Page 8 of Bart (Hades Rejects MC)
“I’m sorry Vic, I really am. You’re a good man, you deserve a good woman, someone who isn’t stained by her past, and who doesn’t love a man she can never have.” Before I know what’s happening he has me pinned against the car ripping at my graduation gown.
“You’re mine, do you hear me, you’re mine, just tell me you’re mine.” Suddenly he stops and drops to his knees gripping my hips. I’m scared, but I know what he’s going through. Heartbreak is a bitch, and I never wanted this for him.
Just as suddenly as his outburst started, he stands up, dusts himself off, opens the car door for me, gets in, and starts driving away.
“Vic?” I hedge, wondering if I should try to talk to him some more.
“Bliss, I get it, I do. It’s alright, I understand. I’m sorry for the breakdown back there.” He seems incredibly calm compared to his earlier meltdown, but he drops me off at my dorm room, where Pops and the rest of the guys are waiting for me. Getting out of the car, Pops immediately rushes to my side just as Vic peels out and drives away from us.
“What the fuck did that asshole do to you?” Looking down at what’s left of my graduation gown, I frown.
“He didn’t do anything, I broke up with him, he was... distraught.” He seems to take in my words.
“If he put his hands on you, I’ll kill him Bliss. What the hell were you thinking going alone with him to break up?” He wraps me up in his arms and I let out the sob I’ve been holding in since Vic cornered me before the ceremony. I absorb his strength, something I haven’t done in years. I didn’t realize how much I missed his strength until this moment. I can hear the rest of the guys grumbling, some even talking about going after Vic, I had to keep that from happening. I wouldn’t let Vic get hurt simply because I’d led him on.
“He didn’t hit me Pop, but he was scary for a little while. I broke his heart, and he was hurting and upset. Let’s get everything packed up so we can go party and lighten up a little.” Smiling up at him, I know he’s not going to drop it, but thankfully he gives me a reprieve at least for a little while. Turning around towards the rest of the guys, I know immediately it’s definitely not the end of it, especially when my eyes land on the bane of my existence, or the love of my life, whichever you want to call him.
His eyes are locked on mine; he looks like he wants to come to me, but he’s staying put, his body rigid. He looks just as good as he did the last night we saw each other, only somehow bigger, like he was a balloon that got inflated. Did he have to look so fucking good in his leather? Lifting my chin, I make my rounds hugging everyone. When I said the guys, what I meant was my Pop’s club along with their wives and girlfriends ending with Bart. He’s hugging me close, I can smell his unique musk, a combination of leather with a scent that was all him, and all I want to do is stay right there. My traitorous body only wants to stay right where it’s at and never leave the comfort of his arms, but I know this isn’t where I’m meant to be anymore; I’ve moved on, at least that’s what I tell myself. Pulling back, he looks me in the eyes, I’m not sure what the look that crosses his face is.
“Just say the word and he’s dead.” I blink up at him, because I’m not sure I heard him right. “If he hurt you, just say the word and I’ll kill him for you.” God, were all the Stone men so hell bent on killing Vic?
“Alright stop, both of you, he’s gone, can we please get my shit then go party.” It’s like stepping back in time with these two and their alpha male bullshit. “You mister, who disappeared on me without a single word, not even a phone call for the last four years, have zero right to say or do anything.” The shock on his face is almost comical, like I should be grateful he showed his sorry ass up to begin with. Well tough shit, he’s ignored me for four years, after sharing the most amazing fucking night with me, fuck him and his alpha male shit. I turn away from him and face a laughing Pops.
“That goes for you too, except the disappearing part, I’m twenty-two now, a grown up, deal with it!” I’m poking him in his chest, I can hear some of the newly patched guys take a breath, no one stood up to Castor this way, well no one but me that is. I feel Bart step up behind me, pulling me close to his body again.
“Now, Baby Girl, don’t make me put you over my knee and spank you for being belligerent to our president, unless you’re into that kind of thing now.” He whispers it so that only I can hear him, sending chills down my spine with the visions his words bring me, damn him, less than ten minutes in his presence and I was already a puddle. There was no way I was going to let him act like he hadn’t been wrong to ignore me, I wanted an apology and the reason why he left without saying goodbye. Yanking out of his hold, I start to march up to my dorm room.
“Let’s go, I’m ready to party!” I motion them to follow with a jerk of my hand in the air, which is followed by chuckling all around.
BART
God was it possible she’d gotten more beautiful in the last four years? My hands itched to touch her again, to taste her again, damn it my dick was so hard I could probably use it as a wrecking ball. I needed her, like I needed my next breath.
