Keeper (Exiled Guardians MC Book 5)

by Hope Ford

  I grab the food and start driving back to my house. When we pull in and I shut the engine off, I run around to help her out of the truck. She about falls down getting out because her mouth is hanging open staring at the house.

  “Is this your place?”

  I nod and lift her the rest of the way down to the ground.

  “Keeper, oh my God, it’s huge.”

  I look up at it proudly. It’s a large cabin, made entirely of wood. Except for the metal roof. I love the sound of rain on a metal roof. I’ve come a long way in two years.

  With the bag of food in one hand, I open the door with the other, gesturing for her to go in.

  She walks around the house looking at everything. She steps into my bedroom and comes back out quickly.

  With her hand covering her embarrassed face, she apologizes. “I’m so sorry, Keeper. I’m walking around snooping through everything. I just can’t believe this house. It’s beautiful.”

  I shrug my shoulders. “Sit down before the food gets cold. I wasn’t sure what you liked so I got a few different options.”

  She looks between the food and back to me. “Don’t you want to show me the work you want me to do first?”

  “Nope, let’s eat first. Then we’ll work.”

  7

  Lilly

  I seem to be shoveling the food in as quickly as I can. I force myself to slow down. Keeper is hiding a smile behind his fist holding a fork up to his mouth.

  “What?” I ask him defensively. “This is so good.”

  I take another bite and barely hold back my groan.

  My mouth is full when he drops a bombshell on me. “I thought you had a boyfriend. Is he coming into town too?”

  I swallow my food and take a drink of water. “Boyfriend?”

  “Yeah, uh, Sniper mentioned you were hanging out with some guy.”

  “Who, Mack? How does Sniper know about him? You know what, forget it. I don’t want to know.” I laugh and take another bite.

  “So, uh, is he coming to see you?” he asks, looking down at his plate.

  I wish he was looking at me so I could see his eyes. It sounds like he’s jealous but I’m not going to get my hopes up. He had his chance. I waited months for him to come get me, thinking he would change his mind about me, about us. When he never showed up, I gave up on the notion that we could have forever.

  “Sure, Mack and his boyfriend will probably come visit me. I told them to give me a few weeks to get settled,” I tell him honestly, stirring the pasta on my plate.

  I raise my eyes, and barely catch the smile on his face before it disappears.

  The rest of the meal is in silence and then we clean up the table and put away the rest of the food.

  He claps his hands together. “You want to see the shop?”

  “Wait, you have a shop?” I ask him, still confused about everything.

  He opens the back door and a huge metal building is sitting a hundred yards from the house. “Yep.”

  We walk toward the building. There’s a moment where our hands brush and I freeze, waiting and watching to see what he does. But he doesn’t do anything. It must not affect him like it does me.

  He pushes a code in the building and the doors slide open. I gasp when I see what’s inside.

  There are beautiful, intricate wood creations everywhere. Beds, desks, tables, everything imaginable set up in various degrees of being finished. One thing they all have in common is that each piece is breathtaking. I walk up to a big rectangle wood table and run my hand along the top of it. “Oh my God, Keeper, did you do this? Did you make these?”

  He’s watching me walk around the room and when he doesn’t answer, I take my eyes off the beautiful piece in front of me and look at him.

  He’s standing there, his hands in the front pockets of his jeans, a secret smile on his face, and simply nods at me.

  His phone rings and he frowns at it before answering, “Hey Sniper. What’s up?”

  Keeper

  I’m enjoying watching Lilly’s reaction as she walks around the room, stroking every piece of furniture with her hand. When Sniper calls, it brings me back to reality and it’s like a swift kick in the gut that Lilly’s still off limits.

  “Where’re you at?” Sniper asks me.

  I stroke my fingers across my temple. “At my shop.”

  Sniper is quiet and then he asks me, “How did it go today?”

  “Good. It went good. She’ll do fine, I think,” I answer while watching Lilly still enthralled with the furniture.

  She’s getting awful close to the separate section of the building and I start walking toward her. “Wait, Lilly, don’t go in there,” I holler at her while simultaneously telling Sniper, “Look, I have to go.”

  I pull the phone away from my ear to hang up when I hear Sniper say, “Don’t hurt her, Keeper.”

