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A breath I didn’t realize I had been holding escaped me. A part of me feared that he would get released from jail and move on. I knew he would be a good father to Brynn. His parents raised him right that way but when it came to us, I had spent many lonely nights wondering how it would be when he got out. I still didn’t know but all we could do was take it one moment at a time.
“We’ll meet you at your parents’ place,” Cyrus called out, straddling his own bike.
Jaron nodded, starting up his bike that Sammy had driven for him and revving the engine. He glanced at me over his shoulder. “Ready?”
I cupped his shoulder, sliding onto the seat behind him.
He reached behind him, giving my knee a squeeze. It was as if he was saying,‘We got this, babe.’ But a part of me wasn’t sure if we did.
Or if we ever would.
Jaron
Feeling Piper holding ontome like I was the only thing stopping her from going anywhere, hit somewhere deep inside of me. It had felt like a lifetime since I touched her, kissed her, heard her laughs, and seen her smiles. I wanted more from her, but I didn’t know how to tell her that. Hell, I wasn’t even sure if I could show her.
What we had, wasn’t serious at first. Not by our doing. Friends of ours had a little thing for her and kept her from me. I shouldn’t have let it stop me, but I also didn’t want to cause a scene whenever I was around, so I played nice and kept to myself most times. But I watched her. I wasn’t even sure if she knew that.
“Jaron.”
My body stirred at the feminine voice coming up from behind me.
“How are you?” Piper sat on the patio couch beside me.
I looked around us, wondering where the twins were. Ashton and Aiden never let her out of their sight.
When I didn’t see them anywhere, I took that single moment as my chance and inched closer to her.
Piper’s breath caught, the sound shooting through every cell in my body. She stared up at me with wide eyes.
The private moment between us was short lived as the twins joined us but I savored that moment with her. Even if it had only been just a second.
Even though we had been kids, I always had a crush on her. I just wished I could have saved myself for her and her the same for me. But that didn’t matter anymore. I would make her forget every single guy she had been with.
As if she could hear my thoughts, Piper ran her hands around to my front. They inched beneath my hoodie, the tips of her fingers brushing over my abs.
My dick jumped but not because it turned me on. There was that too, but this was more of us getting to know each other again. Getting reacquainted in ways neither of us were prepared for.
Piper leaned her head against my back. I could feel the shudder rippling through her. She wasn’t a crier and the sobs that tore through her when we were finally reunited, made what I felt for her grow into something I had never experienced before.
Love.
It was definitely love I felt for the woman behind me. She held onto me like I was her lifeline when really, she was mine. She kept me sane. Her and our daughter were the only reasons I survived the months in jail. It could have been longer but the time we were apart, fucked me up. I did things to survive. Evil, vile things. Things I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemies. I had been known to be a hothead, more so than my own father, and it was used against me.
Piper squeezed me, pulling me from my thoughts. It was like she knew.
I cupped her hand, giving it a squeeze, silently thanking her.
She looked good. So damn good. Her body was fuller. She was also curvier than I last remembered. Although I would have known this, if I would had let her come see me in prison. But I refused. It wasn’t a place for her. As much as I needed it, I had to protect her from those monsters. And at the same time, I had to protect her from me.
Once we pulled up in front of my parents’ place, I killed the engine, kicked out the kickstand and waited. For what, I wasn’t sure. I looked out at the vast house. For some reason, it felt bigger since I had last seen it. My father wanted to expand on it, but my mother had always told him no. She said it was big enough.
I pulled off my helmet, resting it on the gas tank in front of me.
“Jaron?” Piper wrapped her arms tighter around me. “Whatever you need, I’m here.”
I grabbed her hand and kissed her knuckles. I wasn’t sure what I needed. A drink. Sex. To leave. I didn’t know. Maybe I would never know but whatever it was that I needed, I knew that I needed it with Piper and only her.
She slid off the back of the bike, pulled off the helmet, and rested it on the seat behind me.
