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eyes never leaving Ben’s. ‘I brought you up well, my son. But did you honestly think it was going to be that easy?’
    Ben lowered his arms, but stood his ground. ‘I know too much. I know everything. I know things you don’t ever want Sol to find out, because if he did…’ He stopped talking, breaking the stare, briefly lowering his gaze before raising his head to once more meet his father’s eyes. ‘You know what he’d do… Look, I don’t want to dig it all up again. That’s not why I’m here. I don’t want any trouble between us, I really don’t. I just want my family back.’ Saying those words made him feel sick. All of a sudden shutting down his emotions was becoming a much tougher job than he’d anticipated. ‘I’ve had a lot of time to think and… I made a mess of everything, Dad, and I just want a chance to prove my loyalty. To prove I can finally be the son you want me to be.’
    ‘And what about Sol?’
    Ben said nothing for a second or two, a weary resignation sweeping over him. ‘I guess I have to make him believe that the remorse I’m feeling is real. It’s just hard to feel remorse for something you didn’t do.’
    Hector was still wary, Ben could tell. The old man’s eyes had not one flicker of any emotion that Ben could read, and he really had no idea which way this was going to go.
    ‘It was bad enough you working for them,’ Hector began, moving a little closer. ‘Even that was a dig we should never have ignored. But becoming one of them? That made everything so much worse.’
    Ben’s eyes searched his father’s old and tired face, every line and scar hiding the secrets he never wanted exposing.
    ‘And you coming here, telling me this, I wasn’t expecting that. Does it change anything?’ Hector cocked his head slightly, a slow, sideways smile twisting up the corner of his mouth. ‘I don’t know, Benjamin. I really don’t know.’

Ten
     
     
    ‘Am I disturbing you?’
    Coby looked up, aiming a genuinely warm smile at Mia, something which automatically put her on the back foot. She wasn’t used to seeing him this way, all friendly smiles and warm eyes. ‘No, darlin’, you’re not disturbing me.’
    She sat down on the stool next to him, nodding at Red as he held out a beer.
    ‘Had a good day?’ Coby asked, downing his whisky in one mouthful.
    Mia shrugged, ripping the top off her beer and taking a long swig.
    Coby just raised an eyebrow. He had his answer. ‘Time to kick back, huh?’ He looked around the packed clubhouse. This hadn’t been an organized get-together, but it would appear that a party had started from out of nowhere, and who was he to turn a night of drinking down? It was everything he needed to forget the shit Lexi was putting on him. The guilt he didn’t need to feel.
    ‘You seen Ben?’ Mia asked, her eyes darting around the clubhouse.
    ‘Not recently. You need him for something?’
    ‘No. Not really.’ She took another swig of beer before sliding down from the stool. ‘I’ll go see if he’s outside.’
    ‘Mia?’
    She turned back around. ‘Yeah?’
    ‘Everything OK, darlin’?’
    She threw him a smile, hoping it was sincere enough to stop him asking any more questions she wasn’t in the mood to answer. Mainly because she didn’t think she’d know how to. ‘Everything’s fine.’
    She quickly headed out of the clubhouse before Coby had a chance to prolong the conversation. It was a little quieter out there. Not many people had congregated in the yard, even though a huge barrel fire was taking the edge off the slightly chilly evening temperature.
    Making her way over to the bikes parked outside she checked to see if Ben’s was there. It was. So he was around here somewhere. But she was absolutely positive he wasn’t inside.
    Turning back around she headed over to the office next to the garage. There was a light on, and she could hear voices so she stood back, keeping her eyes on the door. It was a few minutes before anybody