Page 19 of Indecent Lies

You basically told the guy you wanted to live with him, that’s not proper either, Penelope.

“Oh, shut up,” she muttered and started to pour over the menus.

She went with a club sandwich for herself and ordered Tait his weird combination.

He was freshly washed and dressed in different clothes, with his dark locks wet and scraped back off his face when he came back.

He looked amazing.

Jesus.

She thought maybe she wouldn’t have feelings for him once she got a decent look at him. She thought maybe they’d develop a friendship, but that was going to be next to impossible if the boiling blood through her veins was any indicator.

Lust. That’s what it was.

She’d never felt it this strongly before and for a girl with her track record with men, that came as somewhat of a surprise.

She cleared the frog from her throat and dropped her eyes from his face, choosing to look at his shoulder instead, which was no better really, not when she could see the outline of his glorious collar bone through the gray cotton.

“They said about thirty minutes.”

“That’s fine. It’ll give us time to talk.”

“Oh.” She’d forgotten that.

“You can explain everything, Poppy.” He leaned both hands on the counter in front of her. Making strong veins prominent in his forearms and the backs of his hands.

Lord above, Tait was masculine as hell.

“What made you go to theDiabloscompound, the fuck were you doing in a wedding gown and why have you run away from home? To come to me, of all people.”

It was that last part that hurt her the most.

It seemed the boy who broke her heart all those years ago still had the ability to put cracks in the beating organ.

SIX

“Possession is nine tenths of the biker law.” - Texas

It wasn’t hard to take in how nervous she was the way her eyes wouldn’t land on him for more than a second.

He’d never been a scary guy and considering the circumstances, he hadn’t been mean to her, so it was either her nature or what she was going to tell him.

“Poppy, I just bought you from a MC, whatever shit you have to say, can’t be all that bad after that.”

Her eyes went comically wide.

“Bought me! I wasn’t even for sale.” She burst out with a hitch to her tone that was husky and offended all rolled into one. “Any decent person would have directed another person to their right destination had they been lost.”

“MC’s aren’t decent people.”

“That much I am now aware of, Tait. Buying me.Hmph.” Her eyes blazed, so she did have a little spunk in her, interesting.

“Well I can’t pay you back, so you’re out of pocket. You should have just left me there. They would have tossed me out eventually when they knew I was worth nothing.”

At this her voice cracked a little.

“I’m completely worthless to anyone.”

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