Jackal was about to take his cell phone out of his pocket to call Ice and tell him to call Grace and beg her to call Penni to let her know he was here when Penni suddenly lifted her head, staring at the mirror. Then she dropped the cell phone onto the bed.

She rose unsteadily to her feet. The peach teddy she wore wasn’t seductive or playful like she usually liked to wear. It enticed. Tiny straps led to her satin covered breasts, and then her skin was exposed all the way to the small patch of satin that covered her pussy. It was an all-out assault on a man’s dick.

“I know you’re there.” Her soft voice filled the small room he was in. “I can feel you.” She placed her hand on the mirror, and Jackal lifted his to place it in the same spot.

“I’ve missed you so badly.”

“I’ve missed you, too.” Jackal replied, despite knowing she couldn’t hear him through the soundproof glass.

“Before I tell you the combination to the room, I want you to listen to what I have to say.”

Penni raised her other hand to the mirror, and Jackal mirrored her movements.

“I love you. I love you so much I don’t even care what you’ve done since you’ve been gone. I don’t care if you’ve fucked a hundred women. I don’t care who you killed. I don’t even care if you love me. I just want you.

“I don’t want to hear any excuses for why you wouldn’t see me, and I certainly don’t want to know who the women you fucked are. I don’t want any more oaths or promises, even if you plan to keep them. I just want you. I will always want … you.” She gave a shuddering breath, stepping away from the mirror.

Jackal waited for her to tell him the combination or to keep talking. When she did neither, he began to laugh. She had forgotten to give him the combination.

It took him a minute to get Ice to quit laughing before promising to call Grace, He waited breathlessly for her phone to ring.

When she went to answer her phone on the bed, he was already debating smashing through the mirror. However, her soft laughter had him calming long enough to hear her tell him the combination.

Jackal practically tore the door off its hinges as he left the viewing room, going to the locked door. He had to key in the numbers twice because of his bumbling fingers. Then he rushed inside, slamming the door by kicking it closed.

Penni was laughing so hard she fell back on the bed. “Do you know how long I rehearsed that speech?”

Jackal stood, staring down at her. “I take it you forgot to rehearse the number part of it.”

“Yes.” Her poignant eyes stared up at him. Penni raised herself back up, reaching her hand out to cup his cheek. “I’ve never seen you cry before.”

“I love you. And there haven’t been any women to tell you about. I didn’t want another woman. I’ll never want another woman but you.”

“I told you I don’t want to talk—”

“Too damn bad. You deserve to know that.”

Penni took his T-shirt, raising it to his chest so she could press a kiss on his abdomen. “Go ahead, then, but I’m not listening.” She snapped open his jeans, parting them then pulling his dick out.

“Uh … I guess we can talk later.”

“You took off the metal balls?” Penni angrily glared up at him.

“I was riding so long my dick was killing me.” Any other woman would cuss him out for leaving her, but the only thing Penni was pissed about was piercings?

“Can’t you put them back in?”

Jackal gaped down at her. “Right now?”

“Uh … yeah.” Penni laughed, rolling on the bed as he laid down beside her.

“Woman, I can’t put them in right now. Do you not remember how many I had? And I only had that many because I was drunk off my ass when Colton did it. We’ll have to go back to the clubhouse to put but them back in. I’ll have to be drunk to even put the Apadravya back in, and the nine balls in my dick, so no, I can’t do it right now.”

“All right, there’s no need to be grouchy about it. I’ll make you a pan of my brownies. It’ll work better than alcohol.”

“I’ll stick with my rum. I’m afraid, if I eat your brownies, I’ll end up with more of them.”

Penni propped herself over his chest. “Is it going to hurt?”

“Babe, it’s gonna hurt like a son of a bitch, but for you, I’ll do it.”

“That’s the sweetest thing you’ve ever said to me.”

“I have told you numerous times how much you mean to me—”

“But none that involve pain.”

“Babe, believe me; it involved a lot of pain to stay away from you. Sending Shade was hard on both of us, but neither of us wanted you to mourn me if Raul killed me.” He didn’t try to hide his anguished expression. The months he had been away from her wouldn’t be easily forgotten.

“When you have the piercings back in, we’ll call it even.” Penni flicked his nipple.

Jackal slid the teddy straps off her shoulders. “You’ve lost weight.”

“I’ll gain it back. Lily is coming for a visit. She’s a good cook.”

He hoisted her farther up the bed so he could get a better view in the mirror on the ceiling.

“Shade coming?”

Jackal groaned when she trailed her mouth down his abs to his dick that was so hard it was reaching toward his belly button.

“Mmm-hmm. So are my parents and most of The Last Riders.”

“What’s the occasion?” Jackal raised himself onto his elbows to look down at her sucking the head of his cock into her mouth.

She lifted her mouth off him to raise her head, staring into his eyes. “I thought we could get married.”

“You’re asking me to marry you while you’re giving me a blowjob?”

She gave him a trembling smile. “I thought it would be harder to say no.”

“God, I love you.”

She gave a shaky laugh. “Is that a yes?”

“It’s a big fucking hell yes.”

Penni straddled his legs then reached under her crotch to unsnap her teddy.

“I always wondered how bitches did that.”

Fascinated, he watched as Penni tugged it over her head, tossing it over her shoulder. Then he lost what mind he had left when she slipped her palm up his cock, taking it into her mouth.

“Every night I went to sleep, I imagined your mouth on me.” Unconsciously, Jackal’s hand went to his side, clenching the coverlet in his grip.

She took him to the back of her throat as she fondled his balls.

He wanted to jerk her down to the bed and thrust into her balls deep, but he sensed she wanted him in her control. She’d had no control when he had left her, so she needed to regain her power in their relationship, and Jackal let her have it. She deserved more for what he had put her through.

Her little nipples grew taut, flushing as her excitement grew. When she moaned, Jackal couldn’t take another second.

He rolled her back to the bed, sliding his legs between hers. Plastering his mouth to hers, he figured, if he was going to drown, she was going down with him.

He slid his cock into her weeping pussy an inch at a time. It was like taking one piece of her at a time.