Black and Blue (Black and Blue Series)

by Khelsey Jackson

  She shook her head, and faced her friend. “Let’s go,” Jamie said and walked toward the car. She turned to look at the house that she had grown up in, and knew this was the last time she would be here.

  “I can keep driving if you want,” Emily said when they pulled out of the driveway.

  “No Henry is what I want.” Jamie beamed at her best friend.

  “Okay let’s get you married.”

  Twenty minutes later, Jamie was biting her bottom lip waiting for Cameo and Kerri to come and get her. They’d told her to wait in the kitchen and they would be back. That was five minutes earlier. She untied her mask and sat it on the table, and stared at it. Her life had changed so much, but she knew that if she had the chance to do anything over differently, she wouldn’t. Jamie looked up when she heard someone clearing their throat.

  Kerri Roarke was standing there hold dark red roses. “I thought you should have some roses to hold.” She walked toward Jamie.

  Jamie smiled at her soon to be mother-in-law, but she didn’t return the smile.

  “I know this will end badly for my son. You should walk away before he is killed. Henry is too blinded by is heart to see what’s at stake here, and it isn’t just his life. It’s the whole revolution as well.”

  Jamie understood why Kerri was worried because she was too. There wasn’t a second when she didn’t worry about it. She closed the distance between them and placed her hands on top of Kerri’s. “Ma’am I have felt alone in this world and if I didn’t have Emily I don’t know how far I would have made it. I was just going through my life, but never stopping to enjoy anything. It was your son that showed me that love isn’t just saying, ‘I love you,’ it’s the way my heart races when I see him or think about him. I love you, doesn’t cover what I am feeling, and I will fight until my last breath for your son.”

  Jamie watched her light blue eyes fill with unshed tears. “All I ever wanted for my son was for him to find what I never did, and he has with you.”

  “Jamie is the best part of me, Mom.”

  < {"2%0">p width="2em">Henry’s voice startled both Jamie and Kerri. She wondered how much he heard of what she said, but with the smile on his handsome face, she was pretty sure he’d heard enough.

  He walked to his mother and wrapped his arms around her to hug her to his chest, and he smiled at Jamie over the top of his mother’s head. “Now I’m lucky enough to be marrying the best part of me.” He put his hand out for her.

  She didn’t have to think twice when she took his hand. “Are you ready to become my husband?” Jamie squeezed his hand, and he beamed at her.

  “You’ll never be alone again,” he said as his mother stepped away and he pulled her to him.

  She placed her empty hand on his chest above his heart. She knew he was wrong. Sooner or later she would be and he must have known what she was thinking because he smiled sadly at her.

  “You will always have my heart with you.” He slowly brought her hand to his lips and brushed them against her knuckles.

  Jamie and Henry walked into the living room where she’d found him the night before talking with everyone. Cameo stood in the front of the fireplace. She was staring at the ground listening to whatever Matthew was saying, sluggishly she nodded. Her bodyguard looked at her and Henry and grinned. She wondered why he and Cameo looked concerned. Jamie turned her head to look at Emily and she was giggling at whatever she and Mike were talking about. Her heart swelled because she knew all of these people were putting themselves at risk and it was all because she’d fallen in love with a Blue.

  “Henry and Jamie, will you two please get up here so we can start?” Cameo voice was loud and made her take her eyes away from her best friend.

  Once again they started walking toward the beautiful blonde hair woman, her bright green eyes were staring at them and her smile was welcoming, but she was hiding something. “We are going to do this short and sweet. I know Henry told me he wanted to say his version of vows to you. Would you like to do that as well, Jamie?”

  She nodded, unsure of what she would say to him.

  Henry took both of her hands and she turned to face him. “Since the first time I saw you in my club, I knew you had to be mine. It didn’t matter to me what color you wore, I wanted you. When you came back the next day and yelled at me, I fell completely in love with you, even knowing our love would be challenging and forbidden. You said love doesn’t describe what you feel for me, and sweetheart I agree it is so much more. Growing up, I never thought it was possible to find what I have found with you, didn’t see it in my future. Thank you for walking into the No B Club, and bringing your light with you, to light up the darkness in my heart. Jamie Moore, you are the love of my life.”

  With every word Henry said, tears filled Jamie’s eyes, because she’d never had someone love her like he loved her. “Oh Henry, I never thought I would find someone that would make everything in my life seem irrelevant. I love everything about you and I know some people will think we are crazy and irresponsible for doing this, but I don’t. No one will ever look at me like you do, and I love that. You are mine as I am yours.”

  Henry grinned down at her; he let go of her hands to take her face in his hands.

  “Henry, you still need to exchange wedding bands,” Cameo said, and it made Jamie giggle. But she remembered she didn’t have a ring for him, and her smile fell.

  “Jamie I have this for you, it belonged to Henry’s father,” Kerri said as she walked up to her. She handed Jamie a black ring, and smiled.

