I wasn’t stunned that he nonetheless smelled like a brewery when he lastly got here into my room just a little earlier than midday. “Get your ass outta mattress. We have to go to the financial institution. Now.”

Climbing off my mattress, I dressed, then grabbed a skinny cardigan from my closet and pulled it on. The sleeves have been brief, however they have been simply lengthy sufficient to cover the bruises on my arm. The very last thing I wanted was for somebody on the financial institution to ask awkward questions whereas I crammed out the paperwork that may give my dad entry to my faculty financial savings.

Once I received downstairs, he was already ready on the door for me. “Hurry up, Tessa.”

“I’m nearly able to go, however I don’t—”

“You don’t, what? Wish to give me again my hard-earned {dollars} when it’ll save my life?”

“Your life?” I echoed, glancing down at my naked ft. All I’d deliberate to say was that I simply wanted to placed on a pair of sandals.

“I’m nonetheless undecided the way it occurred. I by no means would’ve put a lot on the road in that poker recreation if I hadn’t been up by a fuck ton.” He raked his fingers via his hair. “However then I used to be on a dropping streak, and earlier than I knew what occurred, I used to be in too deep. Now as a result of some asshole had higher luck than me, I have to provide you with sixty thousand {dollars} earlier than my bookie takes it outta my cover.”

My dad had a bookie. And he owed the man the equal of three years of my faculty schooling. All from one poker recreation, if my dad’s irate muttering was to be believed.

I used to be nonetheless making an attempt to wrap my head across the bombshell of knowledge he’d simply dropped when he yanked the door open and stomped exterior, yelling at me to rush up once more. I didn’t really feel as if I had some other selection, so I slipped on my sandals and grabbed my purse. Then I headed off to the financial institution with my dad…to destroy my future.

The previous saying about what you didn’t know couldn’t damage you wasn’t true on this scenario. I had no clue that my dad had a playing drawback, however I used to be the one who would pay the value for his mistake.

2

PHANTOM

“I don’t take checks,” the florist snapped as she guarded the door to her supply van.

Rom growled, and I grabbed his arm, holding him again. “Calm the fuck down, brother. You assume not having flowers will upset your bride? How ’bout if her groom is in jail?”

“Jail?” the younger, pinched-faced florist squeaked.

I shot her a warning look. “Loosen up. Nobody goes to do shit to you. I’ll run to the financial institution and get money.” I pointed my finger on the uptight girl who had proven as much as ship the marriage flowers. “However you higher unload and get every part arrange, or that may change after I return.”

She narrowed her eyes at me, however then they went large when she glanced to my facet. I adopted her gaze, seeing my prez, VP, and some different brothers within the Silver Saints MC standing beside us. “Um…okay…simply make sure to carry—”

“Yeah, yeah,” I minimize her off, already stomping to my bike parked a number of ft away. “Simply get your bony ass to work.”

I didn’t hear if she responded over the roar of my bike engine beginning, and I didn’t give a fuck. With a chin raise from Mac, the president of my MC, letting him know I’d deal with issues from right here, I pulled out and headed into city.

I used to be already irritated from coming to Layla’s rescue when her overbearing mom wouldn’t cease driving her loopy. I’d stepped in and virtually dragged her to her seat the place her husband waited and ordered him to maintain her ass there.

Each patch in my MC was like a brother to me, and that made their previous girls like sisters, so we have been all invested in what made the ladies pleased. However I’d at all times been closest with Rom, and Layla had wormed her method into my coronary heart, turning into the annoying little sister I by no means had and by no means needed. However I’d be damned if some uptight florist ruined her wedding ceremony.

There was a brief line on the financial institution, so it didn’t take me lengthy to withdraw the cash. I stashed it within the interior pocket of my swimsuit coat—I nonetheless had no thought how Rom talked us all into the monkey fits—and strode purposely towards the revolving door.

A lady dashed into one of many compartments, and I shortly slipped into the one behind her as she pushed frantically to get the glass shifting. I used to be in a rush too, however it didn’t cease me from noticing that she had a spectacular ass for somebody so small. Her denims molded to the peerlessly rounded globes, and her lengthy auburn hair fell to only above them.

When recent air hit me within the face, it broke my give attention to the lady. I shook myself, stunned at how my physique had reacted to only the again of some chick’s physique. Particularly when my dick had principally taken a depart of absence a very long time in the past. Informal intercourse had by no means been my factor, and I’d joined the CIA after I graduated from faculty at twenty-one. Being a spook wasn’t precisely conducive to relationships, then after I left The Firm nearly two years in the past, I hadn’t discovered a lady who’d me. But this stranger—the again of her, for shit’s sake—had made my cock stir.

I shook my head, then grunted after I walked into one thing smooth standing in my method.

I glanced down simply as the lady hissed and bent over. Her respiration was all of the sudden labored and recognizing the sound—having triggered it typically sufficient throughout my years as an operative—concern had me quickly shifting so I used to be going through her.

She was nonetheless bent over, her arms wrapped round her torso, and her stunning face contorted with ache.

“Sorry, sweetheart,” I rasped, making an attempt to focus regardless of being awestruck by how fucking attractive she was. “Are you okay?”

From what I noticed, she had at the least one damaged rib and possibly a number of bruised ones.

“Sure. I’m sorry,” she wheezed, though her respiration wasn’t as shallow. and colour was returning to her pale face. “I didn’t imply to cease so quick. I used to be searching for…”

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