Page 35 of Flash (Iron Thunder MC 2)
“I don’t think I will ever have the money to repay him. I don’t think I will ever be able to return to my hometown. For the sake of my family, I have to stay away. I have to keep running. I know Billy will never let it drop. Whoever he works for, they won’t let it drop either.”
I stared at Flash as I spoke, wanted him to say something. Anything. But it looked like he was thinking. Like he had nothing to say.
Maybe the worst was coming true. Maybe he didn’t believe me or trust me, or he thought I was a complete idiot and didn’t deserve his protection anymore.
A single tear rolled down my cheek now. I couldn’t hold it back any longer. It was over.
I knew I never should have told him the whole story. Now he wouldn’t want me.13FlashAllegra had a single tear rolling down her cheek after she finished telling me her story. The fact was I didn’t know what to do.
What she had told me so far about Billy and the drugs—made me reconsider the idea that she would be suited to my world.
I wanted her. There was no other woman I wanted to wake up next to. Being with her the last two days had felt like something I’d never experienced before. But was this life suitable for her?
“Flash…please, say something,” she spoke up.
Maybe I’d been silent for too long.
I clenched my fists and stared. She’d wiped the tear off her cheek and I could see she was trying her best to regain composure. Allegra was a proud woman. She didn’t want to appear weak in front of me. She didn’t want me to think she couldn’t handle this.
“I’m not going to let that bastard get to you. I want to keep you safe,” I said.
She shook her head and stood up from her chair.
“Please, you don’t have to. You are not committed to me in any way. If you think my past is too much to handle…I will understand.”
I stood staring at her and she came up to me slowly.
“I will always be grateful to you for what you have done for me already, Flash.”
She had no idea what my life was like.
Drugs, weapons, war, blood, crime…these were the elements of my life that occurred on a daily basis. We lived on the wrong side of the law. Sure, we had our own set of morals and rules. We abided by our own set of conduct, but if she was terrified by one shoebox filled with drugs, what would she do if she saw what we stored in our warehouse?
“I did what I had to do. I wasn’t going to stand by and watch you getting hurt by that motherfucker. I want to keep you safe, Allegra.”
She gulped and shook her head.
“Yes, but I can leave now. You don’t have to keep doing this. You don’t have to keep saving me from him.”
She was about to step away but I caught her hand and pulled her to myself. Just her touch was enough.
She was still in nothing but a towel wrapped her torso. Her hair was drying and taking on that silky shiny texture again. I remembered the glow on her face when she was asleep next to me this morning.
I wasn’t ready to let that go yet. I wasn’t ready to lose her.
“You’re not going anywhere. Not yet,” I said.
She tilted her face up toward me and I kissed her mouth. I wanted to claim her. Officially. I wanted to tell Drax and the rest of the Club about her, but not until she got a full taste of what we were about. Not until I was sure she could handle it.
Could she handle it?We were still kissing and I was starting to untie the towel around Allegra’s body when I heard my phone ring.
I knew I couldn’t ignore it, given our situation with the Silver Knights currently.
“I have to get this,” I groaned, slowly pulling away from her.
She nodded and tightened the towel again.
I answered the call in the next few moments and saw it was Ghost calling.
“Get your ass to the Clubhouse now,” he said.
“Did something happen?”
“Yeah, something’s happened but you have to see this for yourself,” Ghost said and ended the call before I could ask him any more questions.
I turned to Allegra. She had already started loading the dishwasher.
“You don’t have to do that. My housekeeper will be here soon and she’ll take care of all that.”
She turned to me and I saw there was a twinkle in her eyes.
“I’m perfectly capable of loading a dishwasher, and I’ll clean up around here too. That way, your housekeeper will be less burdened.”
I wasn’t going to argue with her about picking up jobs around the place which she didn’t have to. That was her choice.
