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I disconnect and pull up the photo of Fiona. I think about deleting it, but can’t bring myself to do it. It may be the only thing I’ll ever have from this weekend with her. But one piece of advice I do agree with.
I need to get the hell out of this town.
Climbing on my bike, I roar off the lot and head to Nevada.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Fiona—
“So, spill the tea already. I’m dying here.”
Janey sits across from me on the couch in her apartment. Thank God, she doesn’t live with her parents, or we’d have nowhere private to go.
Taking a sip of the coffee she poured me, I begin. “Remember when you told me a sexy man wasn’t going to just show up at my doorstep?”
“I believe I said Prince Charming, but go on.”
“Well, one did and boy is he sexy as sin.”
“Oh. My. God. Tell me everything.” Janey leans forward.
“I was up at the cabin, and I’d been cleaning all day since you’d dropped me off. Everything was looking great, and the party was still on. It was late, and I was exhausted, so I changed into a t-shirt and crawled into bed.
“I’m lying there, scrolling on my phone for a while when suddenly I hear the rumble of a motorcycle and I panic. I try to calm myself, hoping it’s for some other place. But it’s a Harley. I can tell by the rumble, and it gets closer. So, I know the odds are it’s headed for the cabin.”
Janey leans forward. “You must have been terrified you were going to get caught.”
“I was. And I was on pins and needles, wondering which of the guys from the clubhouse would walk through the door, but when the door opened and he walked in, I saw the bottom rocker under his patch. It wasn’t California. It was Nevada.”
Janey’s eyes get huge. “Oh, my God. What did you do?”
“I just stood there, and then I guess I made a sound because he whirled, pulling a gun from his cut. Suddenly, I’m staring down the barrel. I was terrified.”
“What happened?”
“He realized I was no threat and holstered it quickly enough. Then he tells me his name is Shine and that he’ll have to thank his brothers for arranging this sweet surprise.”
“He thinks they sent you for him?”
“Yep, like some gift or something.”
“What did you say?”
“Well, he says, ‘I’m assuming they sent you, right?’ And I didn’t know what to do, so I played along.”
“Are you crazy?”
“I know. It was stupid, but I panicked. All I could think about was I wasn’t supposed to be there and what would happen if my dad found out. He never gave permission, Janey. I knew if I told this guy, he’d tell my father. The club is tight like that.”
“So, what’d you do?” Janey asks.
“I said, ‘right, exactly. Your brothers sent me. Why else would I be here?’”
“What did he do?”
“He strolled toward me with the sexiest walk I’ve ever seen—”
Janey cuts me off. “Oh, my God. You and this guy…?”
