by Simone Elise
“Which room is yours?” I said, my lips barely from hers.
“Ummm…” She frowned. She looked so cute, and it wasn’t helping that her breasts were rising and falling sharply with her breathing as she thought.
“Sweetheart, you’re killing me. We need a room.”
“Door at the end, I think.” She frowned again, looking more adorable. “Cole put my suitcase in my room and I wasn’t paying attention.”
“I think your brothers will kill me if they hear I had sex with you in one of their beds.” I smirked from just thinking about their reaction, and walked to the door at the end.
“They mightn’t come home tonight.”
“I hope they don’t.” With what I was planning on doing to her, it was best no one was in the house.
I twisted the handle to the door, and opened it up. Her suitcase was at the end of the bed.
“Looks like you got the right room,” I said, slightly deflated that I wouldn’t be doing one of her brother’s worst nightmares.
She yawned. “Good. No brothers walking in on my one night stand.”
“We aren’t having a one night stand.”
She gave me a look to say that was all I was capable of.
“We aren’t!” I snapped at her. “When are you going to realize I’m seriously in love with you?”
She yawned again.
“You’re tired.” I stated the obvious. I should be putting her to bed. As much as I wanted to make love to her, she needed sleep. Maybe after a solid night’s sleep back in the same country as me, she would wake up in the morning realizing how much I loved her.
“What are you doing?” she said, as I lowered her onto the bed. I then let go of her. Grabbing the blankets which were already pulled back, I pulled them over her.
“Putting you to bed.” I kissed her forehead. “I’ll come back in the morning.”
She locked her arms around my neck. “You aren’t really leaving, are you?”
“I’ll be back in the morning.” As soon as she was awake, I’d be back. “I promise.”
I pried her arms from the deadlock around my neck, and lowered her arms to the bed.
“I promise when you wake up, I’ll be back.” I ran a hand through my hair. It was going to nearly kill me to leave her like this. I kissed her forehead again, needing to.
I went to leave her but her hand wrapped around mine, stopping me. I frowned, looking at her hand now locked around mine.
“Then why leave?” She sat up, and yawned again.
“You want me to stay?”
We had never once just slept in the same bed.
She nodded her head, confirming what I thought couldn’t be possible. She wanted me to stay. My five minutes had turned into a full night with her.
“Are you going to stay or not?” She sighed. “You don’t have to. I know you don’t do that. Just sleep with someone.” She yawned again. “You can go,” she said, deflated, and let go of my hand, like she had made up my mind for me, and laid back down.
I moved across the room and heard her mutter something, but didn’t catch it. I turned the light off and closed the door.
I walked back to the bed. The curtains were open, so I could make out her figure and the fact that she had her eyes shut, and had rolled onto her side.
I got into the other side, my arm slipping under her head.
“Jax?” She sounded alarmed.
“Who else do you think it would be?” I kissed her bare shoulder and, with my other arm wrapped around her, I pulled her back to me.
“I thought you left.”
“Like I would leave you.” Had she not listened to a word I had said tonight?
“It’s early, you don’t have to go to sleep.” Her hand ran down my arm, stopping over the hand I was holding her with.
“I don’t care.” Having an early night wouldn’t kill me. Actually, my body needed one, with the lack of sleep I was running on.
She turned in my arms. “You don’t sleep over. Even when we were on the road, we didn’t share a room.” Her fingers ran across my jaw and I pulled her in, not settling until her head was on my chest.
“I always wanted to, but your brothers were always in the way.” My hand ran down her bare back.
“And what, they aren’t anymore?”
“I’m never letting anyone get in my way again when it comes to you.”
She sighed. “I’ll believe that when I see it.”
“Just go to sleep.”
“If you leave, I’ll understand.”
I kissed the top of her head. “Not leaving.” And I wasn’t leaving her now. Not now. Not ever. “Amber?”
“Um?” She was nearly asleep.
“I love you.”
“I know.”
My eyes went wide. “You know?” She had said earlier she would know if I loved her. She hadn’t believed me. What had changed?
“How?”
“I saw it in your eyes.” She moved over me, until she was straddling me. “When you said you would be my friend.”
“You saying you believed me when I said I’d be your friend?” I couldn’t believe that is what made her see it. Her mind was twisted.
“Yep.” She lowered her mouth to my ear. “Want to know a secret?”
I rolled my eyes. She was sounding more like her normal self. Her and her games. I gripped her waist and flipped her over, her back sinking into the bed.
My mouth went to her ear and I felt her skin shiver. “When it comes to you, I want to know everything.”
She wrapped her arms around my neck and pulled my head down to hers. “I want to revisit those girlfriend rules.”
Was she saying? Wait a sec… surely not? Had I got her back? I leaned over to the bedside table and turned the lamp on, needing to read her expression.
She was squinting from the light for a second.
“What do you mean by that?” I asked. “Are you saying…?” My words dried up, not believing my luck.
She smiled. “You’re speechless.”
