by London Casey
“Right,” Lael said. “I’m going to call this a wash, Slade. Nobody fucks with this club and gets away with it. You’ve proven that, even as a brother under pressure, without his cut. That means a lot to me.” Lael put his hand out.
I grabbed it and we shook hands and hugged. He wrapped his massive arm around me and squeezed.
“Go eat up that freedom,” Lael whispered. “Because when that baby comes, you’re fucked.”
We both started to laugh.
Lael then put a hand to my face. “Your loyalty will not go unnoticed, Slade. I’m taking this to the table and will make sure you’re taken care of.”
“I don’t...”
“No. My gift to you? The prospect who fucked you. Slade, I want you to put the bullet in his head.”
With that said, Lael opened the door.
I was a free man... but, fuck, I was so far from free...
(OLIVIA)
He held me against the wall and my legs were wrapped around his body. I felt his hand rip at the back of my pants, demanding them off. I wiggled my hips and let him strip me so he could get to me. I listened to the sound of his zipper come undone. It was like we hadn’t seen each other in years. I felt his thick cock touch me and then he was buried deep inside me. I let out a scream and was able to scream as much as I wanted.
Slade kept me right there, against the wall in my living room, and fucked me. Slow, hard, then fast, then slow again. He fucked me until he came and then he walked me to the bedroom.
He placed me on the bed and took off the rest of my clothes.
By the time I stripped him naked, he was getting hard again. Two strokes of my hand and he was back to life.
And that meant he was going to fuck me again.
Slade ran the washcloth down my back as I held my hair up. I couldn’t stop myself from getting turned on. Everything he did to me turned me on. Even when he was being gentle and romantic Slade would forever be my rough outlaw.
“You don’t have to go with me,” he said.
“Impossible. I have to be there.”
“You’re not coming onto the lot, Liv.”
“Then I’ll wait on the back of your motorcycle out front. I don’t care. I’m not missing this.”
Truth was, I was terrified.
Today was the day Slade got his leather cut back from the MC. That would make him a full-time patched in member again. That put him in the crosshairs of police and enemies. I hated it but I respected what Slade wanted to do. Plus, he had given me a newspaper with four apartments circled. I couldn’t believe that we were going to be able to pick out a place to live together. A place where I’d get bigger with the baby and a place where we’d take the baby home for the first time.
Our place. Our family.
I wanted to see every apartment with him. I wanted to find the perfect one with him. What I didn’t want was the MC in the background of our lives. Was that so much to ask?
Sensing my worries, Slade turned me around. The water hit my back. He dropped the washcloth and then grabbed my face.
“Liv, do you trust me?”
“You know the answer to that.”
“Then know I would never do anything to harm our family. Whatever happens today will shape the rest of our lives. We’ve gotten this far. No turning back, right?”
“I would never turn back, Slade.”
“Then you have nothing to worry about.” Slade then dropped down to one knee. He took my hand and just remained there, smiling up at me. “I’m just grabbing the washcloth, beautiful.”
“Yeah?”
“But I wanted to get a feel for this. You know, to ask you something when we’re not naked.”
“Wow, talk about teasing a girl’s heart,” I said.
Slade let my hand go and touched my waist. He pulled at me, making me yell. He kissed my lower belly and kept going. The tip of his tongue slicing down to my mound and then between my legs. My knees bent and I thrust, groaning at the feel of his tongue against my clit.
He then looked up at me. “I don’t tease, Liv. I take care of everything.”
He grinned at me and went right back to work.
I dug my hands into his hair and put my head back into the hot water... it was fucking heaven.
(SLADE)
I stood in front of the table. It was a full table. All these men staring at me, they were my brothers, I theirs. I put my hands to my seat. My leather cut was on the table in front of me.
“First question,” Ace said, “how’s the baby?”
“Good,” I said. “She’s still pregnant. Long road though.”
“Family is important,” Raven said.
“Family is everything,” Lael said. “Which is why you’re not grabbing at that leather cut right now, right?”
