Epilogue Two
Fucking idiot, that boy, thinks I don’t know what he’s up to. There was definitely something wrong about the whole situation, but for now I’d have to just keep an eye. I grabbed the doc on his way back from their room, and all he’d say was that something had disagreed with Ryder, but he was up and about, and in no danger.
“Bastard could barely move when I got to him. It was like he was almost paralysed. He taking something I should know about?”
Doc grimaced. “It’s Ryder, so I want to say no, but right now, I have no idea. I’ll keep an eye on them.”
Yeah. Me too, pal. I waved him off back to bed, and returned to my own room. Fuck. I’d really wanted to talk to Ryder, because I had a problem of my own. Alicia . Something was keeping her from giving in to what she was feeling for me, and I had to figure out what the fuck it was, because I was never going to give up on us. I’d have her. Somehow she’d be mine .
Alicia
I t was late when Reacher came to bed. He was insisting that I sleep in his bed, but he was sleeping on a foldout bed he’d dug out of storage. Everyone probably thought we were fucking, but we hadn’t done anything like that. We were interested in each other, but there were obstacles. Reasons that I couldn’t get attached, and he had secrets. He would disappear at all kinds of times, taking calls that he disappeared into the hall for. As Club President, I’m sure there was a lot he had to oversee, and I was pretty sure most of it was illegal, but that didn’t make it my problem.
No. My problem was the other thing I had been doing to make enough money for mum’s care home bills, and I didn’t know how to get back out of that mess. Not without getting myself or someone else killed, maybe even Reacher, and I was determined not to let that happen.
Now that things with Tori were resolved, maybe it was time to get back out. I had no reason to stay here now, not based on the premise that they’d dragged me in here for. I didn’t want to go, but I couldn’t see another way this could end. My heart would be broken either way.