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Cage
She wasn’t fucking listening to me. I was screaming the clubhouse down, at her, and she was just sitting there, fucking drinking whiskey and basically not reacting! I wanted her to yell back, something—anything. Instead she remained silent.
Finally I gripped her whiskey glass, taking it off her, and throwing it across the room. “What the fuck were you thinking Autumn!” I yelled at her, this time in her personal space.
“What do you expect?!” She finally began to yell back. “I’m no golden girl. The girl you loved, that innocent girl lost her way—she did a year in a maximum security prison!” She stood up shoving me. “Don’t you get it Cage. The girl you loved died!”
I step right back in front of her, cupping her face. “That’s not true cause I see her.”
My jet black eyes locked with her vivid emerald eyes. I saw the panic begin to rise in her eyes, because she was beginning to feel something. That was what I noticed had changed about Autumn, was now she was scared to feel anything.
“You are seeing what you want to see,” She tried to brush my hands off her. But I just cupped her face stronger.
“I see a woman of strength. I see the woman I love.” Those two facts didn’t change anything. It didn’t change what I was going to have to do.
“You don’t mean that.” She blew out.
I let go of her, stepping back, running my hands through my hair. “Autumn you went behind the clubs back. You lied to me.” I couldn’t hide the hurt I felt in those words.
The seriousness of this situation was stronger than anything else. She had betrayed the club. She had betrayed me. And that fucking hurt.
Her phone began to ring.
“Guessing that’s your boyfriend.” I replied coolly.
“Business partner.” She replied.
“That’s fucking worse.”
Autumn then walked off answering the phone.
* * *
I can’t ignore what she has done. I can’t wipe it off.
“My loyalty is to the bikers.” I hear Autumn say, just out of reach. I wonder now if Autumn is really loyal to us, or the money the Meth would have brought in. Clearly she would have enough money now to take her business in another direction. I began to doubt she really stood with us, the family, the brotherhood.
Autumn walked back to me. An expression on her face—and it surprised me because since she got out, she had been keeping her expressions to herself. She always walked around with blank looks.
“Things got out of control Cage.” She muttered. “I needed the money. I had the connections, so I used them.” She then looked me in the eye. “I’m sorry for hurting you.”
Her lying had hurt me. But what I was about to do now, hurt more. “I’ve gotten protect the club. We can’t trust you.”
And that was the beginning of the end right there. Autumn’s now realizing that she had betrayed the brotherhood.
I know she said to her business partner she stood with us. But. I now knew, Autumn was a fantastic liar. So I couldn’t trust her and neither could the club. I loved her. But I had to lead these men, and I couldn’t lead them not knowing if my girlfriend was a friend or foe. I had to put the club first, heart last—which meant. Autumn and I couldn’t have a future. Not now at least.
AUTUMN
Consequences. Penalties. They come around. When you least expect them. The club had disowned me. Members didn’t speak to me. I realized within two days of the ice treatment that wasn’t going to lift, that I had to move out. So I packed my belongings into the back of the pickup.
My eyes scanning the empty room. This wasn’t my home anymore. In some ways I felt like a sixteen-year-old being kicked out of home for the first time.
I picked up the last box. Jacob wasn’t speaking to me. He just joined the list of members no longer speaking to me. I had betrayed the club. I was lucky not to be dead. But I basically was dead in their eyes.
I walked down into the lounge, and Cage stepped away from the bar. While everyone wasn’t speaking to me, he still had the odd conversation with me.