When Pops told me about her “boyfriend,” it gutted me, I felt like my whole world collapsed. I’d wanted to charge into the stadium and lay my claim on her right then and there, the only thing stopping me was I knew she wouldn’t want me to claim her. Ignoring her over the last four years had cut me deeper than any knife, but I couldn’t expose her to what I was doing in Italy. Even Pops had agreed it was too dirty for her to know about, we had to keep her safe, people could have used her against me. There was no way I was going to let that happen, even if it meant hurting her myself. I’d gotten things settled in Italy about a year ago, but Pops told me to wait until she graduated to see her. He thought I might disrupt her studying, and there was no way he’d allow that, not that I wanted to either, but staying away about killed me.
Seeing her now was like being bathed in light, her scent, her skin, it all brought back visions of our night together, the one glorious night I’d gotten to taste her only to run the next morning. Yeah, I was a complete asshole, but I still needed to make her safe before I could claim her. If only her father hadn’t gone into hiding, I’d would have already ended it. Right before we came to watch Bliss graduate, we’d gotten word that he’d been seen, his end was near, and then I could claim my woman, if she’d have me that is.
Seeing her get out of that asshole’s car, her graduation gown ripped to shreds, seeing her frightened face, I saw red. If his sorry ass hadn’t run off he’d be at the end of my knife right now in some dark hole, where no one could hear his screams, no one touched my woman like that, no one. Hearing her say she’d broken up with him was probably the only thing that saved him from being hunted by me. Having her stand up to me and Pops made me want to bend her over the closest piece of furniture and make her scream my name, she was glorious when she was angry.
I happily followed behind her when she finally got fed up with our antics, watching her ass sway in front of me was worth listening to all the laughter coming all around me. God, I needed to get a handle on my hormones before I took her in front of everyone. Once in her dorm room the walls seemed to close in on us, she fluttered around the room showing us what was hers. I was still surprised she’d decided to stay on campus after Pops offered to pay for an apartment. Her roommate was in the middle of moving her own things out when we showed up, she about jumped out of her skin when she saw all of us big bad bikers come in her room. I guess a bunch of big guys wearing leather vests with tattoos all over them would seem out of place and scary on a college campus. I was surprised she didn’t try to jump out of the window when she saw us.
BLISS
“Uh, Bliss?” Not much of a question, but then again she looked like she was about to faint.
“Oh, Jessie, these are the guys, guys this is Jessie. Don’t worry their bark is worse than their bite.” Jessie and I became fast friends when we were assigned each other for roommates, apparently I left out the fact that my family was a bunch of burly bikers from her. I have no idea why I would have done that. She was a petite thing, maybe five foot because she came to my shoulders and I was only five-five, but she was full of curves in all the right places, long brown hair with the prettiest pair of grey/blue eyes I’d ever seen, with zero self-esteem. With a smoking hot body like hers, she could have had any number of guys, but she never flirted and never went out.
“Speak for yourself Bliss, my bite is far worse than my bark.” Turning, I see it’s one of the new guys, Matt, he can’t be more than twenty-five, and he’s looking at Jessie like she’s his next meal. Jessie looks like she’s ready to bolt at any minute.
“Get that look right off your face this minute Matt, Jessie ignore him. Where are your parent’s woman, aren’t they coming to help you?” She glances over at me, then back to Matt giving him a smile, no way I’m letting her fall for one of the guys; she deserves better than a roll in the hay. When she looks back at me, I can see a sadness in her eyes that she quickly masks.
“They couldn’t make it, it’s alright, I know how busy they are. Besides I don’t have a lot, they rented a truck for me to move everything, I just have to load it up. You never told me you had such a large family, or that they were so cute.” No way was I letting her load the truck by herself, her jerk-ass parents had ditched her again for God only knew what. The last time they ditched her was Christmas, she’d spent the entire break alone, I didn’t find out until I got back, and she’d cried on my shoulders for hours. Yeah, her parents were real assholes.
“Hey can some of you guys help her load up that truck, I don’t have a lot and I wasn’t expecting all of you showing up to move me.” Of course Matt volunteered right away, followed by a few of the other younger men, five in all, while the other hundred, yes that’s a slight exaggeration, helped me. We were both packed up in no time flat.
“Hey come to my party tonight girl, we can celebrate together. You can leave tomorrow.” Shaking her head Jessie declines my offer to party, just like every other time I’ve asked her over the years.
“I really can’t, my parents only rented the truck for today, I have to get home immediately or they’ll take it back. I promise to come visit you as soon as I’m able though. I have your address; we’ll see each other soon.” Turning, she meets Matt’s smile with one of her own. “Thank you all for helping me pack up.” Then in a flash she was gone, leaving Matt glancing after her. When she came to visit, I’d need to make sure that one was far away.
