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  “Oh, sure.” He had me wait while he got me a set of clean pajamas, as promised, and then I was on my way to the spare bedroom upstairs, forcing my eyes closed and hoping I wouldn’t be seeing what Jed might look like without his clothes on behind them.

  Chapter 14

  Jed

  We spent the weekend together.

  I made the meals while Sophie sat at the table studying. I couldn’t help but notice how hot she looked in the sweat pants and t-shirt I bought her. She was barefoot, and her hair was loose and flowing down her shoulders. When she got tired of studying, I taught her how to play my video games or we watched TV. I let her choose what we watched.

  “I’ve been so focused with law school and being a good girl, I haven’t connected with many men,” she said while we were lounging in the living room watching a sappy romance movie and pigging out on pizza, wings, chocolate brownies, and beer. “I mean, I’ve dated other students, but it’s been very dry and short, not like this. I like this. I could get used to this.” She smiled.

  I just about choked. Did she say ‘dated’?

  “I like you; no reason to choke on your own tongue, but for the record, I’m not going to sleep with you. I’m not that kind of girl.”

  “Never expected you to,” I said, swallowing a lump in my throat. I kinda liked she was so forward, but as much as I didn’t expect her to sleep with me, now she had me thinking about it. ”Do you want another beer?”

  “Yeah. What about you, Jed? What’s your dating history like?”

  So, she was going there, was she? This felt like a trick question.

  “Oh, I don’t think you want to know the answer to that.”

  “Oh, what? Do you sleep around a lot?”

  “I pay for sex.” I winced, waiting for her response.

  “Oh!” She stuffed a brownie in her mouth and didn’t ask another question about it.

  “The right girl just hasn’t come along yet.”

  “I see.” She continued to eat her brownie, and I handed her another beer. I studied the half eaten containers.

  “Wow, I can’t believe how much food we packed away.”

  “It was good. Studying makes me hungry.”

  “I’ll put the leftovers in the fridge; you can help yourself if you get hungry.”

  “Thanks.”

  I put the food away and joined her on the couch again. She got comfortable and stretched her legs out which put her feet inches from me. Her bare feet looked inviting, and I found myself offering her a foot massage. She took me up on it, and I took her foot into my hands and began to rub it. They were smooth and well cared for. She moaned with pleasure and settled back against the couch cushions, so I continued rubbing her foot, then I switched feet and rubbed her other one for a while.

  The moaning had me straining against my pants, but eventually it turned to even breathing.

  “Are you awake?” I asked after a while.

  “No.” She smiled and nudged me with her foot that wasn’t trapped in my hands.

  I laughed. “Feel good?”

  “Yeah. This has been fun, but I have to get back to school tomorrow. I don’t want to miss any of my classes, and I have a big exam coming up. If I pass it, I’ll qualify for an internship with a law firm.”

  “I see.”

  “It’s a big first step to a career as a lawyer. I’ve been looking forward to my internship for a long time. I can’t believe it’s almost here.”

  “Well, I’m sure you’ll pass and get the best internship. I will admit, I’ll be sad to see you go; this place will be quiet without you.”

  “Why? Because I was so loud?” she challenged me, feigning anger.

  “Okay, not quiet, but it will be different. Lonely without you. I never felt lonely before I met you. I liked being by myself, but—”

  “I never felt lonely before I met you either. I was too focused on school,” she said, pulling her feet from me so she could sit up on the couch. “What will we do with ourselves?”

  “Well, you’ll be busy with school and then your internship. I’ll be busy with the MC. I guess we’ll go back to our lives, and after a while, it won’t be so lonely anymore.”

  “That sounds sad.”

  “Yeah.” I laughed. “Yeah, it does. Sad and a little pathetic.”

  “No, a lot pathetic.” She laughed. I loved the way she laughed; she threw back her head and laughed with her whole body. ”It’s our last night together, what do you want to do?”

