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Like now when I add, “Plus, your buddy, Perry, who is interested in buying Dover seems to be doing great in persuading her. She woke up to a few text messages and she showed me one where he sent a picture of him riding a horse when he was eight years old.”
“Perry is a good guy,” Ivar grunts.
There’s something shifting in his eyes and it’s the hint of emotion in his voice which makes me blurt, “What happened?”
Ivar rubs a hand over his face and releases a deep sigh. “Perry was married. His wife was part of my team. The IED that damaged my hearing took her life.”
“Holy shit,” I whisper.
“Three of our unit died that day. Another one lost his leg and my hearing was damaged. We all carry our own emotional scars. Perry wasn’t there but he carries them as well. It might not show for outsiders or those who aren’t aware of his past, but he sure as fuck has them. He’s come a long way over the years.”
Ramona giggles and I throw a quick glance to see her face lacking worry, sadness, and anger. Instead, there’s a huge smile as she holds her phone and starts to type away once more.
I give Ivar a hopeful smile. “Maybe they can remind each other to smile every once in a while.”
He cups the side of my face and leans in close. “The way you lifted my spirit along with my dick.”
“You started out romantic but it quickly doused to dirty ramblings,” I grumble.
His husky chuckle causes a tingle to spread up my spine and I lean in to kiss him but the door of the clubhouse bursts open. My sister along with her old man and a few Cowboy Bikers MC Lawmen stroll inside causing every gaze in the room to land on them.
Hudsyn stalks right at me, or so I think because it’s not me she addresses but Ivar when she says, “You’re the one doing the naked horizontal gig with my sister?”
“Hudsyn,” I gasp and shove her shoulder.
“Not always horizontal, but…yeah, that would be me and between your sister and I. You have no business sticking your nose in our shit,” Ivar throws back.
I watch how he squares his shoulders, ready to take whatever she will throw at him while he balances his gaze between my sister and her old man, Ezra, who is now standing right behind my sister.
I step aside and make sure I’m standing right next to Ivar when I jab my finger against my sister’s chest. “You heard him, not your business. Besides, you knew what was going on between us. I called you, remember? And weren’t you the one who told me he’s one of the good guys?”
Ivar’s hand goes to my hip, gently squeezing as he pulls me closer to his body.
“Defending him, are you, sis?” Hudsyn challenges. “Ready to claim?”
Shit. Talk about placing another sister’s tits on an executioner’s block.
“I’m hers,” Ivar rumbles right next to me.
Tipping my head up, he stares down at me.
I know in this moment he doesn’t care what my sister or anyone else has to say because he can’t hear them. He chooses me. Fully focused on me and how I will react while my chest is filling with warmth.
How can I not when this guy is standing in the middle of a clubhouse with all people linked to me as he throws his feelings out there for everyone to hear. All while he only has his sister here.
“I’m not moving to New York or anywhere else,” I mouth so only he understands the words I give him.
“If anything has showed and taught me these past few days is the fact that my life is where you and my sister are.”
The emotions due to his words hit me hard and clog my throat. I swallow hard and face my sister.
“Ivar is my old man,” I croak.
My sister squeals and pulls me into a tight hug.
“I freaking knew it,” she whispers into my ear. “I’m so happy for you. Cassia called me last night and rattled on about her brother and what he mentioned about you.”
What the hell did Ivar say to Cassia? I knew they had a long talk in her room, Cassia wanted to clear the air between them. Afterwards she said there was nothing to clear but she just wanted to hear him out about me. Clearly, she did it with a purpose when she called my sister right after to gossip all about me and Ivar.
