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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.”
“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.”
That might have been the moment I realized he was more dangerous than the tatts and experienced fighting already made him seem. Because a man who could make a woman smile on demand was a special kind of magic, one I wasn’t sure I was strong enough to resist even though I’d vowed to stay out of trouble.
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“The only way I’m ruinin’ this is by tryin’ to ruin you for other men. I’m thinkin’ you should be mine alone.”
“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.”
“I’m not some frat boy or Otto fuckin’ Fuck Up you gotta worry about protectin’ or protectin’ yourself from. I’m a brother’a The Fallen fuckin’ MC, the baddest club in the fuckin’ nation, and I can not only safeguard myself from my enemies, but I sure as fuck can keep you safe from yours. You only hafta ask me, and I’d burn down the fuckin’ world for you.”
“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
“Love you, girly. Don’t lose faith,” he joked as he always did. “I already have,” I murmured, half-asleep. “Faith’s gone, but I have hope for Blue.”
“I wasn’t expecting you tonight.” “Couldn’t stay away,” I admitted with a little shrug. “’S been two full days since I saw you, and that’s too fuckin’ long.”
“Won’t promise not to love you and definitely won’t promise not to try my fuckin’ damnedest to make you love me, but I fuckin’ swear it, Blue,” I promised, solemnly. “You won’t lose me if you don’t wanna.”
“Respectfully, Grouch, she’s a great girl ’cause’a everythin’ she’s been through.
“If I gotta go to hell and back, fight the fuckin’ devil himself, sacrifice every one’a my sins or my life itself, I’ll do it. You think you’re more trouble than you’re worth, but you gotta understand, I’ve always been the kinda man who’s not afraid to ask for trouble if it’s worth the effort, and there’s no doubt in my mind keepin’ you safe and loved is worth it all.”
