Total pages in book: 86
Estimated words: 81603 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 408(@200wpm)___ 326(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 81603 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 408(@200wpm)___ 326(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
“What the fuck do you want?” Miles asked. He wasn’t interested in his sister’s judgy attitude.
She had surprised him, in all honesty. It had taken her two days to get here. Everyone knew if it had been Daisy, there would have been no waiting. For Daisy, there never was. She was there whenever Tabitha needed her. No questions asked. No judgments.
Tabitha frowned. “Daisy’s in the hospital—”
“Nice of you to notice.”
“What the hell is that supposed to mean? I’ve got a family back in Piston County. I’ve got responsibilities.”
“Yeah, we know. That is the life you picked, Tabs, but you know what, I don’t think it would matter if the weight of the world was pressing down on Daisy, she would have been there. She’d try to hold up the world and everything else around you, because that is what she does.”
Tabitha sighed and then laughed. “Oh, I get it, I’m not as good a friend as Daisy, am I? Is that it? Because I decided to leave the club and follow my heart, that makes me less than her?”
Miles looked at his sister and smiled. “You know, there was a time you weren’t such a selfish little bitch, but it would seem becoming part of Chaos has changed you in more ways that you realize.”
He took a step back and made his way into the kitchen. There had not been any issue with Tabitha joining Chaos Bleeds. Everyone knew that was going to happen in the end. No one needed a fucking crystal ball to make that kind of shit up.
Tabitha and Simon had been set for life, since they were kids. It wasn’t their parents’ doing. That was just fucking life, and it had pushed them both together.
He put the kettle on the stove and turned on the gas. “You want a drink?” he asked.
“Yes,” Tabitha said.
Miles was shocked that she had come without her little sidekick, Simon.
All their lives, Tabitha and Daisy had been together. They’d been best friends, bound together at the hip from the time they were little, and people used to bully Daisy for how dirty she looked. Her parents didn’t take care of her and would often forget about her. It was only a matter of time before she was drawn into the circle of the Skulls. From that moment there would be no going back. Daisy was going to be a Skull. She was loyal to the club and everyone in it.
Miles knew he could depend on her. She had their backs. Sure, there were moments she could be a bitch, but that was when life got in the way, or more importantly, Daisy’s real parents. The moment her father killed himself, everything changed. Daisy stopped being a bitch and went back to being her usual, adoring, lovely, sweetheart self.
He loved Daisy, not as a girlfriend, but as a sister, a friend, a partner of the club. Even if she thought something was a bad idea, like attacking the Monster Dogs MC clubhouse, she’d tell them she had a bad feeling, but she didn’t back down.
Miles had come to see in the past few years that Daisy had put her mark on the whole club, and the saddest thing of all was, he knew why. She was always trying to establish her place. Daisy wanted people to need and want her. Her insecurity ran so deep.
It didn’t matter if she was with Anthony or not. He knew deep down, because Daisy had told him, that she wanted people to say her name, but to do so with love and respect. It had been so sad. Even after all this time, she didn’t think she had a place among them, and he couldn’t accept that.
“You really think I’m a bad friend?” Tabitha asked.
Miles saw his words had hurt his sister. They hadn’t intended to hurt, but it was the truth.
“Are you a bad friend?”
Tabitha pressed her lips together and then stepped away.
“I know I could have done better.”
He refused to say anything else. This was all on his sister. They both knew her new life drew her away from the Skulls, and she wasn’t a Skull anymore.
Miles finished making himself a coffee and then handed her a mug of tea as well. He wasn’t much of a tea drinker, but he kept it just in case. It seemed the responsible and most adult thing to do.
“Are you okay?” Tabitha asked.
He couldn’t help but chuckle. “I wondered when you were going to ask me that.”
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I just, I can’t believe Daisy’s in the hospital and she’s in a freaking coma. I mean, something must have gone wrong.”
“It did,” Miles said. “They knew we were coming, which says someone found out.” He gritted his teeth.
“And Anthony was in charge. He wouldn’t have allowed anyone to know the finer details until absolutely necessary.”