Page 49 of Devil's Work: Dark

“Mine,” he grumbles, then he nips my ear.

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DARK

Ican’t fucking believe this shit is happening. Tell me I can’t sleep in this bed with her, kick me out of the house. Tell me I can’t see my family. She knows they’re my family. Fuck that shit. I take good care of her.

She takes a while to settle into sleep, which means it takesmea while, too. Eventually though, holding Rae in my arms, I doze off.

I’m right in the middle of going down on Rae, sucking her hard and making her squirm above me when for some reason, my eyes pop open and I realize it was a dream. A fucking intense dream. So real that my heart is pounding and I’m hard as a steel pipe. A glance at the clock tells me it’s only 6:30. Shit, it’s too early to be up. The bed feels cold. The spot where Rae should be is empty.

“Dammit,” I whisper, wiping my hand over my face, and I climb out of the bed to search out Rae. It’s not a big place and I find her lying on the sofa with a throw pulled over her. Her eyes pop open at my approach.

She sighs as she pushes to sit up.

“Better fucking explain this, Rae. I’m not dicking around here.”

“Oh, you’re not? Okay. Well, I told you not to come here. I told Reaper to keep you from coming here. Can’t trust bikers.”

I feel like I’ve been punched in the gut. Everything I’ve been doing is to build trust with this woman.

“Oh, don’t look so wounded,” she says. “I came out here because I didn’t want to see you. It takes time to come to grips with the fact that I’m a stupid idiot for letting you in.”

“What?”

“You’re a biker. I’ve heard enough about bikers that, save for maybe Vlad and Sarge, though you’d know better than me, that fidelity isn’t inherent in the biker life.” She holds her hand up to stop me from arguing with her when I open my mouth to do just that. “But you said no other pussy touches you. Right here in this house. You laid down the rules right in this house and stupidly, I believed you. No one expected you to love me or any ridiculous notions like that, and I knew you’d eventually grow bored with me and my lack of experience—I just didn’t think it would happen so soon. No—more than that, I thought you’d at least respect me enough to let me down before finding greener pastures.”

“What the fuck are you talking about? I haven’t slept with anyone. Rae, you’re crazy.”

“Don’t—” she shouts, then she lowers her voice. “Don’t lie to me. I called your phone tonight. I needed to tell you that my sister called. But your pussy answered the phone while you were showering. Shame on her for not telling you I called. It’s so hard to find reliable fuck toys nowadays. Now, if you’re dead set on sleeping in my bed, then I’m sleeping here.”

“The fuck you are.” I bend forward and put my shoulder to her belly, flipping her over it, then march back to the bedroom.

“Put me down,” she demands. I slap her ass.

She had her turn to talk, she’s damn well giving me mine. I kick the door shut then drop her on the middle of the bed, immediately covering her with my body, trapping her arms at the wrists and legs at the ankles.

“I never fucked anyone tonight. I can’t believe you’d even think that.”

“Ha!” she says sarcastically. “I talked to your bitch. She told me she was in your room, answering your phone because you guys had just fucked. Next time tell your bitches loose lips sink ships, Dark.”

I shake her. “Listen to me. Now. I didn’t fuck any pussy at the club. I haven’t fucked any other pussy since I started staying here. One of the bitches was dancing on the table. She slipped on a beer spill. Her bottle hit the bar top at the same time her ass did. I was the unfortunate bastard to be sitting close to her. Beer and broken glass got everywhere, even in my hair. You think I’m coming home to you with glass in my hair?”

“Then why did she answer your phone? Why’d she tell me you two had fucked?”

“How the hell should I know? I was in the shower. A bitch came on to me when I got out. I sure as shit shut that down.”

“Why should I believe you?”

I clench my jaw, close my eyes, and breathe slowly to try to calm myself down before I say something that I can’t take back. When I feel like I have myself under control, I open my eyes again because I need to look her in her eyes for this. “I have no reason to lie. I take what I want when I want it. I could’ve fucked you and still openly fucked other bitches and you wouldn’t have done a damn thing about it.”

She bites her bottom lip looking exactly like a woman holding back tears. It’s harsh, but it’s the truth.

“I’ll tell you this… I didn’t know that bitch answered my phone. I didn’t know she said any of that shit to you. I’m calling Vlad in the morning and we’ll make sure she doesn’t step foot on Horde property again. Her ass is banned. Lying about fucking me to my old lady—that shit’s not cool.”

“She didn’t know,” Rae whispers.

“What?”

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