Page 91 of Filthy Love

Soaking up her smiles and her tinkling laugh like she was the fountain of youth.

It was how addictions worked.

Forget his patch. He wore an invisibleProperty of Little Bitbrand.

He couldn’t only have a little now he was in deep. It was far too late to retreat.

With his belly aching to stride across the room, in front of all the club boys and stake hisclaimon his old lady. Make it known whoever dared lay an eyeball on her would be losing a limb soon thereafter.

It was the dream of a madman.

“It’s not like that,” he answered finally, tearing his gaze away from Gia.

“Bullshit,” laughed the old man.

“I do that, and Mad-dog buries me ten minutes later.” He confided suddenly.

He could deal with a disgruntled father. Who in their right mind would choose a man like Hawk for their baby girl? So, he got it.

Ajax thought he knew shit. He didn’t know shit. It stopped Hawk all these years.

Like she felt his weighty depraved gaze on her again, Gia cocked her head and smiled the kind of wattage to burn straight through his soul.

He grunted his pleasure.

“Seems to me it’s already a done deal, sonny. And back in my day, —”

“When was that?” Hawk asked. “The stone ages?”

“—we respected the fathers, but we didn’t let it stop us getting the girl.”

The moment slowed to sludge.

“Seems to me,” Krusher went on like he had a trap door for teeth and couldn’t keep them shut. Hawk’s brows folded down and rather than tell him to shut the fuck up or better still, walk away, he leaned in to listen. “She’s just waitin’ for you to claim her. Sweet thing is Gia. Deserving of a good man at her back who would make sure she’s good, you know?”

Hawk snorted and rose to his full height. Good man? That put him out of the running. “I’ll catch ya later, oldie. Keep out of trouble and stay away from those groupies, you know it’ll excite you too much.”

Krusher belted his old man laugh and rolled a lanky shoulder wearing a black Tee and his cut. He might be retired from club life, but the club ran in his veins. “It sure’s been a pleasure knowing you, Hawk. Don’t be a stranger, y’hear?”

Something like emotion grabbed hold of Hawk and he paused, turned back around. “You too, Krusher. Colorado isn’t that far. They allow dinosaurs in the state you know?” Krusher grinned toothily. “Just might do that, son.”

Gia hopped down from the stool and met him half way.

Their fingers touched, and Hawk let his pinkie twine around hers.

“C’mon, if you got those million errands to run.” He scowled. She had a list long as his dick. His sour mood didn’t deter her one bit. In fact, her smile was just as bright when she slipped her arm through his. “It’s only five more.”

That’s how their day went.

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He scowled the entire shopping trip and Gia had never felt so spoiled with attention before.

The fear of losing him no longer superseded. Not when he was looking at her in the ways he was. Burning hot gazes that turned her on and inflated her at the same time.

Nope. Colton Hawk could run this time all he wanted, but he wouldn’t get away from Gia. She’d seen what he wanted. And it was her.

Besides which, who’d carry all her bags from now on?

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