CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
– FALCON –
My arms and legs are burning from spending hours at the gym all through the damn night. There’s no way I could sleep, not in an empty bed. All my life I’ve slept alone. Until Kenz. She entered my life through a text message and has opened up the door to endless possibilities.
First, we faced a fucking death threat, and now she’s been kidnapped by Livi’s father. Who appeared out of nowhere and is some high underground gangster while living an untouchable luxury life as a diamond dealer.
It’s screwed up for my brother’s old lady, having her boat of life rocked through a storm of havoc yet again. Though, this family shit has now pulled my old lady into it as well. I grit my teeth and check the time, like I’ve been doing for all the hours since she was taken. A half-hour, then they’ll bring her back.
I glare at the woman sitting sideways on the chair in the middle of the clubhouse. Lu, Livi’s half-sister. She appears quite relaxed, and I’m sure she is because I saw her slipping out of Macsen’s room earlier today.
“Stop glaring at me,” Lu snaps. “I’ve done nothing wrong. Go twiddle your thumbs somewhere else and wait another half hour. They will be here soon enough. Or not and I’ll gladly remind you of my handiwork you and Heath admired yesterday.”
“Don’t threaten one of my brothers,” Macsen grunts.
Lu swings her legs down and places her feet on the ground to face Macsen. “Or what?”
Macsen crosses his arms in front of his chest. “Quit the attitude too, Lu.”
She looks down her nose at him. “Don’t think you have any say over me just because I let you shove your tongue in my pussy.”
I can feel my eyes widen while I hear my brother murmur beside me, “That was more information than I needed to know.”
Macsen smirks. “Not just my tongue, sweetheart. You shoved that tight cunt up and down my cock all night and begged for more this morning when I rammed it up your tight little hole.”
“I should have waited a few minutes longer before stepping into the damn room,” Thorsten grumbles.
“Limo approaching,” Elric bellows.
I snap my fingers and point in the direction of Jocko.
Thorsten follows my line of sight. “Jocko, no retaliation, understood?”
His eyes are focused on Lu, they have been ever since the fucker woke up from the sedative she gave him. Macsen was put on protection duty, but it seems the two are at each other’s throat instead of cock to pussy, or ass for that matter.
The door bursts open and the first through the door is Kenz. She launches herself at me and I easily catch her. I bury my face into the crook of her neck and breathe her in. Fuck. One night. A couple of hours without her and I was climbing the damn walls.
Her arms around my neck, legs curled around my waist, pussy rubbing against my cock. Everything is a reminder how perfectly this woman fits against me, in my life, and touched my very soul for completion. I keep one hand on her ass, the other I bury in her hair to pull her head back.
I need her mouth on mine and just before impact she mumbles, “I missed you so damn much.”
She groans and I swallow it down. Where I was completely on edge without her near, I now feel utterly calm. She’s the balance of my life in the havoc of living. There is no other way to describe it.
Loud voices bring me back to the situation at hand. I slowly end the kiss and let her slide down my body. Macsen and Lu are going head-to-head while Thorsten is talking to Holland with arm gestures while Livi is standing in between them.
“Shit. We need to somehow defuse the situation,” Kenz grunts and she slips away from me.
Jumping on the table she claps her hands and with it grabs everyone’s attention. “Holland, Lu, it’s been nice but you two should leave. Give my girl some space and we’ll see what the future holds for all of you. Come on, this girl here needs time with my old man because someone felt the need to kidnap me.” She looks at Holland. “Thanks for the hospitality and the nice egg rolls. You know when my birthday is and I’m telling you now not to give me any diamonds. The only one I’ll accept, and will wear, is in the ring Falcon will give me once we’ll marry.” Her eyes find mine. “Right?”
My smile feels natural, and I instantly give her a tight nod.
“See?” She beams. “One and only for this gal. Okay, now y’all really need to leave because we’re engaged and are going to celebrate with lots of fucking. Which means I won’t be around to knock your heads together if you keep going at one another. So, put a freaking pin in it.”
Holland chuckles and murmurs something to Livi. She gives him some words in return. Lu is already standing by the door when Holland opens it. The monitor shows them as they walk to the limo and a minute or two later they drive off.
“Good fucking riddance,” Macsen states.
Livi shoots him a glare.
“What?” Macsen shrugs. “Your old man wasn’t all too happy, you didn’t look all too happy.” He points at us. “Now them? They do look fucking happy and I’d say we paint on some smiles and be fucking happy for them. Congrats, Falcon. She’s gonna make an honest man out of you, I’m sure.”
Thorsten snickers and Livi shakes her head. My brother pulls her close and she goes willingly. Jocko saunters back into the room with several bottles of beer in his hand. Kenz takes one from him and twists the top off before taking a few gulps.
I take the bottle from her hand and take a few sips as well. Music picks up and there are cheerful sounds all around. Tension slips away where we were all on edge mere moments ago. With the shit turning everything upside down last night we didn’t exactly let it settle that the threat is now gone.
There are still new crime cases to solve for the government, but there’s no target on our backs anymore. Holland took care of it for all of us.
My gaze slides to Livi who is still in my brother’s arms. She’s staring into the distance and I’m sure her mind is a million miles away with the news she just received. It’s not official yet, and Archer let us know he’s putting a rush on the bloodwork, but he also said Holland wouldn’t have come forward if he wasn’t her father.
Holland also made good on his promise and gave all the names of the remaining human trafficking players. They all checked out and were arrested.
I’ve seen the fucker’s details. What’s known from the government side, legal shit that’s never stuck. The information, unclassified and under the table Archer had on this guy? You seriously don’t want to piss off a man like that. To know his daughter is his personal assassin makes it even more creepy.
Macsen might have a death wish himself to challenge her like that, or stick his cock inside her. The man must have balls of steel, who knows. Though, the way they went at one another? I’m sure it’ll stay a one-night stand.
Wisely Dicey already has one of Holland’s daughters as an old lady. No need to add one more. Although, she is a very good assassin, so she might come in handy. The corner of my mouth twitches at my own train of thought.
I slide my arm around Kenz’s waist and pull her flush against me. Who fucking cares about other people’s love lives or hookups? All I care about is the woman in my arms and sharing one day to the next.
Our future is wide open instead of filled with dark clouds. Time to enjoy the good things in life ’cause if I’ve learned anything from yesterday? It’s the uncertainty in life which can blind you to the dangers surrounding us. My eyes are wide open and my heart is fucking full when it comes to prioritizing and keeping my woman safe.
I glance around the main room of the clubhouse and find the faces of my club brothers relaxed, laughing, and enjoying themselves. For now, all is damn right in the world and for a moment we can enjoy the victory of our brotherhood. We’ll worry about tomorrow when morning comes.
Today we live, we breathe, we love, and we celebrate my fucking engagement to the woman who completes me in all ways. I place my fingers around her neck and push her chin up with my thumb. My mouth on hers is the sweet start of our personal celebration, a taste of what’s mine now and forever.