A Means To An End 7

Did you happen to catch

or did it happen so fast

what you thought would always last

has passed you by

is everything speeding up

or am I slowing down

I’m just spinning around

And I don’t know why

Ch 14

There was no time for sleep. There was no time to rest. We had a wicked mission ahead of us. Darkness turning to light as we made our way into the muggy congested Miami streets. We needed to rest. Carmen was dead tired and I couldn’t see straight to ride so I give her the directions while we fill the tank and we head to my boy Endy’s house. The last time he saw Carmen she was pregnant and dying. It was going to be weird asking if we could crash for a few hours as we make our way to the Keys.

Dana had a nice house down there. Way back when the greatest tragedy was Carmen being a Fed and not wanting to see me anymore. Yeah Dana bought me to that house when Carmen shot me and told me she never wanted to see me again. We stayed there for a while till I got better.

My mind stays stuck in that memory. All that time ago, sore shoulder broken hearted staring at the sea thinking it was the end. I remembered thinking that there was no way I could go on without seeing Carmen again. I remember that I didn’t think of Dana once in all that time. She did all that to help me only she was helping herself. Did Conrad know about how close she was with the man who killed her? Probably not, probably doesn’t even matter anyway. I fucked his wife; his wife left him because of me and ultimately died because of me.

“Hey…is this the place?”

“Hmmmm?”

“Shane come on is this the place?”

I didn’t notice we stopped.

“Yeah….let me go talk to him first….he will be a little surprised to see you….”

“Why?”