Trick (MANCHESTER CHAPTER UNTAMED SONS MC #8) by Jessica Ames EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jessica Ames
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TRICK
I wake swallowing a scream.
My heart batters against my ribs as I jackknife upright, the last wisps
of the nightmare I was trapped in dissipating like smoke.
Fumbling for the lamp on the bedside table, my shoulders slump as the
light chases the shadows away but not the demons.
There’s no cure for them.
It’s been thirteen months since they murdered my wife, and four weeks
since I moved back into the house we’d bought to raise our family in.
While the rawness of my loss has faded to a dull ache, it still remains.
Colours are faded and things that used to bring me joy no longer excite me.
The only reason I get up every day and fight is the little girl sleeping down
the hallway. I owe my daughter everything I can give her and more.
I’m not proud of the things I’ve done. For a time, I couldn’t
acknowledge Sophia’s existence, too afraid that if I did, I’d poison her with
the filth covering me. My inability to be a good father pissed off a lot of
people, especially Heidi.
She was once a part of this club, a fucking important part, and not just
because she was the old lady of one of our brothers, Crow. He was
murdered a few years back, jumped by a low level gang who wanted to
prove a point about who ran this city. We hunted those fuckers down, killed
every single one of them, but it was too late for Heidi. Her grief made her
angry. She blamed us for the death of her husband and she retreated. The
shit thing is we let her do that. I was happy when she started coming back
around the clubhouse, even if that fury still lingered. She was coming home.
Then Mara died and she did the ultimate good deed. She stepped up and
took care of my daughter.
Abandoning my child is just one of many sins I need to atone for.
Sometimes, I think there isn’t enough time left for me to right all the
wrongs I’ve made. The task feels too big, too hard, but then I think about
Sophia, and I know I have to try for her.
She deserves a family, and the club is the only one she’s ever known. I
want her to grow up surrounded by aunts who adore her and uncles who
would take a bullet to keep her safe.
But this life… it’s fucking dangerous, and the consequences of things
gone wrong are fatal. I’m fucking tired of burying people, of living amongst
pain and misery.
I don’t like to admit it, but sometimes, when my thoughts are darker, I
think Sophia would be better off without me. I’ve considered more times
than I can count letting Heidi take her away to give her the normal life that I
can’t. I destroy everything I touch, and I am terrified I’ll do the same to her.
But I’m a selfish bastard, and I need Sophia far more than she needs me.
She’s the only thing that stops me sliding back into the monster I had been.
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