“You hearing me, Finn?”
“Yeah. Yeah, I hear you.”
“Good, cuz I’m gonna be watching you, making sure you’re holding it together. Don’t withdraw. Stay around the boys and Ash, what makes you feel human and all that. It’ll help. All right?”
“Yeah,” I said, nodding.
He laid his hand on my shoulder, giving it a comforting squeeze. “You’re our brother. We got you. You ain’t gotta go it alone no more.”
20
~Ashley~
“RIVERVIEW IS NEXT!”
I listened as Finn called down the hall to one of his new club brothers.
He stopped and turned, adding, “I’m heading out in ten minutes!”
It was likely either Wrecker or Anarchy that he was talking to. Both of them being enforcers, they’d need to be in the know about any security work Finn was doing.
The second he rounded the corner, I fisted my hand in his sexy muscle tee and shoved him against the wall.
With him being so caught off guard, I was able to manage it easily.
For the last two weeks, he’d been singularly focused on his new role as Sergeant-at-Arms, on shoring up all of the club’s defenses at the clubhouse itself and in the town. I’d barely seen him for more than a few moments at a time. I’d let it slide, encouraged it, even, because I knew it had to be done. And it made him happy. It gave him back his purpose that had been stripped from him too long ago when he’d been forced to go into hiding and retreat from the world.
But it’d gone on unchecked long enough now.
I needed him and he needed to take a break.
Even if it was just for a little while.
“You’re gonna be twenty minutes,” I told him, as I ran my hands all over his chest. “At least,” I added with a sly smirk as I grasped the hem of his tee and started pulling it up, bearing his spectacularly ripped torso.
He grasped my wrists, stopping me. “Not here.”
I giggled at his attempt to play hard to get and pulled my hands from his hold. I snatched the waistband of his tactical pants, my fingers just about to slip inside… until he slapped his hand over his fly.
“Finn, why are you—?”
“Anyone could walk by. In your father’s club. You know, the place teeming with hardcore guys who’ll do anything under the sun to protect you? I’m pretty sure that includes your virtue.”
“Virtue?” I said, highly amused.
“Yes.”
“Well that’s over and done with.” I grinned. “Thanks to you.”
“They don’t need visual proof of that.”
“Come on,” I said, reaching up and cupping his cheek. “We both know you could wipe the floor with all of them. Maybe even all at once.”
He stroked my fingers on his face. “Let me do what I need to do with Riverview Eatery’s security overhaul and we can pick this up right after I’m done.”
Wow, they were really going for it with the security revamp. Even the little club-owned restaurant down by the river was on their agenda now.
“Nice try.”
He frowned. “What?”
“Afterwards, you’ll just end up going out with Anarchy and Wrecker and one drink will turn into an all-nighter. Uh uh. I’ve let it go for two weeks straight. We’re doing this right here and now.”
I stretched onto my tiptoes and brushed my lips over his.
I ramped up the kiss quickly, plunging my tongue into his mouth as I slid my hand down his pants, palming his cock. He groaned in pleasure, already hard and wanting. He loved the illicitness of fooling around out in the open where we could get caught, just as much as I did. He got off on the sense of danger. I’d figured that much out about him. He had to possess that urge to have joined the military and the likes of that black ops group way back when.
I felt his hand delving into my hair. In the next second, he fisted it hard, jerking my head back and making me hiss with the bite of pain.
“Fuck,” he ground out. “When you turn it on, you really fucking turn it on.”
I grinned at him as I pulled down my black flared-sleeve top, exposing my breasts.
His eyes flicked down to them, flashing with heat, before darting back up to my face.
Intensity flared.
Desire flamed.
And then he flipped our positions, his palms slamming down either side of my head on the wall. “Fuck, I want you. I want to be all over you.”
His words had me trembling with excitement. “Yes. Yes, Finn.”
I reached up for his hands by my head. The second our skin made contact, it was like something snapped in him. His mouth was crashing down on mine in the next second, taking me in a hard, demanding kiss and his hands were running wildly all over my body.
The explosion of passion took me over and I grabbed at the back of his head, digging my nails into his scalp and urging him closer still. My hips rolled against him on instinct and the delicious animalistic grunts he released into my mouth were the most satisfying sounds I’d ever heard in my life.
And all I wanted was to hear more of them.
He wrenched my hands up above my head and held them there with one hand. His tongue darted out and licked my neck. He licked lower, along my shoulder blades, along the tops of my boobs, leaving a trail of warm, wet heat in its wake and making me whimper against him and roll my hips in a frantic desperation for more.
So much more.
I got my wish as he flicked open my jeans, tugged them down, along with my panties, and cupped my dripping wet pussy.
“Mmm. You need this so badly.”
In the next breath, he hoisted me up. My legs wrapped around him instinctively and he cupped my ass. I felt his hand shifting around between us.
And then with a feral grunt, he slammed into me, his hard cock driving deep.
I choked and gasped out, “And so do