  “Thank you,” she said and felt a lump in the back of her throat grow. She looked back at Henry and he was looking at the ring that she was holding.

  “Henry, repeat after me: I, Henry Benjamin Roarke, take you, Jamie Lynn Moore, to be my wife. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life.”

  He repeated after Cameo, his stunning light blue eyes never leaving Jamie’s.

  “Now Jamie. I, Jamie Lynn Moore, take you, Henry Benjamin Roarke, to be my husband. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life.”

  Jamie smiled at Henry as she spoke past the lump in her throat.

  “Now I want you two to say this together as you put on each other’s rings. ‘With this ring I thee wed’.”

  They did as she said and Jamie smiled as she felt the cool ring slide on the third finger of her left hand.

  “Now you two may kiss, and you’ll be married.”

  Henry didn’t need to be told twice. He took her face in his hands and kissed her. Jamie wrapped her arms around his back and locked her hands together. Slowly his lips moved from hers. She opened her eyes and found him smiling down at her. “I love you, Mrs. Roarke.”

  Hearing her new name made her smile, she loved it. “And I love you, Mr. Roarke.”

  Cameo placed a hand on each of their shoulders. “Henry, why don’t you take your wife and help her out of that dress? I left a white sundress in your room for you, sweetie,” she said and smiled.

  Chapter Fifteen

  First Touch

  Henry stopped Jamie from walking into his house by pulling on her hand. She looked over her shoulder at him, and he was smiling at her. “What?” He didn’t answer her he reached around her and opened the door. She felt his arms as he lifted her and she giggled.

  “I have to carry my wife over the threshold of our house.” Henry rubbed the tip of his nose against hers.

  She loved the man more than he would ever know. She wasn’t good with her words or expressing how she felt, but she loved him passionately. He carefully carried her into the small beautiful house, but she wasn’t looking anywhere but into his eyes. He of course was watching where he was walking, and for once she got to look at him without him looking back. His chin had a deep dimple and little dark hairs were starting to appear on his cheeks and jaw line.

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bsp; Henry walked with her into the bedroom and she felt her heart speed up with what she knew would be happening. He was going to help her take off the dress, and she was so thankful Emily had told her to put on her nice dark blue lacey bra and panty set. Gently he sat her down on her feet, but kept her close to him; he stared down at her with a large grin on his face.

  “I can’t believe how beautiful you are. I feel like I get to unwrap the best present.” He brought his hands to her shoulders and ran the tips of his fingers down her bared arms.

  She shivered at his light touch. She had waited for him to really touch her and now it was going to happen. He put his hands on her hips and pulled her even closer to him until her front was against his. Slowly he lowered his sweet lips to hers, and she groaned when his lips just brushed hers, she wanted more of him.

  Henry placed tender kisses along her jaw line and sucked her earlobe into his scorching mouth. “Turn around,” he whispered into her ear.

  Jamie did what he said, and he started to untie her corset. At that point in time she wanted to tell him to just cut it off of her and to make love to her, but she bit her lip. It had taken Emily almost fifteen minutes to tie her up into the dress. She sent a silent prayer that it didn’t take that long to get it off. Jamie moaned when his lips grazed her now bared shoulder, as his hands still worked on uniting her. And when she felt the weight of the dress fall down around her feet, she turned around, took his face in her hands and smiled up at him.

  “Henry I want you now, please.” Jamie didn’t let him answer. She kissed him and rubbed her tongue on his. He moaned and wrapped his arms around her, holding her to him. Her hands wandered to his back and to the edge of his pants. She pulled his shirt out and started to unbutton his black silk shirt.

  “I want to look at you first.” Henry’s voice sounded deeper than normal, and he took a step back from her.

  She arched her eyebrow at him. Jamie watched his eyes move down to her feet. She still had her death trap heels on. His light blue eyes slowly traveled up her legs to her naked abdomen, to her breasts that were cupped in the dark blue strapless push-up bra.

  He gently caressed her stomach and smiled up at her. “You astonish me with your beauty.” Henry moved his hands to her back to undo her bra, and she went back to removing his shirt. At the top button, he helped her by pulling his arms out of his sleeves and she ran her fingertips down his chest through his hair and settling above his dark happy trail. “We don’t have too much time. My mother and Cameo made us a cake.”

  Jamie smiled at her new husband. “Well then take off your pants, and I will be waiting for you naked on our bed.”

  He gasped at her words and she smiled.

  Unhurriedly she hooked her fingers in her panties and took her time as she pulled them down.

  “Holy crap, I think you are trying to kill me.”

  She laughed, and walked to the bed to remove her shoes. When she looked up at him, he was standing there completely naked, and her mouth went dry. He was fully erect and he was large.

  “I can’t wait to take my time with you but right now I want to be inside you.”

