~RAVEN~
The engines roared like thunder outside.
One by one, the bikes pulled away from the clubhouse — Ryder in the lead, Duke beside him, Milo following close. The sound faded slow, deep, and hollow, until all that was left was silence and exhaust in the air.
I stayed by the upstairs window, arms crossed, eyes burning holes through the horizon where he’d disappeared.
He didn’t even glance back.
Not once.
I’d stood there for ten minutes, waiting for him to look — just once, to see me watching him the way I used to. But his eyes never found me. They were all for her.
Tessa.
The perfect little runaway. The soft voice, the sad eyes, the broken girl who somehow managed to crawl her way into my world — his heart.
I hated her for it.
I hated the way everyone loved her. The way Duke ca
