Page 13 of Her Protective Biker
Moose climbed into bed beside me, slid an arm around my waist and pulled my back to his chest. I slung my arm over a pile of puppies and went to sleep.
Chapter Nine
Moose
When Hannah’s breaths had evened out, I slowly pushed away from her and slung my legs over the side of the bed.
It was the last fucking thing I wanted to do.
Lying there with her, under her thick quilt with a whole pack of rescue dogs felt like an alternate reality.
People who grew up the way I did weren’t destined for happily ever afters.
Hell, I was lucky to have made it to forty without a criminal record, a drug addiction or a death certificate. That might be a little exaggerated, but it takes money and connections to make it in this world. I wasn’t given either one and the only way to get them was either to excel in school – spoiler, I didn’t – or take them by force.
My brother, Asher, chose to lean into his natural skill for fixing cars and created a legitimate business. I had the same skills and used them to strip cars for parts and fund a motorcycle club.
To flirt with the line between good guy and thug.
Lying in bed with a soft, sexy woman in my arms in some suburb didn’t look like the future I had imagined, but it was suddenly the future I wanted. It was likely this wouldn’t be the only time Hannah would get on the wrong side of some piece of shit or another. I could still be me, still work with the MC andprotect the innocent in my own way while she did her thing. Kick ass, save kittens, and bring me to my fucking knees.
I slid my jeans back on and grabbed my cut before making my way down stairs. Things should be quiet here for the rest of the night and I was dying to hear what the executives had come up with at Church.
There was no way I was leaving, so I sat down and waited for the call.
My phone vibrated in my pocket less than a half hour later.
“It’s not good,” Deadeye said without preamble.
“What happened?”
He let out a breath. “Fuckers have declared war. Seems that the dog exchange was not only a decoy to go to Doc’s place but also a decoy to fuck with us.”
My jaw clenched. “What did they do?”
“Wrench went to Rust Valley to set one of the garage bays up for aninterrogationin case we captured those motherless fucks. When he got there, the walls were covered in graffiti, the back door was open and the safe was empty.”
I muttered a curse. “Anything on the cameras?” We may be thugs but we weren’t stupid. We had security cameras around the perimeter of every building we owned.
“Two guys, can’t be the same ones that were at Doc’s place because it was around the same time. So we’re dealing with at least four guys. We don’t know shit about them or why they’re trying to start shit. They may as well be ghosts.”
“We’ll find ‘em.”
I could hear him take a drag on his cigarette before he replied. “This isn’t just suspicion now, and it ain’t only about protecting the Doc, even if you did make her one of us. They stole from us and tried to tag our property as theirs.”
“What’s the plan?”
“We’ll go over it tomorrow. I’m going to get some sleep in case I have to beat the shit out of someone tomorrow. You should do the same.”
I shoved my phone into my pocket, headed upstairs and slid back into bed beside Hannah.
I woke the next morning with my nose pressed against the smooth skin of Hannah’s neck. The blanket was soft and warm against my skin and everything smelled good and clean.
I was also hard enough to pound nails.
The hem of Hannah’s sleep shirt had ridden up a little and my rough hand was pressed against the delicate, bare skin of her stomach. Fuck, what I wouldn’t give to slide my hand a little lower, breath the top band of her shorts and keep going south until I found the heat of her center.
The day was going to be hell and likely I had orders waiting for me on my cell. I started to roll away from Hannah, my hand slipping over her skin, but before I could get far, she caught my hand with hers and gently tugged me back into position. I came to rest against her again, my erection pressed against her supple ass. With her hand over mine, she guided my fingers along her skin, not down between her thighs like I had pictured, but up under her top and over her very bare breast. Her whole body shuddered before I’d even gotten to her nipple and when I gave her breast an experimental squeeze, she pressed her ass harder against my dick.
