Page 53 of Surviving Midnight

“You can’t do this!” she yells as she’s once again carried to the door. “You’ll pay for that. You are fucking dead, cunt. Dead! All of you!”

“You ok?” I cup Theo’s cheeks, carefully tilt her head and look her over, frowning at the claw marks on her cheek. “Fuck. I shoulda stepped in sooner.”

Blondie just smiles and shakes her head. “I’m fine.” Then she shrugs. “It was kind of fun. Plus, I got her to admit she was saying that stuff.”

I chuckle and wrap her in my arms.

Fuck me, there goes my heart.

Turns out my fall for Theo wasn’t a very far one.

“Well, she’s a scrappy little thing, ain’t she?” Marbles snickers, Harlow on his arm with a big grin. “Definitely a keeper, Cy. You don’t lock her down, someone else will.”

Blondie buries her face in my chest, no doubt to hide her blush but I just nod and hold her a little tighter. Theo is definitely a keeper, it’s just a matter of whether or not she wants to keepmeas well.

And Jesus, Ireallywant her to keep me.

“Cy.” Spider clears his throat as he stops next to us, his stony facade cracking just a bit as he looks nervously between me and my girl who finally came up for air. “I’m gonna hug your old lady, but I wanted to make sure you had a heads up before I did it.”

Not that he needs my permission, but even if I had a say it wouldn’t have stopped Theo from shoving me out of the way and opening her arms to the six-seven intellectual barbarian like a parent would to their child.

I appreciate that he gave me the heads up though.

“I’m surprised you want to hug me,” Theo says as Spider awkwardly wraps her in his arms. “I just ruined whatever it was you had with that...woman.”

He chuckles a little, lets her rub his back for a second then straightens up. “I’ve never had anyone outside of the guys stand up for me the way you did, and you’ve only known me a few hours.”

She glances at me briefly and flashes me a smile I’ll never be worthy of. “Sometimes it only takes a few minutes to know who’s worth standing up for, who’s worth fighting for or sticking around for, and so far, that woman was the only one under this roof that didn’t deserve any of that.”

Spider actually blushes and pushes his hand back through his chestnut brown hair, then scrubs his palm over his face to hide his smile. “She really say that shit?”

“I’m afraid so. I’m really sorry, Spider,” Blondie says.

He shrugs and blows out a breath. “Been a long time coming. Should have quit fucking around with her months ago.”

“Like we been telling ya.” Marbles punches him in the shoulder with another warped grin. “Dirty skank tainting our arachnid.”

“You’ll be better for it,” Theo says as she takes my hand. “I meant it when I said you’re too sweet for her. Plus, her boob job was horrible. You deserve real boobies to play with.”

I bark out a laugh, which shocks everyone before they join in, but once again, Blondie leaves me little time to enjoy it.

“With that said, I need a few minutes with this guy.”

She starts tugging me down the hall off the rec room, my dick getting a little too excited at her words. I definitely want time alone with Theo, especially after watching her get into a fight, but I’m not going to have sex with her for the first time in a hallway that countless other people have fucked in, for basically the same reason we aren’t staying at the clubhouse until I get a new bed up in my room. It’s been months, hell probably closer to when we were in the old clubhouse since my four walls have seen any action and I haven’t made it a habit of bringing girls back here since we moved, just a few really, but it just feels wrong to have Blondie in there at all let alone naked and screaming my name in that room.

Call me a romantic or just plain stupid, but I want our first time to be meaningful, untainted, and just for us, which can’t happen here.

“What’s up, honey?” I smirk as she sways her way into the corner.

“At some point you’re going to have to tell me their stories.” Blondie smiles up at me all lopsided and adorably buzzed. “Your friends are pretty great.”

“They are.”God, I want to kiss her.“But I doubt you dragged me into a dark corner to talk about them.”

Theo reaches up and grabs the collar of my shirt, yanking me toward her as her back hits the wall. “No, I didn’t.”

Fucking mind reader, my girl.

Our lips touch as I cover her body with mine, my hands on the wall at either side of her head, hips pinning her in place. Sparks and heat. Every damn time we kiss it’s like an electrical storm and I hope that shit never changes.

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