I knock on the huge brown door of Toni Moretti’s private gym and wait for an answer. Jax is parking the car a few yards away because I wanted to do this first part on my own. I had suggested that I come here alone, but Jax is refusing to let me out of his sight—I suppose I can’t blame him after yesterday. He accompanied me to the doctor’s office this morning to have my tracker taken out, too. I meant what I said to my father yesterday, I do see the benefit of having one, but it’s a choice I want to make for myself.
It was almost time for my implant to be changed anyway, but I decided not to have one put back in. I find the damn thing messes with my periods too much, so I’m going to give the pill a go and see how that suits me.
The door opens and Benji stands before me, his arms folded across his chest as he fills the doorway. “Miss Montoya.”
“Hey, Benji. Is Toni in?”
“She sure is,” he grins as he steps aside and lets me into the room. Jax jogs up behind me, and he and Benji greet each other fondly. I look at Jax and smile. He knows I want to do this alone.
“You got time to make me a coffee?” he asks Benji as he indicates his head to the small kitchenette at the back of the gym.
“Sure,” Benji replies and the two of them leave me standing alone. Toni is working on one of the bags and I stand and wait for her to finish her set.
“Hello, princess,” she grins at me.
“Hey, Toni,” I smile.
“I missed you last week.”
“I know, I’m sorry. I had to go out of town.”
“It’s cool.” She flashes a smile, showing her perfect white teeth. “Your dad told me. What can I do for you today?”
I swallow hard. “I just wanted to apologize for being a bit of an ass the first time we met.”
“Oh, honey,” she laughs. “Don’t give it a second thought. I’m an ass about eighty percent of the time.”
I arch an eyebrow at her. “Well, yeah. I kinda got that,” I say and she starts to laugh. “I know you’re busy, but I just wanted to let you know that I’m totally up for learning everything you can teach me. Any time at all you can spare me, I’ll be here and I promise to give it one hundred percent.”
“Something happen?” She frowns at me, her eyes full of concern and I feel a rush of guilt for what a jackass I was to her the first time I met her.
“You could say that,” I say with a shrug.
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah. But I hated feeling helpless, you know? And I don’t want to have to rely on the guys around me to fight my battles for me.”
“I completely get that,” she says with a knowing smile. “So, you got your gym stuff in there?” she nods to the backpack on my shoulder.
“Yeah. Just in case.”
“I could do with a sparring partner”—she flashes her eyebrows at me—“but I’ll knock you on your ass, princess.”
“Not if I knock you on yours first, bitch.” I grin and she winks at me.
“I hope you’re not flirting with my girl, Moretti,” Jax says as he walks up behind us.
“Wouldn’t be the first woman I’ve stolen from under your nose, Decker.” She flutters her eyelashes at him.
“Ouch.” He puts his hand on his chest over his heart. “But you didn’t exactly steal them because they were never mine.” He puts an arm around me possessively and I should hate it, but I don’t. Not even a little.
“But this one?” Toni arches an eyebrow at him.
“Yep. This is one is all mine,” he growls before kissing my forehead and wet heat surges between my thighs.
“Noted,” she laughs softly.
It’s dark when I wake and for a heart freezing second I think I’m in the trunk of Dolos’ car, but I’m wrapped in huge, warm arms and Jax’s soft breathing is all that I can hear. I breathe deeply. I’m safe. Nothing can hurt me when I’m with him.
I wriggle, shifting my arm from under his.
“What’s wrong, Angel?” he mumbles sleepily.
“Nothing,” I whisper. I drape my leg over his groin, nudging his cock through his shorts. We usually sleep naked, except for last night and tonight. I left my t-shirt and panties on, kind of hoping that he would tell me to take them off, but he didn’t and I was too tired to complain. The doctor told me that the drugs Dolos gave me won’t be fully out of my system for a few days and one of the side effects is tiredness.
“Why are you wearing pants in my bed, cowboy?” I fake a growl.
His hand skims over my back. “Behave.”
“What if I don’t want to behave?” I purr.
“Then you’ll be spanked and fucked, baby, just like you always are.”
Just like you always are. Those words mean so much to me and they cause a rush of wet heat between my thighs. “I want to be spanked and fucked, Jax.”
“You do?”
“Hmm,” I murmur as my hand glides over his hard abs and over his even harder cock. “And it seems like you’re kind of in the mood, too.”
“I’m always in the mood, baby.”
“Then why aren’t I flat on my back already?” I purr.
A growl rumbles through his chest before he flips me over, pinning me to the mattress with the weight of him and I suck in a deep breath. I need him so bad.
He rocks his hips, grinding his cock against the damp patch on my panties. “This what you want?”
“Yes.”
“You sure?”
“I already said yes. Why would you ask me that?” I narrow my eyes at him, challenging him to tell me that it’s because of what happened yesterday. Of what he saw. Of what that psycho Dolos would have done to me if he and my father hadn’t got there in time.
“Because you had your implant taken out,” he reminds me, “and you haven’t started your pill yet.”
“Oh, yeah. I forgot.” I bite on my lip. “You could pull out before you finish?” I purr, because I need to feel him inside me.
“That’s not foolproof. And I may not be able to,” he growls.
“Why?”
“Because the idea of putting a baby in you makes me feel kind of feral.”
“Jax.” I giggle but he’s distracted taking off my t-shirt.
“I’m sure the implant stuff is still in my system. We’ll be okay, won’t we?”
He’s already pulling off my panties, trailing kisses down my body. “I’m willing to risk it if you are.”
“I want you inside me,” I groan.
He moves back up the bed and settles between my thighs. “You know you only have to ask, baby,” he growls before he pushes deep inside me and wet heat slicks his cock. “Fuck! Your pussy is a magnet to my cock, Luce.”
I wrap my arms and legs around him and he seals his lips over mine as he fucks me perfectly—the way only he can.