  The deadly turn of his voice catches my attention and I bring the phone back up to my ear. “What did you just say?”

  “I said don’t hurt her.”

  “I won’t,” I answer him. Lilly has now walked into the other room and she’s standing there with her back to me. I don’t know what she thinks, what she’s feeling; hell, I don’t know anything right now.

  “I have to go,” I say and hang up the phone before walking into the next room.

  “Lilly,” I say to her.

  She turns to face me and her eyes are bright and red rimmed. “What is this, Keeper?”

  “It’s furniture… I made,” I tell her.

  “Why is it back here?” She walks closer and touches the bed post before leaning in to get a closer look at the design.

  “This stuff… well, it’s not for sale.”

  “Keeper, these say Lilly. It’s engraved into every piece of furniture in here. Even the crib.” I look around the room and try to see it through her eyes. Every piece in here is hand made. The ten pieces are for a bedroom and a nursery. But every piece was created with her in mind.

  She’s still not giving anything away. I bury my hands deeper into my pockets and roll my head side to side, stretching my neck.

  She walks over to me then and doesn’t stop until her body is touching mine. I suck in my breath at the close proximity.

  “You love me, Keeper.”

  My mouth drops at her words. I should deny it, but I can’t. I never dreamed I would have this chance with her. I rub my hand through my hair. “Yes.”

  With her swift intake of breath, I put my hands on her shoulders.

  She licks her lips. “Yes… you love me?”

  My hands go up and circle around the back of her neck. I grip her tightly, wanting to be close to her but not wanting to hurt her. “Yes, I love you. More than life itself. More than my club, more than any and everything. It killed me to let you go all those years ago, but I had to let you go. I knew you deserved more than I could give you. But also, I didn’t want to betray Sniper.”

  She leans her head on my chest and although I love the feel of her against me, I want to see her face. “It killed me when I left, Keeper. I knew back then that you were all I wanted. And that’s still true. You’re all I want. All I need. I love you, Keeper. And I always will.”

  “Oh, Lilly. What did I do? All that time apart…” I moan against her hair right before I kiss the top of her head.

  She pulls away from me then and holds her hand out to me. When I put mine in hers, she leads me toward the doorway. “It’s okay, you can start making up for it right now.”

  8

  Lilly

  The walk back to his house seems to take forever. He doesn’t say a word and neither do I. I’m afraid that he’s going to stop himself, that he’s going to push me away again and I don’t realize until we’re in the house that I was holding my breath the whole way.

  As soon as we walk in, I release his hand.

  Staring at each other gives me the confidence I need. Just looking at him tells me that I would do anything to have him and nothing is going t
o stop me this time. Not his allegiance to my brother, not my insecurities… nothing.

  I kick off my shoes as I start to undo the buttons on my blouse. When I get to the last one, I shrug out of my shirt and let it drop to the floor. Unzipping my pants, I pull them down and step out of each leg and toss my jeans across the room. When I’m in nothing but my panties and a bra, I finally take a deep breath and look up at him.

  His gaze is heated and his brown eyes look almost black, they’re blazing with so much desire.

  “Lilly, are you sure? Are you sure this… me… is what you want?” he asks me as he takes a step toward me.

  “I’m sure, Keep. Now kiss me.”

  Keeper

  As soon as she says she’s sure, it’s like a beast is released inside of me. I have to have her. Her almost naked form has my mouth watering and my insides burning. I bend down and pick her up, striding through the house and carrying her into the bedroom. I lay her down on the bed and start stripping my clothes off.

  She is looking around the room and then back up to me. “I don’t get it. Why do you have that furniture outside if you don’t plan on selling it? All this is store bought and well, yours is so beautiful.”

  Once I’m fully naked, I lie down next to her and rest my head on my arm. “That’s your furniture. Every piece of it I made for you. I may have made it, but you brought life to those pieces. I couldn’t use it, not without you.”

  Her hand comes up and cups my jaw. “Oh, Keeper.”

  I turn my head to kiss her palm. “I love you, Lilly.”

  I kiss her then, touching my lips to hers and sealing our future together. Her tongue mingles with mine and her sweet taste fills all my senses.

