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Rick tells them, “You’re all going to have to live it. A man is dead because of what you’ve done.”
I say, “You can leave after you talk to the Sheriff, then you’re no longer welcome here.”
They don’t say anything.
I go over to the bar counter where Stacey is. I’m going to need a very stiff drink.
This is what life is…a series of‘We didn’t think that would happen’and‘I didn’t mean it.’And the result is that someone gets killed.
This is what people are.
But this is why this club makes sense. We have a code of honor. What Lara’s been saying makes more sense than ever. Life is too short to hold someone hostage for their love.
We need to embrace the good where we can.
A couple of seconds…a few inches…and it could’ve been Dom lying under that table cloth.
This club…this brotherhood…is why he’s alive.
Thank God for Lara.
Who knows what might’ve happened to Dom if she wasn’t here. Maybe we can convince her to stay and open a practice for her in town…
It’s worth floating the idea to her.
Stacey asks, “Are you okay?”
“Nope, we shot the wrong guy, those assholeswerecheating after all.”
“Shit.”
“Yeah,” Rick says, “fucked up, huh?”
“Whiskey?”
“Make it a triple.”
I hear the door open…turn…and see the Sheriff walk in.
Chapter Twenty-Five
Dominic
Lara had cleaned the spare room weeks ago and had converted it into asupplyroom of sorts. She has the boys unfold a large trestle inside the room as a makeshift operating table and then lays me on top.
All the tools of her trade are laid out on table to her left.
As she starts using shears to cut away my jeans, she looks at Nick and Chase and says, “Wait outside please.”
I’m glad. I don’t want them to see me vulnerable.
They nod and step out. It makes me curious though, so I ask, “Why’d you send them away?”
Cassidy answers for her, “Too many cooks.”
“Ah.”
Then Lara says, “Plus, I didn’t know if you wanted them to see your junk!”
