“What if it’s someone who used to be part of the club but isn’t now.”
“You can still trust those guys, if it looks like someone has tried to remove it one way or another, run from them too. We don’t excommunicate a member without reason. They also don’t tend to live too long after being kicked out either.” When I could no longer feel her touch against my skin, I put my shirt back on and turned around to look at her.
“Why are you telling me all of this?”
“I need you to know that I am not a good person. I have done shit and will do it again. There will be stuff that I can tell you and stuff that I can’t. When it comes to you though, I will never hurt you. I will do everything I can to keep you safe. I have a past and people may try to come between us but I need you to know that, with all my faults, I will be loyal to you. I know you feel something here, I am asking for the chance to see where this can go. I don’t do relationships, I never have, but with you I see something I just can’t let go.” Kaitlyn was looking at me, my words hanging in the air between us but before she had a chance to speak, Amy came out of nowhere.
“Don’t fall for it, Kaitlyn, he is full of shit. You don’t know him and he has no fucking clue of what you are going through. You will just be another chick he has fucked. Another notch on his bedpost. You haven’t seen what I have seen. You don’t know the stories I have heard. He uses women like they are fucking nothing. I won’t let that happen to you. Kane, you need to leave now.” I kept my eyes on Kaitlyn. I wasn’t going anywhere unless she told me to.
“If Kaitlyn wants me gone, I will leave. Amy, you need to watch who you are throwing shade at. I’m not the one who left her best friend home alone while she was going through shit just to get laid. I was, however, the one who made sure she got home safe and spent the night texting with her. I was with her first thing this morning. I was there when the call from her father came in. I will be there keeping her safe. A lot more than I can say about you, sweetheart.” Amy moved over to stand beside Kaitlyn, taking hold of her wrist trying to get her attention but Kaitlyn’s gaze was locked on mine. Amy was pleading for Kaitlyn to tell me to go and trying to pull her out of the room.
“Kane, I think it’s best if you go.” Those words were like a punch to my gut. Nodding, I walk past them both. Amy may be getting her way now but the beast and I wouldn’t be going far.
204
(Kaitlyn)
Telling Kane to leave was one of the hardest things I had ever done but Amy didn’t want him here and it was her house. That didn’t mean that I wasn’t about to go to his place so we didn’t have her ready to bang down the door of any room we were in. After what he had just confessed, I didn’t see him giving up just because I had asked him to leave. I heard the sincerity in his words, I felt the truth behind them. I couldn’t explain it and I didn’t want to. There was just something telling me that I could put my trust in him and not be let down. That would mean sneaking around behind Amy’s back because I just didn’t want to hear it. Kane admitted that he had a past and I knew that. He wasn’t a fucking priest. He’d admitted that at breakfast. Amy had no right using his past against him. When the front door closed, Amy moved to lock it behind him.
“You made the right choice, Kaity. I promise it’s for the best.” I took my phone from the table where it had been sitting and ignored her words. She was trying to keep me safe, I get that. Pushing everyone out of my life wasn’t the way to go about that, however.
“I’m going to bed. I have to open in the morning.”
“Okay, I will see you when I come in for lunch then?”
“Sure.” I went into my bedroom and closed the door behind me. I turned off my light and went to sit on my bed, folding my legs under me. Opening up my text conversation from Kane the night before, I typed out another message.
Me: I’m sorry. Please don’t go far… There is a side gate that leads to the back of the house. Meet me there soon?
Kane: I’ll be there.
I quietly got up and went and pulled a bag from my closet. Throwing all the stuff I would need for work tomorrow, me telling Amy that I was going to bed ensured she would leave me alone to sleep and wouldn’t come in to talk about what just happened. That is, she would leave it until tomorrow after work. I would get ready at work if I had to, as I put my pajama shorts and tank top in the bag too. Taking my phone charger from the wall, I threw it in as well. It was then that I remembered my toiletries. Grabbing my dressing gown, I put it on and made sure my clothes under it were covered. Opening my bedroom door, I went into
