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He was upset. I could tell by the tone of his voice.
He needed me.
What happened?
“I remember Solomon. I remember!”
Falling in love is a strange thing because it can happen when you least expect it.
I didn’t.
One minute all I could think about was school and then the next he was there. The first time I ever saw him, I had just turned sixteen and was walking through the front door with my brother Jax, who was talking a mile a minute.
The second I stepped foot in the common room, I knew something was different. I felt it. Felt him. My heart picked up as my eyes slowly scanned the room until they landed on the most beautiful man I’d ever seen. Taller than any brother in the club, the man exuded strength and determination. Yet, when I looked into his pale blue eyes, I saw his broken soul. His fear of rejection. I saw myself reflected in his gaze. He wasn’t like the other brothers. This man was not what he seemed, and something told me I needed him just as much as he needed me.
He was mine.
Mine to love.
Mine to protect.
I later learned that his name was Sandman, and he was now my sister’s bodyguard. While Remi wasn’t happy about the quiet man, I would catch glimpses of him hiding in the shadows whenever I was around. He didn’t utter a word, his attention fully focused on the world around him.
I couldn’t help but feel his intense gaze on me whenever I walked into a room. I could feel his yearning for my presence as if he was desperate to find me and never let me go. In all my years, I had never been as necessary to someone’s existence as I was when he was around. The magnetic attraction between us was impossible to ignore, completely captivating us both. The sudden absence of air created a vacuum in the room, drawing us nearer to one another.
I had tried to talk to my sister about him once, but she seemed preoccupied with other things. I could have talked to my brother Jax, but he was only nine years old and would rather lift weights with Savage. None of the other brothers in the club ever paid me any mind because Reaper made it clear to all of them, I was off-limits. I had no idea what that meant, but I quickly figured that meant they couldn’t talk to me.
For a short time, I had Shamrock.
He was my sister’s bodyguard before Sandman.
Everywhere Remi went Shamrock wasn’t far behind. He was funny and used to make me laugh. I could talk to him, and he would listen when the others wouldn’t. Then one day he was just gone. I didn’t know what happened to him, but I remembered Remi being furious with Reaper for a while.
It was hard being a teenage girl in a community of big biker men. I would have thought I would have had plenty of people to talk to, especially my sister, but that wasn’t the case.
I had no one.
So, I kept mainly to myself.
I studied, worked hard in school, and read a lot.
I tried to stay out of everyone’s way, unlike Jax, who couldn’t wait to join the club when he was old enough.
I didn’t know what I wanted until I saw him.
My Sandman.
My Solomon.
What I remembered most about that moment was when he looked at me with his pale blue eyes. Eyes so blue they reminded me of the clear waters of the Maldives. I knew there was something special about him from the moment our eyes met. I couldn’t explain it. One minute I was perfectly fine, the next, my heart skipped a beat, my face flushed, and it felt as though all the air had vanished. In that instant, I found it hard to breathe as butterflies took flight in my stomach.
He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen.
The other brothers in the club paled in comparison to his height. His body was so precisely sculpted that I wondered if God himself sculpted him from the most exquisite marble. But it was his eyes that told me everything I needed to know about him. Eyes that saw too much. Endured too much. Eyes so familiar, like a kindred spirit, reaching out to my soul.
He was like me.
Lost in a sea of uncertainty, unsure where he belonged.
