“To fuck twelve of my club brothers?” I couldn’t even name twelve of the bastards who would be fit to breathe the same air as her, let alone fuck her.
She giggled. “No, but there were these fantasies I had based on a television show and being a fly on the wall in the shower when you all came in to get clean.”
“You think we throw communal shower parties?” I groaned. “Fuck’s sake, no wonder you didn’t want anything to do with me. You thought I’d been here having sausage fest showers.”
She giggled again, and it pleased me to notice that she kept her laughter contained so as not to disturb my boy. “Stop trying to make me laugh. Tell me about Hawk. Is he really going to be okay, and where is Melissa?”
I shook my head. “We’ll get to that in a minute. You scared the fuck out of me today.”
“Honestly?” she questioned. “I scared the hell out of myself too. What if he hadn’t let me go?” She curled up next to me and let her head droop down to rest on my shoulder on my uninjured side. “He could have taken me. I don’t know why he didn’t, but that’s all I keep thinking about. My life as I know it could be over.”
“Maybe, for tonight, we should just thank our lucky fucking stars that he let you out of that vehicle and leave it at that. I’m not sure I can handle a conversation about one of the biggest human traffickers in our area having had you so close when there was nothing I could have done to save you.”
I stood from the couch, where we had tucked in only a moment ago. “Come on, I need something different right now.”
“Something like?” Sammy asked.
“Something like you in my arms with very few clothes between us.”
“What’s going on here?”
“What do you think is going on? I already told you exactly what I want. You’re mine, Sammy. My ol’ lady, if you’ll have me. My only woman, and I want to be your only man. It’s as simple as that. I won’t share you and I’d never ask you to share me. It’s just the two of us in this.”
“And your son, his mom, your club, my family…”
I shook my head. “Nope. They all matter to us, but they don’t have a say in what’s happening between us. That is a you and me zone.”
A smile spread on her face. “I kind of like that. A you and me zone.”
“Good because I meant it. Haven’t been with another woman since before my accident and don’t plan to again now that I have you.”
“How can you be so sure? It hasn’t been that long since we met.”
“Three weeks and five days,” I told her.
Her eyes widened, as did her smile. “You’re counting how long we’ve known one another?”
“I may have been keeping track of how long it took to get you to agree that you’re mine.” I leaned down and kissed the tip of her nose. “I want you because you’re different. You can handle your shit. You don’t panic. You take action. You’re fucking loyal as hell, even when you have no reason to be other than your curiosity or conscience or whatever got the best of you. It kept you by my side in the hospital.”
“Maybe that was loyalty, or perhaps it was because of the fantasies I was having about you. Maybe, I didn’t want to give them up so soon.”
“Whatever kept you there, I’m thankful as fuck for it.”
We walked into my bedroom and stood there for a minute before I took matters into my own hands. I pulled my cut off and laid it gently on the back of my desk chair. Then I reached over and pulled her shirt free from her body. She didn’t try to stop me and that only encouraged me to keep going. By the time I had her down to her bra and panties and me in my boxer briefs, I moved us closer to the bed.
“I feel like you’re forgetting a few key pieces of clothing there, big guy.”
“We still have some things to talk about first before I take those last pieces off.”
“That sounds ominous.”
“I hope it’s not.”
“Well, you better spill it then because I’m not really good with the whole anticipation thing.”
I opened my mouth to tell her when someone started to frantically beat on the door. I jumped up and ran over to the door to keep whoever it was from waking Hawk. “What the fuck is so urgent?”
“We need you in the lower level now.” Baffle wasn’t usually one to lose his cool, but his tone suggested there was a big fucking emergency. Lower level was their code word for the cave system.