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Reaching out for Venom, she interlocks their fingers. “Tell me you love me.”
“I love you more than anything on this earth, love,” he whispers and kisses her hair.
“And this is why I don’t want to wait to get out of here to marry you,” she says, tipping her head up to let him kiss her lips. “Gunner, let’s finish this.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
Chapter Four
Griffin’s Beach
Lex
Lex walks towards the hotel but stops and looks around. Again, she feels it. The eyes on her. Someone watches her. Just like the President of the Savage Slashers before he was killed.
Scarface watched Lex for months before he took her. Took her to torture her for information, and her resilience turned him on. Made him form an attachment and attraction to her. He’d send her little love notes attached to rocks through her windows, or going as far as to drug and chain her to Colt’s bed in the clubhouse.
To the best of her knowledge, the club has no active enemies obsessed with her. So who the hell is watching her?
Shrugging it off, she walks into the hotel and looks around the restaurant to see if Raena is dumb enough to be out in the open. If Lex were that batshit crazy woman who shot the bride of a Drifter, she’d have hightailed it out of town long ago. But Raena doesn’t seem like the type to leave unfinished business.
“Lex?” a familiar blonde asks as Lex turns around. “I thought that was you.”
“Emme, right?” she asks, even though she knows without a doubt who this woman is. The baby mama to Gavin Short’s daughter, Nancy. The woman Hailey only refers to asthe waitress.
She smiles brightly and nods her head. “Yeah! I wasn’t sure if you’d remember.”
“Well, it’s kind of hard to forget the woman who got herself knocked up by my daughter’s boyfriend, and then abandoned the baby because she wasn’t woman enough to raise her.”
The smile falls, and she stammers, “I-I didn’t do it on my own, you know.”
“Yeah, as a mother myself, I’m more than aware of how conception works. No matter what, there is nothing that would make me leave my child and sign away all of my rights.”
“I wasn’t ready.”
“And you’ll never be. Hailey’s a good mother to that little girl, and I’m giving you a very clear warning to stay the hell away from them. Besides the fact you legally have no rights, it’ll piss me the hell off if you disrupt the life they’ve built.”
She nods and licks her lips. “Nancy’s doing okay?”
“Do you really care? Or do you think you can play me into believing you’re a halfway decent human being? Because I don’t believe either.”
“I do care. I care enough to know that I would have been a terrible mother by forcing myself into a life I wasn’t ready for. Nancy deserves a better life.”
“And she has it. Stay the hell away from them. My daughter is a damn good mother, and she’s Nancy’s mom. As Hailey’s mom, I’m going to tell you only once that it’s not a good idea to poke the bear.”
Frowning, she sniffles. “So, that’s it? I have to pretend like I never had a daughter?”
“That’s what the little piece of paper you signed says,” Lex says. “You walked away from her, and you don’t get to come back because you woke up one day thinking maybe you’ll try out being a parent. Walking away from that little girl was the best thing you ever did for her, and now you get to stay away. Got it?”
“Yeah, I got it,” Emme says. “I, uh, should get back to work.”
“Buh-bye.”
Lex turns and walks to the front desk. The woman smiles brightly at her. “How can I help you?”
“I was wondering if Raena checked out of room four-oh-three. I was supposed to meet her a couple of days ago, but I got held up. I’m afraid she’s left town.”
“I’m not supposed to give out guest information,” she says, her voice low.
