Malice's Possession(57)

“Adrianna, everything okay?” Molly asked.

Adrianna turned away from the window and smiled. “Yeah.” She wasn’t going to let what was going on outside interfere with her talk with Molly, especially since if there was immediate danger Tuck would have gotten them away from the cabin.

“You like staying here?”

Adrianna nodded. “I just kind of feel out of place sometimes.” She knew Molly was Malice’s ex, but she was also the house nurse for the girls. This was the first time they had really talked since Adrianna had been calling the cabin home. She didn’t know a whole lot personally about Molly, but what she did know was that the other woman was genuine, kind, and thought about others. She wished she would have had a friend like this while growing up. It might have made things easier and more bearable in her life. But she was glad Molly had come today and that Adrianna was finally opening up a little to her.

“But no one has made you feel that way, right?” There was genuine worry in Molly’s voice, and for the first time since Malice had taken her out of the rain and back to that clubhouse, she felt like someone actually cared for her.

“No, they have been supportive, but some are apprehensive of my presence, but if I had lived their lives I would feel the same.” She turned away from the window and sat beside Molly on the edge of the bed.

Molly reached out and held Adrianna’s hand. “You have lived their life, Adrianna.”

Although Adrianna hadn’t sold her body, she had sold her life for a moment of happiness, and look where it had gotten her. There were a lot of things she wanted to talk about with Molly, about what would happen once this was all said and done, and about where she would go. Malice had told her not to worry, that everything would work out, but she couldn’t help but think about how she would repay all of them for their kindness. And even though she did worry about all of that, she couldn’t help but be curious about the life that Molly had led with Malice. The truth was she cared for the big brute of a biker. He was coarse and crude, but with her he was gentle, caring, and had gone above and beyond to leave her horrid life behind her. He had made sure she was safe, and a part of her saw him as this hero. He was her hero. “Can I ask you something?”

Molly smiled and nodded, and continued to hold her hand. “Of course.”

It took Adrianna a minute to actually find the nerve to bring up Malice, because aside from the few conversations that they had where all they mentioned was Malice and Molly previously being a couple, no one mentioned their connection again. Maybe Adrianna should just bite her tongue, but honestly she wanted to know more about Malice. There was something about him that made her feel connected, safe, and wanted. “You and Malice used to be together?” God, she sounded so immature saying that. She knew they had been together, but she was hoping to build up to a more in-depth conversation regarding him.

Molly just smiled and patted her hand once before pulling it away. “We were together years ago, and have a wonderful little boy to show for it.” Molly swallowed audibly, and Adrianna felt like a bitch for bringing it up since it seemed like Molly was uncomfortable.

“I’m sorry, I just…” Now it was her turn to swallow. “It’s just Malice was the one to save me when I was at my lowest. I don’t know where I would be without him.”

“Honey, what you went through was traumatic. Of course you feel like he is your knight in shining armor.” She smiled again. “Malice is good like that. He’s a wonderful father and was a good significant other. It’s just we weren’t right for each other.

Moly shrugged and looked down at her hand. “I love Stinger, and being with him is where I feel is the perfect place for my heart.” She smiled, but she still looked down at her hands. “Being with a man in a MC is a different life.” When Molly looked at her then there was this seriousness covering her face. “It’s a hard life, one that drains your guy to the bone, and they need a strong woman to hold them up and patch their wounds.”

Adrianna nodded, and although she didn’t speak about being with Malice as anything more than what they were, she also knew that Molly must have been able to hear the longing in her voice.

“Malice is a good man, a fabulous father, and is all about loyalty.” Molly stared right into her eyes, as if willing her to understand what she was saying. “If he wants something then he doesn’t stop until he gets it.”

When Molly stopped speaking Adrianna took in her words, rolled them around in her head, and wanted to believe that he wanted her and that was why he had gone out of his way. Any physical connection that they had could strictly be because he was a man in need of a woman. Or maybe he felt like he had this connection with her, too, that he wanted to be with her like she wanted to be with him. It was hard, something she thought about a lot since she had woken up in that clubhouse, and one she hoped to explore. But it was frightening to say the least.