Total pages in book: 158
Estimated words: 154037 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 770(@200wpm)___ 616(@250wpm)___ 513(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 154037 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 770(@200wpm)___ 616(@250wpm)___ 513(@300wpm)
She peered back at me through the mirror where she was applying mascara, the makeup she’d already applied covering the bit of her bruising on her left forehead.
But it was her ass perched in the air where she was bent over the counter that sent a cyclone of greed spiraling through me.
The woman was pure mind-bending temptation.
Body a lure and that heart a magnet.
But it was those inky eyes that nailed me to the spot.
So dark and mesmerizing they held me like a trap.
A thunderbolt of lust gripped me by the guts, same way as it always had, though now, everything was different.
“I already told you that I’m going to spend the entire day celebrating you, and I’m not about to stop. Besides, all the Lawsons came from Redemption Hills. We wouldn’t want to disappoint them, would we?”
She pouted a little as she painted her lips with red stain.
“You could have called it off.”
“Not a chance.” She turned and sauntered my way, and she tipped her face up my direction. “It’s your first birthday I’ve gotten to spend with you this way, and we are going to make it memorable.”
“You think it hasn’t already been memorable? You think it’s not already carved on me forever? Spending the whole damned day wrapped around you, taking this tight body again and again?”
Heat flushed her flesh. “I think it started out pretty good, and now we’re going to end it with a bang.” Then she softened. “Everyone wants to celebrate you. Not just me. This family loves you.”
Looping an arm around her waist, I tugged her close, gazing down at my girl who swayed in my arms. “You stick to my side the whole fuckin’ night. Don’t want you out of my sight.”
“You act like I’m going to have a problem with that.” She fiddled with the collar of my shirt, pointed black nails scraping at the bottom of my throat.
A groan rolled in my chest. “Don’t know how I’m supposed to keep my hands to myself tonight…not when I want them all over you.”
I needed to tell River, and I needed to tell him soon. All of it. Both about Raven and the way I’d been hunting the monsters in the night. The lies I’d been telling. The betrayals I’d cast.
He might hate me, but I couldn’t go on keeping it from him. I loved and respected him too much for that.
Guilt tried to wind up into my conscience, but Raven just pressed her chest against mine and sent me a sly grin. “By knowing that the second you get me home, you’re going to be having me in any way you want me. By knowing I’m yours, even when the rest of them have no clue. By knowing that’s the way it’s always going to be, no matter what anyone else has to say about it.”
My smile went gentle, and I brushed back a lock of her hair as I gazed down at her. “Endless.”
Her gaze softened and she whispered, “Yeah, Otto. Endless.”
Night covered us in a blanket as we took the winding curves down the mountain. The roar of my motorcycle filled the air, the metal vibrating beneath us and the wind whipping through our hair. Raven’s arms were locked around me, and her heart beat a steady, beautiful rhythm against my back.
Her aura all around.
Her spirit consuming.
Her love abounding.
Didn’t think I’d ever felt better than right then. This moment in time when it was just me and her, no boundaries around us, just the freedom that we’d found in each other.
I slowed when we made it into town, and I took the couple turns required to get onto Culberry Street as I headed toward Kane’s.
The gravel lot was already packed when I made the left into the club, and I wound my bike through the mess of cars and trucks to the front where a slew of bikes were parked in a row. I came to a stop then planted my boots on the ground so I could walk the bike backward to park it next to River’s.
I killed the engine.
There was no missing the frenetic energy that filled the atmosphere, the music that thumped from within the club seeping out through the thick walls, something wild and untamed driving the mood.
Or maybe it was just the excitement I could feel roll through Raven that spurred it, the woman eager as she unwound herself from me and swung off my bike.
Pure fuckin’ vixen where she stood at the side of it smiling my direction as she unbuckled her helmet.
A knockout who’d gone and sucker punched me.
No reserves left, I was at her mercy, nothing but a beggar at her feet.
“Are you ready for the best night of your life, Otto Hudson? I mean, there’s little chance it won’t be considering you’re spending it with me. I am kind of a blast.”