Page 181 of Tattooed Love

“I may have made a call,” she smiled, “and got Mai’s connections cut.”

“How could you, when I did that?”

“What? You banned her from the club?” Amber said, slightly alarmed. Like I wouldn’t do that.

I nodded my head. “Not to mention what else I did.” I had made it my mission to make sure Mai suffered for what she had done. She’d cost me Amber.

“Well, I got Grant to cut his own daughter off,” she said smugly. “He didn’t have a heart attack by the way.”

“Yeah, Mai spat that out after you left.”

“Yeah, well I actually was worried about Grant so I called and told him what happened.”

“I see you called him, but wouldn’t call me.” It still bugged me that she hadn’t picked up my phone calls that night. If she had, I could have explained what had happened. Could have started begging for her to take me back then, starting that night.

“You didn’t want me then.”

“I called you an endless number of times that night Amber. You never picked up.”

She frowned. “I’ve learned you can’t change the past, but you can change the future.” She linked her hands with mine. “So, how about we leave the past where it is. I won’t bring Mai up again, if you don’t.”

I liked the idea of that. I nodded my head. “We’ll focus on our future.” I loved the idea of having a future with her. I smirked. “New rule. You answer every one of my phone calls.”

“That might be hard!”

“Another rule. If you have a problem, you come to me, not your brothers.”

“Again, that’s going to be hard!” She pulled her eyebrows together. “Why are you making such hard rules?”

“How’s not going to your brothers when you need help hard?”

“Well, I don’t go to them to begin with,” she said, and from the tone of her voice, she thought I was threatening her relationship with them.

“You let them handle your problem with Blake. That should have been a problem you were telling me.”

“Well, you weren’t my boyfriend this morning and that rule didn’t exist,” she said smugly, and leaned forward, quickly kissing my lips. “So I get out of that one.”

“Fine, but from now on?”

“I come to you.” She rolled her eyes.

“Repeat that.”

“I come to you!” She did just as she was told. “Happy?” Both her manicured eyebrows arched up.

“Nearly, but I have more rules.”

She sighed. “I’m going to regret ever saying I’d follow anything, aren’t I?’

“You only answer to me. No-one else.”

“I like that one,” she smiled.

“I’m in control,” I said.

“Well, that one didn’t need to be a rule.” She rolled her eyes. “You’re always in control Jax.”

“When it comes to sex, and everything else, my word is law. Understand?”

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