Page 116 of Tank’s Weakness

“Sure you have,” she teases, making everyone laugh.

“How long have you two been friends?” Crow asks.

“We were always in the same class all through school, but we didn’t become friends until middle school,” Delaney tells us.

Erica nods. “It was rough out there. Had to navigate a new friendship with raging hormones. When we made it to the other side, I figured, well, she’s stuck with me now.”

“Oh god. Middle school was the worst. I still have nightmares about it.” Jane shivers as she walks up with the other ladies and their men.

Quickly, Bear introduces Erica to them all as they sit down.

I can see the connection between all the girls forming, and I can’t help but smile. Just another thread to entice my girl to stay.

Fuck, I hope she stays. I hope she doesn’t leave me over letting Acid take the fall and killing her ex.

I’m not sorry, though. I’d do it again every day that ends in Y.

“Hey, why did you go all tense?” she asks quietly, gently pulling on my hair.

Reaching up, I pull her ear toward my mouth and ask the question I’ve been dreading. “Are you going to leave me?” I whisper.

I feel her body twitch, but she doesn’t pull away. She just moves her head to look me in the eye.

“No, I’m not leaving you, Tank. I still want you as much as I did before all of this. But I’m scared you will want to walk away from me. That this has all been too much,” she murmurs.

I pull her even closer. “Baby, not even a herd of wild horses could keep me away from you. I love you. You are my person. My soulmate. I’ll find you in every lifetime, and nothing will ever keep us apart. You hear me?”

Tears well in her eyes. “I love you too.”

Leaning forward, I steal a kiss, which I can’t help but deepen. Well, I try to, but something smacks me in the side of the face.

Pulling away from Delaney, I frown as I look down at the popcorn in my lap. Scanning the crowd, I see Jagger sitting across from us with a smirk on his face and popping popcorn into his mouth.

“Seriously?” I grumble, making everyone laugh.

His smile widens. “It started to get a little heated, so I thought I’d help you out before you caught fire.”

“You’re a dick.”

He shrugs. “But I didn’t want to toss water on you, like someone.”

His eyes cut to Erica.

“Hey, you weren’t supposed to rat me out!” she cries, making everyone laugh again.

Jagger shrugs. “Every man for themselves.”

“We never should have introduced them. They will start plotting against us,” Delaney tells me.

“Eh, I think it will be fine. I don’t see them hooking up.”

Erica hears me and makes a noise in the back of her throat. “Yeah, no. No offense, Jagger, you’re pretty and all, but you aren’t my type.”

He shrugs. “No offense taken.”

Erica gasps. “Did we just become siblings?”

“Oh god. Break them apart. The last thing we need is two of them,” Mac sighs.