Page 41 of Blue

She didn’t need a babysitter. She was through the worst of her withdrawals. If she used now, she’d be making the choice. She’d either fight her cravings or give into them.

Rogue laughed. “Fuck, Blue. That’s for the work on the house for Romeo and the little prude.”

I chuckled at Rogue’s nickname for Levi. She might come off quiet and sweet, but the girl had a fiercely protective side. And when it came to Romeo, she was straight up rabid.

“Take the fucking money,” Rogue said. “You need it.” We started up the stairs. “Tonight, Jazzy needs to be at the MC for her old man.”

Before we hit the top step, we could hear laughter from inside the apartment. Rogue pushed open the door. Kiss, standing on a chair in the kitchen, screamed.

“Fuck.” Wearing nothing but a towel across her breasts, and barely covering her body, Jazzy hysterically laughed and jumped around on the bed. Water dripped from her hair.

“You need to scare it this way.” Kiss held a blanket in both hands, ready to catch…something.

“Out,” Rogue said to me and stalked into the room, straight toward Jazzy.

“There was a mouse in the bathroom. I’d just stepped out of the shower, and the little fucker darted across my toes.” She ran her hands over his shoulders. “It scurried under the bed.”

He cupped her ass in his palms. “Fuck the mouse.” He mumbled something about fucking Jazzy.

Kiss dropped the blanket. “Time to go.” She grabbed my hand.

Jazzy squealed as Rogue toppled her to the bed. Kiss stepped out, and I quietly closed the door.

“I never would’ve pictured them together.” Kiss let go of my hand as soon as we’d taken a few steps. “I’d like to keep it that way. It was enough hearing them.”

“When?”

“A few nights ago.” She smiled at me. “They tried to keep it quiet.”

I opened the door to Sully’s place. I guess now it was Kiss’s place, too.

“Did you like to listen when you worked for Bullet?”

My heart kicked into second gear. “Not that I had a choice. Listening was my job. I had to be able to react if one of the girls called for me.”

The kitchen was spotless, and the house was quiet. The floor creaked as I followed her down the hall.

“I’m across the hall from you.” She opened the door to her room.

She had a private bathroom, a queen-sized bed, and there was a television on the wall above the dresser. I slid my hands into my pockets. I tried to appear relaxed, but I was a live electrical wire. We were alone in the house.

Tension ripened the air between us. I tried to control my breaths, slow and easy. Maybe, this time, I’d be able to stay out of my head. I took a step toward her, and she clasped her hands behind her back.

This was the girl I’d fallen for, the one who wasn’t strung out, but who accented her intense blue eyes with a fringe of false lashes. Pink gloss tinted her lips, and she’d pulled her hair back into a high ponytail. She’d transformed into my erotic fantasy. Sweet, yet naughty, an angel dipped in wickedness.

“We’re neighbors now.” She shifted from one foot to the other as I closed the space between us.

“I rented a room at the MC.”

“Oh.” She let her arms fall to her side.

“But not for a couple of days.” Romeo and Levi had to move out. Then I was taking Pike and Brenna’s smaller room. Contrary to what Bullet said, Kiss wasn’t ready to live at the MC, and I wasn’t sure I’d ever be ready to live with her.

But I was going to fucking try. I was going to get out of my head.

“I won’t see you as much.” She sank her teeth into her lower lip.

“I’m only sleeping at the MC.” I countered her step away from me with a step closer. “I’m not walking away from this.” I curled my hand around the nape of her neck. “I’m not walking away from you. Do you want to go out with me tonight?”

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