Dive placed the chair down. “Your people? These two the reason you’ve been mopey, kid?”
After she blew her nose and wiped at her face, she glared. “I haven’t been mopey.”
He scoffed. “Yeah, okay.”
“Dive,” she whined. “Stop being a dick and meet my people.”
He grinned, then looked at both of us. “Hey.” He tipped his chin up. “Name’s Dive, and if either of you fuck Rommy over, I’m gonna be the one rippin’ you apart, then burying?—”
“Dive,” Rommy snapped, but added, “It’s really nice you want to murder on my behalf, but Eve and Quake won’t hurt me.”
He huffed. “They’d fuckin’ better not.”
Kayson stepped forward. “Appreciate you lookin’ out for Rommy. I know you and the club will keep doin’ it, but you won’t be the only ones. Rommy not only grabbed our hearts”—he pointed at me and himself—“but she has the brothers of the Diamond MC too. We’ll make sure nothin’ in the world can hurt her. Even when we have to protect her from herself when she tries to pick a fight with an ex-mafia man.”
Dive’s gaze flared before he guffawed. “What? Dodge didn’t tell me that.”
“Tell you what?” Dodge asked as he and Low reentered.
“About your monster wantin’ to fight an ex-mafia guy.”
Dodge grinned. “At the time we didn’t know he had ties to the Russian mafia.”
“Russian mafia?” Dive yelled. He lasered Rommy with a scowl. “What the fuck were you thinkin’, kid?”
Rommy groaned. “I could take him.”
Dive stared at her, then glared at Dodge. “See what you two created?” He faced Kayson and me. “Good luck. You’re both gonna need it.”
“Hey!” Rommy snapped.
I walked up to Rommy and took her hand. She looked down at it and then smiled at me before she leaned in and kissed me quickly.
“I can do that now,” she said.
“You can.”
“You just tell me if there’s anything I do to you that you don’t like?—”
“Kid, how about you take Eve and Quake back to the house?” Dodge said quickly, then added something that had my cheeks blushing, “Your mum and I are gonna stay in our room here.”
Rommy bounced around on her feet and shot her dad finger guns. “Good thinking, old man. We gotta test these waters to see if us three will click in the?—”
“Fuck’s sake, Rom.” Dodge dropped his head back and sighed long and loud before he straightened and continued, “Love you, but don’t explain anythin’ to me.” He glowered at Kayson.
“Ha-ha, we’d better go before he punches Quake since he knows what Quake will do?—”
“Rommy,” Dive barked.
She grinned. Her face didn’t flame like mine.
But how come Dodge was peeved at Kayson for touching his daughter and not me?
Since I would be touching her.
I couldn’t wait to start.
There was so much I wanted to try, and I didn’t know where to begin.