Mohawk and the other idiot try, try like hell to hold me back but I’m fucking livid now and if my brothers don’t move fast I’m going to fuck this all up in the name of saving my girl and killing the bastard that hit her.
“You’re fucking dead!” I yell. “Fucking dead, you hear me? You hurt my girl and I will skin you alive because of it, you little shit!”
He turns to me and smiles as he tugs Theo’s dazed face toward his half hard dick. “I’m going to enjoy this more than you know,freak. You’re going to watch me shove my dick down her throat, then I’m going to fuck her sweet little cunt, maybe her ass too, then I’m going to let you look her in the eye while I wrap my hands around her throat and choke the life from her hot little body.”
“Wrong.” Jackal presses the muzzle of his gun to buzzcut’s temple and cocks it. “You ain’t doing shit, punk.”
I stumble forward a few steps as Mohawk and the other guy let me go, both of them drawing their weapons just as Brick and Chop jump up into the boxcar.
“What the fuck?” Buzzcut screams. “What the—“
I pull my arm back and hit that bastard in the face so hard he drops to the ground with a sickening thud. Then I’m on my knees in front of my girl.
“Blondie.” I cup her cheeks, take in the dry blood in her bangs, the hair matted to the lump, the hand print that’s already starting to bruise on her cheek. “Fuck, honey, I’m so—“
The second her lips press against mine I feel like I can fucking breathe again.
“I love you,” she says in between frenzied kisses. “I love you and I’m sorry. I will never ever go anywhere without you again.”Kiss, kiss. “I love you. I know you’re mad but,”kiss, kiss, kiss, “I promise, I won’t ever go anywhere without you again. I love you so much, baby. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to say that to you again, but I do. I love you and I’m sorry and—“
“Honey.” I smile a little as she continues peppering my face with her sweet kisses. “Blondie, I’m not mad.”
Theo stops and arches a brow under her bangs.
I roll my eye. “Ok, Iwasmad but more at myself than anything else. I knew how dangerous it was for you to go out alone and I let it happen anyway. Fuck.” I press my forehead to hers, careful to avoid the lump. “Fuck, Theo I thought I lost you.”
My confession is whispered into the breath between us, my voice shaking with its truth. I’ve never been so fucking scared in my entire life, even more than when the hailstorm hit the clubhouse. I thought I lost the girl of my dreams, the woman I’m going to marry and have babies with, the woman I’m going to grow old with and be buried next to before we walk into the next life together. I thought Theo was gone and I was totally prepared to follow if that was the case.
But she isn’t.
She’s here, in the flesh, pressing kisses to my lips and trying to climb into my lap while her hands are fucking tied behind her back, telling me over and over how much she loves me.
“You’re stuck with me.” Theo sighs as I rub my nose against hers. “Stuck with me forever, big guy. Some pencil dick lunatic tweenie bopper can’t change that.”
I reach around with my pocketknife and free her hands, Theo immediately grabbing my cheeks and kissing me hard and deep. I wrap my arms around her, slide her into my lap as I drop on my ass and when I try to put us chest to chest, a small noise stops me.
My brow furrows. “Did your tits just squeak?”
“No.” Theo giggles. “Your present did.”
Now I’m frowning so hard I could snort my eyebrows. “What are you—“
“What time is it?” She asks while reaching into my coat. “I can’t give you your present unless...” Theo smiles as she checks the time. “Perfect.”
“What...”It's midnight.
Fuck.
I can’t believe the day is shot, but even more than that, I can’t believe I never realized this before because it’s glaringly obvious now.
The first time I kissed Theo, that night at MACs, it was midnight.
All my drive-bys and little gifts were done and left at midnight.
The night of the bar fight, Theo washed my hair and saw my face at midnight.
When she threw the vase at my head? Midnight.
When we exchanged I love yous for the first time, it was fucking midnight.
