Page 23 of Bloody Union

I watch as she swallows hard, "Don't make me fall for you."

Fuck, having her love me isn't something I ever thought of, but I sure as fuck want it. "Tough," I say through a grin. "Things changed a hell of a lot tonight, Kenna, once I uncover all of your secrets, then I'll know that you've fallen for me."

I hear the sharp intake of breath all the way to my cock, "I don't know how to do this. I don't think I have the capability to love someone.

"Bullshit," I counter. "I know you do. You love Kinsley, you love your family."

"But they've been with me from the beginning." She makes it sound so simple.

"Doesn't mean you're not capable of it. I'm not asking you to love me, I'm just telling you to let me in."

She looks at me in wonder, "But, Dante, I have let you in."

I lean forward and kiss her. Her lips are plump and irresistible. "You have, to some degree. I'm not stupid, the things you've told me, you had to. We're married now, I was going to find out eventually."

She nods, "I don't think you're stupid. How about this? I'll tell you something that nobody on this earth knows?"

Like I'd turn that down? I don't know what it is about this woman but she makes me want to know everything about her. I want her more than I have anyone else and fuck if I know why her family have tried to protect her. She's sitting here, the sexiest woman I've ever had, probably the deadliest woman in the state, if not America. Yet as she looks at me, all I see is vulnerability. I know that if I tried to coddle her, as I would have done if she were different, she'd go for my balls. "Of course I want you to tell me."

"Kinsley is my best friend; she has been for as long as I can remember. We do everything together. She knows almost all of my secrets and I probably know roughly the same amount of hers. She told me that her grandfather was beating her and Ace. She was beaten to a pulp and I found her, she couldn't hide it, she was so bad. And honestly, I'm not sure if I hadn't found her would she have shared." I hide my smile when she crawls into my lap and rests her head against my shoulder, releasing a small yawn as she does. "Anyway, I had a plan in place. I'm in and out of the clubhouse just as much as Kinsley is. It's like a second home to me. Anyway, one night Ace came to see me, he said he needed my help."

I tense, wondering what the fuck he needed her help with.

"He wanted me to go to my da and ask him to take care of his grandfather for him. He told me to tell him, he'd owe him a marker. I said I'd ask and to leave it as that. His grandfather died the next day, his coke stash was shit."

"You asked your father?" I'm wondering where she's going with this.

She rests her hand against my chest, just as she did yesterday. "No, I didn't. I already had a plan, I poisoned his stash and waited. I couldn't let him hurt her anymore. To this day, Ace believes that my da was the one to kill his grandfather. Only you know that it was me."

Holy fuck. She killed the president of the Fury Vipers MC.

But he died years ago, meaning she got away with it.

Yet again, she surprises me, I thought she was done talking but I was wrong. "Sometimes, my heart races a little too fast. It's not that I'm scared or anything, it just races. I've never known how to make it stop until yesterday..." She confesses quietly. "I placed my hand right here..." She flexes her fingers on my chest, just over my heart and smiles. "I felt your heart beating and a calmness washed over me. It settled me."

I kiss her again, this time my hand gripping her thigh.

"Hurt me, Dante, and I mean it, I'll kill you."

I have no doubt in my mind that she would do it without losing an ounce of sleep.

"Same goes for you, baby."

She blinks, almost as if the mere thought of hurting me is incomprehensible.

I glide my hand up her thigh to her ass and squeeze, my other hand going to her hair and I pull her closer to my body. "I'm going to fuck you now. Then we're going to get food."

She smiles brightly. "I like your way of thinking." She nips my bottom lip. "Fuck me, Dante."

"My fucking pleasure," I tell her, slanting my mouth over hers and consuming her.

Eight

Makenna

My stomach rumblesas I sit up. Dante’s asleep on his front, his arm thrown over my stomach and his face turned into mine. I didn’t intend to tell him about what I did to Kinsley’s grandfather, nor did I plan on letting him know that he settles me. I don’t trust Dante, I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to. But he’s my husband and for some twisted reason, I feel safe around him.

I slide out of the bed trying not to wake him. God, the man is lethal, we spent our entire day in the bedroom and only came up for air when we needed food. Poor Angela has been waiting on all of us. Dante hasn’t told me anything about his past and I shouldn’t be surprised, but it’s hurt me and I’m mad at myself for feeling this way. Alessio is still in bed; he’s tried to move but I’ve warned him if he does, I’ll shoot him again. He laughed and thought I was joking, until Dante told him I wasn’t. He’s assured me that he wouldn’t try again, well at least until he’s gathered more strength. Romero has been fixated on his laptop, I’m not sure what he’s searching for but I’ll have Dante find out for me.

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