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Glancing down, she went on, “Not sure what that means for me. You said I can’t leave the Royal Bastards MC. I ain’t Hallow’s anymore. Not sure what that makes me now, a club whore?” Her chuckle faded to a frown, “I don’t know what to do about his damn tattoo.”
Eve’s sadness broke my heart again. But more than that, she was free, and I wanted to cut my mark into her. Take her for myself. I found myself in front of her, clutching the wall on either side of her.
“Eve, I won’t let anything happen to you. I promise.”
I’d gotten so close my beard grazed her nose.
She didn’t pull away. Her brown eyes fluttered as she looked up at me. Her chest heaved between us. Fuck. What was she doing? Did she want me as much as I wanted her? I struggled not to press my erection against her body.
“Kingpin,” she complained. Eve’s dainty hands landed on my chest to push me away.
I didn’t move an inch.
Inhaling, I smelled more than her sweet aroma, I smelled whisky. “You’ve been drinking?”
“So have you.”
She could smell a half bottle of bourbon on my breath, too.
“Not as much as the other night,” I admitted.
“We agreed that was a mistake. I ain’t going to be treated like a whore.”
I bent and my mouth went to her soft, blonde hair, her ear. I whispered, “You’ll never be a whore as long as I’m around. But you do have to stay here at Royal Road. For your own protection.”
“I can leave. I can go into hiding with my brother, Hob. No one will find us.”
My hand dropped to the small of her back. “Fuck that. Don’t leave me,” I said, before I caught myself.
Eve sucked in a breath like she felt the panic behind my words. She didn’t move her hands from me, but she wasn’t pushing anymore. We were almost in an embrace.
I changed the subject. “Bring Hob here if he’s in danger. You already promised him I’d protect him. Remember?”
“Where will I go? I can’t stay in the basement hiding from the weirdos down there. I don’t feel safe now that Hallow’s been seen out with other women.” Eve trembled.
I thought of Goliath’s place. “You can stay in one of the houses out back until you make your way. So, I… the club can protect you. You can bring your brother here. Safer at Royal Road for him, too.”
“I don’t want to live with Hob. We were never really close. If he wasn’t my brother, I’d not have any love for the guy.”
“He can take a room upstairs, of course. You can live alone.”
Her eyes squinting, she studied my face hanging over hers. “Why are you doing this for me?”
“I told you the club would protect you if Hallow won’t. If you stay here, it’d be easier for you to perform, anyway,” I reasoned, although I wouldn’t give her a choice.
“I do need the money since I’m apparently single now. Are you doing this because of the other night? I don’t expect you to help me because….” She couldn’t say what we’d done.
My forehead touched hers. “What did we do, Eve?”
Her lips pursed into a pucker.
“Say it.”
She rolled her eyes. “I reckon, you fucked me.”
“I wasn’t the only one doing the fucking, Eve. But no, I did more than that. Say what you said I was doing to you that night.”
She looked away, sideways. “Oh, you buttered my biscuit.”
