Havoc (Twisted Devils MC Book 14) by Zahra Girard

Author:Zahra Girard [Girard, Zahra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Havoc

Unease hits me the moment we arrive at Valeria’s house, intense, hair-raising unease.

It’s the sense that someone else has been in this house recently. There are pillows and a blanket laid out on the couch, there’s leftover food sitting out in the kitchen — a lot of fucking food, like a starving person helped themselves to everything in the refrigerator — and even the air feels heavy. Tainted. Wrong. The complete opposite of the woman standing beside me.

But when I look over at her with a question clear in my eyes, she just shrugs it off and gives me a sheepish smile.

“I didn’t have time to clean up,” she says. “I wasn’t planning on bringing you home. OK, well, maybe I was a little.”

Then she winks.

I’ll be damned if heat doesn’t swell through me.

“You planned on that?”

“You mean the alley? No, that was spur of the moment.” She blushes, and it’s striking how beautiful she is when her cheeks go red. “But the intentions behind it were premeditated. I wanted to spend more time with you. I like the way you make me feel. So I made that happen.”

“You like how I make you feel? How do I make you feel?”

Maybe it sounds dumb to ask that — hell, it feels dumb as those words leave my lips, and I’m sure if Jenny or Sebastien overheard me talking like this, they’d smack me upside the head — but I haven’t spent much time in relationships or even given much of a damn about women before. This is all new to me.

“Like I mean something. Like you value me. I don’t get that very often.”

“How the hell can anyone not value you?”

She gives my hand a squeeze.

“You know, I wanted to be a teacher because I hate when people don’t value themselves. Thiago never understood just how much he was capable of, and that’s why I lost him. When I get through to my students and teach them things that build their self-confidence and help them realize that they’re smart, that they’re capable, that they’re talented — it’s indescribable. It makes my heart feel as big as the sky. But too often it’s a one-way street.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, there are parents who see you as an obstacle to their obviously perfect kid. Or there are co-workers who see you as a rival and only care about destroying you. It’s like, sometimes all I do is give and give, and get nothing in return except acrimony that cuts me so deep I cry myself to sleep. It is the most difficult, heart-breaking, rewarding job I can imagine. But, no matter what’s happened during the day, when I’m with you, you make me feel so important that I swear I can feel a crown sitting on my head.”

She kisses me and I want to lose myself in her once more.

It’s so strong of an urge that I take a step back, shocked at how badly I want her. Wanting her is a mistake.

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