The Biker's Rules novel Chapter 68

He jumps up and down excitedly before almost throwing me with the next clue. Damn, will I ever get used to the Grimm boys wild ways? They are all 3 just like little bubbling overenergetic bouncing blobs ALL of the time. I wonder how poor Hayley manages sometimes. Must be why she enters them into such a lot of activities – to keep them busy and out of mischief.

I know for a fact that Luke got called into the principal's office twice this week alone, and his brother was no better when he was in school. But right now his naughty hazel eyes are waiting anxiously for me to open the envelope.

'I know you re hungry – go grab a burger at the place I held your hand under the table under your brothers' noses. It s also where I declared my love openly for you when I sang you a song – and where you called my name.

"Let me guess – we re going to have lunch at Inferno?" Kiara smirks, strutting from the kitchen, and Luke jumps from the couch and runs through the door. The car is getting rather crowded now, but nobody wants to miss a thing. Luke puts on the song I was hoping to hear Damion sing again, this time I know it s for me, no doubts –

'In case you didn t know – Brett Young. The words say it all – even when I couldn t.

'In case you didn t know, baby I m crazy bout you … and I would be lying if I said that I could live this life without you …

"Ug, he s pussywhipped for sure or maybe his dick is turning into one." Jackson snorts and then blushes when Luke giggles openly next to him, finding his words funny. I m guessing to find Enrique at the club, and I was not wrong. My brother is waiting with a spread of finger food on the bar for us to eat. My tummy rumbles and I stuff myself so full, I almost want to puke. Then he hands me the next message.

'Remember the day Jackson almost castrated me for taking you for a drive on my bike? Go to the place I won you that dragon teddy that s still on your bed. I wanted to tell you all my secrets that day – the biggest being that I loved you, but I couldn t. Loving you like that scared the everlasting shit out of me, so I fucked up and ended up hurting you. I could see it in your eyes each time you looked at me. But no more secrets. And I'll try my best to never hurt you again.

I read it out loud so everybody can hear and Jackson hits his head with his hand.

"Fuck, I almost lost it that day when he saw you sitting squashed against his back on that bike."

"Um yeh, I would say you lost it. You both ended up with black eyes and bloody noses." He takes my hand and leads me to the car. While we drive I tell them about the day mentioned on the card. The recollections of that day hit me in my gut with more force than I ever expected.

Just after he won his first GP championship, he arrived on his bike at my school, handed me a helmet and we took off to the Boardwalk. We spent the whole day just having fun, holding hands, he even won me a dragon teddy. I thought we were in love, or maybe I hoped we were, cause I was. Needless to say, when he dropped me off at home, Jackson was mad as hell and they ended up fighting. The next day Damion came to visit Logan, another girl at the back of his bike. He broke my young heart, but I kept the dragon to remind me of how stupid I was.

"Ok, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk." I can t wait to hear which song he picked for this. Enrique connects the Bluetooth to the radio and hands me the song-card.

'Monsters – Katie Sky. I hope that you will still stand brave, cause I m going to let you see all my monsters – you are my light and you ll always be the one to drag me from the dark.

I almost cry when I hear him singing, his voice husky and sad. I never knew then that he felt that way, I thought he didn t give a damn about me, so I tried hating him, but I never fully succeeded. Alejandro takes my hand again and we walk into the Boardwalk to find the place where Damion won the soft toy years ago, just to find Dean holding a huge pink cotton candy and another envelope.

"Before I hand you the next clue, Damion asked me to tell you everything. You already know about his sister. Then there s the boy that got killed. There was no bribing or buying him out. It was an accident and ruled as one, but Damion never really got over it and still blames himself. But if you ask me the kid s parents were to blame." Dean looks almost mad, angry, or agitated, I m not sure cause my mind just went blank. "The boy was only five and he ran onto the track in front of Damion. He was in the middle of a jump and couldn t do a thing even though he tried pulling his bike away, ending up with broken bones. The short of the long is that he landed on the boy that died on the scene, leaving a 15-year-old Damion devasted. Damion secretly and anonymously gave the boy s parents a lot of money, they were poor and had 4 more kids. The press found out about it and figured he was buying his way out. Then, when he was 17 his teammate, before Sean, died on the track during a race. Soon after that, Thalia s parents traveled in Damion s private jet and it fell because of a storm. They both died as well as the whole crew. And dare I say demon number five arrived with the accident last year where he lost his championship because he got hurt. One of the Honda riders died in the accident and Graham, blames Damion for the death, but again, it wasn t his fault. Yes, he did an evasive maneuver, wild even, but the Honda guy tried to copy him and lost control, hitting Damion from behind. So you see, he has a lot of baggage, but he wanted me to tell you so there are no more secrets between you two."

I feel the blood drain from my face, my hands getting sweaty. I can understand why the therapists called him 'broken . Anyone with that much guilt can not stay whole. I m glad Dean told me all this, now I understand my angelic devil a little better. And I know that he s blaming himself for all of it, even though he was not responsible.

"Are you ok, or do you need to rest?" Alejandro looks me up and down, probably trying to figure out if I m not getting ready to fall down dead or something. I suppose I can t blame them, I did almost die, but it s getting a bit much.

"I m fine. Just give me the freaking clue will you?" He smiles but doesn t hand over the envelope, instead, he pulls out the card and reads it to me.

'We slipped out one night, without your brothers knowing, to break in and watch some animals doing it. That s when I knew you were a drug – and that I was totally addicted to you.

"Fuck, how long have you two been going on behind our backs?" Enrique acts mad, but I don t fall for that act. Yes, Damion took gullible me out TWO times while we were at school, but then he just went back to being the bad-boy man-whore as if nothing happened, leaving me hurting and hating him. Now I know that he was scared of his feelings.

"The zoo, we ve slipped into the zoo one night." I laugh, thinking about how we almost got caught by a fat security guard. We ran away and hid in the turtle enclosure, only after one bit him on his leg did we realize they were snapping turtles. He won t admit it, but he s still a little afraid of turtles. Jackson puts the song-choice Dean handed him on and I look at the card with a huge grin. This time he s not such a wimp – seems he got his balls back.

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