“Protecting me?” I asked, smirking. “I can handle my own, baby. I’ll never let anything or anyone come to hurt you.”
“Would you gosavageon them?” she asked, smirking down at me.
“In a heartbeat,” I responded.
Her eyes widened and she sat up, looking down at me. Her chest was rising and falling hard, and I could see she was a little breathless.
“I would rip anyone apart if they dared even look at you the wrong way. I’m not like most men, Shona, I don’t put on a song and dance about how dangerousI can be. I am danger. I am what people are scared of in the dark.”
I saw the desire in her eyes as her irises flashed darker, and her breathing quickened. I moved my hand to her neck where I could feel her blood rushing through the veins. Sitting up, I held her to my chest.
“You like that…you like knowing what I could do to anyone who ever dared to come near you?”
“I shouldn’t,” she said, her voice soft and low. “But yes.”
“That’s what makes you so fucking perfect for me, Shona. You accept my darkness, and you fill me with the light to pull me back every damn time.”
I crushed my lips against hers. She moaned into my mouth, her arms twisting around my neck, pushing her body against mine. My cock was immediately hard. It always was for her.
The knock on my door was the only thing pulling me from taking her again.
“What?” I barked out. Shona chuckled as she leaned back, away from my lips.
“Church, brother.”
It was Viper.
Fuck.
He wouldn’t have interrupted unless it was urgent.
“Go,” she said, getting off my lap. “I need to call my brother and check in. I’ll be here when you get back…I promise.”
I got off the bed and pulled her to me, wrapping an arm around her waist and biting down on her neck. She cried out, but I heard the desire in her cry. She loved it. She loved when I marked her, just like I loved it when she scratched the shit out of my back.
“You better be.”
With that, I grabbed a shirt and headed out of the room and into the chapel.
“What news do we have?” Ace asked once we were all sat down at the table.
“Alasdair is willing, but we may have a bigger problem,” Viper said, shooting me a look that said I should be the one telling him.
“You know who he is so I think you know what the problem may be, Prez.”
Ace sighed. “That’s where she went?”
I nodded. “She’s back now, and sees the error of her ways. The only problem is…he’s a ratbag. He needs to see inside of a body bag.”
“Three weeks,” Ace said. “We need his help for three weeks before Eamon can secure the exclusive trade in Belfast. Can you hold off on whatever needs to be done that long?”
I looked at Viper. He knew exactly how dire it had been, but he had no idea about the shit that Shona had just admitted to me.
“I want Shona to come tell you what the deal is.”
Ace sat back in his chair. “Invite her in.”
“Church is sacred, Prez,” Blaze shot out of his little mouth, and I was about to knock my fist into his jaw for the insult to my woman.
