Ruined #4 (The MC Motorcycle Club Romance Series - Book #4) by Alycia Taylor Page A

to show your
face around here,” I said. “Yet, you just walk in here like any ordinary
citizen.”
    “Come on, Liv. It’s just me. I’m still the guy I’ve
always been.”
    “And who is that guy, exactly, Terrance? Is he the
guy who pretended to care about me when my boyfriend got locked up, but who was
only looking for the opportunity to get into my pants? Or, maybe he’s the guy
who carries an automatic rifle and busts down doors looking for the Mexican
cartel?”
    Terrance looked around the shop like he was looking
to see if there were any witnesses to our conversation. Then he leaned in close
to me….too close and said, “First of all, you should be really careful who’s
around when you say things like that. Second, I was your friend. I wouldn’t
have ever turned my back on you. You chose to walk away from me, remember?”
    “After I found out what you did to Dax, remember?”
    “I explained that to you,” he said, like it made it
all better. Those guys were all crazy and I didn’t have the time or the
patience for their shit.
    “What did you come in here for, Terrance? Do you
need one of those parts you buy in order to cover up what you’re actually
running for your dad?”
    “Knock it off, Olivia. I’m serious,” he said. He
actually sounded a little scary when he said it. I guess I should quit thinking
of him simply as an ex-boyfriend and remember who he really was. Proving it, he
said, “I don’t need any parts today. What I need is for you to pass on some
information. Let your new boyfriend know that what he’s doing could have fatal
consequences. If he wants the business to leave him alone, then he needs to
stay out of the business. This revenge crap is going to get him dead.”
    “Are you threatening Dax?” I asked him. Just saying
it made my heart pound in my chest.
    “No, I would never hurt Dax. I know you and Dax both
don’t believe this, but I still love him like a brother. My father on the other
hand, does not feel the same kind of loyalty. He’s not a guy you want to mess
with. Do you think I chose this life?”
    I suddenly felt bad. I knew I shouldn’t have felt
bad for him, he was a grown man. He could choose to do whatever he wanted to do
with his life. But I felt bad for the little boy who grew up thinking so highly
of a father and Bull and the others, only to find out who they really were.
But, that’s when he should have walked away and he didn’t. That’s the guy that
I didn’t feel sorry for.
    “No, I don’t think you chose it to begin with,
Terrance. I know how you grew up. But, I also know that you’re grown now and
you continue to choose to stay. Is what your father wants that important to you
still? Or, does he threaten you if you leave? Or, do you just choose to stay
because this mess is your life and you don’t want to have to go out and work
for a living the way everyone else does?”
    “I do what I have to do,” he said, in a matter of
fact tone. “Tell Dax to back-off, Olivia. I followed orders and I put those
drugs in his bags. I was willing to do that to save my own ass. I’m not willing
to see Dax hurt or killed. That’s what’s going to happen if he doesn’t leave it
alone.”
    “So it is a threat, then?” I asked again.
    He looked pissed off and said, “Just tell him what I
said, unless you want his blood on your own hands.”
    I didn’t say anything. Terrance looked at me again
for a while like he was waiting for confirmation that I would talk to Dax. I
would, as much as I didn’t want to, but as far as Terrance was concerned, I was
finished talking to him. I watched him walk out of the shop and drive away on
his bike, knowing that I was going to have to talk to Dax.

 
    CHAPTER
TWO
    DAX
    I woke up in my room behind the bar and thought
about what I was going to do today. I couldn’t do what Olivia wanted me to and
give up my quest to find out exactly who had me set up and why. I felt like if
I did, I’d be telling them it was okay to