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“Please don’t think this has anything to do with you. I just wasn't ready for a relationship when we met. This is all on me, babe.” He drops the shoe and steps over to kneel in front of me where I sit on the edge of the bed.
Tonight, I curled my long, natural, copper hair and applied my makeup slightly darker than usual, but not too dramatic.
wonder if the girls would approve of me wearing sweats to the bar? Probably not. I choose a black, oversized band tee that hits a little below my butt, with a black, long-sleeved turtle neck underneath and black, thigh-high boots with a chunky heel. No
The drive through The District is short, and I watch the groups of people walking to the restaurants for dinner or the bars for happy hour. Some college students are walking into the local bookstore, and others are starting games of giant Janga or cornhole in the outdoor bar, Yardies.
“How’s your first year of law school, Allie?” “Brutal.” Allie sighs, passing around our drinks. “Are you and the doctor still boning?”
ear. Allie scrolls through her phone. “I know some guys from The Outlaws that owe me a favor.
“You need to stop worrying about my love life and get yourself laid, it's been way too long, girl!” Sophie laughs and just like that, the somber mood is lifted and I have my carefree best friend back.
“You looked like you could use a refill, so I got you a drink.” His smile doesn't reach his golden eyes.
His light eyes are burning and his nostrils are flared. He’s slightly taller than the prick squeezing my arm, probably 6’2”, and his blonde hair blows slightly in the wind, the hair on top of his head longer than on the sides. He stalks closer, and I can feel the anger radiate from him. He’s stunning.
“I hate to break it to you, asshole, but I don't think she’s interested,” I bark at the jock.
“The Devil’s Outlaws,” curves above it and “Washington” reads below it. What the fuck am I doing? Living on the edge. Doing something sweet, innocent, predictable Reese wouldn't normally do.
I should have taken his hands. I wish you could have heard him scream, Reesey.
“I slept with a criminal and then he went and almost killed someone after he dropped me off at home, or he had his thug friends do it.”
“But I don't think they are any harm to you, Reese. He was defending you and probably saving future girls that wouldn't have been lucky enough to get away from him.”
over to the man and bends over in front of him. “Care to share who sent you to spy on the Outlaws?” He places his hands on the armrests, making himself eye level with his prisoner.
“Yeah, me either. What was it you said? ‘I don't do sleepovers.’”
“If you keep looking at me like that, Red, I’m going to decline this call, spread you out over this bed, and fuck you until you forget your own name.”
“Red, I don't want you freaking out while I'm gone; you should come.”
him. “You look good down on your knees.” He laughs and slides a finger inside of me and I jolt with excitement. “Don't get used to it, Red.”
loving them; how could you just give up on them? Callum isn't a bad guy; he saved me from a handsy guy at the bar, and volunteered to watch out for me from my creepy stalker. He may be a criminal—the jury is still out on that one—but he isn't a bad guy. I've met bad people, and Callum isn't one of them, and as far as I'm concerned, the Devil’s Outlaws aren't either.
“Ride me like you own me, Red.”
“I want to know every part of you, even the darkest, most painful parts of your being.”
will happily spend the rest of my life making up for that asshole's mistakes and making sure you love your life again. I will never betray your trust, Red.”
“When I first saw you at Mickey’s, I couldn’t think of anything except for how the room seemed to stand still and you turned my world upside down. You made me trust, and believe, and hope for the first time in months, and you can’t just leave me before we’ve even got to begin.” I hear sirens in the distance. Finn starts banging his fists on the door. “Your eyes hold the universe in them and you have no idea of the spell you put me under every time you look at me. I hope you forgive me for not telling you how I felt when you told me you loved me today, maybe you didn't even mean to say it, but
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“I’d never seen such peace or beauty in a person until I saw you look out over those mountains. You changed me. I never thought I would open myself up to anyone again except for my brothers, but you came along and you changed everything for me. So for better or worse. With or without you. I wanted to remember the way you looked out over the mountains and a reminder that there's real beauty and peace in this world.”
“Be selfish, Reese. I am. I’m choosing to love you over anything else because you are the most important thing in my life. I love you no matter what it does to me, Red. I love you whether you hate me or it gets me killed. I would bleed out on the floor for you and it still wouldn’t be enough, so stop fighting it and tell me you love me too.”
“You have my fucking heart, Red, always have, and if you leave with it again you’re gonna kill me.”
box from his back jeans pocket and I suck in a gasp. “I want to marry you, Reese Thomas. I want to marry you in front of our friends and family. I want you on the back of my bike, burning my meals, carrying my kids for the rest of my life. I want you forever, as my best friend, my Old Lady, my wife, and eventually the mother of my children.” I don't know when the tears started, but I finally noticed them falling when he finished. “It feels like I've loved you for my entire life, and I'll love you long after it ends. Will you marry me, Red?”
