My hands were so tight around her wrists they might as well have been shackles as I drew her knuckles up to my lips.
I whispered against them, hoping she’d fucking get the severity of what I was saying. “Because I’m the only thing you’ve got.”
Then I released her, dropping her hands like they were bricks.
Necessary considering if I kept touching her, whatever insanity I was feeling would crush me.
Hoping to fuck I got through to her, I turned on my heel and forced myself back through the woods, storming in the direction of the clubhouse.
Feeling the heat of that gaze once again scoring into my back.
Wondering when it would be that wildfire finally consumed me.
ELEVEN
BRINLEY
Sleepless nights: 2
Brinley: 0
All thanks to that,I stood in front of the crappy little coffee maker that sat on a table under the far window of the office, praying to the coffee gods for their life-sustaining nectar.
Probably appearing like a rabid squirrel with the way my attention kept skittishly darting in every direction while I waited impatiently for each precious, percolated drop to fill my cup.
It wasn’t like I could show my face in the mess hall this morning.
I could only imagine what these people thought of me.
Could only imagine what they were whispering under their breaths.
That I was weak.
Pathetic.
An easy freaking target considering I’d come skulking back through the trees with my tail tucked between my legs.
And seriously, in what kind of alternate universe would I have thought biker gossip would one day be something I’d be concerned about?
Fuck you very much, Dereck, for getting me into this.
Whatever it was.
And whatever it was, I knew it was very, very bad.
That was what really had kept me tossing last night.
The fact that I had felt it like steel bands woven in Silas’s words, though not quite as loud as I felt it howling from his grip.
My being here wasn’t about me paying off some debt.
Dereck had us in deep.
The biggest problem was I had no details.
I was completely in the dark.
How was I supposed to get us out of it if I didn’t know what we were pitted against?
