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Her small smile falls. “What are you saying, West?”

“I’m saying that I want to see what we can do together. There’s a nagging suspicion that I think we can help each other heal. If you want.”

“Is this just because I’m uninhibited in bed?”

Shaking his head, he looks into her eyes. “I’m not joking, Diane.”

“Sorry. It’s just, well, people don’t typically want me for more than sex. I don’t really know how to respond.”

“Do you want this?”

“I want you, West.”

Pulling her into his arms, he lies down with her. “Then we’ll give this a shot.”

“Really?”

“Really. Which, just for the record, means you don’t get to fuck anyone but me.”

“Well, just for the record, you don’t get to fuck anyone but me, either.”

He looks down at her. “Baby, I can tell you that I have no need for anyone but you. Not since our first night.”

Chapter Thirty-Two

Griffin’s Beach

Jennings

Tess walks into the clubhouse and walks over to Jennings as he sits drinking a beer. “Okay, I got some clothes. Who did I buy these for?”

“Her name is Shannon.”

“And who is she?”

He doesn’t really know how to answer that. “She was someone Psycho rescued, and it turns out Beckett knows her.”

“Our Beckett? He knows someone outside of the Army Five?”

Laughing, he shakes his head. “I was surprised, too. Not as surprised as he was to see her sitting at the bar eating a cheeseburger. From what I gather, she’s homeless.”

“Jennings, are we really going to take in a stray? Right now?”

“I don’t know. I’m kind of leaving that up to Beckett. He kicked her out of his room this morning, and she hasn’t left Ink’s room since.”

Ink, a former Treasurer who betrayed the club, has made the vetting process for members stricter. They also learned their lesson with patch overs thanks to Black Valley having Troy Savage, a prospect who turned out to be a Slasher plant that helped kidnap and torture their women, manage to fool them for two years.

“You don’t think he tried something, do you? And she turned him down?” Tess asks.

“I have no idea. I’d like to think not-”

“What the fuck is that?” she interrupts him.

He looks towards the direction she looks to see Undertaker walking into the room. “Oh, yeah, he helped with a thing. He’s friends with Gunner and most of the Army Five.”

“Most?”

“West seems to have some beef.”

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