JACK: Las Vegas Bad Boys by Frankie Love

Author:Frankie Love [Love, Frankie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-10T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

TESS

The roaring bikes below send a wave of memories through me.

I steady myself with Jack’s arm, reaching for him, holding tight. Closing my eyes, I blink away my past, but it’s surfacing faster than I can stop it.

Me, forced to clean.

Me, forced to beg.

Me, forced to fuck.

My life on the compound was never easy, never good. There aren’t any memories that feel right, feel whole.

It was all shattered chaos. Strong men and submissive women. Angry guys and lost girls.

I wasn’t like the rest of them.

I was Daddy’s Little Girl, but what good did that do me, in the end?

In the end it wasn’t my father I hurt.

It was my mother.

And that makes me either a sinner or a saint.

Depends on the day.

I read the self-help books, desperate to find a way out of the past, a way to grieve, to let go, to heal. But it’s easier when the Brotherhood is three states away.

Not as easy when they’re rolling down the road, fifteen stories below, looking for me.

“Tess, what is going on?” Jack says, pulling me tight against him. I claw at his back, holding on so tight. My quaking heart beats so fast as it presses against Jack’s. And this is where I want to stay.

I want him to protect me, to be the man I always wanted and never knew I’d find. The man who won’t hurt me, because Jack Harris wouldn’t hurt a fly. The man who stayed with Ashley even though she was a witch, the man who will sign a ten-year contract because he wants to do right by his agent. The man who honors, protects, works hard, and knows how to commit.

He’s the man I need, the man I want.

He kisses my forehead. “You’ve got to talk, Tess.”

But what do I say? This is the moment I’ve been terrified of. This is the moment that will force me back to where I came from.

The moment that will force me from Jack’s arms, because once he knows he’ll never, ever look at me the same way again. He might not want to look at me at all.

“I can’t be here. They’re going to come after me, Jack.”

“Who?”

“The bikers. They’re my family. They’re the people who are looking for me ... who I knew would find me.”

I fall apart in another puddle of tears. Jack must realize the pain I’m in, the pain that seeing those motorcycles causes, because he kisses me hard on the mouth, shocking me with the passion he evokes even when I’m at my lowest.

“Then we have to go,” he says, without hesitation. “We have to get you somewhere safe.”

“You think they could get in here?” I ask. “Into your apartment?”

“You tell me, Tess. I don’t know these people, I don’t know why you’re running from them, what they might do. I just know you’re shaking; you’re terrified.”

I remember seeing caches of guns on the compound. I remember the look of hatred in the eyes of the men I lived with. They lived for vengeance.

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