Page 113 of Ryder
“Tomorrow, I’m making you my fucking old lady.Official. No fucking going back then. You’ll be mine, and I’ll be yours.”
Surprisingly, she just nodded.
“I do want that. I just worry that you could do better.”
In a fucking pig’s eye. I leaned over the small table separating us.
“You’ll stop that damn thinking right now. You’re exactly who I want and need. You’re all I want. So stop looking down on the woman I love, because I don’t take kindly to that.”
Tommy cleared his throat awkwardly, setting down plates in front of us as I moved.
“Drinks?”
“Coffee.” I raised my eyebrows at Tori, and she nodded.
“Same, please.”
“Don’t be too nice to him. He has to learn,” I muttered, after he’d walked away.
“He’s a human being, Ryder. He deserves to be treated with respect.”
“No. He’s a prospect, and the one who literally watched you leave me, and did fucking nothing to stop you.”
She grinned. “I made out that I was having women’s troubles. He’s young enough to be grossed out at the thought of that.”
“Little pussy. I should kick his ass myself this time.”
In the end, I decided to just eat my dinner, and be thankful that Tori was right there with me. After we’d eaten though, I decided it was time for the truth.
“Baby?”
We’d moved to a sofa in the bar, so we could sit closer together, with a vodka each.
“Yeah?”
“I’m making you my old lady tomorrow.”
She nodded. “I know.”
I pulled her against my chest.
“There’s something you should know about the process.”
She pushed away from me, so she could meet my eyes. Why the hell did she look so freaked out all of a sudden?
“Please tell me that it doesn’t involve sex in front of them. You know I… I can’t… I…”
“Jesus Christ, woman.We’re bikers, not barbarians. It’s nothing like that, although actually, now it probably won’t sound so bad at all.”
“Go on.” She looked wary.
“It… the process involves tattoos.”
Her eyes drifted from mine for a moment, and I worried she was going to a dark place in her mind again.
“You mean someone else has to touch me.”
Jesus. “I… Fuck… I wish I could be the one to do it, but you really don’t want anything I can draw marring that perfect skin. Never wished I’d be good at art until right fucking now.”
