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It’s funny how biology can tell lies much more eloquently than our mouths.
“Called Boner by my friends,” he said, so straight-faced I wondered if he could actually be serious about it. “But pretty girls call me Aaron until they learn why I earned that nickname for themselves.”
And this guy was the prettiest boy I’d ever met, so of course, he was trouble with a capital T.
“You see somethin’ you like, why wouldn’t you make an effort to make it yours?”
“Oh, trust me, you’ll be askin’ me to kiss you minutes into our first date. Beggin’ me to make you come after an hour. Never taken anyone against their will in my life, never had to, and certainly never fuckin’ would.”
“The only thing I ‘make’ is trouble.”
“Hey, hush, Blue baby,”
Blue baby,” he murmured, voice dipping into molten chocolate, sweet and so smooth, “you’re shakin’ alone in a bloody cage. I get I’m a stranger, but I’m dyin’ to help you out here. Will you let me?”
“But there isn’t a bone in my body capable’a exactin’ violence against a woman. My sister…” A brief spasm of pain contorted his face. “She was kept in a cage for a long time. I don’t like seein’ ya in there, scared and alone.”
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“I want you to get that you’re worth somethin’. First moment I saw you, I lost my fuckin’ breath to the sight’a you. Not ’cause you’re damn pretty, Blue, but ’cause a man like me knows pretty girls. Nah, the sight’a you knocked the air straight from my chest ’cause a pretty girl with a sweet smile was mannin’ a gas station in the middle’a the night on a dangerous stretch’a highway, and I thought, this girl doesn’t have anyone in her life to tell her not to risk herself like this. She’s fightin’ and clawin’ for everythin’ she’s got, and what she’s got is no one. And, Blue baby, that sucker
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“Fine, I don’t sleep with bikers.” “Blue baby, the way I do it, there’s no sleepin’ involved at all.”
Because a man who could make a woman smile on demand was a special kind of magic,
The minute I saw her, I knew.
I was the one doin’ the huntin’, the sweet-talkin’, the kissin’. But holy shit, bein’ kissed had its own kinda glory.
How was it possible for a girl to taste like sugar and rum all at once?
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Cause it’s safer to look scary and be scary than it is to be vulnerable. Humour is its own kinda vulnerability. What if you don’t laugh?” I murmured, lookin’ down into those brilliant-cut sapphire eyes and unable to stop the thought that I’d found more treasure that night than I had secured to my back. “We all choose our masks, yeah? It’s safer that way.”
“People always assume bein’ pretty means bein’ good as if beauty can’t be evil.”
“You don’t need to say things like that to me.” He shot me an incredulous look. “Does anyone ever hafta say somethin’ nice about anyone? It’s not ’cause I feel you’re owed the words, Blue. It’s ’cause I feel moved to say them.”
“You got nothin’ to fear when I’m with ya, Blue. Don’t you get that?”
“You wanna call me a criminal, I can’t stop ya, but I wish you’d think’a me like somethin’ less defined. Like twilight between day and night. I got darkness in me, Blue. Don’t have to tell ya that after what you saw in Beaker’s trailer. But I got light too, a fuck ton’a it. Maybe the ratio’s too close for comfort, but I thought for a second you were the kinda girl who found more comfort in chaos than in what others think is right.”
“You might see me and this place as dangerous. As criminal. Maybe you’re right. But I’m also the same guy who took your hand when you needed help, and I learned that from the people in that clubhouse, Blue. I learned how to love like the best’a them ’cause my brothers and their families taught me what it means to be a man who protects his kin, who fights to the death for what he feels is right, and who won’t change for anyone. Even pretty girls with lake water eyes he could drown in.”
“I may be a dangerous man, but I’m the one in danger here. You walk out on me, that’ll ache in a way I’ve never ached ’fore. C’mon, Blue baby, what’s reward without a little risk?”
This big brute of an outlaw was seducing me. Not taking. Not even owning. Just luring me deeper into his thrall. I was utterly defenceless against it because I’d thought he was the kind of man to force and push and bruise, and there he was, kissing me breathless while holding me carefully close. How was I supposed to walk away from the only man who’d ever held me like that?
“I won’t stop you, you want to walk away from me. But, Blue baby, kiss me now and give me somethin’ good to think about at night when I’m wishin’ you were here with me.”
