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“I’m glad to hear that.”
“It’s the three of us now.” I gesture between us, so she gets it.
That nose scrunches in adorable confusion. “It’s what?”
Popping the Dum Dum from my mouth, I point it at Kit for emphasis. “You. Me. Him.” Then I return the sweetness and crunch down on the last bit of sugar, breaking it into shards.
“You live on a compound with your biker brothers, Gunz. You have a family already. A teenager and her baby live in your house. They depend on you. There isn’t anything close to anus.”
Yes, there is. I think I already made that clear.
“If you think that, then you’re crazy.”
Kit heaves a long-suffering sigh. “Gunz—”
Shaking my head hard, I chuck my empty sucker stick to the ground. “Nope. We’re not doin’ this, Kit. Not now. I’ve gotta get back and pack for a run. While Adam handles his jail time, I gotta handle my club business, and you’ve gotta live your life. That’s reality. But you’re my family, too. He is my kid. You’re his mother. There is anus. When I get back, I’ll be the first to show you what that means.”
The fierce lady comes forth and tucks both arms across her chest, no longer the picture of unease. “Then we do what in the meantime?”
“As I said… You do your shit. I do mine. We can text.”
“Right. Okay.” Her lips purse into a thin line as she looks anywhere but me.
Here goes that overthinking, staring-into-space bullshit women do. The kind that has her convinced I’m bailing. That I’m some asshole who talks the talk but doesn’t plan to walk the walk. With her history, I understand the hesitance. That doesn’t mean I’ll tolerate it.
“Don’t give me that look,” I scold harsher than I intend, ’cause I’d rather her focus on me, not the red Toyota parked across the street.
Kit rolls her hot-as-sin eyes, and I swear to Christ, I pop a semi from the defiance alone. “What look is that?” she sasses, still staring into the great unknown of female bullshittery. Trust me, I know it well. Bink, Beth, and even Janie put me through this every damn week. The difference is, I’m not usually the subject of their hormonal mind fucks. I’m their outlet for ‘em.
“That one.” I two-finger point at her now scowling expression. “Let me make this clear before you continue to overanalyze everything. I am not going away.”
“Okay.” She turns her nose up at me like I’m the biggest liar on the face of the planet. It’s equally infuriating and a major turn-on.
To keep a lid on things, I focus on my frustration, not my boner, and throw both hands up in exasperation. “Good God, woman, I’m not.”
“I said, okay.”
Women are such pains in the ass.
“No. Your face says you don’t believe me.” I remain cool. I’m the goddamn Dalai Lama.
The spitfire doesn’t back down. She stares straight into my eyes, straight into my soul. I swear I feel her poking around in there, doin’ Lord knows what to the junk drawers. “It doesn’t matter what I believe, Gunz. This isn’t about my feelings or my thoughts. This is about Adam. Now that you’ve met him, I just don’t want you jerking him around. He’s been through enough.”
“I know.” Still, I’m patient when all I wanna do is yell,Of course, I fuckin’ know that!
“I love him. He’s all I got.”
“I know you do, and you’ve got me, too.”
“Okay,” she deadpans.
Enough.I’m done.
My stupid cock concurs when it bucks against my fly, hopin’ to get some fresh air. If it wouldn’t draw attention, I’d punch the thing into submission. He’s screwing with my head and our situation.
Inhaling the deepest breath in the universe, my chest expands to the max. I blow it out slowly before I harness my voice in a way that keeps me from losing my shit, but still gets the point across. “That word needs to be washed from your vocabulary, woman. Lose it. No more of thisokaybullshit. We are his parents. I’ll text when I can while I’m gone. You will see me when I get home from the run.” I speak deliberately, emphasizing each word.
Fixing her purple hair, Kit opens her mouth, and I know what sass this fuckin’ female is about to spew before it even comes out.
