Tears slide down my face. I can’t help it. He just shared something so very personal with me. Right now, his head is turned, and he’s just staring off into space with a smile all over that gorgeous face of his. This is why I’ve been drawn to him. Something about his presence just reassures you that underneath all this badass biker is a really f**king hot, sexy, sensitive male waiting for the right woman to make an honest man outta him. My body is so sore from the accident and the D&C, but I don’t care in this moment. I reach up and turn his face back to mine, and his smile disappears when he sees the tears rolling down my cheeks. I give him a reassuring grin as I bring his lips to mine. It’s a soft kiss. His body is hesitant, and I wonder in the back of my mind if it’s because he thinks he’s going to hurt my wounds or my heart.

I pull away and look into his brown eyes. “Thank you for sharing that with me.”

“I…,” he says but is interrupted by his prepay.

“WHAT?” he snaps into his phone. “Are you f**kin shittin me? Oh man, Braxxon is gonna have a f**kin cow when he hears this. Have you f**kin told Winter? Oh f**k, she okay? Yeah man, be right there.”

I try to sit up, and he growls at me, and points his finger. “Don’t f**kin leave this bed. I’ll send one of the prospects up here to watch you.”

“What the hell ZZ?”

“Look, more f**kin Russians are in town. I don’t want you leavin the compound, all right? We have no idea if these Russians are a friend or enemy. We don’t know if they’re from Winter’s uncle or Winter’s mom side. Stay the f**k on the compound Storm. I mean it. Please don’t f**kin piss me off. I can’t worry about the three of you while I help figure shit out.”

By the three of us, I’m guessing he means Berry, Tatiana and Me.

“I get that, but why can’t I leave the bed? I’m not on bed rest. I’m just supposed to rest.”

“Fuck, seriously? You just got into a car accident darlin, and you just lost a baby. Your ass is getting catered to whether you like it or not. I understand this is new to the both of us. Let’s just compromise, all right? Let me be the man, and you be the sick woman right now. We’ll figure out how to deal with one another’s shit another time.”

“You mean we’ll figure out how to deal with the man always getting his way another time?”

He smirks. “Such a smart little pu**y cat.”

“Awe… such a silly little f**ker that seems to forget I have to heal before he can touch me again. I should tack on a few extra weeks, you know for more healing and stuff.”

His cocky ass smirk disappears. “Not f**kin funny darlin, I can withhold too. I have a lovely little gal I call Rosey. Grant you, I haven’t had to use Rosey since I was fifteen, but I’m sure she’ll come outta retirement.”

We can go at it like this for another hour so I decide to give up.

“How about this be one of the things we talk about another time?”

He looks down at his phone to check the time. “You gonna be good?”

“ZZ, go, I’ll be just fine.”

“Storm… don’t do that.” He sighs, looking sad.

“Do what?”

“When it’s just you and me babe, I’m Mason to you, no club, no f**kin hits, no f**kin idiot traffickers. It’s. Just. Us.”

Awe.

“But I don’t like my real name.” I pout.

He starts crawling towards me from where he moved to on the bed. It’s the hottest thing I’ve ever seen. He lays his palm gently on my chest.

“Who are you in here?”

That’s easy, and it takes me no time to answer him. “Storm.”

“Okay then… but when it’s just you and me darlin, I’m Mason, not ZZ. Can you do that for me?”

“I really, really L word you.” I can’t help it, I seriously do. Especially after him saying something like that.

His head tilts to the side and you can tell by the twitch of his lips he’s fighting a smile, and that does things to my insides. Sexy, sexy f**ker.

“Give me some tongue baby, I’ve gotta go.”

I love his dirty mouth, so I give him some tongue.

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Chapter 20

Storm

Winter and I snuck up to the rooftop to be nosey little shits. I shit you not; we even got us some binoculars. We can’t help it we’re bored shitless. Lockdown really does suck, and I can’t really do anything right now. My entire body feels like it’s been run over. There’s a hit on us, so we have to be careful. Winter brought up some pillows for us to kneel down on just so we could peek over the ledge. It’s kind of a rush knowing that if one of the guys sees us up here, we’re in trouble.

“So how did it go this morning? ZZ bringing ya home?”

I look over at Winter and smile. “Really good. He asked me to call him Mason when it’s just us. Like our moments.”

“The Zig Zag is a romantic. Braxxon told me that when ZZ falls, it’ll be hard. Because of how his dad was with his mom. I guess Phil and Berry were the couple around here back in the day.”

That’s good news for me if I can just get him to fall.

“Has he said anything about the other guys?” I ask peering over the ledge with the binoculars. It’s fun; it feels like I’m on a secret mission. It’s stress free stupid fun.

Winter Snorts. “A few of them he has. Braxx was ranting. He got all huffy and puffy and was stomping around one night saying just wait until them motherfuckers fall in love. Just f**kin wait. It was hilarious. He said ZZ will fall hard. Sniper is a romantic and ain’t afraid to show it, so he expects it soon with Sniper. He also said that when it happens to Pyro again… that’ll be intense.” Her voice goes quiet.