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Mimi sighed. “People can change.”

“Not this one.”

“Your parents would support you,” she tried.

“They don’t need to. There’s nothing to support.”

Mimi groaned as if in pain. “Ruin. I’m not blind. I see some… chemistry between you and Taro.” So what if she had? But I still didn’t get how. I hadn’t done anything… had I?

I shook my head. “You must be going blind.”

Her lips thinned. “You’re annoying me now.”

I shrugged and smirked. “Okay.”

“I want to kick you.”

Chuckling, I said, “No need to get violent.”

Her other hand also gripped my arm as she stepped closer. “It would be scary knowing you have this new feeling inside you—”

“Mimi,” I warned. What was she, psychic?

“But life is about challenges and acceptance. Live your life, Ruin, in any way you want it. I took a chance and ran when I had to, and it was the best choice I made because it brought me to a new family. A daunting one to begin with, but one that holds so much love no matter who you are. Taro’s a good guy. Take your chance… when you’re ready.”

Glaring, I looked away from her. “I don’t know why you’re telling me all this shit for.”

Mimi hummed under her breath. “You stubborn, pain-in-the-arse dick.”

I was. I really was.

Snorting, I asked, “You comin’ on to me, babe?”

It was her turn to glare as she shook her head and stepped back. “I wish my brother luck with you.”

I was the one who needed luck when it came to her brother, but I didn’t say that. Instead, I said, “Night, sweetheart.”

“Night, pest,” she said, smiling as she closed the door.

I didn’t like that Mimi could read something between Wolf and me. Not when I… wasn’t ready to accept anything, because the fucking thought of change scared me. I liked my life as it was. I liked who I was, and now, it was as if I didn’t know myself.

Chapter Eight

Wolf

The other night, Ruin’s dismissal at Ryo’s birthday when we’d stood with Elise at the bar annoyed me. He always ran whenever I got close. He hadn’t even complimented my change in hair colour.

There was something about Ruin that appealed to me. It was beside the fact he was stunningly gorgeous. I had never been attracted to the tattooed hooligan type, who didn’t like the letterGon the end of words or wouldn’t wear a suit if his life depended on it.

As soon as I had seen him back in Ballarat standing off to the side from his biker brothers, listening, waiting, it had been hard to concentrate on the matter, and all because he had taken my breath away. His beauty was like no other.

I’d wanted to know him, taste him, and use his name by ruining him in the best way.

Luck had been on my side when the club’s president ordered Ruin to watch over Mimi. I had been offended at first—that Talon would think I would do anything to my sister. I was nothing like my father. But I caved quickly when I knew I wanted more time gazing at the wonder before me.

I sounded like a perverted stalker, but it was what Ruin did to me. I couldn’t stop myself from teasing him, hoping to get a rise, and when I did, his eyes came to life.

I was sure I saw something in them each time, as if he enjoyed my attention. Except for that unfortunate slip-up in the kitchen when I couldn’t resist any longer and had to have my hands and lips on him.

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