Free Her Grizzly Outlaw by Jenika Snow Page B

several years.
    She pulled up to the clubhouse
and saw it already rocking with club members, their families, music, and
laughter coming through the open window. Her heart was beating so fast and hard
she thought it would burst right through her chest. Holding the steering wheel
and clenching the leather in a tight grasp, she told herself that everything
would be fine. Once she had enough courage pumping through her veins she grabbed
her purse sitting on the passenger side seat, and was about to open the
driver’s side door when the sound of someone tapping on the glass beside her
had her pulse jumping even higher.
    She looked out the window, her
mouth drying, her heart stopping, and everything inside of her coming alive at
the sight of Lucas standing there with this goofy as hell grin on his face. He
wore his MC cut so damn well. He had a toothpick between his lips, and when he
gestured for her to come out of the car she realized that was harder than it
should have been. Her legs were like Jell-O as she climbed out of the driver’s
seat, and her palms had suddenly become so sweaty so felt this sheen line her
flesh.
    He took a step back and eyed her
up and down. “Damn, Tarren ,” he said in this voice
filled with heat, and continued at look at her body.
    For the last year he had been
working outside of the Arizona charter. Although things had ended awkwardly
after he left her father’s house, and she had thought things would never go
back to the way they were, she had been surprised when he had invited her to
dinner about six months after he had left. He had come back to Steel Corner for
about a week, and seeing him again after all that time, after things had ended
the way they did, was awkward to say the least. But then she had seen him, felt
her desire rise like this violent monster inside of her, and of course one
thing had led to another.
    She had slept with him again,
just like that, like she was this animal in heat or something.
    “What are you doing out here when
the party that is being thrown for you is inside?” she asked.
    He grinned and took the toothpick
out of his mouth. After he flicked it aside he grinned at her, but didn’t speak
for several seconds. “I needed air. Those Grizzlies are crazy as fuck in there
and have far too much energy.”
    She nodded, not sure what she was
supposed to say, because even if she had seen him just six months ago, fucked
him even, this was still a touchy encounter. “It’s good to see you, Lucas,” she
said in a soft voice. Tarren meant it. God, did she
mean it. How could she just turn her back on her emotions for this male just
because her father didn’t think them being together was a good idea? How could
she stop loving Lucas just because she didn’t think things would work out
between them because all this shit seemed in their way? The hard truth was she
was in love with him, and that would never change. If anything it would only
get stronger, more consuming. She’d either have to let Lucas know how she felt,
or push all of that to the back of her mind, deep into her soul, and hope she
survived not expressing her emotions to him.
    He didn’t speak for several
moments, and all they did was stare at each other. The
chemistry between them was stronger than ever, and she knew it couldn’t just be
one way. She knew he cared about her, even thought he might love her, but he
was a reserved man, kept his emotions and heart close to him, and he never said
anything to her. She wished he had, because hearing him say that he loved her,
too, would change the entire dynamics of their relationship.
    “I’m really glad I got to see
you, Tarren . It’s been a long fucking time.”
    Yeah, it really had been, even if
she had seen him once or twice during that year. They stared at each other for
several seconds, and then Jakob and Bodhi came out of
the clubhouse, cigarettes in their mouths, and clearly already a little bit
drunk by the way they were laughing loudly.
    “Dude,