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His shoulders shake in silent laughter, and I roll my eyes at him. Along with the others, he thinks my version of cursing is also hilarious.
My gaze snags on the clock and I realize the guys have been in Church for almost two hours.
As if they knew I was wondering when they’d be done, the door opens and they all file out. I fight not to shrink back at the looks on all their faces. They’re all seething with barely restrained rage.
Timber stalks over to me, picks me up, and sits down with me on his lap. He buries his face in the crook of my neck. I can feel his muscles rippling underneath me with his anger and rage, but for what, I don’t know.
Knowing he’ll tell me later if he can, I lean into him more as I reach up with one hand, running my fingers through his hair. With the other, I place my hand over his and intertwine our fingers as I try to help him calm down.
I stalk toward Mae, needing to feel her to ground myself. I’m fucking pissed at what we’ve just found out. Now it’s just a waiting game until we can get more information. Reaper, Punisher, Odin, and a few others join us at their table.
When Sunshine wraps her arm around me, her fingers play in my hair. Her other hand intertwines our fingers together and I place a kiss against the crook of her neck as I take a deep breath of her lavender body wash and perfume.
A shiver runs through her and I can’t help my grin as I kiss her skin again. After a few minutes, I finally feel my body relaxing slightly.
Sitting up, I pull her closer to me as I listen to her, Erik, Punisher, and Reaper get to know each other more. She tried to go into the kitchen to help Mama Astrid get ready for lunch, but she shooed Sunshine back out here to get to know her brothers and uncle better. I wish Dom were here, but he goes to a car show each year with Odin’s father.
For the next few hours, we all sit around talking. Every now and then Sunshine will slip, referencing what the rest of us know about her background. It’s not till Erik’s gaze slides to Punisher each time that her body tenses. I wish I could take away her pain, what those assholes have done to her, but I can’t. What I can do, is do everything in my power to keep them from harming her further.
As the afternoon wears on, it’s all I can do to not jump out of my chair when I hear the unmistakable sound of heels clacking on the tiles as one of the Johnson Chasers, as Sunshine and the rest of us have started calling them, come out of their rooms.
Candi and Star walk over to the bar to get a drink, swaying their hips. They both look over the room, and surprisingly, when each of their gazes meet mine, they incline their heads slightly, giving me a small smile. I hope like fuck that means they’ll leave Sunshine and me alone, but time will tell.
Seconds later, Sunshine stiffens in my lap and when I follow her gaze, I scowl when I see Luscious’ hate-filled glare fixated on her when she notices Mae in my lap. Then Luscious’ face lights up and I’m guessing it’s because Erik’s here. He’s never done anything with any of the bunnies, that I know of anyway, but it doesn’t stop them from trying.
I tense and hope like fuck Punisher talked to him or shot him a text. Movement brings my gaze downward and I see Sunshine signing something. Wait, she knows sign language?
Glancing up at Erik, he gives her a subtle nod. Well shit. Guess that means he told her what happened to him and the accident.
Luscious walks up behind Erik, running her hand down his shoulder and arm. He jerks away from her, ripping her arm off him.
“I thought I told you never to touch me, bitch,” he sneers at her.
She bats her fake eyelashes at him as she plays with her hair, an innocent expression on her face as she tries to bring attention to her chest. “Oh, you don’t mean that, handsome. Let me take care of you to relieve some of that stress.” She tries reaching for him again, but he swats her hand away.
“Like hell would I ever touch you or your loose as shit holes. Now, if you haven’t noticed, you’re ruining me and my brother getting to know our sister better. Get the fuck away from us and go bother someone else.”
Once again, her hate-filled gaze finds Sunshine as she sneers at her. To her credit, Sunshine doesn’t back down. She just smirks at Luscious as she brings my hand to her lips, kissing my knuckles. Placing a kiss on her temple, I level the bitch with a glare of my own.
Luscious huffs and rolls her eyes, thrusting her chest out as she cocks her hip. My guess is she thinks that’s sexy, but it just makes her look even more desperate than she already is.
“Keep rolling your eyes there, Luscious. Eventually, you might find your pea sized brain in there somewhere. Then again, you may just be proof that someone can live without having a brain,” Sunshine tells her, which has everyone laughing as Luscious’ face turns red.
She sneers as she looks over Sunshine’s body with disgust before turning her gaze to me at batting her eyelashes. “I don’t know why you even bother lowering yourself to slum it with the reject, Timber. She can’t be that good in bed or even take all of you. There’s no way she can take care of you the way I can. Let’s go back to your room and I can remind you how much you’re missing out with Miss Skin and Bones here.” She runs a hand in between her breasts, and I just want to gag, regretting ever fucking her in the past.
Out of the corner of my eye, Sunshine’s smirk deepens as she leans into me further. “Oh, I’ve definitely taken all of his love stick and have had no problems making sureallof his needs are taken care of. Repeatedly.”
Grabbing her hips, I pull her closer to me, loving her gasp when she feels exactly how hard I am for her. “Damn fucking right, baby,” I rasp and she moans, grinding her ass against my hard cock through our jeans. I nibble the skin at the crook of her neck where I left a hickey and grin when her skin breaks out in goosebumps. Fuck what I wouldn’t do to throw her over my shoulder and take her upstairs right now, but I can’t.
“Get a room, you two,” Punisher says as both he and Erik fake gag, but I know they’re playing this up to rile up Luscious.
Her face turns redder and she stomps her foot. “You cannot be serious, Timber! What the fuck does she have that I don’t have?”
“Kindness,” Odin replies.
“A heart,” Punisher says.
“Patience,” Erik says.
