So we did, and we talked more about Logan and Remy. Rather, Locke talked, I listened. After weeks of his bewildered reticence, his deep voice filling the space around us wasn’t far short of heaven.
“I knew it was forever the moment I met Rem, and that was before I saw him with Lo.”
“Love at first sight?”
“Platonic love, but yeah. I justknewhe was the one for Logan, and that’s why I freaked out a bit over you.”
Tired and wired, I didn’t follow.
“How I felt about Remy was how I felt the second I saw you, with added extras.” Locke winked as he tucked a wave of hair behind my ear. “I was already low-key in love with Nash, and my heart was telling me you were everything I needed to be whole. But I couldn’t see how it could ever happen.”
“Itdidhappen.”
He chuckled. “I know that now, and seeing Lo fall in love with you like I did Remy—it’s just,fuck.If Nash was with us, this day would be some kind of fuckin’ perfect.”
“How long till we can make that happen?”
“Still three hours, queenie.”
Three hours.
Fuck. My. Life.
28
NASH
THEN
I led them home. Can’t lie, riding onto the compound with three Crows at my back was a fucking trip, but not a bad one.
This is right.
Didn’t know why. Just that it was.
I rolled into my usual space, aware that my companions had slowed down way earlier, choosing to stop as far from council row as possible.
Respectful.
Unnecessary.
If they were expecting Cam’s club to be run like the MC they’d come from, they were a decade too late. We judged brothers on how they treated our women, not where they parked their fucking hogs.
I shut my engine off, gaze automatically drifting to the sales building, where the woman who’d been mine since I’d first laid eyes on her worked side by side with Decoy, a crew of prospects loitering outside, protecting her.
Messy. That’s how Alexei described it. Untidy. I got the feeling that dude craved perfection, and that was a million miles from anything he’d find here, save Orla’s long legs, but on this, perhaps, he was right.
She needs a bodyguard. A permanent one who centred his entire universe around her every second I couldn’t be by her side.
“You brought presents.” Rubi appeared in front of me, tugging my helmet from my head before I could. “If you want to make up for running out on my very best Matron Matherson act, they’d better be good ones.”
“See for yourself.”
Rubi turned to watch the stray Crows dismount their bikes and hang their helmets. “Huh. You brought the massive one.”
Locke.
“You weigh a stone more than him.”