I nodded my head. She made me speechless because the thought of getting her back had me speechless. I was going to wait until she was ready. I was going to take her slow but, at the same time, as fast as I could - as fast as she would let me.
I cleared my throat. “So, you want to be…” I needed my brain to work. It had stopped functioning properly as soon as she said the word girlfriend.
“Your girlfriend?” She finished my sentence.
I nodded my head.
She frowned for a second. “I don’t know if I have a heart anymore but whatever I have left,” she paused and the honesty in her eyes had me “well, you can have it.”
“You have a heart.” I leaned down and kissed her just over her heart. “I’ll prove it to you.” I smirked. “I think I want to add a few things to the girlfriend rule list.”
“Well, we can’t sneak between rooms anymore. It’s not like you live here.”
“We need to fix that.” I couldn’t be apart from her. “You should move out.”
“I just moved in! It’s literally my first night here.”
“Fine, I’ll just live here.”
“You can’t just move in!”
“Watch me.” I kissed her cheek, and my hand started to wander down that perfect body of hers. “New rule. We don’t sleep apart.” I had only had a small taste of what it would be like to sleep with her, and it was fair to say, I was not spending a night away from her, unless it was forced.
“I want boyfriend rules.” She nibbed my bottom lip.
I smirked. “You setting rules. Now, that’s funny.”
“I’m serious!”
“Ok, then name one rule.” I rolled on to my side, and she turned to face me, that adorable smile I fell in love with on her face.
“One rule. There is only one boyfriend rule,” she said matter of factly.
“Ok. I can stick to one rule. What is it?” I was interested in what she had come up with.
“You can’t just kill women that touch me!”
“No, I said women YOU touch, and you left out the part about it being at my hand.”
I rolled my eyes. “You aren’t killing anyone.”
“It’s what I’ve been doing. I’m actually very good at it.”
“I know.” I gave her a pointed look. “And it’s stopping.”
“You always were protective. More protective than my brothers.” She put her hand under her head. “I’ll stop when I’m allowed to.”
“You aren’t working for Tae anymore.”
“I don’t want to have a fight so back to the rules. My one rule. You touch her, she dies.” She ran a hand over my chest “By my hand,” she added smugly.
She looked like she wasn’t backing down on this. I couldn’t simply walk around giving women the mark of death if I touched them!
“We do my one rule, and I’ll follow any of yours.” She seductively licked along my jaw. “Any rule you set.” Suddenly, she didn’t seem so tired.
I groaned. “Anything?”
“Anything.” She looked at me smugly.
“So, if I wanted a mandatory weekend sex marathon, every weekend, Friday through to Sunday, you would be up for it?”
“I’ll be naked and ready,” she kissed my lips, “Every weekend.”
I groaned. That was even worse, knowing she was up for anything. One rule. I could follow one rule. I never followed rules. Always made sure to break them. Every rule that was given to me, I was hell bent on breaking.
“You’re being unreasonable,” I blew out as she kissed down my neck.
“One rule Jax, just one rule.”
“Yeah, one rule that gives you the right to kill women!”
“Only women you touch.” She moved over me, straddling me. “You keep saying you love me. So why would you be touching another woman?”
She had a point. “What is the definition of touch? What if I brushed her arm?”
“I’m not that petty!” She scoffed. “God, if that was the case, I’d be taking people out in the supermarket!”
“Fine then, what is your definition?”
“If your hand so much as lingers on her breast or ass, she’s dead…. and I have a question.” She sat up, looking rather determined.
“Weren’t you tired?” I arched my eyebrows at her.
“I’ve passed exhaustion. It’s a recurring pattern lately. Tae’s been having me work at night, and if I don’t get to sleep within a small window, I won’t sleep for the day.”
“How long have you been awake?”
“Don’t know.” She shrugged and her looked sharpened. “I still have that question.”
“Fine sweetheart, hit me with it.” I would answer any question she had.
Her face soured and she blew out hotly. “Cole told me something.”
I grunted. Well, this was off to a great start. “What shit has Cole been filling you with?”
“He said…” She chewed on her bottom lip. “You and Mai had a special relationship; that I needed to respect that your way of life comes with women who you have special relationships with.”
I frowned. Mine and Mai’s relationship was not special! I just trusted her.
“How many other women are there that you have a special relationship with Jax?” she asked, sounding slightly anxious to know the answer.
“I didn’t have a special relationship with Mai.” I wanted to make that fact clear.
She looked me in the eye and that pain that was in her eyes at the airport, well, it was back. “You trusted her more than you did me.” Her eyes dropped to my chest like she couldn’t look me in the eye for a second longer.
“I fucked up, Amber. I should have trusted you. Not her.”
She wouldn’t look up.
“It won’t happen again.” I had learned my lesson. You don’t trust women. Well, that wasn’t completely true. I could trust one woman and I think she needed to hear that. “From now on Amber, you are the only woman I trust. All women do is give me a fucking headache.” And if I had her, I didn’t need, nor would I ever would need, another woman.
Realizing that made me see her one rule wouldn’t kill me.
