Page 77 of Breaking the Rules (Roaming Devils MC 1)

Ryker set his beer down and followed her inside. She glanced around the apartment. While the original one she’d rented was essentially a studio, this one had nice large rooms and an open floor plan. “I don’t have enough furniture for this place.”

He pulled her to him. “We’ll get new stuff.”

“With what? My looks?” She scoffed. “Don’t answer that.”

“I have money.” He shrugged. “It’s not that big of a deal.”

She glanced around. “I said yes based on the pictures you sent me, but this looks like it’s big enough for five people.”

Ryker propped his hands on his hips. “We’ll grow into it.”

When he went in to have his staples removed, she’d given him the results of his tests. Everything came back negative. Relief filled him. They had a clean slate for their future. Now he just had to figure out how to make it happen.

“I don’t know.” She set her stuff on the coffee table. “I had a conversation with my boss today. He’s the director of the emergency medicine department at the hospital and he said that they weren’t going to hire me when I graduate from my residency program.”

He tilted his head to the side. “So you can go to another hospital. Atlanta’s got several.”

“Maybe.” She sat on the couch. “I got a job offer in Washington DC.”

Ryker closed the door to the apartment and walked toward her, taking a seat in the chair next to the sofa. “Do you want it?”

She chewed on her lower lip. “I don’t know. It’s really good money. One of my former professors got a position there. He recommended me for an ER position.”

Ryker could see it in her face that she was contemplating it. He couldn’t blame her. Atlanta had been nothing but hell for her since she’d come back. He leaned forward on his thighs.

“You do what you want to do.”

She lifted her gaze. “Where does that leave us?”

“I’ll still be here.” With all that was going on with the club, he couldn’t change chapters now. It’d wreak all kinds of havoc on him, but she’d be working most of the time and he’d be doing his thing. For the most part, she’d be out of harm’s way too.

“There’s no way you’d actually go with me?”

“Babe, I can’t. Not right now.”

She nodded. “Okay.”

“Okay?”

She rubbed her hands on her thighs. “Yeah. I mean, I’m not going to beg you. I don’t even know if I’m taking the position either, so okay.”

She stood and walked past him. Everything in the apartment had been hooked up and transferred over. He’d even gotten them cable.

She went to the bedroom, going straight for the master bath. “Wow.”

Ryker stopped in the doorway. “I figured you’d like a little more room to put all your girly crap.”

She snorted. “This room is as big as the entire other apartment.”

He slid his arms around her from behind. “I think you need to take a bubble bath and relax.”

“Are you going anywhere?”

She still didn’t feel safe. He hated it too. “Not right now.”

“Will you stay with me?”

He kissed the side of her cheek. “Let me get rid of the guys.”

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