He swung off, rising to his full, foreboding height. The man a wraith in the shadows.
My gorgeous fallen angel.
“If you knew the pain I felt, Daisy. The way I ached for you day and night.”
Wistfulness fell into the mood, and I reached out and brushed my fingertips over the coarse stubble on his jaw. “You don’t have to be in pain anymore.”
He hitched a grin and looped an arm around my waist. “Now that is where you’re wrong. The feel of you wrapped around me on the back of my bike. This sweet fucking body burning me alive. The number of times on the way here I contemplated pulling off the side of the road and hiding you in the forest so I could get to all the deliciousness waiting underneath.”
He rumbled it up and down my neck. “Love it. Having you on the back of my bike.”
“I like it, too,” I whispered.
“You’re not afraid?”
Easing back, I gave him a quick shake of my head. “No. I feel as free when I climb onto the back of your bike as I did when I would climb your tree at night. Safe and right, even though there’s a little bit of danger to it.”
“That’s called anticipation, baby. You knowing I’m at the other end of it.” He gripped me by the ass and tucked me against his hard cock.
The man shifting to pure arrogance.
God, I really liked that about him, too.
A little moan got free, and Cash groaned into my throat. “I need to get you inside before I have you against this wall.”
He jerked away, took me by the hand, and began to lead me around to the front. I struggled to keep up, laughter ripping out of my mouth as I attempted to balance on even higher heels than the ones that I’d worn on my wedding day.
Glee streaked through my being, and I hung onto his arm as we hurried up the five steps that fronted the old church and up to the double doors.
A bouncer was there, grinning wide when he saw Cash coming. “I hear congrats are in order, brother.”
Cash didn’t shirk or hide. He simply pulled me closer to him. “Yep. Luckiest man alive. Jonah, meet my wife, Daisy.”
His grin widened. “I see what all the fuss is about.”
Redness flashed. I didn’t think I would ever get over that, but still, I managed to mumble, “It’s really nice to meet you, Jonah.”
“You, too.”
Cash gave him a jut of his head, and Jonah widened the door.
We stepped into the throbbing darkness of the club.
Awe wisped out of me.
“Oh wow…this is gorgeous.”
Lights strobed from over a dance floor that only had a few people on it at this time of night, dancing to the DJ’s music while it looked like a few people were setting up on the stage for a band to play. Colorful lights rained down from the vertical stained-glass windows that disappeared into the vaulted ceiling.
The far-right wall had a bunch of secluded booths, and up closer to the door were high-top round tables, while on the left side was a long bar that took up the whole thing.
A crush of people pushed up to the carved mahogany, and a slew of bartenders worked behind it to fulfill the demand.
“This is not what I was expecting.”
Cash’s hand tightened on mine. “And what were you expecting?”
“I don’t even know. A few people loitering about in a dingy club?”
