More on this book
Kindle Notes & Highlights
But with scars like that, it was never over. It was Saint flinching when the smoke from the firepits blew into his face. It was the grief in Rubi’s eyes when he traced the white lines on River’s wrists.
Church was a bust. Embry fell asleep to avoid divulging that we’d goaded the bikes on our tail into running us down and showing their gun-filled hand, and after an hour on Cam’s comfortable couch, I did the same.
Logan settled into a brood that made me think of our dad. He’d been on the job too. Proud as punch when we’d followed in his footsteps. Fuckin’ horrified when he’d figured out we both liked cock as much as everything else.
Cos it didn’t matter how long he was gone, we’d both be waiting for him when he came home.
Of the other flats in the building, only one was occupied by a tenant. It was the worst kept secret in the club that Nash had spent every legitimate penny he’d earned from Kings Building Ltd and the haulage company buying every other property to create a ring of steel around his queen.
I wasn’t about to let Alexei pretend no one gave a fuck whether he was around or not. We all gave a fuck.
Rubi’s resting clown face
Alexei pulled out his phone. “I have a list.” I shot him an incredulous glare. “On your phone?” “I am texting Cam.” “About this?” “No. About sex. You would like to read?”
Cam believes you and I cannot be trusted alone.” “Me? I’m not the scuba-diving terrorist around here.”
“You should do it.” “Do what?” “Him.” Saint roared away without explanation,
Nash was on the roof. I saw him from where I stood, leaning against the air stack, smoking while Alexei talked, and Saint fed the birds.
“Other dad, eh?” Folk shrugged like it was nothing when I happened to know it was everything to him.
the meeting on the roof broke up and Saint jumped down in a manner that had the firefighter in me cringing like a motherfucker. Alexei evaporated like he’d never been there at all.
“Ranger?” On cue, my oldest biker brother blocked the public doorway, his lanky frame more imposing than it had any right to be. “You called?”
“Don’t say my name like that. I have too much to do to make time for swooning off this chair.”
And Embry’s on the blacklist for punching an off-duty copper.”
Folk smiled. “At ease, soldiers. You’re stuck with me for at least another year.”
You came over to annoy me on purpose so I wouldn’t start bawling at the dinner table again.”
Ranger finished his cigarette and tossed the butt. Cast a glance at Saint’s sodden back and stooped to retrieve it with a world-weary sigh.
“Horrible things happened to Alexei. If I didn’t love them enough to live, it would kill me.” “That your life advice to me? Don’t die?” Saint nodded and I wanted to hug him,
Rubi’s brows rose. “What’s happened to activate Nurse Malone?”
Also, I wasn’t packing a manaconda.
My boots were nowhere in sight. I tripped over them on the landing. Left them there and jogged downstairs and outside in my socks, doing my best impression of Embry, who of course saw me do it and judged me in the kindest possible way. Man, there were too many brothers around here who saw everything. Why couldn’t more of them be a blithering idiot like me?
Saint checked inside. He re-emerged and blew Orla a kiss, and it was probably the most unexpected thing I’d seen in a while.
“Who went shopping?” She shrugged. “Alexei. He came by this afternoon for a bug sweep.” “And he swung by Asda on the way?” “Waitrose, darling.” Still couldn’t see it unless he ghosted all this shit out of an unsuspecting delivery truck, but what did I know?
I have plans with Alexei. We’re going to stay up all night and drink the good vodka.”
Nash eating at record speed to make it to Rubi’s yoga class on time.
my kid still had trouble containing herself around the pretty chaplain.
Lili ain’t gonna be eleven forever.” Rubi sniffed and turned away.
“That’s cos me and Nashie are the chill Kings. Also, Saint is the ultimate Dad has the Coolest Friends Ambassador. If he can do something wholesome to make your kids happy, he always will.”
Holding hands with a dude hadn’t been on my radar for the longest time, but I remembered watching Saint and Alexei do it during that weird church session we’d held in Embry’s bedroom way back when. How I’d struggled to look away from their twined fingers and never known why until Locke had become so special to me.
How about we try everything until something sticks?”
I thanked holy Mother Nature for gifting me a president who was always prepared for an impromptu sex fest.
Also, it gave me something to do with my hangover instead of lazing around Cam’s house, lording it over him that Saint had chosen to crawl into bed with me instead of him.
Decoy stuck his head around the door as those words landed. Cringed and disappeared again.
