Page 8 of Always Was Mine

“Yeah, had some trouble, and my cousin Lilly is helping me.”

I try not to show emotion at her response, since I don’t want to come off too crazy. “Sorry to hear that.” I grab her arm, moving her to one of the empty couches. “You think you’ll be here long?”

She nods. “I’m hoping once everything is done, this will be my new home. You know. New start and all that.” Good, she’s staying.

“What do you do for work?”

“Right now, nothing, but I went to school to become a teacher, before I came out here, I actually taught the first grade.” I remember in high school she used to talk all the time about becoming a teacher, glad to see it was a dream she didn’t give up on when I ‘died’.

We keep talking for a little while, and I start getting bored of the conversation. Not that she bores me, but because I want so badly to just kiss her. I lean in close. “I want you.” I kiss her just below her ear and she stiffens.

“Um, that’s nice, but I don’t know you. And, I um, I can’t,” she stutters out.

“You’ll be mine, trust me on that,” I promise and move away from her, going to my room in the back.

I’m giving her a week to come to terms with shit. Then I’m moving in. Taking back what’s mine.

Tori

Oh my. When Trevor walks away it’s all I can think. As soon as I walked in here tonight, I saw him, sitting at the bar. I always thought Carson was the hottest man I’ve ever met, my Trevor was stunning too but we were only teenagers, so he didn’t count as a man then, but I was wrong. Something about him though seems familiar. Have I met him before? I shake my head. No that can’t be it. I don’t think I’ve ever met a man that looked like him. Tattoos on the sides of his face, arms and hands covered, what I could see of his chest was covered too. Huge holes in his ears.

When he said his name was Trevor, I thought back to the Trevor I once knew. We were best friends growing up, it’s how I met Carson. I remember when I had learned that he was murdered—the pain of losing my best friend in the whole world. That’s when Carson and I grew closer, that’s when we slowly fell in love.

Even now, twelve years after Trevor’s death, I still miss him.

I sit around taking everyone in when I hear a screech. “Tori! Oh my fucking god!” I look up and see Eden, big as a whale, waddling over to me.

“Oh wow, look at you.” We both say at the same time. She looks ten times bigger than she did when she was pregnant with the twins.

She gives me a very awkward side hug and steps back. “Beautiful as ever, Tori.” She smiles at me.

I notice the scarring on her face isn’t as bad as it once was.

“I know.” She groans. “I’m friggen ginormous.”

“When are you due?”

“Two more weeks,” she huffs out. “But, I go in this weekend for the C-section. And this time, I’m getting totally fixed, no reversible crap,” she tells me with a small laugh.

“So, you and Jasper are good now, hey?”

She lights right up and smiles huge. “Yes, it was hard for a while. Once he found out about the twins and all, ya know, but we’re amazing now. However, his super sperm, seriously. Ugh. I don’t know how he managed this one,” she says rubbing her belly.

“How the hell are you gonna survive having six kids?” I ask her, my eyes bugging out.

“Well thankfully the twins and Glenna are all older, so really, it’s just the younger two and this one, but still. So many babies.”

I pat her shoulder. “You’ll do fine, and just think, I’m here. I’ll help out anyway you need, just like I helped with the twins when you needed,” I say, smiling at her.

She moves and sits on the couch, so I follow and do the same. “So why did you never tell me that you were married to Hangman? I didn’t even know you were part of a club.” She looks somewhat hurt.

“I’m sorry, it was just something I didn’t want to get out. You know firsthand about the nasty that is Carson. I didn’t want to dirty you in that way.”

She settles a hand on my knee. “Babe, trust me, I probably could have gotten you out of there sooner if I had known.”

I hear Gavin’s loud booming laugh and look up, seeing him with Vinny, Lilly’s husband.

“Oh, holy shit. That’s the man that helped us,” Eden says in awe. “He’s still really damn hot.”

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