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“You didn’t just say that,” I whisper.
“Damn right, I did,” he growls. “You’ve been through hell, Rosemary, I get that. I understand it. It’s fucked up what you went through, but you need to get that we didn’t stop looking for you. I wanted to find you. We all did. And we did. It just took us time. Now you’re back where you belong, and I’m not about to let you fuckin’ get away from me. Nor am I going to let you think this club, these people would do anything to betray you.”
“You’re not going to let me get away from you?” My temper rises all the more at his response. I refuse to acknowledge the confusion and uneasy feeling tumbling inside me.
“Yeah, I’m not letting you get away from me, Rosemary.” Those dark eyes of his, darken, harden would better describe it. His arm around me tightens. “We’ve got a lot of shit to hash out, but we’re going to get one thing straight right here and now, you, baby, my Tigress, are mine.”
I open my mouth to protest, to tell him to go to hell, but I don’t get a word out before his mouth is on mine. Kevlar seals his lips to mine, tongue thrusts in, and the kiss shatters my will to fight him. To get away from him. My resolve completely melts with this one kiss.
Just as quickly as he kisses me, Kevlar rips his lips away, presses his forehead to mine, and lets out a heavy breath. “I’m not letting you go again. Not like I did before while being a total jackass.”
“Let go.” My voice is even shaky to my own ears.
Kevlar is making me feel so much. More than I ever should for him. For anyone. Why all of a sudden is he acting like this?
“Why are you acting like this? All of a sudden, claiming I’m yours, kissing me, being nice the way you are? Is this some sort of joke?” I ask in a broken whisper.
Kevlar lets me go, sighing. “I was a dick to you, letting you leave the way I did. I shouldn’t have kicked you. I also shouldn’t have talked to you the way I did. Fuck, if I could go back and change it, I would. I wouldn’t have let you out of my bed.”
Those words ring in my ears, searing themselves in my head. The sincerity in his face has my knees buckling. They would have if I didn’t lock them in place, keeping myself from falling to the side. As it is, I weakly move to the bed and sit on the edge of it.
“You’re confusing me,” I confess, unable to keep the confession to myself.
“I don’t mean to, baby.” I don’t bother looking in his direction. I don’t need to see him to hear him moving toward me. He goes to his knees in front of me, his body fitting between my thighs. His arms wrap around my waist. “I fucked up with you, and I intend to fix what I broke. I’m not going to do anything to hurt you again, Rosemary. We’ve got shit to talk about. You need to know some things about me. About what we now know. About everything. I’m not hiding shit from you.”
Baffled by this, I blink and stare at him. “What do you mean?”
“We know who Dominic is. He wasn’t the one in the car with you when we got you back. Dominic got away,” he answers, cautiously watching me.
“He got away.” My breath feels heavy, and my chest tightens. How is it possible?
“I’ll tell you everything you need to know, Tigress. I’ll give you what you need.” Leaning in, he presses his lips to mine, kisses me sweet-like, and pulls away. “But we’ll talk while you eat something.”
“I’m not hungry.” I was, but I don’t think I could eat.
“That’s what you say, but you still need to eat something.” Kevlar’s lip quirks, and he gets to his feet, pulling me with him. “We’ll talk while you eat, baby.”
“Fine.” I huff and try to step away from him, but he doesn’t allow me to do so. Instead, he scooped me in his arms and carried me like I was a weakling and couldn’t walk by myself.
Carrying me from the room, he doesn’t even waver when he opens and closes the door behind us. Moments later, he plants me on one of the stools and sits beside me. He does this because we’re not the only ones in the room. My dad and brother were also there, along with Jade, Viper, Cyprus, and Noelle. The smell of something frying has my stomach growling at how delicious the aroma is.
My dad looks at me as Noelle glances from the stove.
“I’m making chicken tenders and fries,” Noelle announces. “It’s quick and easy.”
“While we wait,” Viper says, getting my attention, “we’ve got shit to talk about.”
“Let me start,” my dad says, looking at my brother. “Cobra’s got to head back later today, and we need to be the ones to tell her this part of it.”
“You’re leaving?” I find myself blurting, eyes going to Cobra, pain at losing him filling me.
“Got a club to run, Rosie, can’t stay here.” He shrugs, eyes intense. “But don’t think I’m not gonna be around. I’m done with you being distant, little girl.”
I open my mouth to snap at him, but my dad beats me to it.
“There’s a lot of things we both regret, princess,” Dad says, grimacing, eyes filled with sorrow which confuses me even more. Taking a breath, he dives into telling me about things he thought I knew nothing about. I knew the woman who was my mom wasn’t my birth mother. She and I had this conversation a long time ago, but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t my mom. She raised me and loved me. More than that, she loved my dad and brother. She explained to me all the things I knew nothing about, and now my dad’s telling me, thinking I didn’t know. I guess she never told him, and I know I never told him I knew because I didn’t realize it was a big secret.
Knowing this, I never thought about my birth mother. My dad goes on to tell me why my mother left. He also told me that it was her that killed the woman who I saw as my mom. Then he finishes by dropping the bomb on me and telling me that my mom is now known by the name of Enyo. It’s because of her I was held by Dominic, though I think he has his own sick, twisted plans for me.
