Ride Or Die (Hell's Tribe MC Series) [Book 5]

Chapter 31: Long Shot

Happy Tuesday friends ! Enjoy chapter 31!

~Carter~

Today should have been a good day, no today should have been a great day, but it was far from it. Nora was finally coming home today, free of IV's, hospital gowns and shitty food for the first time in weeks. Cash had gone with her to her final check-up and the doctors had cleared her, giving her a clean bill of health and the okay to come back home. No one was more excited about this than Ethan and Lucas, cos all I had heard them talk about since I'd gotten back to Tooele was how much they'd missed their mommy while she was in the hospital. Cash was excited too, that much was obvious by the smile on his face when he'd left here to go pick Nora up. While I should have been happy for my brother, I couldn't help but feel bitter towards him, even on a day like today. Don't get me wrong, I was beyond happy and thankful that Nora was alive and well enough to come home, but I couldn't help but feel that it was unfair that my brother got his happy ending, while my fate was still up in the air.

Talking to Bucky yesterday was enough to keep me going for now, but there was only so much he could do to convince my family to accept us. The rest was up to them and I worried what leaving my fate in their hands again would do to me. It certainly hadn't gone well the first time when I had let them convince me to decline my NYU offer, but being stuck here this year led me to Bucky, and for that, I'd be eternally grateful. Sure, I could probably be living an exciting new life in New York City right now, one full of fashion, fun, and glamour, but when I was with Bucky, none of that seemed important. My career in fashion seemed somewhat less interesting, living in a big city became unappealing, and being away from him sounded absolutely unbearable. That week we'd spent apart while I was in Florida and then Arizona had been hell, and I was pissed off at him then too. I could only imagine what being away from him would be like when we were happy.

The hardest part about it all was, I might have to get used to being without him, at least for a while.

He promised me yesterday that he would find some way to make this right with my father and brother, but our situation looked more and more hopeless the more I had time to think about it. I was scared of what my dad would do when he found out because Cash had almost killed Bucky himself when he'd seen us together. Granted, my brother had caught us naked, right after sex and on his living room floor, but still. If I hadn't been there to stop it, there was no telling what Cash could have done to Bucky. There was no doubt in my mind that my dad finding out would be worse.

Part of me wanted to be there for it just so I could make sure they didn't hurt the man I loved, but the other part of me knew that if my family was ever going to respect Bucky and me as a couple, they would need to respect him and the way he handled it. So as much as I hadn't wanted to, I left it all up to Bucky, hopeful that he would find the right way to confess to my dad and convince him that our love was real and pure.

It was a long shot, but it was all we got.