Renegade Lady (Renegade Sons MC 1)(26)
“Are you okay, sweetheart?” Mindy asks, walking into my room.
I rush to wipe the tears from my eyes and paste on a fake smile. “I’m fine, just a little tired.”
She closes the door and walks towards my bed. “You weren’t tired before Sarah showed up.”
I shrug. “I stayed up last night. I guess it finally just hit me.”
She sits on my bed and grabs my hand. “You know it’s not nice to lie to a dying woman.”
Anger bubbles up inside me. “Don’t joke about that.”
She releases my hand and lays down, throwing her arm around my waist. “Okay. I’m sorry. I know it bothers you.”
“Thank you,” I whisper out.
We lay quiet for a moment before Mindy starts to talk about the elephant in the room. Actually, I guess it’s the elephant in the other room. “Kidd didn’t mean hurt you.”#p#分页标题#e#
“I know.”
“You don’t need to worry about her. She isn’t his old lady. She’s just a hanger on. She’ll never last.”
“Yeah,” I say, even though I’m not sure that she’s right about that. It only took a few minutes of being around them to know that the woman is in love with Kidd. I can’t really say for sure how he feels, but I can tell he cares for her.
“Sweetheart, you’re still young. Give it a little time, and everything will work out.”
I nod and grab her hand, pulling her arm tighter around me. “I love you, Mom.”
She places a soft kiss on the back of my head. “I love you too, sweetheart.”
We lay like that for a long time, neither of us saying anything. I think she just needed to be close to me, and I know I just needed her. I don’t know what I’m going to do when she’s gone. That’s something I don’t even want to think about, but looking down at the frail hand holding mine, I know it’s going to happen soon. I start to close my eyes when I hear the door open. Mindy and I turn around and see Kidd standing in the doorway. “Is this a private party or can anyone join?”
Mindy lets go of my hand and slides out of the bed. “I think it should be a party for two, and I don’t think I need to be one of those two.”
With those words, she walks towards Kidd. When she gets near him, she lays her hand on his shoulder and smiles. Then she walks from the room, shutting the door behind her. I look from the door to Kidd, hoping that he can’t tell I’ve been crying.
“Won’t your girlfriend get mad if you leave her out there by herself too long?” I ask sarcastically. As soon as the words leave my mouth, I start to blush. I know I sounded like a jealous girlfriend, but I couldn’t help it.
Kidd shrugs. “If she does, she’ll get over it. Nothing comes between me and my girl.”
Hearing him call me his girl brings a smile to my face. I finally look up to him and smile. “I’m glad you’re home.”
“I am too, baby doll,” he says as he walks towards me. He crawls into the bed and lays down beside me, pulling me flush to his front. “I missed you, Jenna.”
“I missed you too,” I whisper out, trying to concentrate on the feeling of his body next to mine.
“Tell me what’s been going down while I was gone. I heard you’ve been dating,” he says, sounding harsh.
“I went on a date or two, nothing serious.”
“Do you like this guy?”
“Who?”
He blows out a breath, tickling the back of my neck. “The guy you went out with.”
“Not really. He’s just some boy from school. He was kind of boring.” I shrug, my shoulder sliding across his chest. “He has an old car. Some kind of muscle car. He thought it was the shit, kept bragging about how fast it went. I asked him if he ever drove a Harley, and he said that he wasn’t in to motorcycles. I knew then he wasn’t the guy for me.”
He chuckles, and I can feel the vibrations through my body. “You’re right. When you get a man, he’ll drive a Harley.”
“Yes, he will,” I agree, visions of Kidd on his Harley running through my head.
After that, we lay there quietly. Him holding me, and me enjoying being close to him. Finally, my eyes start to get heavy. I’m just falling to sleep when his lips brush the top of my head. I spend the rest of the night dreaming of his kiss, but in my dreams, his lips are on mine.