Chapter 30 : Long Ride Home

Eden's POV The brothers don't sleep, and I don't blame them. They pack up our bags in absolute silence, moving fluidly through the small, beachside hut while I watch on in downtrodden exhaustion. Part of me knows I should have answered Ryder's question, but the other part of me is so upset that they would even think to ask such a thing of me! They should know by now that Asher Donahue means nothing to me, and they're my entire world. But after the gunfight in the club tonight, it made me too terrified to even think straight. How could they not believe my actions? I still hear the gunshots in my head, pushing out the glass doors and sinking my feet into the sand, I force myself to accept reality while my mind just wants to whisk me away to nowhere. I don't want to go home, I don't want to be accused of loving a man I don't, and I don't want to leave this beach. Sitting in the sand, I think of my last foster family. I'm sure Patrick is out there somewhere, leaning over a