Page 20 of Spike (Iron Thunder MC 5)
But Sabrina didn’t do any of those things.
“What happened? Why did you end up in prison?” she asked.
Wasn’t she scared? I was expecting her to be afraid of me now. Afraid of what I was capable of. Instead, she was leaning toward me over the table, as if she couldn’t wait to hear more.
“It’s probably best if we don’t go into the details. I was a kid. I came from a neighborhood where everyone had been to prison a couple of times. I guess I was just following a trend. My future had already been decided for me.”
Sabrina watched me closely as I spoke. She stared at my mouth, then at my eyes, then gazed down at my tattoos and looked up at me again. I wanted to know what she was thinking, what she really thought of me. Did she hate me even more now? Was I nothing but prison scum to her?
“But you didn’t go back, right? After you did time?” she asked. Again, another question I wasn’t expecting from her.
“No. Drax, the President of this MC, he recruited me. I found my place here and I’ve stayed out of prison ever since.”
She nodded as if she understood. How did she understand? There was nothing remotely similar to this in her life. What did she know about second chances?
Sabrina tucked some stray dark hairs behind her delicately small ears.
“Well, I guess I’m glad you’re not in prison anymore,” she said. She was even smiling lightly now. I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to say. This was going to be my way of pushing her away from me. I wanted her to rebel against her father’s decision, but it didn’t seem to be doing the job.
“So you get to be here, keeping guard over me.” She spoke in a softer voice. Something had definitely changed between us. I watched her closely, expecting her to break into a big laugh any moment now, but she didn’t. Did she actually mean what she was saying?
All I could do was nod in response. I had no words.I was glad when I saw Drax enter the room. The air between Sabrina and me had become thick with tension. Sexual tension. We had been staring at each other, eyeing each other up for several moments in silence.
Maybe telling her about my prison stint wasn’t such a great idea after all. The last thing I wanted was for her to think I was dangerous, in some exciting way. I wasn’t trying to excite her.
What if she was on a mission to collect new experiences? Live a little dangerously on the side. Get a taste of a different world? I would be the perfect candidate for that.
Under any other circumstance, I would have been happy to oblige. To give her a taste of a different life, just for one night, if that’s what she really wanted. But not now. Not when I was supposed to be doing a job.
I saw Drax and jumped up from my seat. It caught Sabrina by surprise. She looked over while Drax came to us.
“Spike! You look alive!” he said with a happy growl. When he noticed Sabrina, he kinda stopped in his tracks for a moment. Nobody was expecting to find a girl who looked like her sitting in the booth in Fifth Gear with me.
“And who is this lovely little thing?” he asked, coming up to us.
“Sabrina Wyndham,” she said before I could speak. She held her hand out to him in a way that nobody did around here. Drax glared at her, looked at me and then groaned a response, not bothering to shake her hand after all.
“Wyndham?” he asked, turning to me.
“Ghost will fill you in,” I said and he nodded. Like me, Drax was under strict advice to take it easy. A few days before I got stabbed by Eagle, Drax was shot by him. So he was recovering from a gunshot wound, and his woman, Mary-Beth, was keeping a close eye on him.
“She’s gone to get some errands done,” he said in a lower voice to me. He was clearly talking about Mary-Beth. “So I decided to walk around this place, try and get some work done. It’s the best I can do before she gets back and brings this place down because I got out of bed.”
We smiled at each other. We both knew he was crazy about that woman, even though he complained about her all the time. From the corner of my eye, I could see Sabrina listening.
“Before I forget, there is something I should tell you. Ghost and the others are probably keeping this from you but I thought you should know. Come with me.”
Drax started walking away before I had a chance to say anything. I turned to Sabrina; she’d heard too.
