Steel: A Great Wolves M.C. Romance by Jayne Blue

Author:Jayne Blue
Language: eng
Format: epub

Thirteen

Darby

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No matter what had happened up to this moment in my life, even the last few moments before I met Steel, which were no doubt a horror, I was all of a sudden grateful.

It was the first time I ever felt that. I used to think, if I was with my parents the night they died, maybe they’d be alive. I’d blamed myself. Then I’d worried that if I’d never gone out for that meeting at the mall, maybe I wouldn’t have been kidnapped.

And maybe, I should have just had Steel take me right to the police and not home. All of those things would have been safer, maybe. All of those things would have brought me to a different place, a less dangerous place.

But I felt grateful for every minute now, every small choice because somehow, they’d brought me here, to Steel, to this little piece of heaven on wheels.

I showered again, ate again, and slept again, all in the space of a few sweet hours. I slept in Steel’s arm, and even though it was brief, it was deep and peaceful. I hadn’t slept well in years. I always had nightmares if I could fall asleep at all.

Steel was my protector, and my heart knew it.

He put me on a pedestal, but also stripped me down, and found the bravest part of me. I needed that bravery; it had been gone since my parents.

I felt safe enough to talk to him about who I was. It was more naked than I had been standing there after we’d made love. It was the raw part of me that kept me at Uncle Reid’s, kept me from going to school, and kept me from life.

“I need to explain something.”

“Shoot.” Steel had indulged me, or it felt like he had. We were here overnight, and as the sun rose, he hadn’t pushed us to leave or do anything outside the small sanctuary of his tiny trailer.

“Soon, we’re going to be going out, I am guessing?” The thought of it immediately reminded me of who I was. Of my challenges with the outside world.

“Not if you don’t want to, but I will have to do a few things. We need to figure out who the other girls are, how they got kidnapped, and where they are going.”

“No, it’s not a matter of me not wanting to. I want to. I want to help you. I need to help you. It’s just my condition.”

“You said you had, arachnophobia, spiders? No problem. I’ll fucking kill ‘em.” Steel winked at me, and I couldn’t hold back a belly laugh.

“You’re teasing me.”

“Yeah, I’m pretty much going to have to be the guy that tells jokes now.”

“Why?”

“Because you smile, laugh, giggle, it’s like a drug, and I’m addicted. It’s almost better than that ass.” I slapped his shoulder and hid my blush behind my hand. He was really good at making me feel better.

“I’m trying to be serious,” I said and put on a serious face.

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