Page 4 of Liv and Ripper

My eyes narrowed. “Excuse me?” I wasn’t a man to be polite. I wasn’t saying excuse me to be polite, I was saying it to give him a chance to take it back. He lit up a smoke, not backing down.

“So, how is she?” He had the guts to ask me again, this time directly.

“Stay away from her, Maiden,” I growled at him. “I’m banning ya from going back there to see her.” I wasn’t letting the likes of Maiden fucking play with her emotions. “She’s young, she doesn’t need shit from you.”

“Not listening to ya.”

“You’ll fucking listen!” I got off the bike, and it was taking all my energy to not lose my shit with him. “Don’t force me to make this physical.”

“I just asked how she was.”

“Yeah, cause you want to fuck with her, and I am not having it.”

“It’s not by choice!” he snapped at me. “I fucking bonded with her! You think I want this! Being mated with a silent one!”

My expression dropped and my rage disappeared. He wasn’t interested in just fucking her. Maiden felt something for her. I was speechless.

“You aren’t mating with her!” I hissed at him. “You aren’t being with her and waking her up.” Emmie deserved better than Maiden, and she deserved to be happy. “Ya hear me? Stay away from her—don’t let the process happen.”

“She’s meant to be woken up. I’ll do as I please.” He eyed me and I knew he could try to take me. We are both equally built, and it would be a good fight. “You aren’t the

President or my Alpha.”

His shoulder brushed mine as he stormed off to the garage. I gritted my teeth but didn’t go after him. I’d have to take it up with Tri. I was an Enforcer, but I couldn’t pull rank on Maiden.

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“So, I was between the girl’s legs and she was asking for it, begging for it.” Roadie was going into detail about his latest experience with a woman. Maiden and I shared a look as Roady cleared his throat for attention. “And I mean—” His words halted as his eyes locked on the doorway. “Holy shit, the twins are back.”

Twins? What was he talking about?

I looked over my shoulder and my expression completely wiped as well. I think my expression matched Roady’s or any other man’s in here.

I had spent most of last week staring at her picture on the wall of the tattoo parlour while Phoebe took the piss out of me for getting the Monster of Mayhem emblem on my back.

But my eyes had been on the model showing off Yike’s mechanise range. I asked him who she was, because it was clear she was a professional and Yikes, as nice as guy he was, wouldn’t have the cash to fire a model like that.

I went in for a tattoo and left with a hard-on for a woman I never expected to see again.

Six hours I spent gawking at her every curve. She was perfect, and something growled inside me that she belonged to me—as stupid as that sounded.

And now I was looking at her in real life.

“Liv,” Maiden shouted across the room like a mad man. He knew her?

The woman was decorated in tattoos and piercings, she was beautiful and flawless.Fuck me.

Maiden engulfed her in a hug and I hated it. Why? I gritted my teeth. Why would I care if Maiden hugged a complete stranger?

Maiden guided Liv and her twin to the booth and my eyes followed their every move.

“Liv and Lottie, this is Ripper and Roady.” Maiden locked eyes with Roady. “Roady was just telling us about his new bike.”

I scoffed, causing Liv to glance at me.

God, she was breathtaking.Fuck, did I just use the words breathtaking? Fuck that.

“Roady was just telling us about a girl he licked out.” My words were sharp and I mainly said it because I wanted the girls to leave, maybe scoff and overact. Hell, I didn’t care what they did, just as long as Liv left.

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