrapped her arms around his waist and pressed a kiss to the back of his neck. “Me neither.”
They reached the clubhouse in record time, Snowshoe passing in a blur. The fact that she didn’t care where they went but only that Doc was with her didn’t help her management of time either. The scenery was gorgeous but not as much as what she was imagining. She could see them years from now, Doc running his own clinic while she designed clothes and sold them in the Macha stores.
Isa frowned and unlaced her arms from his waist before they parked. It was all make-believe. None of it would happen. Even if one of them moved, he was a patch member with Macha. Given his parentage, he’d be in the club for life.Even if he transferred to the Belfast chapter, could I live with that as my life?
“About time, Doc. We thought you skipped town,” Hawk teased from the porch of the clubhouse.
She shielded her eyes and recognized Cueball, Snoopy, and Legs in the shade as well.
Doc rested her helmet on the seat and shrugged. “I wouldn’t do that without beating you at pool first,” he replied with an easy smile.
“Psh, like you could,” Cueball taunted.
“And I’ll bet your dick is just as small as your hands,” Doc teased, causing their small group to howl with laughter. Evidently, it was more true than false.
“Fuck off,” Cueball said, flipping him the bird.
Doc leaned against the porch railing. “That’s not what your sister said last night.”
Snoopy and Legs added a few less-than-endearing insults to both parties before Brewer and Rubble joined the group, twelve-packs of beer in hand.
Isa walked toward the door, the show of manliness suddenly unappealing. Doc acted sweet and gentle with her, but around the club he was just like them. It annoyed her somewhat.Which Doc is real?
Slipping inside, she breathed a sigh of relief when she no longer heard Doc or his MC brothers. “Life was so much easier in Ireland.”
She sank onto the mattress in her room in time for her phone to ring with a video chat. Answering, she grinned at the sight of her two best friends on the other end. “Thank God, friendly faces.”
Orla’s eyebrows shot to her hairline. “What’s wrong?”
A tear slid down her cheek. “I miss you. I miss home.”
“It’ll be all right, lass,” Niall attempted to console her. “You’ll be home before you know, and then you’ll be wishing you were in Colorado instead of Ireland.”
“Yeah, plus, the weather here has been so crappy lately,” Orla added. “You’re lucky to get away for a bit.”
“Oh, I forgot to tell you. Mrs. Stapleton actually ate one of the candles in the shop.” Niall shook his head. “The old loon thought the cupcake mold was real. She threw one hell of a fit when it tasted like wax instead of cherry fudge.”
