Page 189 of Tattooed Love

His eyes narrowed. “I’m not saying I liked you wasting my time.”

“You’re going to miss our Friday nights, aren’t you?” I couldn’t stop the grin.

“No.”

“Yes you are. You are going to miss me raiding your liquor!”

“I will not miss the empty bottles. Only you would think it was acceptable to empty a bottle and leave it.”

“And you will miss me.”

He sighed. “Anyway, I know this is a big decision for you.” He got back on the topic I had taken us off. “Which is why I’m willing for you to discuss it with your brothers.”

My face was in disbelief. “In order for that to happen, I’d have to tell them who you really are.”

“I’m giving you permission to do so,” he nodded.

“Really?”

“You mean a lot to me, Amber. I trust you, which means I trust your family. So yes, you can tell them who I am and you can tell them what I am offering.”

I was stunned. Literally, could not form words; stunned. Tae was secretive. Hell, he kept such a low profile, his main man couldn’t even pick Tae in a line up. He did that on purpose and the only reason I knew who he was, was because he broke his silence to recruit me.

He wanted me that bad. He blew his cover and, right now, as he stared at me watching me think, he was willing to blow his cover again - for me.

Tae had never broken my heart because I’d told him I didn’t have one for him to break to begin with, but Tae had given me this endless amount of trust.

He trusted me.

“Ok.” I said. “I’ll umm, talk to Troy about it,” I found myself saying.

Troy. He would be the one to go to. Cole wasn’t level-headed enough. Tyler was too carefree. Adam would be too concerned.

And Jax wasn’t my brother, so he didn’t make the cut.

“Good. And I’ve been thinking of a way to mark our partnership and a way to prove to you I’m serious about you leading beside me.”

He wanted me to lead beside me. That still just blew my mind. I was never considered equal. I was always under someone. Never in charge.

“Amber?”

My eyes snapped to him. “Yeah?”

“I have an idea on a way to mark our partnership.”

“Ok?” I staggered out, trying to think straight. He was offering me an opportunity anyone in the underworld would kill for. “What?”

“We take out The Pythons.”

My mouth dropped open. “But you don’t do wars.”

“I said we take them out. I have no plan of starting a war; just wiping them out of the country.” He stood up. “I’ve done the numbers. We are more than capable to do this.”

“You would let me use your men to take out my enemy?”

“Our men,” he corrected me. “And yes.”

“Wipe them out,” I muttered. I wouldn’t just be doing something I’ve wanted to do since they’d marked me, ruining my body, but I would also be doing my brothers and Jax a favor; they were still at war with them.

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