EPILOGUE
MARCO
One Year Later
My brothers and I were riding back from the docks to the Rusty Pelican.
Another shipment had been received smoothly, things were peaceful for the Bad Disciples these days.
Whatever small skirmishes that the Four Skulls and the Dragon Knights had caused lately, had easily been crushed down by us.
They didn’t stand a chance against us anymore.
They were done for good, and everyone knew it, including them.
We parked our bikes outside the bar and walked in together. Axel and some of the older guys were having drinks at the counter, and they greeted us when we walked in.
“First task as a newly patched member, how did it go, Marco?” one of the guys asked as we walked up towards them. I had finally been patched in from being a prospect four days ago.
“No, Marco’s first task as a newly patched member was to drive Quinn to the store so she could pick out curtains,” Glock joked, and he thumped my back. The others laughed, and I shook my head as I stuck my hands into the pockets of my jeans.
The fact that I was in a relationship with the president’s daughter had sunk into everyone now. I wasn’t walking on thin ice anymore. Over the course of the year, I had proven over and over again that I deserved to be with Quinn and we were good for each other.
She had started working in Los Angeles recently for a tech company and permanently moved back to her hometown in Long Beach.
Something which she had always assumed she would never to do.
I didn’t want to stay in her way and her career, but she had insisted.
She wanted us to live together, she didn’t want us to spend a single day apart.
Of course. Fuck long distance relationships.
I wanted my woman in my home, where I could see her every day and claim her body every night.
Drinks were being passed around when the doors of the bar opened, and Quinn walked in. She had just returned from work and was in a fancy suit, with a cream silk blouse underneath. Her hair was tied tightly in a classy bun at the back of her head, and she was walking straight in my direction.
I smiled at her, and she came over to hug me. I kissed her lightly on her lips. There was no way I was doing anything more than that in front of her father there.
“Ready to go?” she asked, and I nodded. I’d made plans for dinner at her favorite restaurant that night.
“Yeah, I just got back. Let’s get outta here,” I said, and I gulped most of the beer down my throat.
Placing a hand on Quinn’s waist, I was leading her away to the door of the bar while she waved at the others and said her goodbyes.
I slipped a hand into the pocket of my pants and checked for the small velvet box again, feeling its smooth softness on my fingers.
There was a glittering diamond ring inside the box, the exact one Quinn had looked at in a shop’s window three weeks ago.
I’d seen her eyes glowing when she saw it, and I knew it was the one.
I’d dropped her to the apartment and gone back to the store immediately.
It had been three weeks that I was carrying the ring around in my pocket but tonight was the night.
I had Axel’s blessings, and I knew I couldn’t wait anymore.
I was going to ask her, and I knew what her answer was going to be.
I couldn’t wait to start a life and a family with this woman; the woman who had changed my life.