  “The one thing you said that was off the table.” I wasn’t exactly the guy to be dishonest, even if telling the truth got me in trouble. That’s why I was so forward with Kara about how I felt.

  Sophie paused, grabbed her beer, and chugged it. ”What the hell, let’s throw caution to the wind, but first get me another beer.”

  “You need to be drunk first?” That shit ate at my ego a bit.

  She smiled. “Don’t worry, I won’t get so sloshed I won’t remember. I just need to loosen up a bit more, psych myself up. It’s got nothing to do with you, Jed. You’re perfect.”

  I got her another beer and returned to rubbing her feet, hoping that would help get her in the mood as she chugged half her beer before looking at me again.

  Chapter 15

  Sophie

  I studied him as he continued to rub my feet. His warm hands felt so good against my flesh, and I felt myself tingle with excitement. I finished my beer, put it on the table, and then turned around.

  “Kiss me,” I said. He leaned his head down and captured my mouth, doing as he was told.

  He tasted like pepperoni pizza, wing sauce, and chocolate. I imagined I tasted similar.

  We took it slow, kissing for a while, then we fumbled with pulling off shirts, and then he fumbled with my bra. He laid me down against the couch and rubbed all over my body. His hands felt so good against my hot flesh. I never thought about the reason I didn’t do this with other men. I wasn’t a virgin, but I had little experience. Most of it was hookups with men looking for curvy women.

  It felt like the men who wanted me, did so in a perverted sort of way. Wanted to use me to check a fantasy box and then leave me be. But I hadn’t had sex with anyone who wanted to take it slow. Who hadn’t mentioned my weight or body shape one way or the other. Jed had simply told me I was pretty. Nothing different than he’d tell any type of girl what she looked like. And I liked that.

  His thumbs found my nipples and teased them until they were perky and standing erect. At last, he hooked his thumbs in my pants and pulled them down. Then, he peeled down my silky underwear. “I’ll be right back.”

  “Buzzkill!” I screamed at him. He returned a minute later holding up a condom, “You’re in law school trying to become a lawyer; the last thing you need is an unplanned pregnancy.”

  “Smart thinking, but you’re still a buzzkill,” I teased as I laid back down.

  “Well, I’ll just have to fix that now, won’t I?” and he began to touch me all over again. Then, he trailed hot kisses that made me shiver. “Are you cold?”

  “No!”

  “I don’t usually touch the women I’m with, they do all the touching, so this is new to me.” Jed said. “Are you enjoying yourself?”

  “Uh huh!” Then, I added. ”You had me fooled, but less talking, more touching.”

  “Okay.”

  He returned to touching me and kissing me. It felt good, and I ignored the voice in my head telling me this was wrong, that good girls don’t do this. I wanted this. I wanted Jed.

  He took his time exploring every inch of my body. He touched every inch of it with his fingers

  and then with his lips and tongue. His fingers found me wet and wanting. He slipped them inside of me, and I gasped with pleasure.

  “Are you ready for me?” he purred.

  “Ready. The bed,” I breathed. We got up and went upstairs to bed. Then, he rose above me, positioned himself, and with one strong thrust, he was inside.

  He grab
bed me by the hips and pounded me. I wrapped my legs around his waist, and my arms around his neck and pulled him down so he could kiss me as he drove deeper and deeper, driving me closer and closer to the edge of ecstasy but never quite over the edge, as he took his time.

  He was slow and methodical, his hips moved as if to some music in his head. And we somehow fit perfectly. He was strong, sensual, everything I ever wanted and didn’t know.

  This could get messy later on.

  At last, I couldn’t take it anymore. I dug my nails into his back as I orgasmed. He groaned and moaned with pleasure, rewarding me with kisses. I waited for him to finish. Then, he pulled out and dealt with the condom in the bathroom before coming back out to climb into bed with me.

  He pulled me close into his arms.

  “How are you?” His voice was husky.

  “Fine. Good.” I smiled. “You’re good at that.”

  “So are you.” He kissed me again. “It’s getting late and you have a long drive in the morning. Do

  you want me to stay?”

