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The knowledge of her feelings scaredher.

She heard Whizz bang against the door.Itonly took three full body hits for the lock to snap, and the doorto spring open.Lacey didn’t move, staying underneath the nowscalding hot water.

Keeping her head down between herthighs, she shook her head.

“Leave mealone.”

“I’m not going to beleaving you.”

“You killed them.You helped tokill the only family I had left.”She didn’t look up at him.Shecouldn’t.

He opened the shower stall, climbing in.The door closed, and then he sat beside her.

“It’s my fault.”

“I’ve told you about this, Lacey.What happened to your club, to Dalton, wasn’t your fault.They weregoing to stay alive until they took matters into their own hands.Storming the town hall and taking down those civilians while almostkilling us cemented their fate.They were going to die.”

“No.”She shook herhead.

“Yes.It’s time for you to stopblaming yourself.The only thing you did was come and protectButch.You came to me, and it saved your life.I lured you away,Lacey.You’re not the one to blame.”

“But if I’d not come to youthey’d be alive.”

His arm moved over her back.Whizz didn’t make a sound as he held herfor several seconds.

“Do youreally think we wouldn’t have killedthem?We would have hunted your club down until we killed everylast one of them.It didn’t matter if you came to see me or not,Lacey.They were going to die for what they did.”

“I’m alive.”

“You saved yourself by coming tome, which I’m happy about.I can handle a lot but not your death.”His arms surrounded her with warmth.She’d been cold for so longthat she didn’t think it was possible to ever be warmagain.

Lacey said nothing else but acceptedhis touch.What else could she do?

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Sunshine flitted around thekitchen, putting ingredients away.Alex took a sip of his expensivescotch as he watched her.She was twenty-five years old with herwhole life ahead of her.Whizz had given him a background check onher when he hired her.He didn’t want the deal he made with her parentsto be known to The Skulls.Alex was a selfish bastard and wantedher to himself.She’d lived in Fort Wills all of her life, onlyleaving to go to college, but she had come back like so many peopledid.Alex had left Fort Wills when his family didn’t want theinfluence of the town.Over the years Tiny had found him, andslowly he worked his way back here.His sister, Patricia, had comeback to be with the man she loved.Had she really loved Tiny?Alexdidn’t know the truth.

He wasn’t an idiot.His sisterand Tinyhadn’t had the perfect marriage.She hadn’t wanted anythingto do with the club.Many times he’d had to listen to her complainabout the club and about Tiny.He’d reminded her that she was theone who’d wanted to marry Tiny.

Taking another sip of his drink,he stared down the length ofSunshine’s back, wishing he knew what she lookedlike naked.

She’d not spoken to him since their firstencounter when he walked through the door.He heard her cleaning,yet she kept a wide berth from him.The rumors about The Skullsclearly frightened her.Was she frightened of him?She was a smartwoman if she was.He wasn’t a good man.

“You’ve done a good job,”he said.

Sunshine turned around, offering him asmile.

“Thank you, Alex.”She wasstill nervous around him.

The shit the Savage Brothers had pulledhad given them all more trouble than help.The town doubted theirability to take care of them.The past few years they’d all had todeal with the troubles that had faced them.

“Are you going to eat withme?”he asked.

He didn’t want to eat alone.Cheryland Michael were either at the clubhouse or the hospital.The clubate when they fancied.For once he didn’t want to be alone whileeating.He’d been alone for so long.

“Erm, if you want meto.”

“I want you to.”

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