Total pages in book: 79
Estimated words: 76448 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 382(@200wpm)___ 306(@250wpm)___ 255(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 76448 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 382(@200wpm)___ 306(@250wpm)___ 255(@300wpm)
Her cheeks were a lovely shade of red by the time he was finished.
Whizz watched her disappear outside and turned back to look at Lash and Nash.
“What?” he asked. The two brothers were staring at him as if he’d grown a third head or something.
“You look happy.”
“Lacey makes me happy. She completes me.” He smiled thinking about the last day they’d just spent together at the beach away from the club and the mess it entailed. “I asked her to marry me,” Whizz said, smiling.
“I’d say she agreed to marry you?” Lash asked.
Tiny moved up toward the bar with Ned in tow.
“Yeah, she agreed to marry me.”
“You’re going to marry the Savage Brothers’ woman?” Tiny asked.
“Why wouldn’t I?”
“You kept her locked in your room for a long enough time.” Tiny grabbed a cloth, pouring ice into the center and wrapping it around. He handed the cloth to Ned.
“You kept a woman locked in your room and she still agreed to marry you? Girl’s got guts.”
“She’s not a girl,” Whizz said, annoyed with them invading his good news.
“Your girl’s younger than me. Believe me, son, you get to an age where all women are girls,” Ned said.
“I like Lacey,” Sophia said, coming to wrap her arms around Nash’s neck. Rachel was sat on her dad’s lap, getting a cuddle. They looked like one happy family.
“You’ve barely spent any time with her,” Nash said.
“I don’t have to. She’s a lovely woman. I can see it. She’s just never had the chance to flourish before. I thought you’d understand what she’s going through,” Sophia said, glaring at Nash. “You almost lost your space within the club. It can’t be easy going through life losing people around you. She’s lost a lot.”
The men were silent as they took in what Sophia had to say. She wasn’t talking shit, and Whizz liked that about her.
“I’ve been on this earth a long time—”
“Don’t I fucking know it,” Tiny said.
Ned glared at him. “I’ve been on this earth a long fucking time, and there are women you fuck and forget. They’re a dime a dozen. They come and go. There’s nothing wrong with them. They’re just not the kind of women you keep. Then there are women you don’t just fuck, you take care of them. They come into our lives sparingly. You’ll be surprised by the impact they have. They’re the Evas, the Angels, the Sophias of this world. Your Lacey, she’s a keeper. You took out her club, but she’s still by your side. I saw the way she looked at you before she walked out of the room. She’s in love with you, and if she’s agreed to marry you, then you take her and you keep her because a girl like that doesn’t come around often. You’ve got demons in your eyes, boy. Lacey, she’ll take those demons away for you. She’ll give you purpose where you don’t think any is.” Ned lifted his glass. “Take my advice and marry her.”
They were silent as Ned swallowed down his drink.
“Why can’t you ever talk like that?” Sophia asked.
Nash glared at Ned while the older man just laughed. “I tell you, these lips have made many a woman moist.”
Whizz started laughing. He couldn’t help it. This was what the club meant to him, what he needed in his life. He could give Lacey this without a problem.
****
Lacey walked out of the clubhouse moving past the three fighters who were talking to each other. She moved across the compound toward Eva who was talking with Tate.
“You fired the gun?” Tate asked.
“I had no choice. They were behaving like assholes. I couldn’t believe they were fighting. I swear they don’t realize they’re men not children.” Eva shook her head.
“Hey,” Lacey said, speaking up.
“Hey, Lacey, you’re finally venturing out without your twin?” Tate asked.
“Huh?”
“Your twin. Whizz has been attached to your side like a fucking twin. I was starting to wonder what you looked like standing on your own.”
“Don’t mind Tate. She’s pregnant and has a problem with everything.”
“I don’t have a problem. People piss me off, especially stupid men. Dad was being an ass,” Tate said.
“Dad’s an ass,” Tabitha said, crawling onto the swing beside Tate.
“What have I told you about calling him that?” Eva asked, folding her arms.
“Tate said.”
Eva shook her head. “You’re a bad influence.”
“You allow her to stay at the club. You’re the bad influence.”
Simon and Miles were playing in the sand pit. It was still warm, but Lacey felt the chill in the air. It wouldn’t be long until fall was upon them, then winter.
“Take a seat,” Tate said, offering the swing on the other side of her. “I don’t know if I want to take the seat. Does it come with a condition of death?”
“Of course it doesn’t. I just want to know everything you and Whizz have been up to. Everyone keeps a wide berth of me just lately.”