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hurt. You never let on to me that you had anything
to do with drugs. You let me believe you and I had a future together.”
    “And me getting arrested
messed up that plan for you. You couldn’t wait two years and stand by your man?”
    “I didn’t want to, Dax . I
don’t want to be part of that kind of life.”
    This time when he laughed he really seemed amused.
“First of all, I told you that I had no idea those drugs were there. You chose
not to believe me. I’m the injured party here, Liv, not you. My mother was the
only one who believed me and stood by me. And then there is the fact that you
protest the lifestyle so strongly yet look around you, Olivia. I’ve been out
for two days and I’ve seen you here twice already. You’re dating the vice president
of the Smokin ’ Jokers’ son. What do you think your
boyfriend is going to be when he grows up?”
    “Terrance doesn’t do anything illegal. He just runs
parts back and forth, things like that.”
    “What about the rest of these guys?” He lowered his
voice as he said it, but no one was paying attention to us any longer anyways.
When I didn’t answer he said, “Tell me this, Olivia, what do you do these days
for a living?”
    “I work two days a week for my uncle and I help out
here a little, cleanup, sometimes I bartend.”
    “And my dad pays you for that? Between him and your
uncle you make enough to pay your bills?”
    “I make enough to help a little. Mostly Terrance
pays the bills,” I admitted, a little ashamed. Dax was not where he expected to be at twenty-one I’m sure and neither was I.
    “Terrance makes good money, does he?” Dax said with a smug smile.
    “Pretty good,” I said. I knew where he was taking
this conversation. I wasn’t going to let him convince me Terrance was doing
anything illegal. Terrance took me with him on his runs a lot of times. Nothing
ever changed hands but parts and sometimes money. Never bags full of drugs.
    “Olivia, I know that you’re not stupid. Naïve, maybe. Think about it, look at this run-down place
and the run-down people that come in here every night and ask yourself , ‘Where does all the money to pay all these guys
and customize all these bikes come from?’ Bull doesn’t make enough off this
place to pay the light bill. Do you ever see any of these losers paying for
their beer?”
    “You’re insinuating your own father is in the drug
business. I’ve heard you insinuate that before, Dax .
That may or may not be true, but it doesn’t mean any of these guys are doing
anything wrong, much less Terrance.”
    “I’m not insinuating anything. I’m telling you that
my father is in whatever business brings in the most money and you need to open
your eyes a bit before your new boyfriend is doing time too. I wasn’t running
anything for him and it happened to me. Olivia, none of these guys have a real
job yet they drive fifty-thousand dollar bikes. Their wives drive SUVs and have
their nails and hair done every other day. They have breast implants…those
aren’t cheap. All of that alone should give you a clue. You’re like my mother,
I think. You know very well what goes on here, you would just rather turn a
blind eye to it. It’s too late for me, but I wish that you would get out before
you get hurt again.”
    It made me angry for him to talk about Terrance like
that and that although he said he didn’t think I was stupid, he was talking to
me like I was. He would have never talked to me like
that in the past. Maybe he was just trying to convince me to leave Terrance, I
didn’t know. I tried to tell myself that he had anger and resentment built up,
with good reason I was sure, but he was displacing it on whoever was closest to
him. Hopefully it would die down after a while and it would all get easier.
    “Terrance doesn’t talk about the rest of the club to
me. Kind of like you did in the old days. If they are doing things they shouldn’t
be then that’s good, because I really don’t