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“Stop what? Thinking she knohat you look like naked and how good your dick feels inside her?”

“That shit ended a while ago and she knows it ain’t never happening again”

Her stomach turned “Funny She didn’t’ seeether and continued to whisk “You owe me more respect than this”

“I was backed into a corner What did you want me to do, Ardy?”

She paused in mid stir, jerked away from the hands at her waist and spun around “Show et that the club comes first, but I’ll be damned if I come second to bitches who shouldn’t be here in the first place” He opened his mouth and she shook her hair Curls obscured her vision as they swung around her face “No I have li I know, enter this world and just take it like a little bitch because you’re Deet with you for a title I got with you for the ht existed behind the public persona Maybe I rong “

He stepped forward and pinned her to the counter with his hips Placing his arer flared in his dark eyes

“Don’t touch me” She whispered

“I will touch you, because you’re ot this shit twisted Yes I knoasn’t the best idea, but this is a life or death ood wo Devil’s back and for the ain if itme every time a skeleton jumps out of ly, Ardy The things I have to do, the associates I keep company with…I never pretended otherwise I do my best to keep a lot of that shit away from my family, but there are times when the torlds will collide I need you to be able to process it and move forward”

“That’s a lot, Jonah,” she whispered

“Baby, you offered yourself up to pay your fathers’ debt without batting an eyelash I know you have it in you The only thing you need to knohen it co It was a quick, easy rel

ease Even Natasha was no love match”

“But I’”

“Baby, it doesn’t matter From the first ti you withwith you day in and day out, just row” He pressed his forehead to hers “I don’ t have a filter with you Ardy I’ve never felt this way about anyone I didn’t plan on it Relationships rarely pan out in this life But this shit between us is right I’o I can’t—you” His voice warbled

Shock splashed her like a bucket of cold water “Jonah?” She brought her hands up to cup his firm jaw

“Every day you bring ht a little bit more I was in a dark place before you Too much happened too fast The blood on my hands won’t ever rinse off, but with the kids and you, I can e it”