“Cancel it,” I growl out.
He shakes his head. I can see annoyance in his eyes along with amusement. I have no idea what he finds amusing right now, but he better fucking cancel this date.
“Give me one good reason why I should… brother,” he says while he challenges me with his eyes.
“Fuck.”
I know what he wants me to say.
The thing is though, I don’t know if I’m ready to lay claim to someone like that again.
“That’s what I thought. You had your chance, brother. Now I’m taking mine,” he says and then turns and leaves the clubhouse without another word.
Fuck.
I do not like this at all.
I make my way to her room and I hear my sister and her talking before I make it to the door.
“Are you sure you are ready to date?” I hear my sister say.
I hold my breath waiting for her answer.
“Well, I won’t know until I try, right? I need to get that part of me back that Reaper stole,” Camilla says.
I don’t wait another second before I open the door.
“Ella, can I talk to Camilla alone?” I ask as soon as I enter.
Ella nods without a word and walks out of the room, closing the door behind her.
“Camilla,” I say softly.
“Hey, Tyson. What’s up?” she says innocently.
“Do you like him?” I ask getting right to the point.
She shrugs her shoulders but doesn’t look at me.
“It’s a yes or no question, babe,” I say in irritation.
She looks at me straight in the eyes. “Sure, I like him. I can’t keep sitting around waiting for the one I want to look my way. I want to be happy again.”
My breath stalls at her words. “Who do you really want?”
I feel jealousy tighten over me and pain comes at the thought of her being with someone else, or of being someone else’s Old Lady.
“It doesn’t matter. My mama always said that you can’t sit around waiting for things to happen. If you want something bad enough, you have to do it yourself. Well, I want to finally be free. I want to make that happen,” she says.
“Fuck. You can’t go out with him,” I say lowly.
She tilts her head to the side. “And why not? I like him enough to give this a shot and he likes me.”
“Because I don’t like it,” I say roughly.
She lets out a humourless laugh.
“It doesn’t really matter what you like, right? We are just friends. I can’t stay single because you don’t like it.”
I scrub a hand over my face.
“You are more than that and you know it,” I say stepping closer to her, but she takes a step back.
“And how would I know that?” she says placing her hands on her hips.
“I know that I’m not the only one feeling this thing between us. I want to kill my own brother for thinking he could take what’s mine,” I growl out.
“W-what’s yours?” she says looking at me with wide eyes.
I nod my head. “Fuck, yes what’s mine. You have been mine since I first laid eyes on you. I spent months refusing to see it. Then when my head finally started to clear, I spent months trying to deny it. I’m not going to stand by and watch another man try to claim you when you have been mine for a long fucking time.”
“T-tyson. You have no idea what you are saying,” she says with a shake of her head. I step closer to her until I back her up against the wall.
“I know what I am fucking saying. There is no way you are going on a date, unless it is with me. If you are ready then I am ready with you. We can take this step together,” I say.
My lips are a breath away from hers and we both are breathing harder now.
“Please don’t be joking. I don’t think I could take it if you weren’t serious right now,” she says in a strained voice.
“I’ve never been more serious than I am right now, Camilla. I think you know that. We were both waiting for the other to be ready and it’s a step we take together. Not with anyone else. I can’t begin to explain my feelings, but I know that you make me feel something that I thought was long gone and wasn’t going to feel again,” I say placing a hand lightly on her cheek.
“You only want me because you are threatened by Crash asking me out.” She says the words but she looks like she doesn’t believe them herself.
I immediately shake my head. “No baby. I’m saying this because I’m tired of pretending that I’m not attracted to you. I don’t want to fight this when everything is telling me to claim you and have you by my side.”
“Okay.” She whispers the most perfect word I want to hear in this moment.
I lower my lips to hers and taste her for the first time.
Her lips feel soft and I take my time kissing her.
Her arms come up slowly around my neck as she pulls herself closer to me.
I wrap my arms around her as I slowly deepen the kiss.
The way she melts in my arms is fucking amazing.
I realize that everything has come crashing down to this moment.
This woman is mine.
Nothing is going to stop me from making her mine.
Chapter Seventeen
Camilla
I touch my lips for the millionth time since Tyson had kissed me.
After he kissed me, he told me to cancel my date and that he would be picking me up instead.
Nothing can stop the smile that has spread over my face.
I never thought that agreeing to a date with Crash would
