Page 74 of Bound by Passion (Ravage MC)

A tear rolled down my cheek. I’d had so much heartbreak. So much wrong. Nothing had been easy since my mother had died. This was just something else to suffer for.

Either way you looked at it, I needed to vanish in the night once again.

If for some reason this were to work, I’d still have to run until they were dead.

Or I was dead.

Fuck them. I hated them. They were scum.

23

NYX

I sworeI was burning a hole in my carpet. Tonight was a night off from Bimbo’s again, and it pissed me off. I needed a distraction desperately.

The minutes kept ticking by so fast I wished I could stop them. I still had twenty hours to figure out whether I was going to get into bed with some stranger with the hopes of taking the men down.

What was I going to do?

Not a single answer came to me. Back and forth. What to do? What about what I’d do after taking all the money if it worked? I’d still have to come up with a plan to take them off the planet. If I didn’t go this route, then I’d be running forever.

All of it led to this… I’d lose Raid.

He’d never be mine.

We’d never be together.

It hurt. How could it hurt so much?

The sound of a motorcycle came from afar, and I ran to the window peering out to see Raid pulling into my driveway.

My heart twisted and bled.

He was a magnificent sight swinging off his bike and coming toward the door. I moved to the panel and punched in the code.

When he walked through the door, I ran to him, jumping and wrapping my arms and legs around him tight.

“Whoa. You okay, babe?” Raid asked. I didn’t answer; instead, I buried my head in his neck and inhaled his scent of wood, leather, and man.

His hand brushed down my hair over and over again as he moved through the living room and sat in the gray chair. He loved that thing. Maybe it would be something I could leave him to remember me by when I had to vanish again.

I didn’t want to talk. I wanted to feel. Feel Raid all over me.

Because I knew what I had to do. I had to say yes, and I needed to vanish while it was happening. Tears welled in my eyes, but I didn’t allow them to fall.

“Kiss me, Raid,” I asked him, looking deep in his steel gray eyes.

“Tell me what’s wrong,” he ordered instead.

“No. Please kiss me.”

He studied me, and at this point I didn’t care what he saw. He could see whatever he wanted now because tomorrow, I’d be gone.

I used my body to tell him everything I couldn’t say in hopes he would never forget me. Because I would never forget him. I took him slow, studying him in every way possible.

Yes, I loved this stranger who barged into my life and made me feel more than I thought I ever would in my life.

After making him come, I collapsed on him and laid my head on his chest, listening to his heart.

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