Tyrant (Satan's Angels MC, Book 1), page 23
“Come inside me, Gray, please.” I lasted for no time at all before I got the birth control shot. I can’t stand not having him inside of me bare, finishing inside of me.
He comes wildly, filling me with his warmth.
We tremble together, lost in the release. When I open my eyes, I find his—and they’re verdant, wise, and burning with love. He holds me tight, letting me press my nose against his neck.
“I love you,” I whisper. “I love you so much.”
“Love you, my queen.” He strokes my hair and down my back, but instead of getting sleepy, my brain starts to race again.
The bass flowing from the lounge echoes softly through our room. The very bones of the whole clubhouse are probably vibrating. I sweep a hand, indicating that the world is still going on out there. And fuck, I just remembered that there’s a man standing guard at our door, probably hearing every sound I made.
Flustered, I set my hand on Gray’s cheek to ground myself. “Raiden didn’t look happy.”
He snorts. “How have I not fucked the worry right out of you yet? Didn’t I punish it out of you, or do you need more?”
I roll my eyes, but the sass has gone out of me. What’s left is just worry and he sees that, deflating with me. He gets serious, the playfulness gone.
“He’s as happy as the rest of us, bottled up under pressure. He volunteered for this, and he’ll see it through. You don’t have to worry about him ever forgetting that he’s a member of Satan’s Angels. The marriage is legal, but it won’t be real.”
My doubts about all of this swirl around us as loud as if I’d shouted them.
“Be patient,” he admonishes gently. “You’ve been strong for so long. Just give me a little more time. We all want to get back to our normal lives. We miss working in the shop and going on runs. This interruption in business isn’t good for anyone.”
Guilt laces its way through me, punching holes that gape wider. Gray’s eyes search my face. I blink back tears. “I’m sorry.”
“My father knows us, but we know him too. He might have a few surprises for us, but that works both ways. He took an oath in front of all of his men and that means something.”
“Or it’s part of a scheme that they already know about.”
“When you think about it, there’s no benefit for an established club to come here and wipe us out. The distance is great, so why bother? It’s personal for him and my guess is that there’s only so far they’ll let him take his revenge plan. Having extra money their club doesn’t have to work for and an ally is great, but moving up here for good? I don’t think any of them would go that far. They have their lives, like we have ours.”
“They don’t really know Zale then.”
Gray hesitates for a minute, then responds. “Maybe not. It’s obvious I didn’t, but I trust in the code of the lawless. Some clubs are pure anarchy, every man for himself, but they don’t last long. The rest of us have a set of principles that we live by, and our word is sacred.”
“There’s so many assumptions.”
“There are, but it won’t be like this much longer. I know it’s hard to trust the peace. It’s uneasy and no one likes it, but it won’t last forever.” He strokes my cheek with the pad of his thumb.
“I’m scared,” I admit. “What parent isn’t? You’re like the parent of this whole club. I know it’s unimaginable for you to think of anything happening to anyone here. My doubts are only worries and most of my worries are for you. I can be strong for you, but that strength comes from my love and I’m always going to worry when I see you not sleeping, wearing yourself thin. You’re everywhere all the time and there’s only one of you.”
We’ve been so careful while he’s been healing, and that’s another reason it was incredible to have this tonight. He takes my face between his palms and presses a rough stamp of a kiss to my lips. I groan at the taste of him, whiskey and smoke.
“Thank you for choosing this life. Thank you for sticking with me even through your worst fears coming true.”
“There’s no one else for me.” I grasp his wrist and press my fingers to his pulse point, thrilled at how strong it thrums under his tanned skin. “There never has been. My worst nightmare is losing you, but I didn’t. I won’t. We’re here and we’ll always give as good as we get. You’re mine and my body and soul are property of James Gray Tyrant Grand.” I stroke up his thick forearms, tracing the veins that stand out, playing over the crisp hairs. “I know we have to go back out there, but just stay here with me for a minute and let me hold you.”
Anything I ask, he’d give me, even if it was impossible, but it speaks loudly to how exhausted he is, that he sweeps his feet up onto the bed, boots and all. He closes his eyes and sighs deeply when I kiss his forehead. I rest mine against his until our breaths come in tandem.
There’s so much more coming for us, a plan I don’t know the details of and can only imagine. There’s a lot of faith in the unknown. Gray’s been tearing himself apart to put us back together. I smooth a hand through his long hair, stealing this moment just for us. All we might have is a single minute, but it’s ours, here in our clubhouse, in the privacy of our own badass biker world. It’s a dangerous, risky, scary, hard living life, but it’s full of more love and beauty than I ever could have known. I used to think Gray was just running a club, carving out a powerful space in the world where money, leather, and loud bikes were the law, but now I realize it’s not about that at all. It’s about brotherhood and family, fighting for the man beside you, and loving impossibly hard.
When it comes to doing all of that, Gray is more than a president. He’s a king.
I don’t have words for the honor of being his queen, so instead, I pour it all into him with my touch, my closeness, my heat, my body, and every beat of my heart.
THE END
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