Page 56 of Bleed Me

“Unfortunately, yes.”

I sulked. “Damnit.”

Quietly, she voiced, “The baby.”

If I hadn’t already been sitting on the immersed rock, I would have sunk to the bottom and stayed there, past the point of needing more air. I wasn’t accustomed to hearing her sad. Strong, determined, stubborn as fuck? Yes. Sad? No. It made my stomach twist into a heavy knot. “Babe, I’m so sorry.” I stared at her flat stomach, wondering how beautiful she would be if it were her pregnant with my kid. Is that something I even want? “Maybe I could have that with you someday.”

Her hand slid to her belly, but she said nothing.

“Give me a chance to make this up to you. I just need time to mentally catch up to yet another crazy chapter in my life.”

“Relax. I’m a Road Captain of an MC. Getting pregnant will never be in my cards.”

It’s sad, but that calmed me. I was pretty much with a non-professional diagnosis of being insane. Bringing a child into the world was stressing me, not the joy expected by most.

She smiled to the sky. “Maybe that’s the miracle of Saph. We might get to hold a baby, James Gunn Dalton, provide and love the shit out of the kid, yet still have our way of life.”

This woman is the other half of my soul.

She giggled. “I’m making you fall in love with me, ain’t I?”

“Yeah, babe. You’re kinda fucking killing me over here.”

“I will never forget that first day I saw you.” Appearing as peaceful as I had ever seen her, Justice gently swirled her arms through the water while she stared at the clear blue sky.

I stared at her burgundy laced breasts, wet and succulent, while remembering that day at the compound. Her sitting on her Harley like a queen of the club. “You blew me away.”

Her moving arms caused her body to slowly make a circle as if remembering… “You kept turning, in that lost circle, so overwhelmed.”

I blew out air, not even liking to think back to that desperate moment. “But then I saw you.”

“Yeah, I found you, but the truth is, you found me, too.”

“Thank God.”

“What was that? I don’t know. There was just this immediate… pull to you.”

“A fuckin’ miracle, if ya ask me.”

Her eyes closed as if swooning like a girl. So unlike Justice. “You looked so young, but your eyes screamed wisdom.” As one of her circles made it possible, she gazed at me. “One glance and I knew you were an old soul—that you were special.”

“Only someone as crazy as you could find my fucked-up ways ‘special’.”

She groaned, “That’s what makes us perfect for each other.”

“Are you gettin’ all sappy on me?”

Still floating on her back, Justice gave a slight kick in the water to glide her body toward me, head first. “I am a girl, ya know.”

Staring at her body, a slow-moving missile of sex appeal, I wiped my mouth, a-fucking-gain. “Oh, I know it.”

“That’s the third time I’ve heard you hungry for me today.”

I grabbed her shoulders and pulled her floating body to me. “It’s been here, all along. I swear it.” With my legs spread, I guided her between my thighs, her shining dark hair swirling around in the water, glass eyes shining against the sun’s reflection. I was in awe. “Jesus Christ, you’re beautiful.”

Staring up at me, looking absolutely stunning, her chest began to pant. A wet little tongue licked those fantastic lips. “Giver… You’ve never kissed me.”

There were very few things I wanted more in life—at that very moment—than to kiss that gorgeous creature, but I cautiously shook my head. “I’m afraid if I do, I will never find the strength to stop.”