“Smell like goddamn heaven. Now, be a good girl, Blue, and lay still while I take my fill. This is as close to heaven as a man like me’s ever likely to get.”
“The only way I’m ruinin’ this is by tryin’ to ruin you for other men. I’m thinkin’ you should be mine alone.”
“Until then, you’re fuckin’ mine.”
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“You think you aren’t worth that? Even knowin’ ya for five hours, I can tell havin’ you is worth a lifetime’a trouble.”
“Be mine,” I murmured against her lips before lickin’ into her mouth. “Stay.” “I’m yours,” she agreed before rockin’ to her toes to deepen our kiss.
Blue baby, you’re exactly the kinda trouble a man looks for his whole damn life. The kinda trouble I’d fight an entire fucked-in-the-head club for the chance to call my own. So you ever need me, you ever want me, you know where to find me. Never been a patient man, but I’ll be waitin’,
“The kinda love that redefines what it means to be alive is the kinda love that doesn’t come cheap. You gotta earn it, man, and sometimes that means bein’ patient, and sometimes that means fightin’ for it. If you really think Blue’s that woman for you, you gotta trust that you’ll see her again and ’til then gotta live life knowin’ she’d want you to be happy. Maybe that’s why she left in the first place.” Twenty-four-year-old emotional savant.
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“If Priest hadn’t knocked up Bea, I’d be readin’ some serious sexual tension between you two,”
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“Men like us don’t fall in love the way they do in storybooks. We see a woman, and somethin’ hits us like a bullet through the chest. We get this sense in our blood and bones, through the center’a our bein’ that this person is meant for us. It might take a while to get there.” His grin was a small, secret thing in his beard, the one carved there by the hand’a his wife, Loulou. “Sometimes we gotta get our heads outta our asses to realize that no obstacle between us is worthy’a keepin’ us apart. But you already got that clarity. You’ve always been clear-sighted like that even when you came to
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And I know, if they’d let him, Boner would’ve been digging next to the others even as he bled out if it meant keeping me alive.”
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Blue: Stop trying to make me fall in love with you. I told you, this isn’t happening. Aaron: It’s already started, Blue baby. Best you can do now is hold tight and enjoy the ride.
“’S not about me possessin’ you,” he argued. “Don’t you get that yet? It’s you who's got your name carved into my bones now, Blue. It’s you who's got possession over me. I’m just askin’ ya to give me some relief, and let me try to convince you I’m worth inkin’ onto yours.”
“See, that’s the problem here, Blue. You think this is a game, and it fuckin’ well isn’t. This is life, mine and yours, and I’m tryna tie them together in a way I know in my bones is gonna last if you let it.”
“You think I still don’t write my woman poetry, you’re mad,” he countered. “You get a woman like Cress, you don’t take her for granted for a fuckin’ day.”
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“Faith’s gone, but I have hope for Blue.”
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“Monsters wear all kinds of labels—cops, bikers, politicians. I’ve found it’s how a person acts and not what they associate with that determines their goodness.
“Now in the dark, tomorrow in the light. Painted in neons or sunlight or starlight, you’re mine, Blue. You get me?”
Blue: Are you always this horny? Bones: You can blame yourself for that. It’s gotten so bad I pop a boner when I just see the colour blue.
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we all learned the hard way that life’s painted in shades’a grey instead’a black and white.”
“I think it’s how we all know deep in our bones when we fall for the right person,” he murmured, eyes dark and intent on mine, expression almost harsh with sincerity. “They add colour back to our greyscale lives. Just like you added the colour blue to mine.”
she’s a great girl ’cause’a everythin’ she’s been through. Endurin’ Rooster and Hazard and Otto made her brave and independent and full’a love for the small things in life. It made her the woman I love.”
I wanted to own her blood and bones and be owned that way in return.
“I love you bone deep, Aaron Clare, and if you think I’m going to let my own father or shithead excuse for an absentee husband come after you and your family, you’re an idiot.”
“I’m in love,” I told him. “Head, heart and dick. The trifecta.”
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Fuck the monsters.
“We lost one Fallen woman and almost lost another last year. There’s no fuckin’ way we’re losin’ one on my watch. You get me?”
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