Total pages in book: 174
Estimated words: 172061 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 860(@200wpm)___ 688(@250wpm)___ 574(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 172061 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 860(@200wpm)___ 688(@250wpm)___ 574(@300wpm)
A slew of motorcycles were parked facing out along the wall, and Cash pulled up in front of them, stopped, then used his feet to back us into an open spot.
He killed the engine, and instantly, my ears were filled with the muted sounds of the club. Music and the dull drone of voices and laughter seeped through the cracks. There were a few loud shrieks of it from the parking lot as a blond-haired girl wearing cute short shorts and cowboy boots was tossed over the shoulder of her partner.
The man laughed loudly as he carried her toward the door, and it somehow had me squeezing Cash a little tighter around the waist. Just breathing him in. So thankful that for once in my life, I had joy like that.
As if he felt it, he set his hand over both of mine, then he shifted around with one of those rare smirks on his face. “You want me to throw you over my shoulder and carry you inside, my Little Wallflower?”
“You wouldn’t dare.”
His chuckle was rough. Skating over me like a caress. The same as the moonlight that poured down from above.
He took my hand to help me off. “I wouldn’t dare, huh?”
He was all lighthearted tonight, and it sent mine to racing. He didn’t wait for an answer before he shifted around to help me off. I swung from the seat. The dress rode up so high there was no chance he didn’t get a peep show of my panties.
The growl that came out of him was plenty proof of that.
“You teasing me with that sweet body, baby? Second you put that on, I knew I was in trouble tonight.”
I cocked a hip, floating into the tease. “Serves you right for making me want you every day of my life.”
He swung off, rising to his full, foreboding height. The man a wraith in the shadows.
My gorgeous fallen angel.
“If you knew the pain I felt, Daisy. The way I ached for you day and night.”
Wistfulness fell into the mood, and I reached out and brushed my fingertips over the coarse stubble on his jaw. “You don’t have to be in pain anymore.”
He hitched a grin and looped an arm around my waist. “Now that is where you’re wrong. The feel of you wrapped around me on the back of my bike. This sweet fucking body burning me alive. The number of times on the way here I contemplated pulling off the side of the road and hiding you in the forest so I could get to all the deliciousness waiting underneath.”
He rumbled it up and down my neck. “Love it. Having you on the back of my bike.”
“I like it, too,” I whispered.
“You’re not afraid?”
Easing back, I gave him a quick shake of my head. “No. I feel as free when I climb onto the back of your bike as I did when I would climb your tree at night. Safe and right, even though there’s a little bit of danger to it.”
“That’s called anticipation, baby. You knowing I’m at the other end of it.” He gripped me by the ass and tucked me against his hard cock.
The man shifting to pure arrogance.
God, I really liked that about him, too.
A little moan got free, and Cash groaned into my throat. “I need to get you inside before I have you against this wall.”
He jerked away, took me by the hand, and began to lead me around to the front. I struggled to keep up, laughter ripping out of my mouth as I attempted to balance on even higher heels than the ones that I’d worn on my wedding day.
Glee streaked through my being, and I hung onto his arm as we hurried up the five steps that fronted the old church and up to the double doors.
A bouncer was there, grinning wide when he saw Cash coming. “I hear congrats are in order, brother.”
Cash didn’t shirk or hide. He simply pulled me closer to him. “Yep. Luckiest man alive. Jonah, meet my wife, Daisy.”
His grin widened. “I see what all the fuss is about.”
Redness flashed. I didn’t think I would ever get over that, but still, I managed to mumble, “It’s really nice to meet you, Jonah.”
“You, too.”
Cash gave him a jut of his head, and Jonah widened the door.
We stepped into the throbbing darkness of the club.
Awe wisped out of me.
“Oh wow…this is gorgeous.”
Lights strobed from over a dance floor that only had a few people on it at this time of night, dancing to the DJ’s music while it looked like a few people were setting up on the stage for a band to play. Colorful lights rained down from the vertical stained-glass windows that disappeared into the vaulted ceiling.
The far-right wall had a bunch of secluded booths, and up closer to the door were high-top round tables, while on the left side was a long bar that took up the whole thing.