I reached down and touched the leather cut. My hand wrapped around it and I lifted it up.
“What you guys have here is something nobody could ever understand. I spent years with this club running favors and helping. You wanted me patched in and I took the honor without the truest of intentions. I did it to distract myself from what was waiting. And what was waiting is still waiting. My girl, Liv. And now my baby.” I put the leather cut back down. I swallowed hard. “Lael, you said you had a favor in line for me. You wanted me to put a bullet in the head of the prospect that ratted us out. I can’t do that. I won’t do that. You’re the one who should do it. I would never turn on this MC, leather cut or not. My heart is what matters. And this is what my heart wants... I want what I had before. If I ride through, I’ll be here to help. Something big goes down, you know I’m good for my word. But to sit here and vote... to go on rides to attack enemies I don’t know... I can’t do it. I have my place now.” I looked at Lael. I felt the emotion wash over me. “So I’m asking you, Lael, my President, my brother, to forgive my decision to accept this leather cut. To fill this seat with someone who belongs here.”
The room was silent.
Dead silent.
It was risky to ask to walk away from the MC. Usually Lael would kill rather than let someone walk. And if that someone did walk, they were cut out for good.
“I vote yeah,” Ace said. He stood up. “We’ve been relying on Slade for years. He’s our brother. He has a chance to earn straight and live straight with his girl and their baby. I forever vote yeah for Slade.”
Lael looked at Major. “What about you?”
Major looked at me. “There’s shame in leaving a brotherhood. But you’re not leaving, Slade. You’re just doing something different. I vote yeah.”
The entire table then spoke up, all of them standing, voting in my favor.
When it came time for Raven, he slowly rose up. He nodded and put his hand up and waved.
The votes were nice but meant shit because this was Lael’s decision.
So now it was Lael’s turn.
He could tell me to take the cut and take my seat. He could tell me to take a bullet. Or he could leave me hanging for the rest of my life.
He pointed at me. “Slade was ripped from his old lady’s arms. He had to look at her stomach, knowing there was a baby in there. He was cuffed and tossed into an interrogation room. He was bullied and then left in a cell to rot away. And never once did he question his loyalty to this club. That means the loyalty to everyone here. To you, Raven. To you, Callum. To you, Major. To everyone. To our friends and our families. To our mothers, fathers, brothers. When I asked him about serving a prison sentence he only hoped we would have gotten him protection on the inside. That’s it. It’s unheard of to let this happen, but I agree with everyone at this table.” Lael then looked at me. “Slade, you leave that leather cut on the table. Go get your old lady and live a good life. We go back to our previous relationship. I am in favor of that because I trust you, Slade.” Lael made a fist and touched his heart. “You’ll forever be our brother.”
Lael grabbed the gavel and cracked it off the table.
Everyone erupted into cheers and rushed me
. They tackled me down, screaming at me.
I guess it was their version of saying goodbye and good luck.
When I stepped out of the gates, Liv jumped into my arms. They clicked shut behind me as I spun her around. I put her on her feet and put my forehead to hers.
“I’m free of this,” I said. “All of it. You have nothing to worry about, Liv.”
“Just surviving,” she said.
“I already told you... Jack is hooking us up. I’m going to take over his auto shop. All those junkers are mine now to fix up, sell, and earn. You have nothing to worry about. I swore to you... and I kept it.” I placed a hand to her stomach. “Now let’s go find a place to live. Together.”
“As a family,” she whispered.
“As a family,” I said. “We’ve made peace with Owen. Your mother is in good care of doctors. The road ahead is going to be bumpy, hard, and sometimes dark. But you’ll always have me.”
I gently kissed her lips. The greatest lips I’d ever tasted and ever would taste. Liv had been the one from the day I was a punk bad ass teenager throwing a rock through the window of a diner. I was angry. I was full of hate. But the wash over feeling of love was so intense.
And that’s what Liv gave to me from just one kiss.
Imagine how amazing the rest of our lives were going to be...
THE END
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
First electronic edition October 2016
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