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This guy. He got me. He knew how I worked and he didn’t push me when he knew I couldn’t go any further.
“Hell, yeah. Eggs and toast?”
“Just what I was thinking,” he said with a wink as he slid out of my hold and made his way to the refrigerator. “Bacon or sausage?” He turned his head and gave me a sexy, knowing smirk.
Just thinking back to that time made me smile. I tried with all my might to push him away, but then he did little things that made me hate what I had been doing. Made me question if it was for the best.
“Bacon. Wheat toast, because who the fuck has sourdough just sitting around?”
“Um, I do,” he snapped back jokingly. “You never know when a food situation might call for it.”
I chuckled as I moved to take half of the things he was trying to load up in his arms. I set them on the counter, then dug out the pans I knew he’d need. With a quick kiss to his temple, I moved to sit at the opposite side of the island, so I could still be close to him but not be in his way.
My phone rang and the smile slipped from my face as I snatched it up off the counter. Seeing that it was Iron, I answered right away.
“Yeah?”
“Axe is coming in. We’re holding a meeting and I want you and Lake there.” His voice came out calm and even but I knew something was going on.
It shocked the shit out of me that he was opening up the meeting room, and that he wanted me there. Damn. That made me almost shiver with worry. It also kinda made me puff my chest up, because that was a big deal to be allowed in that room and with the head chapter’s prez there, too.
“Ridin’ now,” I said because I knew better than to ask how long I had or when I should get there. Prez called you, then you went, even if he didn’t say it was right then. And if it was for something like this, with other chapters riding in, then you better make sure your ass was ready before they got there.
“Good. See ya when you get here.”
Then he dropped the call and my eyes looked up to see Chris pinning me with a knowing stare. Since we’d been together there hadn’t really been that much club business going on. Nothing out of the ordinary anyway. So this was our first time dealing with it as a couple. I mean, it wasn’t like Chris was a stranger to the club life. He knew the ins and outs. He’d been there for the brothers through the ups and downs. And I also got that he understood how things went.
“Club stuff?” he asked but it felt more like a statement. Like he got it and he was simply letting me know.
“Yeah,” I said and hesitated. “Axe is coming in for something. Iron wants me there for the meeting.” I felt like I wanted to tell him something. I mean, we both knew that I wouldn’t tell him what went on behind those closed doors.
His eyes slid away from mine in a way that had me taking a long pause to study him. I couldn’t figure it out but my brain was telling me that either he knew something that I didn’t or that he understood the seriousness of this whole thing.
“Be safe,” he said as he moved into my waiting arms. He kissed me. It was quick, but no less meaningful.
“I’ll come home when I’m done.”
“And I’ll be here.”
With that, I was off with a mix of excitement and dread weighing down my gut.
An hour later, the table was full and Lake and I stood against the wall as Axe took the floor. And then Bocca.
A lot of things happened in that room.
My roots grew stronger within the club.
I gained even more respect for Axe, as well as Iron.
Anger washed over me as I listened to them speak.
And I realized that I’d do anything for my brothers, no matter how much they tried to shield me from things or how bad the evil out there really was.
This was my family.
Yesterday.
Now.
And until I took my last breath.
You fucked with one of us, then you fucked with us all.
