“I love it. Christ, the view! It’s great.”
“I’m glad. You don’t hate living where you work?”
“You know I love my job. Besides, there’s security. In my old place, I had to have five locks on the door just to feel okay closing my eyes at night.”
We finished eating and walked back to work. My mind wandered to the gift Cane had given me a week ago for my twenty-seventh birthday. He’d made a huge production of making sure all the club members were there and decorating the outside of the garage with colorful streamers and balloons. Then he’d opened it, and sitting in the middle of the freshly cleaned floor was an FXR4 limited edition Harley Davidson, exactly like the one my father had given me and I’d had to sell in order to make it on my own.
I’d cried like a baby, with all my friends slapping my back and hugging me and Nick throwing glitter at me. It was the best gift I’d ever gotten.
My mother hadn’t contacted me since I’d sent her the letter. I knew she received it because she cashed the check. Occasionally, I still felt guilty about cutting her off like I had, but each time Cane assured me I shouldn’t, I became a little more sure of myself. It helped that I’d contacted her neighbor and heard my mother was seeing someone.
Back on the top floor, Nick went to his desk. Cane had returned from his meeting with the board members, and I slipped into his office and shut the door while he finished up a telephone call. Standing behind him, I massaged his shoulders and kissed the top of his head until he disconnected.
“You’re distracting me,” he said, swiveling in his chair and pulling me onto his lap.
I laughed and wrapped my arms around him, kissing him thoroughly.
“I missed you. Nick and I went and had Japanese for lunch.”
Cane buried his face in my neck. “Mm. That’s why you smell so good.”
“I brought you some Shabu-shabu,” I said, picking up the bag I’d set on the floor.
Cane’s face lit up. “You’re the best.”
I climbed off his lap and took the meal out for him so he could eat at his desk, then I sat across from him. We chatted and just enjoyed looking at and being with each other. When I thought about months ago, when I’d been driving my motorcycle across country thinking I’d have to get over Cane Winters or never be myself again, I couldn’t have imagined I’d be where I was today. God, I was just so over-the-moon happy. Cane was all I’d ever wanted. He was everything I’d thought he was underneath the facade he’d kept up in an attempt to keep people away, and I counted my blessings every single night as I lay in bed with him, making love to his gorgeous body.
After years of unhappiness, being rejected by my mother and feeling guilty over my father’s death, I had achieved my heart’s desire. And I was never letting him go. People like Karl Bruder thought they owned the world. But their black hearts were incapable of feeling the best life had to offer. I was glad Bruder had fallen. I had Cane, and that’s all I really cared about. For me, he’s all there was.
THE END.
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Rebecca James grew up reading and writing and, not too surprisingly, majored in English literature. Her husband once told her she lived in a fantasy world. He wasn’t wrong. Rebecca is a Scorpio and has three grown children.
Books by Rebecca James
CONTEMPORARY
The Hedonist MC series
The Ballerino and the Biker
The Pet Stylist and the Playboy
The Brat and the Bossman
The Survivor and his Safe Place
The Hacker and his Heart’s Desire
The Diva and his Daddy (Coming soon)
PARANORMAL
The River Wolf Pack series
First Omega
Second Alpha
Third Mate
The Angel Hills series
Omega Arrival
Ripples of Threat
The Cascade City Pack series
An New Beginning
Breaking the Bonds
SCI-FANTASY
The Wolves of Daos 5
Teresias Bound
OMEGAVERSE
The Alpha’s Forbidden Omega
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