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alone adding alcohol into the equation.
Walking into the open barn house doors, a few wolf whistles sound out from beside me and I smile
towards them, taking a dramatic bow.
“Come on,” Melissa takes hold of my hand. “The girls are over there.” I look around the clubhouse and not much has changed. The building used to be one monstrous barn but has been extended and modernized. The whole bottom level has the bar, a pool table area with a karaoke machine, and couches spread out around the place. The bar is lined with old oak and has laser lights lining the rim of the counter. There’s a strip of stools which seat around fifteen and the long glass cabinet that hangs behind the bar houses almost every kind of alcohol you can think of. The entire back of the bar is also opened out, though sometimes it’s closed off on rainy days. It opens onto a wide farm area that has a massive bonfire in the middle with planks of thick logs surrounding it for seating. There’s also a playground that is being built right now towards the back of the paddock and one big oak tree planted beside it where fairy lights light up all the branches and leaves at night. Back inside, there’s a second level to the barn where all the bedrooms lead off from one massive hallway which circles above your head only held by a metal railing. People who are walking around the top can see everything going on downstairs. Behind the bar is a room where they hold what they call “church”, which is basically like what Raze holds in his basement with his business meetings, but is for club members only. It’s, I guess, where they talk about their deals and whatever else it is that goes on in an MC; I don’t know
much about it, but I know they’re outlaws.
“Hey!” Jada and Meadow stand from their stools.
“Hi!” I walk towards them as they both pull me in for a hug. “Whatcha drinking?” They both pause and look at Melissa.
“It’s fine,” I assure them. “I drink, fuck, and apparently have lost my mind too. Just to skip the
confusion.”
Jada laughs and Meadow looks at me, worried. I rip my gaze from her quickly and take a seat
beside Jada as Melissa takes the spot on the other side of me and Meadow takes a seat on the other
side of Jada.
“So!” Jada says, bumping my arm with hers. “A shot of tequila to catch you up?” I smile at Jada. “Sounds good.” Jada and I got close while I was here before I got taken. I
considered her a close friend towards the end; she was someone I trusted and could rely on. Now, I
trust no one, and most definitely will not rely on anyone.
Apart from Melissa, but even her I can’t rely on. Not anymore.
MILLIE
We’re halfway through our drinking when I hear a loud car pull up outside. I look out and nudge my head towards the red Camaro. “What’s her name again?”
Melissa looks outside, scoffs, then tips her drink to her mouth. “Augh. That is Shelby.”
“Shelby?” I question, trying to connect the dots in my head. “Oh right, the girl who runs the strip club.”
“Wow, you do listen to a lot that goes on,” Melissa laughs, shaking her head.
“I always listened!” I mock being offended.
Shelby walks through the open barn doors, her blonde hair razor-sharp short, which frames her angular jaw and sharp cheekbones. It’s the first time I realized how beautiful she actually is… in a bitchy take-no-shit sort of way.
“Where’s Beast?” she asks when she reaches us. My eyebrows draw together, confusion setting in. “Hello!” She waves her hand in front of Meadow, who finally looks at Shelby with a bored expression. “Where. Is. Beast.”
“Have we met?” I ask, my eyes snapping to hers. “I feel like we’ve meet before.”
Shelby looks down at me, her eyes glazing over but her shoulders remaining square. “Never seen you in my life.”
I exhale, picking up my drink and swallowing some of the mint slushy. My head begins throbbing as the alcohol pulses through my blood system. I must have mistaken her for someone else.
“He’s in church. Why don’t you go wait over there,” Meadow says, pointing to where a couple of their club girls are, “where you belong.”
Shelby laughs. “Don’t know why you always have a stick up your ass, Meadow.”
“Don’t need to put my head on a stick!”
