Page 57 of Savage Spades

“So what, you’re going to kill me? I already told you what would happen once I’m gone. You must be a stupid--”

Kit landed a punch to his gut knocking the wind out of him. “Killing you immediately would be too kind. We have a long ride ahead of us.”

Chapter Twenty-Two

Cam

“I’m going to be in this big house all by myself?” Jen asked as Cam stacked one cardboard box on top of another.

“This place is not that big,” Cam said, doing a sweep of the entire place with her eyes.

Jen crossed her arms. “It still sucks.”

“I’ll have more time now, so I can always come over and hang out.”

“Yeah, but it’s not the same. I’m going to miss having my best friend down the hall.”

Jen opened her arms, and Cam stepped in for a hug. She opened her mouth to say she’d see her at the bar, but she realized that wasn’t a possibility anymore. It was a strange feeling to think a job she’d been working for so long was gone. A weight had been lifted from her shoulders, but she also felt a sort of emptiness. What would she do with her time? She already decided she’d start taking class full-time next semester, but until then, she had to learn to enjoy her time. She had to re-learn how to enjoy life when it wasn’t filled with work and stress.

“I’m so happy for you,” Jen said into her shoulder.

They pulled back, and Jen had a smile on her face. The front door swung open; Kit and Hugo walked back inside from the truck.

“How many more we got?” Kit asked. He was dressed for the move today in a muscle shirt and old jeans.

When he’d gotten back to the hospital the night the bar had burned down, he said that Venom was taken care of. She never asked for details because she knew in her heart Kit only did what he felt like he needed to do. He was protecting her and Megan from a monster.

“Just these two,” she said, waving her hand at the stacked cardboard boxes. As he bent down to grab him, she couldn’t help noticing the way his muscles bunched up. Every time she looked at him, she was reminded of why this was the right decision. She couldn’t white-knuckle her way through life. She had to enjoy her life now with this gorgeous man. She said her last goodbye to Jen.

Once Kit strapped down all the boxes in the back of the truck, he joined her in the cab.

“So this is it,” she said, looking out the windshield at the house she’d called home. She’d moved to Goldbeach to find her family: her dad. She would have never guessed her family would be a bunch of leather-cut wearing men called Savage Spades. She smiled at the irony.

Kit stretched over the console to kiss her lips. Her heartbeat quickened as his lips moved against hers. She breathed in his familiar, woodsy scent, allowing it to calm her. All the anxiety she felt during the process of talking to insurance agents and packing all her stuff to move seemed to wash away. This moment was all that mattered. She was ready to move forward. He pulled back and looked back and forward, as if searching her eyes for something.

“Are you having second thoughts?” he asked. His chest stopped moving, as if he was holding his breath as he waited for his response. She put both hands on the side of his face and leaned in for another kiss.

“Never.”

Epilogue

Kit

“Are you almost done with the Toyota?” Cam called to Kit through the open door that led from the waiting area to the garage.

He grabbed a towel to wipe his greasy hands on before walking into the waiting room. “Almost,” he told her.

She furrowed her eyebrows together for a moment as she looked down at the phone. She picked it up and pressed it to her ear.

“It will be ready to pick up in an hour Ms. Jenkins. Okay, we’ll see you then.”

She hung up the phone and wrote something down in a notebook.

“I don’t know how I feel about you making my schedule,” he said as he leaned against the counter. He peered over to look down her shirt. She was wearing a low cut top that gave him the perfect view of her tits. Autumn had turned into winter, and even though they were inside, the shop was freezing. She wore a heavy jacket that covered her arms but kept it unzipped.

“Well, I like to actually have customers,” she said, finally looking up at him. Her green eyes widened as he caught her staring down her shirt.

“Kit!” she snapped, zipping up her jacket.

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