Page 59 of Sandman


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Looking at her sleeping form, as she leaned against the passenger door, I prayed I was doing the right thing. She’d been through so much already. I couldn’t take the chance of anything happening to her.

When I told her I wouldn’t go after Scab, her smile said it all, but just as fast as it appeared, it faded when I told her we were going on another adventure. While she wasn’t thrilled about leaving in the dead of the night, she agreed.

While the club was in church discussing me, I snuck my family out of the clubhouse that had been our home for the last two years. They should have known I would do anything to protect my family. Though I considered the men in the Golden Skulls my brothers, they we not my family.

Not my actual family and in my world... family came first.

Always.

Hawk taught me that.

It was a code I never thought I would have to follow, but everything changed when I saw Sunny that fateful day back in California.

The day she became the heart of my family.

“Solomon, talk to me,” Sunny whispered, looking out the window. “Where are we going?”

“Home.”

“And where is home, honey?”

I didn’t want to tell her.

I didn’t know how she would react, going back to the one place where it all started. I didn’t have any other choice. There was no other place where I could protect her properly. I could have just disappeared with her and the kids, never to be seen again, but I knew she would hate that. She would miss home. Miss the others.

She needed her family and her friends.

All I needed was her.

This wasn’t going to be an easy trip for her. I couldn’t just take her to our destination. I needed to make sure no one was following us. I knew the second my brothers and Disturbed realized I was gone, they would follow. I expected that, but they would head straight for where they thought I would go. It was the others that worried me. I knew there was a bounty on my head, that I was being hunted. I wasn’t stupid. I’d done a lot of nasty shit in my past. Stuff that demanded retribution. Stuff that had nothing to do with my Sunshine. But the second Satan’s Angels came after my woman, I knew it was only a matter of time before they got their hands on her. If that ever happened, they would destroy her before they killed her.

I refused to let that happen.

We’d been on the road for a few hours when I pulled off the main road and stopped before a set of iron gates.

Rolling down my window, I watched as the guard walked over, radioing to the others there was a visitor at the gate.

Shining a flashlight in my face, I stared at the man and growled.

The second he realized who I was, he slowly backed away, whispering into his radio.

In my time on the road, I visited hundreds of MCs around the United States. While not as big as the others, I found myself attracted to the smaller MCs, the ones where the club was tight and considered everyone family. While I visited and stayed with the bigger MCs occasionally, I found those clubs to be crowded, and more about the sex and politics of the MC world.

However, there were a few of the smaller clubs I visited often. It was at those clubs I felt most comfortable, and it was those clubs who accepted me as I was.

Seeing the iron doors of the clubhouse open, I kept my eyes on the big man walking towards me with two of his brothers.

“Solomon, where are we?” Sunny asked as she slowly reached for my hand, while the big man walked over and leaned against my door.

“Long time, brother.”

“Colt.”

Colt’s eyes scanned the interior of my truck before he asked, “How long?”

“One night.”

“Trouble?”

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