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~ Prologue ~

Maggie moaned and giggled in the dark as she felt Jase's tongue sliding between her legs. She leaned her head back and closed her eyes, fingers tangling in his hair, feeling the motion of his head moving around her center. The coolness of the sheets and the low summer breeze from the open window countered the heat of his body against hers. She could only stand a few minutes of his sweet torture before she grasped at his shoulders, trying to pull him on top of her.

Jase moaned a few times as he lingered, his tongue flicking over her c.l.i.t one last time before he obliged her silent orders. He traced a trail with his mouth up over her stomach and b.r.e.a.s.t.s. When she kissed him, she felt her own wetness on the 5 o'clock scruff on his chin. Jase slid his hips between her legs, his aching hardness pressing onto her sensitive lips. She gasped in his mouth and he laughed a low, s.e.xy laugh that made her stomach s.h.i.+ver.

Jase seemed to tease her a few more moments, sliding his c.o.c.k against her without entering, until she whimpered and squirmed beneath him. He dropped a hard, pa.s.sionate kiss on her lips when he finally relented and pushed inside of her. She inhaled the moan he let out when he felt her warmth around his c.o.c.k. He began to thrust into her desperately, pulling her body for leverage to get as deeply inside of her as he could. Maggie grasped at him, digging nails into his back with every powerful meeting of his hips on hers.

It was only a few minutes before they were both crying out in sweet release. Maggie bit into Jase's shoulder, holding him close as she came. She felt him shudder against her, and deep inside her.

Maggie collapsed against the sheets, and Jase, on top of her. The sounds of their heavy breathing filled the bedroom.

Jase lifted his head up to look at her and planted a kiss on her lips. ”That's five-record broken.”

”Record broken hard,” said Maggie with a chuckle. ”Good show, Campbell.”

”And to you, ma'am,” said Jase. He playfully bit around her stomach where he knew she was ticklish, and Maggie collapsed into giggles until she finally got him to stop.

Rolling off to lie next to her on the bed, Jase played with her curly hair as she lay on the pillow. ”I feel like it's been too long since we got to do this - at least this many times in a row.”

”Yeah, well, who's to blame for that, mister?” said Maggie with a quirk of her eyebrow.

”I know, I know,” said Jase. ”Things have been busy with the club, I know. Henry's finally giving me better jobs than just bartending.”

”Ugh,” said Maggie immediately. She twisted around dramatically. ”Don't even want to hear his name.”

Jase laughed and tweaked her nose. ”Maggie, we're f.u.c.king in the man's house.”

”Yeah, well, not for long,” she said.

”Oh?” said Jase. He laid his head down on the pillow next to her and gave her a hopeful grin. ”Finally going to move in with me?”

Maggie grinned back at him and scooted a little closer. She had practiced broaching this conversation for hours in the mirror before her father had finally left the house, allowing Jase time to come over. ”Maybe... ”

”Seriously?” said Jase. He perched on his elbow and looked at her.

”When you put a G.o.dd.a.m.n ring on it,” she said with a laugh. Jase mussed up her hair. It was the response she always gave him when he asked about moving in. She waited just a beat before she tacked on the new part. ”And if we're moving into some place that's not in LeBeau.”

When he didn't answer right away, she looked up at his eyes. Some part of her knew he might be resistant, but truth be told, the bigger part of her heart which held his love had no fear until she saw that worried sternness in his jade-colored eyes.

Jase took a deep breath. ”You're still on about this?”

”About moving away? Yeah, I'm still 'on about it',” said Maggie. ”Did you think I wasn't serious when I brought it up before?”

Jase sighed and rolled over onto his back. Maggie felt her heart start to ache when he threw his legs off the side of the bed and checked his phone.

”Jase, don't ignore me,” she said.

Jase turned half around. ”I'm sorry. I'm not trying to ignore you. I've just heard this before. Every time you and Henry have a fight, you talk about getting out of here.”

His words stung. He made her sound so reactionary and emotional. ”That's not what this is.”

”Then what is it? Why do you want to get away from here so bad, Maggie? I don't get it.”

”Yes you do, you just don't agree with it.”

”You're right, I don't. Henry has only ever made my life better, and you're asking me to feel exactly the opposite about him-and break my commitment to the club by leaving,” said Jase. He stood up and put on his boxers.

Maggie sat up. ”I'm not asking you to feel differently about Henry. How could I? I just... don't you get it, Jase, that the Henry you know and the Henry I know are not the same man? He gives you the world, and every opportunity, but he can't push me away from all of it fast enough. He acts like I didn't grow up in that f.u.c.king clubhouse right alongside you.”

”You're his daughter, of course he's going to treat you differently from some stray kid he picked up.” Maggie could hear the tone in his voice had gone to a bitter place. ”But he's never let you want for anything. h.e.l.l, he'd probably let you live here until you're a senior citizen.”

”That's not the same thing as love,” said Maggie, s.h.i.+fting up onto her knees. ”Giving me an easy place to live only makes sure I owe him obedience to his rules. He doesn't care what I want-only what he wants. And he wants me to be with some normal person with an office job, a boring husband, and a weekend hobby.”

Jase stood at the end of the bed, clearly frustrated, but unable to find the words for it. He put his hands on his thin waist and shook his head. Maggie crawled up to him and leaned against his chest. He put one arm around her back with a light touch.

”He's not going to let this keep on, Jase,” she said in a quiet voice. ”You're becoming his golden boy at the MC, but he wants me as far away from it as he can get me. You can't honestly tell me you haven't noticed what's been going on since we got together...”

”We've been together a long time,” said Jase. He wouldn't look at her.