Page 39 of Reaper Razed

“Fucking typical!” He laughs as he shoves me in the head. “What do you need?”

“I want to move my brothers closer. Dane can stay with me, but Bran wants to bring Demi, and I need somewhere safe for them, like maybe a lodge if you have one spare. And also, what’s in the room at the side of the garage?”

“Sure, there’s a lodge left, but they fix it up themselves, and it’s just random storage. Why?”

“I have an idea that I think you’ll like.” And then I tell him my plans, really selling the shit out of it. Finally, he agrees, and I can’t wait to tell Dane, Bran and Demi the news. Standing, I hug him, and he pulls me in tighter.

“Are we gonna get through this okay, Ray?”

“I’m gonna make sure we do, or I’m gonna die trying!”

“Fuck, don’t say that.” He squeezes me tighter.

The door creaks open, and Steel walks in with his gym bag thrown over his shoulder. “Oh, the horror… my best friend and my wife, how could you?” He grins at us both as he stalks in.

“Brother, she’s all yours. She’s too much work and trouble for me to contemplate it.”

I punch him in the arm as I shove him back. “Arsehole! You’d be lucky to have me!”

“Well, if there ever comes a time when I want you, feel free to call the asylum and have me committed.”

Steel barks out a laugh, drops his bag and opens his arms wide. “Come here, baby. I love your crazy. You’re perfect.”

I stick my tongue out at Ares and jump into Steel’s arms, wrapping my legs around him and smiling at him, taking in those swirling grey orbs and his beautiful face and dimples.

“How much of a workout are you looking for, baby?”

“Ew, gross. I’m leaving! And Ray, do what you want, you will anyway just keep me in the loop, yeah?” Ares heads for the door.

“Aye, aye, captain!” I salute him, and he shakes his head as he heads out of the door.

“So, this workout.” I grin at Steel, winking. “How hard do you wanna go at it?” He groans as he kisses me and backs me up against the wall.

“So fucking hard!” My back slams into the wall. “I wanna do dirty, dirty things to you. Are you gonna be a good girl and let me do what I want to you?” He grinds into me, biting down on my lip and causing me to clench and groan around his tongue that he’s just forced into my mouth to taste the blood seeping out of my lip. “Gloves or bare knuckles?” He drops me on my ass.

“What the fuck?” I laugh as he stalks over to the cupboard and grabs some boxing gloves. He throws a pair at me.

“Come on, wife? Show me what you got!”

Demi

Bran picks me up and tells me he has a surprise for me. He won’t tell me what it is, but as we pull into the MC and around the side towards Ray’s, I think we are visiting them. Ray is standing halfway down the steps to their apartment as Bran slows down. As we pass, there's a thud in the back of the truck and a double bang on top of the cab. Then Bran hits the accelerator.

“Jesus. Did she just jump in? Your sister is insane!”

Laughing at me, he says, “You’re only just noticing now?”

I shake my head as we follow the track around the back of the clubhouse and up towards the gym. As we pass the gym—that’s as far as I’ve been before—I say, “Where are we going?”

“Ray’s got a surprise for us!” He shrugs.

As we clear the trees and around the track, I see a lake with cabins. The lake is in the shape of a heart, and there must be ten cabins around it, all with their own fishing docks.

We pull up to the cabin on the end and jump out. “Wow, it’s nice up here,” I say as Ray jumps down from the bed of the truck.

“Then, hopefully, you’re gonna love my idea!” She grins and throws her arm over my shoulder. “You know when you said you wanted to be close? Is this close enough?” She points across the lake. I can see the apartment across the field.

I look at her and back at the apartment. “Eh.” She spins me round to the cabin and pushes me forward.

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