I sat up, holding her to me. She still wouldn’t look me in the eye. I lifted her head up, her eyes still on my chest.
“That one rule you want,” I said, and her eyes sprung up to look at me. “I agree to it.”
“Really?”
“Yep.” I kissed her cheek. “As far as I’m concerned, if I’m doing that shit, you should be pointing the gun at me.”
She grinned and then her grin fell.
“What’s wrong?” I said watching her grin of delight going to unsure within a second.
“You didn’t answer my question.” She chewed on her bottom lip. “How many girls are an exception to that rule?”
“I told you the only woman I trust is you.”
“I didn’t ask that,” she snapped. “I asked how many women you have a connection with; like you did with Mai. You dropped everything for her.” She sighed. “Even me.” She went and pushed herself off me, and I gripped her, forcing her to stay put.
“I trusted Mai. That was it; and she has paid the price of breaking my trust.” I stopped her from getting off me again. The subject of Mai brought back bad memories for me, so I was sure it was bringing up bad memories for her as well. “So, the answer to your question is zero. I don’t have a connection, or whatever Cole called it, with any other woman.”
Amber looked me back in the eye, “So, there is no exception to the rule?”
“The only woman I want is you.” My eyes dropped to her side, seeing my name tattooed right there.
“Can I tell you something?” she sounded sheepish, so I looked back at her. I read her expression; she had done something.
“What did you do?” I sighed.
“I may have made a call,” she smiled, “and got Mai’s connections cut.”
“How could you, when I did that?”
“What? You banned her from the club?” Amber said, slightly alarmed. Like I wouldn’t do that.
I nodded my head. “Not to mention what else I did.” I had made it my mission to make sure Mai suffered for what she had done. She’d cost me Amber.
“Well, I got Grant to cut his own daughter off,” she said smugly. “He didn’t have a heart attack by the way.”
“Yeah, Mai spat that out after you left.”
“Yeah, well I actually was worried about Grant so I called and told him what happened.”
“I see you called him, but wouldn’t call me.” It still bugged me that she hadn’t picked up my phone calls that night. If she had, I could have explained what had happened. Could have started begging for her to take me back then, starting that night.
“You didn’t want me then.”
“I called you an endless number of times that night Amber. You never picked up.”
She frowned. “I’ve learned you can’t change the past, but you can change the future.” She linked her hands with mine. “So, how about we leave the past where it is. I won’t bring Mai up again, if you don’t.”
I liked the idea of that. I nodded my head. “We’ll focus on our future.” I loved the idea of having a future with her. I smirked. “New rule. You answer every one of my phone calls.”
“That might be hard!”
“Another rule. If you have a problem, you come to me, not your brothers.”
“Again, that’s going to be hard!” She pulled her eyebrows together. “Why are you making such hard rules?”
“How’s not going to your brothers when you need help hard?”
“Well, I don’t go to them to begin with,” she said, and from the tone of her voice, she thought I was threatening her relationship with them.
“You let them handle your problem with Blake. That should have been a problem you were telling me.”
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br /> “Well, you weren’t my boyfriend this morning and that rule didn’t exist,” she said smugly, and leaned forward, quickly kissing my lips. “So I get out of that one.”
“Fine, but from now on?”
“I come to you.” She rolled her eyes.
“Repeat that.”
“I come to you!” She did just as she was told. “Happy?” Both her manicured eyebrows arched up.
“Nearly, but I have more rules.”
She sighed. “I’m going to regret ever saying I’d follow anything, aren’t I?’
“You only answer to me. No-one else.”
“I like that one,” she smiled.
“I’m in control,” I said.
“Well, that one didn’t need to be a rule.” She rolled her eyes. “You’re always in control Jax.”
“When it comes to sex, and everything else, my word is law. Understand?”
She nodded her head.
Now to the fun rules. “Every time we have sex, you come a mandatory of twice.”
“Is this shower sex, or bedroom sex, or a quickie?”
“Whenever we have sex. I don’t stop until you come at least twice.”
“You can’t have that rule!”
“You said you would follow any rule I set,” I smirked. She was really going to regret saying that.
“Yeah, I did say that.” She nodded her head. “Fine. You can have me coming twice. IF you can get me there.”
“I’ll get you there.” My hands paused on the back of her bra. “You tired still?”
She shook her head. “Why?”
I unclipped her bra, giving her a clue to what I was thinking.
She threaded her arms out of it and dropped it on the floor. My eyes were glued to her. God, she was perfect. I had never loved a pair of breasts more than hers.
“New rule. You sleep topless.” I flipped her over, seeing her smile. “Every night,” I added.
“What if you aren’t with me?”
“I’ll always be with you.”
“What if you are on a run or crash at the clubhouse for a night?”
“You’ll be coming, and I won’t be. Cause one of the rules is we make love every night.”
“You really enjoying fucking me that much?” She looked at me like it was impossible.
My hands started to pull her G-string off. “Every night, I want a good dose of you and we don’t stop until I say so.” I would never get enough of her. Every night I wanted her. “Naked and in my bed, every night.”