AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“My Nanna, she refused to let them bully me. Tell me it wasn’t my place to tell on them.”
“You were there at the trial then?”
“No trial,” she said. “My cousins confessed, got some bullshit deal, heard tell they are still serving time in prison. My whole family blamed me because I was set to be the state’s witness to lie on them.”
“What happened to your father and mother?” Onyx was sickened by her story, unsure how anyone could survive such a horrible ordeal.
“Nothing. But it is why I moved away and lived with my Nanna. I couldn’t grieve alongside Byron’s family. Mine was torn apart because I finished my senior year from home and moved on. They don’t want me around and I couldn’t forgive them for taking him away from me. It’s why I found the Steel MC. I was running and landed in New Mexico first, Red needed girls and I thought why not move even farther.”
“Was it just my complexion or something more when it came to me?” he questioned, seeing her avoidance of him was as protective as herLakerscomment.
“I’d hate to see your senior picture,” she said stroking along his cheek, her touch soft on the swollen cheekbone. “Because you were who I saw sitting by my side at my kids’ games when I imagined my life with Byron.”
“You know all black men don’t look alike,” he joked, hoping to break the mood even though he could see her body was already relaxing. The weight of years of pain weren’t gone, but the tension between them had shattered.
“No, you don’t.” She laughed. “I just wished you were more of an asshole, so when I’m around you I didn’t think you could be my second chance.”
“Well, I’m not him,” Onyx replied, having been a trophy more than once before and not in the mood to take the place of a man long buried. Fighting back ghosts and being second in his heart wasn’t his idea of a good time.
“No,” Topaz replied taking his hands in hers and stroking her thumbs along the rope burns on his wrists. “But I’m not the girl he fell in love with either.”
