He’s so sweet. I can’t get under the covers fast enough. He pulls me close and nestles me against his side. The lamp clicks off, and I feel his hand stroking over my hair and back. “Can’t believe I’ve gotten so used to this already. Fuckin’ hated bein’ away from you.”
It’s the second time he said something like that tonight. Inside I’m glowing with pride that he feels this way about me.
“Me too,” I whisper. “I missed you.”
“Were you nervous being alone up here?”
I think about it. I was a little scared the first night. “Not too bad. I made sure I was inside before dark and that helped.”
He hugs me a little tighter. “Good, ’cause I gotta go on another run next week. Gonna be short like this one, but still.”
“That’s okay,” I tell him. “I’ll be fine.”
“I know.”
We fall asleep holding each other.
Dante
Church is quick this week.Hemi won’t even look my way. Good. The fucker finally learned his lesson. His split lip and black eye give me a measure of comfort.
We divide up the runs that need to happen this week. I’ve got seniority so I pull the shortest one out to Cherry Valley. It’s not an easy territory, but it’s not as rough as what Hemi’s facing again. I smirk when he opens his mouth to whine about it.
“We’ve all done our time making that delivery and pick-up,”Romeo snaps.
Luck will go with me to Cherry Valley. Wolf volunteers to ride with Hemi.
We break, and Prez calls me back.
“How’s the hot lil’ bitch doing? Ready to pass her off yet?”
“Fuck no.” I respect my Prez, but his comments about my girl are startin’ to piss me off. I jerk my head toward one of our older members. “You talk about Mug’s ol’ lady like that?”
He rears back, clearly surprised. Fuck, so am I.
“If she looked like Karina, yeah, I probably would.”
I fuckin’ hate the way her name sounds comin’ out of his mouth. Fuck, I hate he remembered her name. Can’t remember the last time he even used a woman’s actual name. They were all babes, honeys, and bitches to him.
“Besides, you said she ain’t your ol’ lady yet.”
“Well she’s in my house, in my bed, and on my bike.” I point at the table. “Only thing missin’ is a club claiming and she ain’t ready for that yet.”
“All right. Calm the fuck down. Won’t say another word about her hot little ass, okay?”
I growl and flip him off, which only makes him laugh. Stalking into main room, I spot Hemi gettin’ sucked off on the couch. Okay. Could have done without that. On closer inspection, I see it’s Sadie doin’ the suckin’ and I fucking laugh. Bitch wasted no time replacing me. And if Hemi thinks this is some sort of turnabout, he’s mistaken.
I grab my cell phone out of the box our VP makes us drop them into before every meeting and head home.
Karina pulls into the driveway behind me. She squeals and runs over as soon as she gets out of her car. “Dante,”she yells flinging herself against me so hard, she almost knocks us over.
Can’t help laughing at how excited she is to see me. Told her I’d be back real late tonight. Now I’m glad my plans changed.
She pulls back and peppers the side of my face with kisses. Fisting my hand in her hair, I hold her still and take her mouth.
Pink stains her cheeks and she’s panting when I finally let her go.
“I’m so happy you’re home early.”
