“I heard what you both said. I know this is hard for you, daddy, but I have only ever wanted Asher. I’ve been fighting him and myself for far too long. Since he claimed me to you, it’s time I do the same. Can I even claim you? Can the girl claim the guy?” I turn in his arms and look him in the eyes asking him and my father. Neither answer me. I hear my father let out a deep annoyed, well no, a plain pissed off breath. A chill runs down my spine as I open my mouth and speak.
“You are one of the best men I know other than my father.” Stealing a quick glance at my dad, his cheeks red, his eyes burning with anger but slightly softening at my words.
“You have been there for me since the start and I have pushed you away, even when it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I kinda like love you a lot and it’s been in secret for so long. You’re my ride or die, baby, and I’d really like to no longer have to hide.”
I hear dad grumble behind us and the flick of his lighter, lighting up a cigarette. Thank god it wasn’t the click of his gun. I breathe a little easier now as I stare into Asher’s dark brown eyes. He can hide his emotions and feelings from the guys in the club and the Chica’s, but he can’t from me. His eyes are so expressive, I can read him like a book. Right now, he doesn’t need to speak, I can see how he feels for me and how my words affected him. To the world he is an outlaw, but to me he is this man who is so tender and sweet. I love both sides of him though, and I really can’t wait to explore them both.
Turning I look at my father, the light from the streetlamp illuminates his tired features. This life has been brutal to him and his daughters have added more to his soul and extra lines in his forehead. I smile at him mouthing a silent and quickI love you, daddy.His eyes soften and his lip curves slightly before he turns his stare back to Asher.
“We aren’t done talking about this, Capone,” Dad roars out. A chill ripples over my skin and it’s not from the night’s chill either. He turns and stomps away back toward the hospital, but not inside though Asher twists me into him, my eyes meeting his as I hear dad leave on his bike, its engine cutting through the still of the night from the front of the hospital.
“Did you mean it, baby?”
“Which part?”
“All of it? I’m serious, Say, I don’t like hiding how I feel for you. After seeing Senna falling apart not knowing how Luca is. Knowing that could have been me instead and I never fucking told you how I feel!”
I can see the anguish and sadness rolling off of him in waves. The not knowing is tearing him up inside.
“I love you, Asher Banks. No other man will ever call me theirs.”
“I love you, Saylor Austin. You’re my ride or die, baby. Its’ you and me, for-fucking-ever,” he growls out, causing me to shiver and my panties to combust.
He slowly leans down and kisses me with all the love I feel for him. This is the beginning of my forever.
CHAPTER SIX
Capone
Say and I, we were wilder than a hurricane inside a thunderstorm. I knew it the moment that I looked into her eyes that the both of us were crazy enough to make this shit fight worth it. We would carve our love story into stone because that women with the ice blue eyes, she brought fire like a crazy woman and fought me each step of the way. I fought back just as hard because she was a habit that I didn’t wanna lose.
She’s home.
I may be a hardened biker but that woman, oh my god that woman does things to a man’s soul that should be illegal. After one touch from her I became obsessed and the more addicted I became the more sinful this secret was.
There was a sense of danger in the way she moved but when her lips touched mine, I knew I would go to the ends of the earth and shoot out with her father to have her. Fuck if he was my Prez. or not. I watch him hollering at me in the dark of night outside the hospital where a brother is fighting for his life. But I can’t do anything but think of Say and how this one woman can unarm me.
I know I’m playing with fire but if I have learned anything from Viper and Senna it’s to not waste time. Look at them right now. She’s a shattered mess inside a waiting room that’s over lit and badly painted. He’s fighting to stay this side of the earth with her. I know these women deserve more than us bikers, but I also know no one will love them more than us. So, taking a blocking from my Prez. really is worth it. I’ll take a beating and a bullet to be able to place a patch on that woman’s ass.
I was born with a strong heart for pain and pleasure. I know just what I am worth and that was nothing until her. So, I won’t hurt her anymore by denying her. I have to hold her tighter now in case she wakes up and disappears. We all bleed, and we all hurt in the same way. Each soul aches and each body bends. This could have been so much worse; it could be me and I would be not here telling this woman just what she means to me. Hearing her claim, me to her father is a shock. She is breaking code, even I know that, just as much as I am. It’s going to end badly for me.
Not her, she will smart mouth her father and he will cave in on her. She is his princess. Senna and her are the biker princess’s, the twins, the one thing we weren’t meant to protect with all we had. Not even knowing that in years to come they both would become ride and die to two of the clubs most dangerous and unstable men.
This is why Ace will be so wild about these match-ups. He knows just how dark our souls are and how nasty we can get. He has used us for more than just club biz over the years and we have gladly thrown it all down for him. He is our leader and he’s been a father figure to me for years.
I have gone to him with so much and now seeing the look of hurt lace his eyes knowing that my tainted soul wants his daughter. It kills him, but he knows that regardless of what he sees in me, I will fucking jump in front of more than a bullet for her.
Ace storms off with the weight of the world on his shoulders and a heart attack in the making. The stress of this alone is getting to him.
Taking Saylor by the hand I lead her over to a bench seat just under a streetlight. “This is a forever thing right. No more bullshit, Say,” I say into her as I pull her under my arm. “I can’t help but be scared that come morning light this will be over though,” I say with the next breath. I can’t be untrue to her I can’t lie, and I won’t I will always let her know what’s on my mind, inside my heart.
“I wouldn’t want it any other way. Secrets got us here and the truth will keep us together,” She says to me her ice blue eyes looking up at me from under thick black lashes.
My lips find the tip of her nose. She always finds something cryptic to hit me with when I’m trying to be the casual, open minded and mushy man she has been attracted to at school. I know this coz I watch her. I watch them and I have eyes on all that comes near her. I know their age, height, weight, likes, dislikes, workplace, their family’s names and addresses. I will remove anyone who is a threat to her, and I will have great pleasure in doing so.
“We stand a chance if we do this properly, babe. But right now, I gotta give my all to this club and keep you safe. Shits been south for a while now and with this new threat and shoot out we have some heavy shit coming our way.”
Looking out into the dark carpark. Her hand wraps around my balled fist. I instantly loosen my grip allowing her fingers to link with mine.
