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“Fuck! Sorry, I need to get that.” I shrugged, and carried on with my food, but my spidey senses were tingling all of a sudden, especially as I watched him from under my lashes, and saw the colour drain from his face, making him almost pale.
“He’s where?FUCK! Why? Why now? Jesus Christ!”
He listened for a moment, while I blatantly watched him now, because a person in my line of work tended towards nosiness in situations like this.
“Micro, why the hell did he come? Is someone fucking informing on me?”
Informing on him? Informing about what? To whom?
“Grease?”
He frantically shushed me, turning away to hiss into his phone.
“Does he fucking know where I am? Jesus fuck. Yes, of course I’m with her! Where the fuck else would I be?”
He turned and punched the wall, and I froze in place, having scrambled up from the floor to approach him. Suddenly I wasn’t sure he was even safe to approach.
Chapter Thirty-Three
This is what theymean when they talk about worlds colliding. I always thought the mafia world colliding with the biker world was what would do me in, but it’s this. Me being with a fucking copper, of all people, and I had a terrifying feeling that Rossi already knew.
If he knew I was with her, then she was in more danger than ever. I never should have risked meeting her tonight, but I never imagined he’d just show up at the fucking compound.
“Fuck!” I threw my phone on the bed, and turned to find her practically hugging herself in the middle of the room, her eyes wide and afraid. Afraid of me.
“Jesus, I’m sorry, little pain. I just… I got some news I wasn’t expecting, and I have to go. I… you should go… or maybe you’re safer staying here.” I dropped down to sit on the bed, my head in my hands, the very picture of desolation, because my fucking world just imploded on me.
“What the fuck am I going to do?”
“Grease?”
“It’s all coming crashing down. I have no idea how to fucking fix this,” I whispered, a thousand scenarios running through my mind, and every one of them being deadly for her, if not both of us.
“Grease, you’re scaring me.”
I lifted my head to find her crouching in front of me, still wary, but worried too. I caught her hand as she reached for me, stroking my thumb over her knuckles softly.
“I’m sorry, little pain. I’ve tried so hard to keep you safe, and now I think I’ve put you in danger too.”
Jamie’s fingers locked tight around mine.
“Danger? You’re in danger?”
Jesus, what the hell was I doing, saying any of this to a fucking cop? I lifted her hand to my mouth, kissing it gently.
“Ignore me, I’m being a twat. I just… I need to go, and I think maybe you should use the room for the night. It’s all paid for, and it’s not in my name, so it’s safe.”
“Safe from what? Or is it a person you’re worried about, Grease? Is someone a threat to you? I… maybe I could help?” The fact that she cared, that she was offering to get involved, meant the world to me. If either of us had been someone else, or maybe both of us, maybe this could have been something. Apparently I’d turned into some kind of romantic moron.
“That’s sweet of you, little pain. Maybe in another life we could have been more to each other. It just isn’t going to happen for us.” I stood up, putting distance between us as her face dropped, and she stood up to face me, her hand still up in front of her.
“Wait, what? You’re… you call me here to a hotel, and make it seem like you want me, and all of a sudden you’re ditching me? Why the hell did I let you make a fool of me like this?”
Fuck me, I strode up to her, one hand sliding into her hair as she tried to recoil from me.
“Let me be clear, Jamie,” I leaned closer, almost so close that I couldn’t focus on her, “I want you, and that didn’t change the whole time we were away from each other, but it won’t work. We’re from very different walks of life. A cop and a dodgy biker? That’s never gonna work. It’ll do you harm, and it could risk your safety. I wish… I fucking wish it could happen, but it won’t.”
I crashed my lips against hers, kissing her hard, putting every fucking ounce of my want and need into it, because this was the last kiss. The final moment. The end of everything for us. It had to be the end.
