Total pages in book: 95
Estimated words: 86823 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 434(@200wpm)___ 347(@250wpm)___ 289(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 86823 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 434(@200wpm)___ 347(@250wpm)___ 289(@300wpm)
He paused, taking a deep breath. Tears were running down my face. I couldn’t believe that he was confessing his love to me right then. “I’m not asking you to marry me yet because I don’t think I’m ready for that. Hell, I wasn’t even able to identify these feelings that I have for you as love until a month ago, so who knows when I’ll realize I’m ready for marriage.” I laughed softly, tears glistening in my eyes. “I know that I want to be with you, though, and I’m giving you this ring as a sign of my promise to always be with you through thick and thin and that one day, I will ask you to marry me. Will you accept my promise?”
I nodded, still crying. I wasn’t able to form any words. I hadn’t expected this. Hell, this was the first time he had told me he loved me, and I knew it was a really big thing for him to do. Something so simple was so hard for Travis to admit, but it was one of the things that I fell in love with him for.
“Oh, God, Travis, I love you so much,” I cried, throwing my arms around his neck after he slid the ring onto my finger.
The ring contained a tiny diamond, and the band had the words I will always love you engraved into it. It was so simple, but I loved it. He knew me so well that he knew I wouldn’t want a ring with a big rock on it. I wasn’t that kind of girl.
He wrapped his arms around me. “I love you, too, baby. We promised each other we would make this work, and we went three months being apart, and yeah, it took its toll on both of us, but we made it through it and came out on top.”
He was right. I loved Travis. I would always love him. I would always stand by his side through thick and thin, no doubt about it. He was everything that I could have asked for.
I laughed when I realized where we were sitting. Travis gave me a strange look. “What’s so funny?”
I giggled. “You confessed your love to me while we were sitting on your bike.”
He chuckled. “Good thing you’re a biker girl and didn’t expect much more from me.”
I rolled my eyes and kissed him.
EPILOGUE
Travis
I rounded up the members, shouting orders, not in the mood for any bullshit. I’d just found out about a rival crew taking our guns and burning down our warehouse. Seeing as Katie and I were together, this hurt both of our crews since we worked together so tightly. Fuck, some of her weapons that were meant to go on a shipment later had gone missing.
This could cause war—a war I didn’t fucking want.
“Let’s go!” I barked, getting pissed off that everyone was taking their time. “We’ve got shit to do, and we’ve got to make it back before tomorrow morning, so move your asses!”
Cole, my oldest child who turned fourteen a couple of months ago, came outside. “Can I come on this one, Dad, please?” he begged.
I sighed. Cole had been trying to get into this shit with me and Katie. Sometimes, I let him go on simple meetings—meeting where nothing was exchanged, and I was on friendly terms with the person I was seeing.
But never anything like this.
“No. This is too dangerous. Go back inside and keep an eye on things for me, and tell your mother I said to hurry the hell up,” I ordered.
“I’m right here, so get the stick out of your fucking ass,” she snapped from beside me, strapping on her helmet.
She was just as pissed off as I was, and the Black Skulls and the Bloody Royals were more afraid to cross her than they were to cross me. She looked around and threw her arms up into the air in frustration. She stormed into the clubhouse, and I heard her start yelling.
“Do you think we run a fucking daycare?!” she shouted. I grinned. “You’ve got five seconds to get the fuck outside and get on those damn bikes! I’m fucking counting down!”
Men started rushing out, and Cole laughed. “Maybe one day you’ll hold the authority that she does, Dad.”
I rolled my eyes at him, but a smile twitched at my lips. “Go back inside.”
He jogged inside, and Katie and I spun out of the lot with the men automatically falling into their rightful positions behind us. Shit was going to go down tonight. We’d be damned if we allowed things like this to happen without retaliating.
I had built up the Black Skulls and turned them into something great. We had a lot of business, and there was a good brotherhood amongst us all. They learned to respect Katie, and they thought of her as a mother figure. We never had any problems between the members. Our only problems were outside of the club.