Page 53 of Chase the Sunset

“I’ll call you whatever you want if it means you’ll stay the night.”

“Spend the night?” I whispered. “I don’t know if you’re up for that.”

“Sleep, Doc. Spend the night and sleep. As much as I would like to do a whole lot more than sleep, you are right about me not being up for that. Walking down the hallway winds me.”

“Just sleep?” I whispered.

He pressed a kiss to my lips and closed his eyes. “Sleep.”

Chapter Eighteen

Easy

“I like having church and not figuring out who we need to kill,” Rigid joked.

“You mean acting like a regular MC?” King drawled.

“Boring,” Gravel grumbled.

“Easy, old man. You’ve missed how many months of dead women, and blazing bullets, and now you’re sitting there telling me you’re bored?” King shook his head. “I will take boring every day of the week.”

I cleared my throat. “Uh, you might want to hold onto wanting it to be boring for a second.”

“Oh, hell,” Luna sighed.

“Birdie has a ghost from her past causing her some trouble,” I replied.

“Bro,” Frost groaned. “Don’t they all?”

“Ethel didn’t, but I can’t really remember,” Gravel mumbled.

“What does she have going on?” Luna asked. “Maybe Ransom can help,” she offered.

“Hell,” Gravel grumbled. “I forgot we’re friends with the po-po now.”

Slider chuckled, and Demon threw his hands in the air.

“I forgot how entertaining Gravel was,” Rigid chuckled. “Maybe you need to stick around old man.”

“Nah,” Gravel muttered. “Ethel is itching to get back to the RV, and I am, too. You guys need to stay out of the hospital and let me enjoy my retirement.”

“I won’t mention the fact that you didn’t come home when I was in the hospital,” Luna muttered.

“Girl,” Gravel drawled, “I knew it was going to take a whole hell of a lot more than just falling out of the back of a van to kill you. All that did was piss you off.”

Luna shrugged. “You’re not wrong.”

“Can we get back to Birdie?” King called. “Fucking herding cats with you guys.”

“Also, something that hasn’t changed,” Gravel chuckled.

“I’ll make a long story short, yeah?” I suggested.

“The best idea I’ve heard all day,” Hero muttered.

“Birdie was engaged to a guy about ten years ago. He got handsy with her and threw her down a flight of stairs.”

Luna tipped her head to the side and batted her eyes. “Excuse me?”