Page 29 of Tattered Souls (Whispering Falls #2)

Sage

“No fucking man is going to open your drinks for you. Grow the fuck up, Sage.” Cruise said.

I chuckled, “Funny, because it’s what my dad does for my mom and me. Thanks for proving to me you weren’t worth my time.”

And with that, I stood up, tagged my bag, and with my head held high, I walked out of the house.

My phone buzzed the moment I closed my car door.

Snitches Get Stitches Text Thread

Granger – I swear to Christ, Mom is going to beat this girl’s ass.

Lola – You forgot about me.

Granger – Damn, but I’m lucky.

Me – What did Trina do now?

Granger – Poked holes in the condoms.

Hattie – I’m on my way.

Lola – What she said.

Me – Be there in two hours.

Melanie – Be there in thirty minutes.

Logan – Swing by and pick me up, Mel.

Isiah – Can’t touch her. But I’ll be y’all’s alibi. On my way.

Ryder – What Isiah said.

Zada – But I can. On my way.

Bentley – Shit. I’m four hours away. Things to go hell, call.

Cole – On my way.

Madalyn – Pick me up. Dad showed me some cool moves.

Krispin – On my way.

Zaden – Got her older brother in the sparring ring in a few. Got your back.

I grinned. My cousins were all the shit.

Little did I know... that night... as I was helping my cousin with the rest of our cousins verbally beating the hell out of Trina, I would find it.

In a man wearing a leather kutte.

And he rode a motorcycle.

Like father, like daughter.

***

Two Years Later

“You're not going to ask me?” I asked my dad as he stood in front of me.

He shook his head, “Nah. Raised you right. Your mama raised you right. You wouldn’t be here if he weren’t the one. And I trust him, bout as far as I can throw him.”

I giggled, “That’s pretty far, Daddy.”

He winked.

And then he sobered, “Giving him the second most precious thing in the world to me, so yeah,” he said as he tapped the top of my nose.

“I love you,” I said.

He winked, “Love you, too, Pumpkin.”

Then as he handed my hand to Frost, he leaned in, and I caught every word he said, “You hurt her. One time. Put your hand on her one time. I’ll kill you. Never know it was me. Done it twice already. Ain’t afraid to do it again.”

My head whipped to my mother. She eyed me, then looked at my dad, and smiled.

She knew...

Holy. Shit.

I looked up at my dad when he straightened, and then his gaze locked on mine. He bent his neck and pressed a kiss on my forehead. “First time I did it, a stepfather was raping his stepdaughter. The second time I did it, it was Lance.”

And with that, he walked over to where my mom was sitting, and I saw it; the love they still had was going strong.

Then I looked at Frost and smiled.

Yeah, I had gotten what I saw.

Because Frost... my man, he had done the same thing for me, my dad had done for my mom.

He opened my drinks, he opened my doors, he carried my bags, and let someone look at me wrong...

I’ll always remember the story my Mother told me when I asked her how she knew that Dad was the one for her.

She had winked at me and said, “When one Tattered Soul recognizes another, there’s nothing to compare it to. There’s nothing that could ever grasp the meaning of that. You find your one, baby girl. You’ll know.”