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“I’d like to keep in touch. Even if we just text or call once in a while. No commitment,” she laughed at my expression. “You’ll always be someone I care about, Hawk. I need to know you’re out there, riding your bike, and enjoying your freedom.”
I could do that. “Sure, Sadie. I’d like that.”
Four days later, I walked outside the gates, breathing in the fresh air untainted by the shackles I’d worn for three long years. Three of my club brothers stood by a row of Harleys ready to greet me. Crow, Cuckoo, and Talon had all visited over the last thirty-six months. Their visits kept me going.
“Shit. If it ain’t our SAA, joining society again, all reformed and respectable.”
Snorting, I shook my head. “I don’t think those are the words I’d use, Crow.”
He laughed, pulling me in for a hug. “Missed you, brother.”
“Yeah, I missed you all too,” I announced, slapping him on the back as I stepped away, turning to Cuckoo. “The fuck happened to you?”
Cuckoo shrugged. “I don’t know what you mean.”
“You look like a fucked up version of the Easter Bunny. That’s some sick shit.”
Cuckoo snickered.
“Why the fuck do we let you out in public?”
Talon shoved Cuckoo. “He’s pretty, that’s why.”
I shook my head, striding over to my bike. All I needed was to ride.
Two minutes later, we merged onto the highway.
Bright Nevada sunshine glared down from above as the scorching heat wrapped my body in a sweltering embrace. The steady thrum of my bike’s engine rumbled beneath me as I turned my head to the side, catching the black shadow on the ground, soaring high above, casting the crow’s wings on the dusty ground as he spread them wide.
Even incarcerated, I felt his presence. The crow never left me.
He might have been separated but I caught his flight every afternoon, cawing as he dropped onto the windowsill of the library. He hopped from window to window, giving me an earful. Admonished by a fucking bird with black wings.
But that was all behind me now.
For the first time, I felt free. That was too fucking amazing to dwell on anything else.
