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And then… I watched as his head dropped, and then he nodded, and in a rough, ravished voice, he said, “Barely. But yes. I did.”

I could see it. The guilt he felt was eating him alive.

“I’m sorry, Gray. Fucking sorry. I was in my head from all the shit I told you about and I was thinking about you.”

It wasn’t the time to ask him what all he was thinking about me with his hand on his cock.

We sat there in silence for a beat, and then when I didn’t ask him, he asked, “So, you still seeing that dumbass?”

“No. He was a self-entitled prick.” I told him.

I watched as his jaw tightened, and then he asked, “You let him kiss you?”

I shook my head, “No. Only person I ever want to kiss me hasn’t yet.”

I felt his body tense, and then something sounded from his phone.

He cursed a blue streak a mile wide.

After he silenced… and alarm, I asked, “Okay, what aren’t you telling me?”

He sighed, “I’m leaving for another mission. I should be back in a few weeks.”

I nodded, and offered him an understanding smile, “Are you going to be talking to me again?”

He nodded immediately, “Yeah Gray, I am. No way am I fucking anything else up when it comes to us.”

“Oh, there’s an us?” I asked, happiness lacing every word.

I could even hear how serious he was in the words he spoke next, “I get back, you agree to what I want, you bet your ass there’ll be an us.”

With my side pressed to his cologne wrapping around me, I whispered, “Thought you had to leave.”

He nodded, sighed, and then whispered, “You’re my end game.”

And with that, we said our see you later’s, and he told me from the open window of his truck, “If I’m that man you’re waiting on a kiss from, you’ll get it when I make you mine. Because no way in hell am I going to have a taste of you and not have you as mine.”

That night in bed, after I had thought about everything, I pulled up his contact and typed out my message to him.

Raine – I’m going to try, Tank. But you mess up one more freaking time, and it’s done. Over. I won't go through this again. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me a third time, and I’ll shoot you.

Three hours later, I got a message back.

Tank – That’s all I’m asking for. I won’t fuck this up again. I miss you. We just landed.

Three weeks later, emails, messages, and voice chats it was time.

And I knew he hadn’t told my dad, or anyone else. No. He told me. And that meant the freaking world to me. He was trying.

I ran into Red and Lena’s house, my bare feet slapping on the hardwood floors because I kicked off my flip-flops. When I opened the door, I shouted, “Lena.”

I heard her from the kitchen, “What?”

“He’s on his way home,” I screamed.

She ran out of the kitchen with a huge ass smile on her face, and then when she reached me, we both hugged and jumped.

The next day, we were sitting at the clubhouse waiting for his truck to pull in the lot. He didn’t have his bike because we were going to the beach today and the brothers had fueled it up for him.

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