Everlasting - Christine Michelle Page 0,47

Her words hit me hard, not just because they were true, but because of the conviction she spoke them with.

“You believe in me that much?”

“Daddy, I’ve believed you were magic my whole life, I’m not stopping now,” she admitted. Jesus, my heart did a somersault in my chest as her words sunk in.

“So much like your mom,” I told her. “Either you speak the truth, you’re full of shit, or a little mixture of both that goes a long way to motivating people.”

Anna laughed softly. “She did have a knack for that, didn’t she?”

“So do you, Princess.”

“Bring him home for her, okay?”

“I’m going to do my best.” I got ready to tell her more, but she once again proved how very much like her mother she was. “Don’t worry, I’ll look after them while you’re gone and Joker will help me, so will all the rest of the men, because that’s what family does.”

I said my goodbyes to my other girl and headed back to the clubhouse. There had to be something we missed in all of our searches. Once I was there, I called up Christina and got her on the line. “I need some new information.”

“You going hunting?” She asked, knowing already who it was.

“You’re damn right I am.”

“Want some company?”

“You offering to head to Canada with me? What would your man think?” I teased.

Christina laughed. “He would think I’d finally laid the bike down and took a good knock to the noggin’. Don’t you know he is God’s gift to this fine Earth as far as his woman is concerned?”

“Jesus,” I huffed out. “Remind Jason that he’s named after me for a reason,” I informed her only to hear her laugh again.

“He’s in between jobs right now and itching to find his brother and bring him home too. He should be there any time now.” She chuckled. “He was on his way to put his foot up someone’s ass or light some fires, whatever he had to do to get the ball rolling again.”

“It should have never been dropped.”

“Losing Lucy hit everyone hard,” she offered quietly.

“Yeah, but she’d never want her loss to cause Deck to be lost for good too.”

“I sent Jay with some information that might be helpful. Keys and Quickshot spent a good amount of time tracking down a guy named Durbin. He specializes in caring for severely drug addicted people and getting them back to a healthy place. He’ll be your first stop. I don’t think it will take much to convince him to talk, but if you need to convince him, I have plenty of ammo.”

“The dirty kind?”

“All kinds,” she let me know. “When Jay gets there, be sure you tell him he’s supposed to check in.” Christina laughed again, knowing I’d do it and embarrass the hell out of her man while I was at it. I attempted a response, but she was already gone by the time the words made it out. They already anticipated what I would need done. What we would all need done in order to bring Deck home. All that was left was to get the hell on the road.

Chapter 22

Survival

Deck

She was back again.

My brain hurt every time Sasha walked through the doors. I was no longer in the hospital where they’d been holding me. It became obvious that I was gaining some of my memories so my captors decided that I was better behind lock and key than a place where I could easily escape.

Unfortunately for me, that also meant that I didn’t have the same level of security that was helping to keep Sasha at bay before. Her brother, the man in charge, never graced me with his presence again and I was beginning to wonder if the evil witch hadn’t killed her own flesh and blood in order to gain access to me. “Did you hear me?” Her voice grated on my nerves, of course I heard her yammering on from the time she waltzed through the door.

“What do you want?” I was tired today and my head was killing me.

“Is that any way to talk to your old lady?” She asked. The dumb bitch had been trying on all sorts of titles with me lately. At first it was my woman, then my wife, and when I told her I thought she was lying about that, she decided to swap it up again. Now, it was ‘old lady’. No doubt, she was tipping her hat up to the fact that I may