Free Taking a Dare - A Hellion MC Novel by J.A. Hornbuckle Page B

felt my arms
tighten around him. I wanted to. God knows how I yearned to. At
that moment, I would've followed Dare anywhere just to remain with
him in order to finally be with him.
    I couldn't though, not until I'd taken care of a
couple of issues. When Dare and I got together I didn't want
anything, not one goddamn thing, to stand between us.
    "Can I take a rain check on that, cowboy?" I asked
and watched the intensity in his eyes dim a bit. "I'm not saying
no—just not tonight. Okay?"
    He didn't saying anything for a couple of heartbeats
which was long enough for me to realize he didn't like my
answer.
    But, it was the only answer I could give him at that
moment. "That was one helluva kiss though. Been saving it for ten
years, huh? Was it worth it?" I wanted to get us back to the
lighthearted fun rather than leave him with his boxers in a
bunch.
    "Maybe. Maybe not," he chuckled as we untwined and
sat up, both of us adjusting our clothes. "Guess we'll need to
fuckin' do it again just to see, yeah?"
    "Horn dog," I teased, swinging my legs off the table.
The loss of his body heat was the reason for my shivers. At least,
that's what I told myself.
    "Temptress," he shot back reaching to steady me but
his arm slid further around and he pulled me into his chest for a
tight hug. "Don't want to let you go, sugar."
    I leaned my head against his chest and gripped him
tighter. "Yeah, cowboy. I know."
    I didn't want to let him go either but there was no
way I could take it further with Dare without resolving the shit in
my life first.
    March.
    Then my dear old dad and the control I'd let him have
over me and my life.
     

Chapter Nine
     
    "Baby?" Dallas called from somewhere around Trey's
chest. They were both replete with their night's doings, him on his
back and her curled up alongside him, head on his pec.
    "Right here, Tex," he replied on a yawn.
    "Overheard something weird tonight."
    "Weird, how?"
    "As in that Gus guy talking to Ryley about Dare,"
came the sleepy reply.
    "Gus is, was and will always be a fucking asshole."
Trey had no problem in naming the other Prez for exactly what he
was.
    "No, baby. Listen. He was telling Ryley to stay away
from Dare, saying our boy was shit and that Dare had caused their
family a lot of trouble." Trey heard a deep sigh before his fiancée
and love of his life continued speaking.
    Fucking Christ!
    That goddamn, motherfucking asshole!
    "How could he do that, baby? She's his daughter for
god's sake! You can't tell a grown woman who they can or can't be
interested in!" Dallas's temper was very evident in her words. "I
can't imagine my parents ever even telling me we couldn't be a
family because they didn't like you. And for Gus to talk about Dare
like that? Our Dare?"
    Trey could feel his own temper rising, knowing Miller
and Mary wouldn't ever consider giving their Lally grief over her
choice in men. "Gus came to me earlier and told me to get rid of
Dare too. Told me that Spokane would give Missoula support as long
as Dare was out of the picture. Even told me to send Dare's ass to
Sheridan until Spokane went home if I couldn't get rid of Dare
completely."
    "Completely? You mean like…"
    "Yeah, honey. Gus wants me to pull Dare's cut." It
was Trey's turn to sigh. "Shit went down years ago and I don't
think Gus or his son, Leif, have ever gotten over it."
    "And it has to do with Ryley and Dare?" Trey could
almost hear the gears in Dallas's head spinning as she tried to put
all the pieces together.
    "Yeah. Yeah, it does," he admitted. "Though why that
bit of happening has echoed in their house for all this
time..."
    "What are you going to do, Trey?" she interrupted,
turning her face up to his and he found himself, as he did every
time, lost in her nickel-colored gaze. He moved his hand, the one
that had been drawing aimless patterns on her back, down to her ass
as he thought over his options.
    "I'm gonna do what I do best, pretty girl. Let my man
make his own decision," he offered on a rumble,