  Jamie leaned back on the bed, and he crawled on top of her, she couldn’t believe she was married to him. She gasped when she felt the tip of him rub against her, and he smiled down at her. He lowered his lips to hers and slowly entered her, making them both groan. Jamie loved the way it felt as he pushed in pulled out. Slowly he repeated that over and over. She felt like she was going to lose it.

  Henry moved his sweet lips away from hers, and left a trail of kisses down her neck and then he slightly bit her.

  She moaned loudly and he did it again. “Henry faster, please,” she said wanting more of him, and he moved faster in and out of her. Each time he would push himself inside her, she could feel her release building. She was so close and she knew he was too, his breath was coming fast.

  “Jamie please come, I can’t last much longer.” His eyes were now a dark blue and that was what undid her, she came around him and he followed.

  Jamie and Henry laid there for a few minutes with his head resting on her chest; she ran her fingers through his thick brown hair and she could still feel him in her.

  “We should get out there,” he said, but she didn’t want to. He didn was. Hight move and neither did she.

  “Henry we don’t have much time to be together do we?” she said, tightening her hands around him. He moved so he could look at her. She saw the sadness in his eyes, and she knew her answer. They didn’t have long, but she wasn’t joking when she said she would fight for him even if it killed her.

  “Let’s appreciate the time we do have.” He sat up and lightly kissed her lips. Naked, he stood up and walked to his closet. He came out with a sweater and jeans. “Your dress is on the chair.” Henry pointed at the chair to her left and she smiled back at him.

  “Henry you know you are the love of my life too, don’t you?” She knew that she needed to tell him, because she had a bad feeling. “And you know I will fight for you, no matter what. You are mine and I will protect what’s mine,” she said as he put on his jeans, and he walked back to the bed and her.

  “Sweetheart, sometimes fighting isn’t an option and I sure as hell don’t want you in danger. I know you can take care of yourself, but I don’t want you to put yourself in danger for me.” He grabbed her chin and rubbed his nose against hers. “Do you understand me?”

  Jamie narrowed her eyes and shook her head. “Hell no, I don’t understand, but you better understand you married a Moore and Moore’s are strong. I won’t back down when I know I can be the one to save you. Do you understand me?” She watched a smile tug at the corner of his lips.

  “You are a fiery redhead and that is what made me fall in love with you. Get dressed, sweetheart.” His lips crashed down on hers and she groaned into his mouth.

  * * *

  Henry walked out of the bedroom with a smile that threatened to split his face. He saw Matthew waiting for him and he wondered how long he’d been standing there, because his Jamie wasn’t too quiet during their love making. “Matt?” he asked as he grabbed a glass.

  “The Black enforcers are on their way. They know, Henry. I already sent my family and your mother away. You and Jamie need to leave now.”

  Henry shook his head. There was no way he was spending the rest of his life with Jamie running from the enforcers. “No, but I need you to promise me something. I need you to make sure Jamie is okay. No matter what happens to me, I need her to be okay and away from harm.” He turned the handle on the sink and filled up his glass with cold water. He took a drink and stared at Matthew.

  Matt nodded slowly. “Of course I will. But I still think you should leave, take the time you two have and enjoy it. It’s not every day you find the loou

  “I’m not going to spend my life with Jamie running.” Henry sat his glass down. “How much longer do I have?”

  Matthew sighed loudly. “About thirty minutes. You know they will arrest her too, right?”

  He’d figured that, but he knew she wouldn’t stay in the tower her father was too powerful. “You will make sure she makes it out of the tower.” He saw something flash in Matt’s pale green eyes. It would seem that his Jamie had cast her spell around Matthew Rich. “I see the way you look at her, Matt, but remember she is mine, and I will hurt you if you touch her.”

  Matthew threw his head back and laughed. “I would love to see you try to hurt me.” They had never really been all that close. Growing up Matt had picked on Henry and Mike because he was two years older.

  “Don’t push me, I’m not a boy anymore and she is my world. If you take her, I might even kill you.” Henry heard his voice tremble. He was terrified that she wouldn’t wait for him.

  “Well I am getting out of here. Someone will need to save her,” Matthew said and turned around to walk away.

  Henry placed both of his hands on the table and let his head hang. He couldn’t believe how complicated his li
fe had gotten, but he wouldn’t change anything. He reached in his jeans pocket to grab his phone.

  After two rings Mike picked up. “Hey, Matt said that the enforcers are coming. Are you and your new blushing bride getting out of there?”

  “No I’m not going to spend the time I have with her running.”

  “You know we could ship both of you to Europe, and then you wouldn’t have to worry what freaking color was around your wrist.”

  Only America wore the stupid bracelets, and he often wondered why his mother hadn’t moved them there. Now he was thankful she hadn’t or he wouldn’t have met Jamie. “Then what would happen with the revolution? You know they need something to push them and I hope with me in the tower that will be enough. Things need to change here, and if I have to die for the cause, so be it.” His chest ached at the thought of never seeing Jamie again, and he knew his death would kill her.