Page 28 of Sapphire

I want to stay here, with Sapphire in my arms, but duty calls. Duty as in, her MC.

Diamond just heard about the surveyor—around the same time I did—and the shit has hit the fan.

“Probably best you stay put,” Sapphire tells me. “Diamond is in a mood.”

“Scared of introducin’ me?”

“They all know you already,” she replies.

I meet her gaze. “Haha. I meant as a couple, or are you already gettin’ cold feet?”

“No, I’m not getting cold feet, but we’ve only just established this”—she waves a hand between us—“one second ago. We don’t even know how this is all gonna work.”

“We’ll make it work between the two places, maybe a week on, a week off. I could see myself spendin’ more time in Saddle,” I say, meaning every word.

“The Bandits won’t like that.”

“The Bandits come second to you.”

She stares at me, unblinking. “You don’t really mean that.”

I admit, those are big words. My club is everything.

“I do. I love my club, they’re all I have. They’re my family, but you’re my family, too, Saph. They’ll understand or they won’t. I’m not gonna ask you to give up your position here to be my ol’ lady full-time. I know you. You’d end up resenting me, not to mention you wouldn’t do it because we both love what we do.”

“Where the hell have you been all my life?” She sighs, wrapping her arms around my neck.

I kiss her hard. “Right here, waitin’.”

She narrows her eyes. “When you said you knew every time I came to Blackstone unannounced, did you also come to Saddle?”

I purse my lips. Bingo. She’s caught me, like any good club Enforcer. “Maybe.”

“So I was right, you did snoop!”

“You were stalkin’ me first.”

She laughs out loud. “Stalking? Wow, you really have dibs on yourself, don’t you?”

“Someone has to check up on you. Fuck knows what mayhem you’ll stir up or what trouble you’ll get yourself into.”

“I’ve come this far in life, and I’ve only been arrested a handful of times,” she says proudly.

I scoff. “Well, I might have a solution to your little problem with Lanzetti.”

Her eyes widen. “Do tell.”

I tap my nose. “Fill you in on the way, best not keep Diamond waitin’.”

“I’m sure she’s gonna have plenty to say when she sees you,” Sapphire mutters, kissing me chastely. “We’d better get going.”

I reluctantly pull back. “Ladies first.”

“Such a gentleman.” She strides off toward the door. Before reaching it, she turns back to look over her shoulder at me. “But I’m taking my own bike.”

“Got you on my ride once before, I’ll do it again.”

“I was fleeing for my life.”