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“Don’t hold your breath.”
I exit the SUV and enter the house like I’m marching to death row.
My hand rests on the doorknob, and I look back at Creed.
He sees me and exits the vehicle.
No words pass between us as he stalks toward me. His lips meet mine, frantic and starved. The dirty biker kisses me like he’s drowning and I’m his salvation.
I should stop him, but I don’t.
“I won’t tell a soul, beautiful. You deserve to get yours, too.”
The two of us push through the front door a tangle of fingers and tongues.
“Which way?” his voice comes out husky and desperate.
“Down the hall.”
I try not to think about the fact that I’m crossing a line, but Smoke already drove all over it with his Harley and stomped my heart with his boots.
“I don’t have many regrets. If could go back to that night, I would have treated you better.”
“Show me now,” I demand, sealing our fate with a kiss I can never come back from as he lays me down in the bed I’ve shared with another man for months. A man I thought one day I would marry. A bed I thought we’d make babies in. But it was all lies.
“You are so damn beautiful, Ember.”
“You’re not so bad yourself.” I stare up at this massive man as he looms over me, ready to make me forget the worst night of my life.
“You have no idea how many times I’ve jerked myself off to thoughts of you, knowing it was wrong because you belonged to another man.”
“Not anymore.”
“Fuck. I can’t wait to be inside you.”
“Then stop waiting.” I tug at his jeans as he kicks his shoes off.
I push every worry from my mind and stop feeling anything except the weight of him pressing me onto the mattress as he kisses me breathless and dizzy, making me forget all about Smoke. Would serve him right if he walked in right about now, but he’s not going to.
I give myself over to Creed even though I shouldn’t while hoping he brags about it tomorrow and Smoke hears every filthy detail.
Two days later
“Get out of bed.” my brother yanks the blanket off me.
“Hey,” I snap, wrestling for my blanket back.
“Have you even showered? Jesus, Ember. It reeks in here. Roane says you’ve missed work for two days straight.”
“Am I fired?”
“You’ll have to ask him that yourself. It’s time to get off your ass and get back to the real world.”
“What’s the point? Smoke’s gone off doing who knows what and with who.”
“I warned you. Told you to have some fun, then get shot of him. I thought he’d be the one to fuck shit up. You just had to kiss T-bird. What did you think he’d do?”
“Not this, and he said it was okay.” My brother doesn’t know about Angel and I’m not going to be the one to tell him. It doesn’t matter now, anyway. Smoke made his choice, and it wasn’t me.
