Page 45 of Whizz

“Gash said Rose had leftHardy.”

“I didn’t realize how muchGash liked to talk.”

She shrugged.“He didn’t exactly talk.Prue and Angel asked why there wasn’t a prospect tailing us orsomething.Gash then explained there were no prospects left andhe’d lost the game of cards.”

Her fingers moved down to his chestwhere more bruises lay.

“Does it hurt?”

“It aches a little, but it’s notthat painful.”He cupped her cheek, tilting her head back for herto look at him.“Did you have fun today?”

“Yeah, I did.I don’t think Ishould go again if this is how you’re going to end up.You couldseriously hurt yourself.”

“It’s not that bad.Ipromise.”

He dropped a kiss to her lips, wishingfor more but waiting.“Show me what you got.”

“I can’t believe you gavePrue so much.”She took a step back, going back to thebed.

Whizz took a seat watching as sheupended several of the bags.He saw the underwear and knew hewanted to see her in those.

By the time she finished the bed wasstrewn with new clothes and underwear.Sitting back, he watched theanimated look on her face as she started to hold clothing up to herbody.

He groaned.“You know you could getnaked and show me exactly what they look like on.It’s just asuggestion.”Holding up a red thong, he eyed the fabric then herbody.“Or we could skip the clothes and go straight tothis.”

She snatched the thong out of hishand.He caught her wrist, tugging her down to sit on hislap.

“Your head is always in thegutter,” she said, complaining.

“Actually, my head is alwaysthinking about your sweet pussy and how I can get inside you.Ilike to see you happy,” he said.

“Thank you for today.Thiswas my first time going shopping with the girls.I like Prue andAngel.They’re nice.”

Whizz chuckled.“Wait until you’reforced to go with all of them.You’ll be in for a rude awakeningthen, I can tell you.”

She laughed.“I don’t know.It wasnice having Gash there.He said some things that I took onboard.”

He tensed.“What kind ofthings?”

Lacey smiled up at him.“There’s noneed to be jealous.I’m not going anywhere.I’ll let you know whenhis words came in handy.”She struggled off his lap.

“Please, try this set on for me.”He held up the red thong with the matching lace bra.There wasnothing to the set, but he really wanted to see her ink coveredbody inside them.

She took the items and walked backinto the bathroom.

“You’re no fun,” he said,calling after her.

Lacey didn’t respond, closing the doorbehind her.He climbed off the bed, looking at her clothing.Whizzdidn’t wait around.He tore the tags off and started to add theclothing to his wardrobe.Until he found a place for them both tostay they were camping out at the club.He didn’t mind.Whizzwhistled as he worked putting her new clothes away.The silence waswelcoming to him.

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Lacey tucked some hair behindher ears, staring at her reflection in the mirror inside thebathroom.She could do this.There was nothing to it.Whizz wasoutside waiting for her.The lingerie she wore at Gash’s encouragementdecorated her body like a second skin.She wasn’t as young as sheused to be, but that no longer mattered.Whizz wasn’t that kind ofman.He’d been through so much that he wasn’t that shallow.The inkthat covered her body reminded her of a second life, another lifethat had long since disappeared.

The Savage Brothers were behindher.

Running her palms down her hair, she sawDalton’s smiling face, staring back at her.No, she couldn’t lethis image invade her thoughts, sickening her with the memories.Thepast was the past, and there was no way she was going to let itdestroy right now.She wanted to be with Whizz, and even if shecould go back and change what happened, she wouldn’t.Whizz meantmore to her than the Savage Brothers, which was why the guilt wasso damn bad.

“You can do this, Lacey.”She blew out a breath, holding onto the sink as she kept staring atherself.“There’s nothing to it.You’ve been naked together before.He has scars just like you.”

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