Page 658 of The Tempted

I spun around and Blackie was holding out his hand for me to take.

“You ready?”

“For what?”

“The rest of your life,” he said simply, pulling me against his side as he slung his arm over my shoulders and escorted me to the door. Blackie took me away from my father’s house and brought me back to the pages of our story because we still had a lot of story to write.

An entire lifetime.

I got my queen.

She was on the back of my bike, her arms wrapped tightly around me as we rode in silence to the houseshemade a home.

She was safe.

And we were both free of the demons that held us captive.

Free to be the people we were meant to be.

Leather.

Lace.

Me.

Her.

A love story no one saw coming but one that was perfect.

I pulled my bike into our driveway, killed the engine and glanced over my shoulder at the beauty who was already scrambling to get off the bike. She pulled my arms, walking backwards as she dragged me to the front door.

I’d never get tired of looking at that face or seeing that smile.

That smile and those dark eyes that was all I needed.

No drugs.

No alcohol.

I never wanted to be numb again because feeling everything she provoked in me was the sweet temptations that made life worth living.

Give me all you got girl.

And I’ll give you all of me.

Her arms snaked around my waist as I tried to find the key, causing me to stop what I was doing and glance down at her dainty fingers that splayed against me stomach. I laid my hand over hers and turned the key, taking her hand I pulled her around me and lifted her into my arms. I kicked the door open and carried her into the house.

I thought I had it all figured out.

I figured I had the good, lost it and never would have it again.

But I had nothing until I had everything.

Until I had her.

I didn’t bother turning on the lights as I kicked the door close and started straight for the stairs, to the bedroom that was now ours because there was no way in hell I was letting her leave me now. She’d move in with, paint every room in this house a crazy color, but this was her home now.

I was her home.

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