into Leo’s face. “That’s… quite the speech. Do you think he means it?”
Leo grinned. “Yeah. Yeah I do. He said that he had to heal the club… and he has bent over backwards to tell everyone how he was wrong and I was right. Right about the kids, and right about the protection money.”
“What about the kids?”
Leo winced. “Shit… I wish I hadn’t said that. It was nothing, really.”
“If it was nothing then you can tell me.”
Leo grimaced. “When we intercepted the kids in the desert… there was a disagreement about what to do with them. We had always… taken care of the mules. But these were kids.”
“But you did let them go, right? You told me you did.”
“Yeah. But not before we ended up pointing guns at each other.”
“Shit! You’re kidding?”
“I wish I were. I pulled my gun on the fucking President of the club. It was some bad shit, Jamie. But I couldn’t let him just kill those kids.”
Jamie looked around Leo to watch Ron a moment. “He needs to go,” she said quietly.
“Two days ago, I would have agreed with you. But now he seems… different somehow. I can’t explain it. But it like some huge weight has been taken off his shoulders.”
“And you think you can trust him now?”
“I don’t know. I hope so. Time will tell. But if he is sincere…”
She looked back to him. “If…”
“Come on!” Leo teased. “Now who’s being a downer? It will be okay! Listen… I think I need to help you move something heavy in the back, wouldn’t you agree?”
She smiled. “As a matter of fact…”
The moment they stepped into the stockroom, he pushed her against the door and leaned in, a hand to either side, blocking her escape. He didn’t kiss her and she stared into his eyes, eyes that burned with a passion she had never seen in them before.
“Are you going to kiss me or just stand there?” she demanded.
And kiss her he did, leaning in and taking her lips before picking her up and pressing her against the door with his body. The kiss was torrid and she wrapped her arms and legs around him as he leaned in. He broke the kiss and began to kiss down her neck, licking and sucking, as she held his lips to her neck. She was becoming wet with desire, desire that she couldn’t act upon.
“Stop, Leo. Stop.” she begged as she pushed at him, needing him to stop but not wanting him too. Never had he been so fiery, so aggressive and passionate, and she wanted him. She wanted to take this moment and just fuck him, to experience him finally letting himself go with her.
“Leo, please stop. Please! We can’t… not now!”
The roaring heat of his passion eased and he loosened his hold upon her, but he didn’t stop, not immediately, his lips slowing their maddening dance on her skin until only his panting was left, his breath hot and erotic.
“I want you,” he whispered, not yet letting her go.
“I want you, too. But not here, not now. I have to work. But later… later I want you to remember how you feel now… and take me then. Promise me,” she murmured as she kissed his neck.
“Yes. Later,” he said as he pulled back and gently lowered her to the floor before leaning in and kissing her slowly on the lips. “You are the best thing that has ever happened to me,” he murmured as he took her lips again.
She felt her heart skip a beat. Maybe we should go, right here, right now, she thought as her desire for him surged even harder at his words. “And you, me,” she whispered as she touched his cheek, the look on his face at her touch making her want to cry. How can my touch affect him so deeply?
As her hand fell away he kissed her softly again, then stepped back, freeing her to move. She took several deep breaths, trying to regain her composure as she straightened her shirt and neatened her hair. With a final deep breath to fortify herself, she opened
Lisa Mantchev, A.L. Purol