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“We’ll continue this right the fuck now,” I said firmly. “Why do you want to tell the Riders now? What’s changed?”

“I just…” she sighed heavily. “I just want to be open. I know they’ll disown me. I know they’ll cause so many issues, but I’m so fed up of hiding. We’re twenty-four, Luke. I want to be able to go places with you. I’d love a double-date with Dante and Laura. I want to get on the back of your bike and join in with the Devils’ weekly rides. I want to be your old lady. I’m so tired of seeing life pass us by, when we could just take a leap of faith and have it all.”

I couldn’t help the grin that split across my face. “You want it all?” I asked, cradling her face in my hands.

“I want it all,” she beamed back.

For a moment, everything else faded.

No Riders. No Devils. No impossibilities.

Just her.

“You were always going to get it, Gabby. You’ve already been welcomed here. There was never any other ending for us.”

Feeling as though my heart was going to jump out of my chest, I kissed her, trying to convey everything I was feeling into that one kiss.

“You know this is going to be a disaster,” she said, her words stilted, broken up by our kisses.

“I never expected both clubs to hold hands and skip through Leeds singing Kumbaya,” I chuckled back. “But you know I’d lead the line if that’s what it came to.”

“I don’t doubt it,” she laughed back, falling back onto the pillows with me.

Allowing her to take control, I laid back, watching her body with greedy eyes as the blanket fell away and she leaned over me, her hands either side of my head. Her hair fell in long, silky waves, sheltering us from the world, cocooning us in our own little coconut scented bubble.

“You know, if we do this—”

“Whenwe do this,” I interrupted, not allowing her a second to change her mind now that she had finally committed.

“When we do this,” she corrected with a grin. “That means we can finally start planning our future.”

“Start planning?” I said with a scoff. “Princess, I have our lives planned to the finest detail.”

“Oh, yeah? What’s in the line-up?”

“Well…” I said, making her squeal as I flipped her over onto her back and buried my face in her neck. “We’ll spend lots of time here, in this bed, of course.”

“Oh, of course.”

“And eventually, Mama will get sick and tired of hearing all the banging orgasms I give you, so she’ll kick us out to live in one of the houses on the compound.”

“And?” she encouraged when I became distracted with kissing up and down her neck.

“And then you’ll become my official old lady, you and Laura can rule the roost and keep Mama in her place. Eventually, I’ll become VP, and we’ll settle down with a couple of kids.”

“You want kids?” she asked, sounding shocked. I pulled away to look down at her.

“You don’t?” I frowned.

“I never really considered them a possibility.”

“I consider them an inevitability,” I said. “You’d make a brilliant mum.”

“You’d be the best dad… Well…”

“Err, excuse me. Explain that ‘well’,” I demanded with a grin.

“Why do I suddenly have visions of you teaching our kids to bark at people?”