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Fuck, she was the only one that called me by my real name anymore. It nearly brought me back from the . . . edge, but screw this shit. She was the most important person in my life.
I had to save her. I had to make sure this fucker didn’t go after her again. I had to –
“Edge!”
Jake and R.J. yanked me off the guy as I dripped his blood from my knuckles and heaved, my chest tight with the lack of oxygen. It was a wonder I didn’t have a fuckin’ heart attack. Pumped full of adrenaline and seething anger, I was a ticking time bomb. I fought them off, cursing and shouting, trying to run for Rae. Her doe-like brown eyes were like smooth, melted chocolate and seriously frightened . . .
Of me.
Fuck!
The front doors burst open and cops filed into the bar, guns drawn. Someone must have called. No doubt the presence of two rival MC’s amped shit up a bit. I was shoved to the ground with the rest of my brothers and the SOMC members as well as several rowdy citizens. Cuffed and trying to crane my head around to find my girl, I nearly panicked.
I couldn’t find her.
Where the fuck was Rae?
It wasn’t until I was shoved roughly into the back of a squad car that I caught a glimpse of her. Rae’s slim frame was illuminated in the dark, misty night by blue and red flashing lights. The rain had soaked her to the bone, and she was wrapped in a blanket near a few of her friends, crying and trembling, shaking her head at an officer as he indicated she should get in the waiting ambulance.
For a few brief seconds our eyes met . . . and all I saw was her face pinched in pain.
My heart nearly stopped.
The words I love you died on my tongue as I whispered her name and she turned away, the tears glistening on her pale cheeks. I knew at that moment that nothing I could say or do would change the way she thought of me. Her gaze spoke the words even if she never voiced them aloud.
Monster.
She was right.
I was a fuckin’ monster, a demon, a broken man with nothing left to lose.
And now I knew I was every bit the haunted and dangerous criminal I had become.
Edge.
My name and my fate.
That was where I lived and played, where I was dumped and broken, where I’d continue to stay until this life finally claimed me . . . and only then would I be free.
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