Hard As Steel by Kaye Laura

Author:Kaye, Laura [Kaye, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Motorcycle Club, 1001 Dark Nights, hard ink, erotic romance, Raven Riders, Laura Kaye
Publisher: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Published: 2015-09-21T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Jess reached her hand into the Doritos bag only to come up empty. She looked inside the foil. Annnd, yup, she’d polished off the whole thing over the course of the day. Oops.

She was going straight to caloric hell for that.

So worth it.

Besides, she hadn’t eaten for the better part of three days, so noshing on the crispy nacho cheese goodness of Doritos was her way of celebrating not dying of the fever from hell.

Speaking of which…

Her gaze drifted to the loft. She hadn’t heard from Ike since he’d called down for more medicine around four. It was now pushing ten thirty.

Jess turned off the TV and cleaned up her mess. In the bathroom, she washed the neon orange off her fingers and brushed her teeth for good measure. And then she went up to check on Ike, meds, water, a wet cloth, and his cell phone in hand—it had buzzed incoming messages all evening.

When she settled on the bed’s edge, his eyes popped open, bleary and unfocused. “Hey,” she said. “How are you feeling?”

“Like I’ve just gone ass over handlebars and eaten some major asphalt,” he rasped, rubbing his hands over his head. “Think it’s getting worse again.”

“Drugs,” she said, handing over the pill bottle. He swallowed them down.

“What time is it?” he asked.

“Going on eleven. Thought you might want to check your messages,” she said. “Phone went off a few times.”

On a groan, Ike pushed himself up and worked his fingers over the screen. “Shit,” he bit out.

Dread curled into Jess’s belly. “What happened?”

“Nothing yet. For some reason the commanding officer from the team’s base in Afghanistan—the one who oversaw their trumped-up discharge from the Army—is in town. And because he was friends with her father, he called Becca and asked to get together. She’s gonna do the meet tomorrow morning. They’re sending her in wired, just in case.” Becca Merritt was Nick’s girlfriend, the daughter of his Special Forces A-Team commander who’d died last year.

Worry curled into Jess’s belly. She’d gotten to know Becca over the past few weeks. She was nice and sweet and she smoothed Nick’s sometimes too-hard edges. And the woman had been through a fuck-ton already—way more than Jess, that much was for sure. “Man, Nick must be flipping out.”

“No doubt.” Ike tossed his phone to the mattress beside him. “I’m useless like this. I gotta get out of this bed.” He shifted like he meant to get up.

Jess planted a hand in the center of his red-hot chest. And not the good kinda hot, either. “Not ’til you’re better.” The fact that she was able to so easily push him back down proved he still needed to be in this bed.

He sagged back into the mattress and his eyelids fell closed. “Don’t like being apart from you.”

Even though she knew he meant that in the protective sense, warmth still bloomed inside her chest. “Want me to stay?” she asked.

His lids flipped up and those dark-brown eyes peered up at her. “Yes.”

He

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