Healing Gabe (The Last Hangman MC #3)(4)
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I’ve been dating Annie for the past three weeks. Things haven’t been easy to be honest. We’re both part of different clubs but we’ve managed to keep our relationship a secret from everyone, except Vivian, her sister, the girl I saved from that f*cking * Jared. She’s been hanging around when we are seeing each other and I feel bad for her. I wouldn’t be happy to wait around for my sister to be done with her date and go back home, having been left on my own for hours. I guess she really loves her sister and wants her to be happy.
I’ve never spent much time with Viv but I know she is happy for Annie, that we are together and that I can make her smile. Sometimes it’s quite unsettling when we all hang out together. I mean being seated with two girls who are almost carbon copies of each other is a bit freaky and my thoughts might have wandered off down the gutter once or twice. I’m a guy, what can I say?
Ever since my parents died I haven’t been myself, even Nicole has admitted as much. Meeting Annie and Viv was exactly what I needed. They are funny and sweet, especially Annie, my sweet Annie. It hasn’t been long since we started dating but I feel like we might be together for a really long time. I just hope we won’t have to hide forever, that would f*cking blow.
I know things will get harder the deeper we get invested into our relationship, but I don’t want to end things with her. I wouldn’t survive not having her in my life anymore. We just have to hope that we’ll never be found out or that we’ll be able to escape. It has crossed my mind a few times to pack things up, take Nicole, Annie and Viv with me and leave, but I have a feeling that even that wouldn’t change things or I’m sure Cabe would have suggested that from the beginning.
CHAPTER 1
Viv
April 19, 2003
After the night my knight in shining armor saved me, things have been fairly quiet on the Jared front. He’s been leaving me alone which is both very much welcomed - I couldn’t take his attempts to seduce me anymore - and worrying. Jared isn’t the type of guy to just give up on something. When he wants something, he’ll do anything to get it, even if it means killing someone. I’ve seen it happen, unfortunately.
Annie, like me, hasn’t been able to slip through our Uncle Trent’s plan on marrying her off to anyone, he wants to marry her to the Kings VP. Annie and I are twins, born just a few minutes apart. I’ve always been the rebellious one when Annie has been the quiet one. She was always the one trying to cover up for me when I was making poor decisions, and she still is now. We’re not completely identical twins though, our eyes and hair colour couldn’t be more different; she has green eyes and black hair while I have deep blue eyes that are almost purple, and blonde hair. Other than that we were practically the same person to look at, our facial structure and our bodies were carbon copies. Unfortunately for us, our differences meant that our parents could always tell which one of us was at fault, it kinda defeats the purpose of having a twin but it didn’t stop us blaming each other. All in good fun though.
We grew up in New Orleans. Our father was one of the original nine founding members of the Last Hangman Motorcycle Club. We grew up, for the most part, around the compound which was amazing as we had a huge extended family, loads of friends and there was always something to do. You wouldn’t think that these big scary bikers would be up to playing and pushing us on swings but they were always happy to hang out or babysit us and we loved it. For a while, Annie and I were the only kids, but soon enough Anthony and Ayden came into the world. We were a bit older than them but that didn’t stop us from playing with them all the time and we became a really tight knit group. That was until our parents were killed, completely shattering our world. Not only did we lose them, but we also lost our extended family and friends. We were unable to stay at the compound and were packed off to our uncle’s house. Even after all this time, it still seems so unreal and still cuts like a knife if my mind ventures back to that dark time.
At first, despite missing our parents and the MC terribly, it was alright at our uncle’s place, there was nothing we could do about it except get on with it. We kept to ourselves and didn’t want to interact with anybody else. The hardest thing was to go to a new school and make new friends. We had just suffered a horrible loss and had to start all over again in a place we hated. After a while, things settled down and we warmed to our classmates and made a couple of friends. Everything was going well again, we had a routine, new friends; we were getting used to living there and were actually starting to like our new lives. But then we found out that our uncle was the president of his own motorcycle club, the Bastards from Hell, who wanted to ally themselves with Hades’ Kings, the long term enemy of the Last Hangman MC.
Uncle Trent thought it would be a good idea to ally with the Kings to make one super club to take down the Last Hangman. It was a tough pill to swallow considering the members of the Last Hangman were our long lost family. Unfortunately for us, Trent thought it would be a brilliant idea to have one of his nieces date the Kings VP and one the Kings' Prez, claiming that it would be good for club morale and bring them closer together.
Jared has been after me for months now, trying to make me understand that we should be together but I want none of it. Jared is a f*cking creep. He’s a sleazy douchebag who has absolutely no respect for women. I don’t understand why our uncle wants to sacrifice us for the sake of revenge. I’m glad he’s less insistent with Annie, I don’t think she could handle the pressure.