She reached out a hand and squeezed his thigh, but shedidn’t say anything.
Dutch didn’t say anything either, because even though sheremoved her hand, he still felt it.
And the touch on his jaw.
The kiss on his cheek.
Her hands curled around his neck earlier in her pad.
Her fingers tightening around his in the elevator.
Hell, just the way she looked at him when she opened herdoor.
Years ago, Hound had told Dutch and Jagger to watch theirmother to know what kind of woman to look for to make their own.
And after watching Keely Black grieve for nearly twodecades, at the same time watching his mom and Hound dance around each other,both feeling deep for the other, neither going there, and now them having whatthey had, it wasn’t nauseating, the love they had they did not bother hiding.
His mother was not cuddly and gross.
But she was affectionate and loving and open about it to allher boys.The ones she made and the one she made hers.
He and Georgiana hadn’t even been out on a date, and shealready communicated with more than words.
Communicated the important stuff.
The deep stuff.
The right stuff.
Georgie couldn’t be any different than his ma.
Keely Black Ironside was biker babe through and through.
But yeah.
Evidence was coming clear Georgiana Traylor had the rightstuff.
Through and through.
“So I’mgonnatalk to hertomorrow,” she said, cutting into his thoughts.
It occurred to him she was in his truck, working Carlyle’ssituation with him, and now was dealing with her sister, and she had a job.
“Is your latest story suffering because of all this?”heasked.
“Well, uh…” She did not answer.
“Babe,” he grunted.
“Okay, so I am who I am, and once I got my teeth intoCarlyle’s case, and because I, uh…well, watchedBlood, Guts and Brotherhoodagain and I’d been so awful to you, Ikindagotobsessed and called my editor and asked for some time off.”
Dutch again held his silence.
“I haven’t had a vacation in over a year, and our PTOaccumulates, all the way up to eight weeks, so I have a ton of it.I think shewas actually relieved to give me a couple of weeks off.And she said that Ineeded to do this more regularly, or burnout wasn’t a possible, it’d be aninevitable.”
“You watched that film again?”he asked.
“Yeah,” she answered.
