Total pages in book: 155
Estimated words: 154379 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 772(@200wpm)___ 618(@250wpm)___ 515(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 154379 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 772(@200wpm)___ 618(@250wpm)___ 515(@300wpm)
I kept my interludes simple and detached.
Surface level.
Skin to skin.
In a place where lust and guilt couldn’t meet.
Which was all kinds of inconvenient considering my dick didn’t seem to get the memo this time. Greed lighting through me every time Piper’s face flashed behind my eyes.
Way I wanted to peel her out of that puffy white jacket so I could discover that lush body underneath.
Bring her over here and lay her out in front of my fire fully bare so I could watch the light of the flames dance over her silky flesh. Let my hands chase them down before I dove in to devour her completely.
Slake and decimate.
I scrubbed my palm over my face.
Fuck. I needed to get this shit under lock and key.
Otto
Just messing with you, man. Know your type.
Me
Yup.
Didn’t even know why I responded. Maybe I was just trying to convince myself.
Cash
And what about Alicia and Lucy being right next door?
Me
No different than the rest of the guests seeing them.
Not that they went in and out of their cabin much. Told her the safest place for them was behind closed doors. Concealed and out of view.
There’d been a few occasions when they’d come into the lobby, and honestly, it wasn’t that healthy for them to be in complete isolation. Not if they were going to fit in when they arrived at their new home.
River
Let’s put it to a vote.
Me
Tonight?
River
Yup. Say she’s good for the time being.
Kane
Works for me.
Otto
Same.
Cash
Fine.
Cash didn’t like going outside the rules. Didn’t like diverging from his perfect order.
Got it. His need to control every element.
But sometimes life fucking happened.
I guess that was exactly what he was afraid of.
Me
Good.
River
See you all tonight.
A quick succession of texts buzzed through, everyone agreeing and saying their goodbyes.
With that settled, I turned and rested back against the counter, hating the buzz that churned in my stomach when I switched threads and quickly tapped out another message.
Me
You ready to go check the status of your car? I’ll be there in fifteen.
Silas had called after midnight to let me know one of his guys had hauled it in. He said he’d personally take a look at it first thing this morning.
Dude was biker through and through.
In the game as long as me and my brothers had been.
Knew him from way back in the day when we were all members of the Iron Owls MC. Silas had established his own club, Crimson Crows, after the Owls had disintegrated when our president had gone completely corrupt.
Old fury flickered beneath the surface of my skin. There’d been some rumblings that Toga, the piece of shit I’d been hunting for years, was trying to resurrect the Owls. Still in hiding but making contact with some of his loyals.
He’d always remained one fuckin’ step ahead of me.
Hell, for a long time, I’d thought the bastard had to be dead until we’d gotten murmurings of him making calls and working deals, all while remaining out of touch and out of sight.
I knew what the prick thought. He thought he was going to build an army and leave himself untouchable.
But the second I located where he was hiding, he was going to discover just how fucking touchable he was. I was going to see to it that he was looking in my eyes as I drained the blood from his body.
But since we knew the Owls being revived would be a danger to all of us, one of our oldest friends and our old Vice Pres of the Owls, Trent Lawson, had urged Silas to relocate his MC to Moonlit Ridge.
Knowing we’d all likely be targets if the Owls were breathed new life, and we all were going to need to stand for each other.
Silas and his crew were as lawless as we were. Wrought with peril.
Only thing that mattered was I knew I could trust him.
I stood there waiting for Piper’s response, and the little dots popped up and disappeared like three times. No question, she was trying to form some kind of refusal. Decided to beat her to the punch.
Me
And don’t give me some bullshit that you’ll handle it yourself.
Could almost feel the breeze of her huff.
Little Liar
I’ll be ready when you get here.
Apparently, I couldn’t get upstairs fast enough to get dressed.
Shit.
I really was fucked.
So fucked.
Standing there fifteen minutes later on that little porch in front of Unit B as she swung open the door.
Piper dressed in these snug as fuck jeans and this tight, white, long-sleeved tee that disappeared into the high waist of her pants.
The scooped neckline dipped just enough to show off the swell of her tits.
Tits that were just this side of a handful.
My fingers twitched, and my wayward gaze roved, gliding down her body like I had the right.
Over the cinch of her waist and the flare of her hips, down to snow boots that were white with fake fur that she had on her feet.