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He ainst it beside er than I re his hand through his shaggy black hair, he said, "My sister, Rita, got close with her" His sister was Rita? More shock "We were like family once upon a time, but you probably don’t remember me Used to watch over you when you were a kid at Felix – IGod He was the little boy in the pictures with me as a baby The sharp chin of his, those dark eyes… My breath thinned as I made the connection All doubt ebbed away as his words solidified This otta know you to know you" Why did my heart seize in my chest all of a sudden?
"About a year after you left, Joanne returned to us," he continued, breaking rew close, she asked that we look out for you It wasn’t easy finding you again after you’d left, but when I did, I stuck around for a while totoo well, though Seemed to be trouble in paradise with your man Had hi advantage of one of our own Wasn’t long after that before you disappeared on him He went to prison, came back out a Scorpion Men on the inside said he did some heavy shit for Finley, earned himself a free pass into the Scorpions Which means he must have done some really impressive shit inside those walls Two peas in a pod now, hiht now, birdy I just want you to understand you’re not here to get hurt Ain’t no one gonna do anything to you while I’m here" His face leaned down to ain, how honest he was being
Still, he frightened me too How I could feel at peace and yet in fear at the same time in the presence of one man, I didn’t even try to understand it There was such a hardness about him The way his jaw ticked, the way his shoulders tensed, how big he was and how puny I felt beside hientleness in his eyes when he wanted to show it And right now, he wanted to showthe tension in ht o?" I asked him
"Not yet," he answered
"Why not?"
"Because I said so"
Because he wanted to know about his brother, I figured Hoould he feel after I told hi to lose his shit
"You’re scared" His lips flattened as he regarded me "Whatever you say, birdy, I’m not here to harm you Understand?" When I didn’t nod, his warot up and, toboth arround and settled esture was uncoood around hih he could see right through me The only person that ever madeRemy do the same with equal intensityinto a stupid hts as a kid I’d spent envisioning this man Sometimes I’d been tempted to ask a bikie about him, but of course fear prevailed over desire
Now here he was; the stranger I’d met for such a brief amount of time that I’d crushed on for years until I beca all these unwanted feelings right out ofabout Jaxon made me remember wheresense I’d just agreed to let hio on that ride back with – oh, fuck "Is Dauy Was breathing Out like a light from impact, but alive nonetheless"
"Was that…" I couldn’t make eye contact, so I looked down at the square pattern in the doona as I asked the question "Was that what you intended? For hiht it up so that our eyes ain discerning every thought I’d tried to hide away "I’ently "Ain’t no life that don’t deserve takin’ is gonna get taken by ht?"
I nodded He rested his hand down and licked his bottom lip before he spoke next "Sara, it’s time for you to be honest withbut protect you your whole life to the best of my abilities I’ I helped ive a little back Trust in ard you as a girl with the sao I need information I need your trust, and I need your help I need to knohat happened to ivewhile after that He was beyond patient I half expected hi But he didn’t Myhe said, what itto deter so dae
I wanted to cry frohts directed me to a dead end There really was no way out of this It couldn’t be controlled Whatever was going to happen, it was out of my hands Life is a bitch that way; an unpredictable ht in the ht in the centre of this bizarre kind of situation, and the ht about it, the ly, and there wasn’t a da I could do
With a deep breath, Ifierce Had wanted her for years
Girl was fucking beautiful Her gentle curves; silky brown hair; auburn eyes that looked on with intensity at everything around her as she observed her small unobstructed world; her slender areously pouty fucking lips that looked so sinfully tasty; the scowl she wore on her face twenty fucking four seven that only softened when she saw… him