  “You can stay.” To emphasize that I wanted him there, I pulled his arm around me and held his hand as I pressed my back against his bare chest. He was a handsome man. Handsome, rich, and good in bed; could it get better than that?

  Chapter 16

  Kara

  I paced the hall outside the room where Tony and Seth were torturing my father. I knew he had to be moved soon before the Diablos and the Order came down on us. Tony hadn’t liked my plan; he thought it was too dangerous, but I knew it was the only way. Somehow, I would need to convince him to let me do it. It was our one shot to save the club. I knew it, Austin knew it, and, he knew it too. He was just being stubborn and overprotective, but I wasn’t a little girl, and this man was my father.

  I knew it had to be me, and I wasn’t scared. I could handle my own, hadn’t I proven that when the stupid Diablos had taken me and Reagen? I rescued us; Tony was just transportation.

  Still, he said no, and if I disobeyed him and did it anyway, would that cause an undoable rift between us? Would our relationship be over? Could I really risk losing him? But then if the MCs attack, they will kill him. He had to understand why I had to do this.

  If I couldn’t get him to understand, then I was just going to have to do it.

  The door opened, and Tony stepped out. “You could have come in, if you wanted. The worst of it is over.”

  “We need to talk.”

  “If it’s about your idea, no.”

  “Tony, hear me out.”

  “Kara, I’m exhausted, can this wait till tomorrow? It’s too late.”

  “Every day you keep him here, the closer the MCs are getting.”

  “We don’t know that. There hasn’t even been a sighting in weeks, and I’m not scared of that shit group known as the Blue Diablos. We whooped their asses, and we’ll do it again.”

  “What if we haven’t seen a sighting because they’ve been busy hiding out, plotting their revenge on us?”

  “Stop worrying. If they come, we’ve got the Crypt Keepers to back us up. I’m not worried, you shouldn’t be either. Now, can we go to bed?” He started down the hall and up the stairs. I huffed and grumbled but followed after him.

  He had made up his mind, he was not going to change it. But so had I, and I wasn’t going to change mine either. It would save the MC, and that was what mattered most. We could always fix our relationship later, when I proved him wrong.

  I joined Tony in the bedroom and silently got ready for bed. “Want to fool around?”

  “No. I’m tired,” I said. I climbed into bed and turned my back on him. He snuggled up behind me and pulled me close.

  “I’m not mad; are you?”

  “No. You care about me, how can I be mad about that?”

  “Are you going to do it anyway?”

  “Go to sleep, Tony, we’ll talk more tomorrow,” I said. I laid my head on the pillow and closed

  my eyes.

  “Please, don’t run out on me,” Tony whispered. “I can’t do anything without you.”

  “Go to sleep, Tony.”

  “You know I love you, right? Like really love you. I want to make you my ol’ lady, and I want you to have my kids.”

  “Tony, shut up and go to sleep.” I paused. “I love you too, and someday I will be your ol’ lady, and we’ll have kids together, but right now, we have too much to deal with to even think about that shit.”

  “Bullshit, admit that you’re mad,” Tony pressed. I grabbed my pillow, hit him over the head, and then marched out of the room. I heard the pitter-patter of his feet as I headed down the hall to Seth and Reagen’s room. I ran the rest of the way, entered the room, and slammed the door. The baby started crying, and Seth and Reagen came out of the nursery.

  “Kara? Is something wrong?” Seth asked in a sleepy voice.

  “I didn’t mean to slam that. I was just trying to get away from Tony. He won’t listen to me and now won’t let me sleep.”

  “Want a beer?” Seth offered, the universal biker guy solution.

  “No. Um . . . I can’t.”

  “What?” Reagen asked with wide eyes, realizing what it meant even in her exhausted state. “I thought you were just messing with Tony the other day?”

  “Are you with child?” Seth asked in the most awkward way possible, and I gave him a sideways look.

