“W-why would my uncle get in the way?" I ask scared to hear the answer.
All the women look at each other before they burst into laughter.
“Honey, it wouldn’t just be your uncle to butt his nose in. Expect most of the club to,” Ella says with a smile on her face.
I nod like I get it but I really don’t. They must see the confusion in my eyes because they start explaining what happens when a family member is claimed.
They talk very quietly so that the guys don’t hear.
“Come on, hun. Trigger definitely has a thing for you. I mean he has barely taken his eyes off of you… and you! Don’t get me started on you! If you blush any harder, you’re going to look like a tomato!” Ella says, but the last part comes out a little loud and the guys glance at us again. I can’t help but smile shyly at Trigger.
“I wouldn’t know the first thing about being in a normal, functional relationship. I haven’t had normal family or friendships since we left here when my dad passed. Everything was about how we looked to everyone else, well, everyone that was rich so that my mom could land a rich husband although she could never keep them. She also made sure that I was only able to talk to the people who would further me in life and, well, that doesn’t really make it easy to get close to anyone. I don’t even know how to have a best friend. Sure, I can look and like all I want but, really, how could a woman like me who knows nothing about this life be with someone like him? I sure as hell know a lot about how to eat with proper etiquette and how to use my manners, ballroom dance, and dress like I’m going to a charity event every day, but I know absolutely nothing about being a biker. I even had to google how to dress! This whole outfit came off the internet. I couldn’t think of this on my own!” I say as I gesture to myself.
When I am finished, I am breathing heavily. I look at everyone and they are all smiling at me with wide eyes.
“Well it’s about fucking time she broke!” Stacey says, loudly causing everyone to laugh.
I feel my cheeks heat and use my hands to cover them.
“Sophie, I need to talk to you,” Trigger says as he walks out of the room and toward the hallway like he already knows that I’m going to follow him. Let’s face it, I really am.
I see him step into my room which means he wants privacy. Great, like I need to be alone with him after that little speech I just gave.
I reluctantly walk into my room and, as I do Trigger, is standing right in front of my bed. I can’t help but blush with him standing so close to it, and my mind is going places I can’t seem to stop from coming.
I stand awkwardly by the door. When it’s clear that I’m not going any further, Trigger walks up to me and pulls my arm slightly so that I’m in the room and he can shut the door. Next thing, I know he slowly backs me up until I’m against the door.
My breathing has increased and I can’t bring myself to look at his face. My heart is beating wildly in my chest.
He plants both of his hands on either side of me, caging me in, and I can feel my mouth getting dry. I try hard to keep my breathing even, but I’m failing miserably. His body is close to mine. I can feel the heat coming off him.
“Sophie, look at me,” he says in a soft voice that I have only heard him use with me.
When I look up at him, I can’t help but let out a small gasp. There’s an intensity in his eyes that I have never seen before. Well that’s a look that has never been directed at me; Vince for sure had never looked at me that way. I can’t help the shiver that runs through my body.
He searches my eyes for something before he starts to talk. “I don’t know how you can think you’re nothing special when you are the most fucking beautiful woman I have ever laid my eyes on. I want you like I have never wanted anyone else in my life. At first, I thought I could stay away but I know now that I can’t. I don’t give a shit if you think you know nothing about relationships. I can already tell that you’re perfect for me. I will take on whoever tries to take you away from me, or if any brothers including your uncle try to get in my way. All you have to do is say ‘yes’.”
I can’t help the tears that well up in my eyes. No one has ever thought of me that way or wanted me so badly that no one and nothing would get in their way.
I can see in his eyes how honest he’s being. I have no reason to not believe him when he is showing me a side of himself that he never shows anyone.
I take a deep breath and give him the answer that I know he wants. “Yes.”
As soon as the words are out of my mouth, his lips come crashing down on mine and I can’t help but kiss him back with the same urgency and hunger that he’s showing me.
This kiss feels like something we both have been waiting
