Page 64 of Rise

His lips left a trail of heat, and my skin rose to the heat and pebbled.

I let out a premature sigh because that was when his phone stopped ringing, and then immediately started up again.

He sighed into my neck, pulled away, tagged his phone from his jeans, checked the call, and the tick in his cheek started to jerk.

“Yeah,” I stared into his eyes as he seemed completely enthralled with the caller.

Something naughty had me leaning my lips into the column of his throat, kissing at the bottom of his neck, my tongue trailed a pattern.

However, before I could do more, he pulled away from me and then started talking back into the phone, “One minute. Not secure.”

And then… just like that, he walked out the door.

It didn’t register to my brain that he wouldn’t be back.

And that night I curled up on the couch waiting for whatever had caused him to leave would be resolved soon.

Because I got used to sleeping next to him.

I didn’t want to go back to sleeping without him.

And it wouldn't be until the very next morning that I was told what happened.

Not by Tank. The man who said he was mine and I was his.

No.

Not by Red.

Not by Lena.

Not by my dad.

Not by Shea.

But by Summer who stopped at the clubhouse to pass along something she overheard at another MC. Apparently, the woman still had loyalty, but something told me, that wasn’t it at all.

Summer smirked at me after delivering the news that he got called back for a mission.

Normally, I would have backtalked her.

Normally, I would have put her in her place.

However, it wasn’t her fault.

No, it was his.

Walking out of the clubhouse, my arms wrapped around my middle, I made it all the way to my car, got in, locked the door, started her up, and then drove home.

And only… Only when I was safely inside my house did I finally allow the tears to fall.

Staring at my pale cheeks, nose red from crying, the capillaries in my eyes burst.

And there, in my bathroom, I promised myself that I would never cry over that man again.

That I deserved more.

He should have given me the chance.

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