Free Keys To My Cuffs (The Heroes of The Dixie Wardens MC Book 4) by Lani Lynn Vale

of his ribs.
    “Is that a knife wound?” I screeched.
    He looked over at me, but kept running his fingers down the gash, making me follow his movements with my eyes.
    “Yep. Happened last night,” he confirmed. “Been in less than twenty four hours and he’s already had someone ready to hit me when I least suspected. Fucking Dortea has her goddamned head in the clouds half the time. She needs to get with the program.”
    “Holy fucking shit! How did you, ah,” I blushed. “Have sex with that.”
    “Nothing wrong with my dick, sweetheart. It’s on my belly,” he said dryly.
    “But,” I shuttered. “I was running my hands all along your chest and belly last night. I hurt you!”
    He gave me a level look. “I would’ve told you if you hurt me, and trust me, you didn’t hurt me.”
    I looked at the angry looking gash skeptically. “Whatever you say.”
    “I made breakfast,” he told me before placing the tube of antibiotic cream back in my medicine cabinet.
    “I could tell,” I said sarcastically as I went to the sink and brushed my teeth.
    As the bristles met the back of my tongue, I started to gag again.
    “You sick or something?” He eyed me warily.
    “Bacon is disgusting,” I hedged as toothpaste ran out of my mouth and down my chin.
    “Why? Who doesn’t love bacon? And if you don’t like it, why is it in your fridge?” he asked.
    Spitting the last of the toothpaste into the sink, I held my mouth under the tap, swished, and spit before using the towel next to my head to dry my face off.
    Turning to him, I crossed my arms across my chest and glared at him.
    His eyes went to my chest, and I looked down to notice what he’d noticed.
    My nipples were hard and straining the well-worn fabric of his black t-shirt.
    Dropping my arms from across my chest with barely concealed annoyance, I stomped past him to the kitchen where he had a feast set out.
    Ignoring the bacon, I filled a large bowl with scrambled eggs and ripped up pieces of toast, placing it on the table. Then I went to the fridge, grabbed the ketchup, and smothered my eggs with it.
    Stirring it up, I sat down and ate it all like normal people ate cereal.
    “That’s just...disgusting,” Loki said with supreme distaste.
    I laughed. “My dad taught my brother and me to eat it this way,” I said, as I took another bite.
    “Did you answer me yet on why you even had bacon?” He asked as he filled his plate up with bacon and eggs.
    “It was my brothers. He didn’t take it with him when he moved out.”
    Partially true, at least.
    “Where did your brother go?” He asked, startled.
    “Oh, he left after he found out he didn’t like living with a bat shit crazy little harpy.”
    Just kidding. What I really said was, “He didn’t like having to pay rent. Which made him have to work. He’s staying on a friend’s couch for the time being.”
    Another partial truth. See, I wasn’t lying!
    He grimaced as he crunched into the bacon, making me swallow thickly again as he chewed the fatty piece of meat.
    “Well, I can’t say I’m upset that he’s gone, but I am upset that he left you with a door that didn’t close,” he rumbled. “I’ll have someone come fix the foundation this week. You can...pay me back.”
    I rolled my eyes. “I have the money. I was just saving it for something...else.”
    Like medical bills. They’d start piling up soon, and if I had to pay for the foundation, I’d not be able to pay for my next doctor visit.
    “Regardless, I need to know you’re safe. Which is why I have someone coming over to install your alarm later. The foundation people will be coming out within the next twenty-four hours, they said. If I’m going to be over here, we have to be cautious. You have to stay away from me during the day. I’ll come to you during the night. Make sure the place is armed when you’re here, okay?” He said as he put his plate into the sink and turned back to me.
    “You’re leaving already?” I asked in