A Dream of Summer (Bleeding Angels MC Book 3) Read Online Free Page B

but there was no doubt over who they were.
     
    “Hands off boys. She’s Ryan’s—for now at least.” Elvis sounded like he was enjoying taunting whoever was on the receiving end. “Maybe you’ll get a taste later. Beats me what all the fuss is about. So you came here to suck Ryan’s cock? Say it bitch. You came here to suck Ryan’s cock.”
     
    There was a pause that went on for almost a lifetime. Then the voice that I had been hoping I wouldn’t hear spoke up. “You came here to suck Ryan’s cock.” I almost smile at her clever wording. I could hear the crowd in roaring with laughter in the background. But then the next words out of her mouth turned my blood to ice. “Now are we going to play who has the bigger dick, or are you going to tell me where Ryan is?” Suzie pocketed the phone with an expression that seemed to say, ‘I told you so.’
     
    “Then what happened?” I asked, stunned and still trying to come up with ways that would explain this whole situation logically.
     
    “I told you what happened. And from the look on your face, Jake, you don’t want to hear me say it again.” Suzie’s voice was kind; there wasn’t a trace of that satisfaction I thought I’d caught in it before.
     
    “But it doesn’t make any sense.” I leaned against the Chevy. I couldn’t trust my legs to support my body weight anymore. It was like all the strength had just been sucked out of me. “Why would she do it? She hates Ryan. You know that as well as I do!” I didn’t know how it had happened, but I was shouting, as all the blood rushed back into my body.
     
    “Does it matter why she did it?” Suzie asked after a moment. “Doesn’t it just matter that she did do it?”
     
    I didn’t say anything because, to be honest, I didn’t know what to say. I wasn’t thinking clearly. The overriding image in my head was Ryan and Aimee together and that was drowning out everything else.
     
    “The Angels won’t let you down, Jake. They’re a brotherhood and they want you to be their newest brother.” Suzie said, but the words barely made an impression, I think I was still too stunned to take anything on. “You’ve always known that this is where you would end up. Aren’t you tired of doing what everyone else wants? Doing what your parents want? Doing what Aimee wants? What about what you want, Jake? Now you get to make your own choice.”
     
    In the haze of the emotions that were swirling around my body, her words made sense. It was time for me to make my own decisions. I was in control of my own destiny and now that Aimee had shown her true colors, I had to play the hand that I’d been dealt. I knew that I didn’t want to be anywhere near her when she came back from fucking Ryan. I wanted to be as far away from her as possible. Becoming a Bleeding Angel seemed just about as far away as I could get.
     
    “Let’s go,” I’d said, and then we’d walked out into the dimming light towards the destiny I had chosen.
     
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    But now, sitting in this dark room, waiting to be tatted tomorrow and eventually patched, I’m not so sure. Instead of taking everything that Suzie told me as a given, the “why” keeps revolving around my brain. Why would Aimee have put everything on the line, risked herself, risked us , to sleep with Ryan? There must be a reason. I’ve known Aimee for long enough to know that she doesn’t do anything without a reason. But why had she kept the secret from me?
     
    That may be the case, but I still go back to Suzie’s question. Does the reason matter? Right now I can’t separate what she did from the reason that she did it. I’m angrier with her than I could ever have imagined. I’m furious, but that hasn’t done anything to dull this ache that is weighing on my chest. I can’t just switch off the way I feel about her. She’s a part of me. But what if I’m no longer a part of her?
     
    I lay back on the bed, exhausted by all the thoughts racing around my head.