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“Jake!” she screeched, outraged.
Jake kissed her sloppily as she swatted at him and he smacked her on the ass, “Come on baby. Give me some love.”
She giggled as her arms slid up his chest.
I had enough and left the two of them undressing each other as the door shut behind me. I sped away in the Nova and dialed Beckett’s number, determined not to let another minute pass without Rae by my side.
“I need your help.”
“WHAT HAPPENED?” BECKETT asked as he slid his stocky frame from the bed of the red Ford.
“Rae’s gone.”
“Gone? What the hell Pete?”
An hour and twenty minutes had passed before Beckett pulled into the abandoned parking lot where we agreed to meet. Long enough for my thoughts to cause extended chaos in my mind. I paced in front of him and tried to keep my shit together, but Beckett seemed to figure it out much sooner than I expected, “She left –”
“With R.J.” a statement, not a question. “Sorry bro,” he sighed and clapped a hand on my shoulder.
I winced and nodded, kicking at a rock with my shoe, “We had an argument.”
“Does she know about R.J.’s feelings?”
I sighed, “Before today, no.”
He paused thoughtfully, “Well, any idea where they would have gone?”
“No, but shit has calmed down enough for me to try and text him now. Not sure I can handle this Beck. Rae’s fucking pissed at me . . .”
“So? Rae’s got a temper. We all know that. She isn’t going to run off with your best friend. Get a clue bro.”
I tried to smile, but it came across as a grimace. I knew Rae and R.J. wouldn’t cross the line. If I was honest, that wasn’t what was really bothering me. Running my fingers through my dark hair I admitted the source of my anger and mistrust, “I’m afraid he’s going to tell her the truth.”
“About?”
“Everything,” I whispered.
“She deserves to know.”
I tur
ned to him with a snarl, “No, she doesn’t!”
“If you don’t tell her someone else will. What then? When she hears the truth about the RRMC and her father, Mack and your involvement, and the rivalry between the MC’s she’ll never forgive you if you aren’t the one to tell her.”
“And the accident,” I acknowledged, shoving my hands deep into my pockets. “Maybe you’re right.”
“Shit,” he grinned, pulling out a cigarette and a gunmetal lighter with the RRMC logo embedded into the cool surface, “I’m always fucking right brother.”
I laughed, my chest lightening just a bit, “You’re as much a brother to me as the others.” Beck was the shit. I could always count on him. Same as the others, I could sense his intentions and he’d never betray me. We were like blood. Family. Beck was a part of that too.
“I know Pete.”
A look past between the two of us before my cell phone buzzed in my hand.
Rae’s with me. Safe. Great Hills Lodge. Fifth and Summit.
On my way!
