Total pages in book: 13
Estimated words: 12073 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 60(@200wpm)___ 48(@250wpm)___ 40(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 12073 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 60(@200wpm)___ 48(@250wpm)___ 40(@300wpm)
“A woman saved your asses?” I ask him incredulously. “Really, we’re supposed to be badass bikers that save women, not the other way around.”
Rider’s face turns red. “Yeah, again, we were caught by surprise. We had no idea there would be trouble. Not like that.”
“Where’s the girl?” I hate to even ask, but if they left the girl behind, she’s dead by now.
“Brick has her in his room, trying to calm her ass down. She didn’t come willingly,” Rider says, explaining Brick's absence.
“Fuck…. Okay, everyone, get your shit together. Smokey”—I turn to the vice president—“get a plan together. We will reconvene in two hours. Rancher should be back by then and maybe give us more intel. We don’t lay down on this. Revenge is ours. Church is adjourned.”
I start to walk out of the room and then turn back. “Come get me when Rancher gets here.”
But I don’t wait for an answer. I stalk out of the room and go back to find Avery.
I push open the door and walk in and about double over at the sight before me. “Where the fuck do you think you’re going?”
Avery whips around when I slam the door behind me. If this isn’t all fucked up… “What were you going to do, sneak out of here?”
She turns back around and starts folding her clothes. “Of course not. I told you I would be here.”
“Yeah, but for how long?” When she doesn’t answer me, I crowd in next to her. “Where are you going?”
She wipes a tear from her cheek. What the fuck? I can’t even deal with this right now. I don’t usually handle women and emotions well. She turns toward me and in a small whisper, she says, “You said I was free.”
Stunned, I look at her until it dawns on me. She thought I was getting rid of her, that I was giving her an out.
I turn her around and walk her over to the bed, pulling her down next to me. “You’re free from your husband. That’s all I meant. You’re not free from me. You never will be. What I did was for you. I couldn’t let him get away with treating you the way he did. I made sure he paid for it. I didn’t want you looking over your shoulder for the rest of your life. But I have to be honest with you, I also did it for me. I needed you completely free from him, Avery. I needed you to be able to do whatever you wanted with your life. I only hoped that whatever you decided you want, you would choose to do it with me.”
She stares at me the whole time I am talking, and the more I say the more serene her face becomes until when I’m finished there is nothing but hope shining in her eyes.
“You want me to stay?” she asks me.
I pull her up onto my lap and I don’t even feel bad that she is going to feel my stiff rod pressed against her thigh. I don’t know how many times I had her last night, but it wasn’t enough. It will never be enough. “You don’t have a choice, Avery. Not really. I can’t give you up now. I never dreamed I would ever want to settle down, but when I skipped the bar last night because I didn’t want to be away from you a minute longer, well, I knew then. I love you, Avery. I’ll never want anyone else, not as long as I have you.”
She throws herself at me and I catch her tight against me. Her face is buried in my neck and all I hear is muffled words. “What is it, honey?” I ask her.
She pulls back from me. “I love you too.” And then she’s kissing up my neck to my mouth. When our lips meet, I make it my mission that she never doubts how I feel about her again.
Epilogue
Avery
I stand back and watch it all unfold. Rancher got here and everyone has joined together in the main part of the club. He’s on crutches and he is one pissed-off man.
However, not as pissed off as Madison, the woman that Brick brought home with him from the bar. They were arguing a few minutes ago, but now she has her back turned to him and she’s ignoring everything that is being said.
I’m pretty sure I like her already.
Jeremy, or Sniper out here, is talking to everyone but he has his front pressed tightly to my back. If anyone is surprised by our relationship, they’re not showing it.
His hands grip my hips and I swear I can feel the moisture pooling in my panties. He bends down and kisses my ear. He whispers to me, “Can you take Madison and find her some clothes to change into?”