Page 111 of Always Yours

Our life might not be what other people would choose, but it’s our life. We don’t need to live to make other people happy. As long as we are happy, that’s all that matters.

It took a while to live for myself. I know that I’m not responsible for other people’s happiness.

I make my man happy, and that’s what matters most to me.

When he smiles at me, it makes my whole day.

Being loved by that man is something I will never take for granted.

We do shots, round after round, and I start to feel the alcohol more. Somehow, I end up in Stitch’s lap as more brothers and their women gather at our table.

There are kids running around getting all their energy out, and people eating, laughing, and having a good time. How can anyone think that this place is not a family?

You don’t have to be blood to be family.

The Vicious Snakes taught me that.

Stitch taught me to love myself again. In the end, I’ll always be glad that I had ultimately become his.

Shield

Fuck, it looks like we are getting wasted tonight as Demi hands me another shot.

Ink is on the other side of the room talking with Prez, VP, and Steal.

I just came to the bar to grab another beer and somehow managed to find myself over here doing shots with my brothers and their women.

All the kids start making their rounds and saying goodbye as grandparents start taking kids home, and brothers with families and homes of their own start heading home too.

That seems to be when everyone lets loose.

I look over to Ink and he’s grinning at something VP is saying.

Fuck, I love that man.

I had so many walls up from people giving up on me after trying to push me out of my comfort zone, but then Ink had managed to tear them all down.

Not one of the brothers cared that we were together. Deep down, I knew they wouldn’t care. They weren’t like that. Love who you love, that isn’t anyone else’s business but yours.

I spent a lot of time in my own head and letting my own fears control my life.

That is not something I need to worry about anymore.

Ink and I had built a life for ourselves in the little home we have. Ink’s ex, Nathan, had tried to come back another time to try to seduce him. He broke into the shop and got naked before Ink arrived, but little did he know it was Bullet’s day to open and Krista was following him because she was getting a tattoo done.

I think Krista might have actually put the fear into him that he should stay away from now on.

We came to the shop just as she was chasing him out the door with a broom in her hand, shouting to get his naked ass out of there. He was naked as he ran out while desperately trying to put on his clothes in a hurry.

I couldn’t help but laugh at the scene.

He looked at Ink with pleading in his eyes, but Ink just shook his head.

You think he would have known that Ink wouldn’t ever want him again.

Ink is my man. He always will be mine. Nothing or no one can take him from me.

“What ya thinking so hard about?” is whispered in my ear before an arm wraps around my waist, pulling me into their chest.

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