Page 121 of Blue

Romeo’s brow arched, and those damn pretty joker lips smiled. Only this time, they didn’t cause a flurry of butterflies in my belly. Romeo didn’t make my heart skip a beat, my nipples harden, or my pussy tingle.

There was only Blue for me. And Romeo was a daddy, and he was Levi’s.

“Do you remember when you were missing nine hundred dollars out of your tin?” I couldn’t look at him as I confessed the horrible things I’d done to him. “I took it and used it to buy drugs. When there wasn’t cash, I stole your weed. I had a source who would trade weed for black.”

“You stole from me to buy heroin?”

I nodded.

He shook his head. “Your drug use scares me, Kiss. You never seemed to have a limit…on anything.” He sighed. “But stealing just means you’re a Heller. I midnight shopped catalytic converters to buy my Harley, to pay my rent, for pussy, and for fucking fun. I hate that you stole from me, but it isn’t about the money. Kiss, I knew you had a problem. You partied too hard and too often, but I was there with you. When you OD’d, I knew we couldn’t keep going the way we were.”

“I couldn’t handle heroin, and I couldn’t handle losing you.”

“We both have blame.”

“I had more.”

He chuckled, that devilish smile on a pretty face. “Kiss, I couldn’t quit you any more than you could quit black. We had laughs until we didn’t. We were a bad habit neither one of us knew how to break.”

“I have so many regrets, Romeo. I hurt Levi.”

“Not more than I did. She’s the most ruthlessly forgiving person I’ve ever known.” Romeo slid off the stool and approached me. When his arms banded around me, my tears fell.

“I’m sorry.” I clung to him, drinking in the familiar scent of cigarettes and his cologne.

“Me, too.”

When Blue came into the room, Romeo released me and stepped back. “Those boxes, too,” he said. “And next time make some noise when you’re going to fuck up a moment.”

I gasped. “Romeo!”

“Fuck, Kiss, don’t protect him. He’s got Levi, Jazzy, Hana—” Romeo continued to tick off names on his fingers. “—Brenna, Pippa.”

Blue flipped him off, then grabbed two more boxes. This time I joined him and grabbed one, too.

“If Romeo was trying to make me jealous listing off all those girls, it worked.” I followed Blue to the basement.

“You’re cute if you think you have anything to be jealous over. Unlike me. Yesterday, you rode on theback of a sportbike with your ass ready to cause pileups on city streets. Girl on girl bike action.”

Once we’d reached the bottom of the stairs, I followed him to the storage shelves and handed him the box to stack with the others. “You’re not really mad are you?”

“No, but now that you’ve hugged it out with Romeo, he doesn’t get to put his hands on you again.”

“Yours are the only hands I want on me.”

Blue collared my throat with his palm, backed me against the wall, and split my legs with his thigh. “And yours are the only hands that will touch me.” He kissed me fast and filthy. “But I’m not fucking you in the basement of the MC.”

My stomach chose that moment to growl. “You need to feed me more than your dick.”

Blue laughed and released me. “Come on.”

***

Because Sully was home drinking coffee and eating his eggs and toast, once we’d eaten our burgers, Blue took a quick shower and left for the shop.

“I’ll be gone most of the day,” I said as I loaded the dishwasher. “Do you need anything while I’m out?”

“I’m good.” He yawned then stroked his beard. “I guess you’ll be spending most of your time at the MC again.” A smile crinkled the corners of his eyes.

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