  “I don’t know, but I’m not taking any chances. I haven’t taken a stupid test yet, but my boobs feel fuller and I’m more irritable, but that could just be the situation we’re in.”

  “I have an extra pregnancy test. Go in the bathroom and take it while I try to get this little guy back to sleep.” Reagen said. “It’s in the drawer, on the left side.”

  “Okay, but if I am, I’m not telling anyone else yet, and I will kill you if either of you tells him.”

  “Your secret is safe with us, but to be safe, just tell Reagen, leave me out of it. I’ll go see if I can cool Tony off.” Seth grabbed a pair of pants and headed out.

  I went to the bathroom to take the test. Once Reagen got her baby back to sleep, she joined me.

  “Why don’t you want anyone to know?”

  “Because I’m about to do something that puts me in danger.”

  “What are you about to do?”

  “Kidnap my father, and get him out of here.”

  “Why the hell would you do that?” she hissed at me.

  “Because he belongs locked in a fucking trunk at the bottom of the fucking river.”

  “Kara, you can’t be serious!”

  “Why the fuck not?”

  “Because that would cause the war Tony, Seth, and Austin have been afraid of coming. The

  Diablos are one thing, but if you do that, you’ll bring the Shadow Order down on us. We don’t even know how many of them there are!”

  “No. Don’t you get it? If I get him away from here, and if I break up with Tony and he casts me out of the MC, then they won’t go after the MC. They’ll come after me, and I’ll be hiding with the Crypt Keepers, but they’ll never find me. Eric can protect me in a way Tony can’t.”

  “You’re crazy!”

  “Maybe, but it would save the MC, and that is what matters most. Right?”

  “They’ll kill you!”

  “Not if they can’t find me,” I protested.

  “When do you leave?”

  “I’m not sure yet.”

  “Where are you going to get the car?”

  “Eric will help me steal one.”

  “Will you come back?”

  “If Tony lets me. Depends on how pissed off he gets.”

  “He loves you, he’ll get over it and he’ll beg you to come back. Especially if you’re carrying his child. He’s not as much of a hard ass as he wants the world to think, he’s like Seth that way. They both put up this tough boy exterior, but inside they just want love and a family.”

  “How did you get so wise?”

  “I’m a mom now
.” Reagen laughed. “And so it seems are you.” She said glancing at the stick.

  “What?”

  “You’re pregnant. Congratulations?”

  “How far along do you think I’m?”

  “A few months, maybe, but even that’s doubtful. Not far along.”

  “So, I have, what, six months to get this done and win Tony back?”

  “Yes, and stay alive and keep your baby safe.”

  “I promise I will. We got out of that kidnapping alive, didn’t we?”

  “Yes, we did.”

  “Whatever comes my way, I’ll deal with it.”

  “I know.” She paused for a moment, her head down. ”If Tony kicks you out, he’ll forbid us to

  talk.”

  “Reagen, I’ll be too busy to talk, but know that I will always be with you, no matter what. You’re my best friend, always and forever.”

  “You’re mine.”

  I hugged her.

  “It’s going to hurt, even to lose you for a little while.”

  “I know, and for that, I’m sorry.”

  “It’ll hurt Tony more.”

  “I know and for that, I’m really sorry,” I said. I didn’t want to hurt Tony, but he wasn’t giving

  me an option. I had to do this. I knew it in my gut it was the right thing to do; I just wished he would understand that.

  “I guess I should head back to bed, I imagine he’s asleep by now.”

  “I doubt it, if he went to bed, Seth would be back. I bet he went to take his frustration out on your father. You could stay here for the night, if you want to.”

  “I’ll stay for a little while, but eventually, when Seth gets back, I’ll head back. You go back to bed. I’ll watch the little one.”

  “He’s been changed, fed, and burped, so he should be good for a little while.”

  “Go get some sleep. I’ll just watch TV on low and listen for the baby.”

  I peeked in the nursery at my little godson and then went to the living room, turned the TV on low, and watched TV till Seth finally came back.