  My hand runs across her shoulder to her back, unclasping her bra. I pull it free from her body and my greedy gaze wanders over her perfect round breasts. I trace my finger down her neck, across the slope of one breast and then circle her swollen, hard point. She sucks in her breath at the contact and I lean in, sucking her into my mouth, claiming her.

  Her hand slides to the back of my neck and she’s holding me to her then as I suckle her. Tiny moans fill the room and I can’t stop the smile from forming on my face. My girl is noisy.

  I trail my hand down her soft belly, with a mission to reach her drenched heat. Her hand comes up to stop me. I flick my gaze up to her. “Honey, we can wait. We don’t have to do this if you’re not ready.”

  “No, no, I want to. I just got nervous. I mean, no one has seen me like this and well, no one’s ever touched me either.”

  “You’re a virgin?”

  Her face turns fifty shades of red. “Yes, well, I just never met someone I wanted to, you know. And then after I met you, I gave up looking.”

  “Oh, honey.” I kiss her to reassure her, putting all the love I feel for her into one kiss. I whisper against her lips, “I promise I will make this good for you.”

  I slide her panties down over her hips and legs. When she puts her feet back on the bed, I push her legs apart and muscle my way between her thighs. She opens up with my urging. Her glistening, slick pussy beckons me and I lean in, placing a kiss on her mound.

  Her hips buck at the contact. Putting an arm across her hips, I hold her to the bed as I swipe my tongue along her swollen slit. As I twirl my tongue across her clit, she’s doing her best to buck me, saying my name over and over.

  I slide my finger into her hot, molten core and she squirms underneath me. My tongue is violating her hot nub of flesh. She’s lost in sensation, grinding into me now, fighting to get closer to me, seeking the explosion that is building in her body. And I don’t want to disappoint. Her pussy is weeping with need, soaking my hand and my tongue. She grabs a handful of sheets and her body lurches as I push her over the edge. My hard cock is pressed into the bed, imagining her pussy stretched around me as she comes in my mouth and writhes underneath me.

  Out of control hunger rages inside of me. I have to have her. I have to feel her stretched around me. I climb up her body and she’s looking at me, satiated and happy. Her hooded eyes are a dark, aroused emerald green.

  “I want you, Lilly. I need to be inside you.”

  “Yes.” She moans, her hands going around me and her nails digging into my back, urging me along.

  I stroke her dripping channel, making sure she’s wet and ready to take me.

  Slowly, I enter her, pressing into her until I meet the thin piece of skin that is stopping me from reaching the promised land. She lifts her head up to look at me. She felt it too, and she knows what’s about to happen.

  “A second. It will hurt a second and then I promise you I will make it feel good,” I tell her with a voice thick with emotion. I’m wound tight and barely hanging on now.

  I rear my hips back and push through, not stopping until I’m buried to the hilt deep inside of her. A whimper escapes her lips and I hold steady until she lifts her hips to meet mine, urging me to move.

  I pull back slowly, her pussy clenching around me, pulling me back in. Her moans fill the room. She’s planted her feet on the bed and she’s moving with me, meeting me at every thrust. I’m grunting like a primitive beast. Her muscles are contracting around me and it’s like a pleasure I’ve never known builds inside me. I’m ready to explode and I tell her I need her to come. The delicious warmth of being inside her is taking me to the very edge. Her body convulses and she’s begging me, I don’t know what for and I don’t know if she does either. She screams my name over and over, her feet curled into my back as our bodies rock together.

  She’s vibrating around me and when her pussy constricts, I wring spasm after spasm from her taut body.

  My cock detonates and I fill her with every ounce of my cum, everything that has been building up inside of me since she walked back into my life yesterday.

  Breathing heavily, I fall down around her, barely catching myself on my elbows before I squash her into the bed.

  I kiss her then, my tongue easing inside to meet hers. I pull away from her gently, our lower bodies still joined. “You okay?”

  She opens her eyes, takes a deep breath, and smiles a tremendous smile up at me. “Yes, I’m perfect.”

  9

  Lilly

  I want to stay in this bed the rest of the night. I don’t want to get up. But that’s not an option. I get up and pull Keeper’s T-shirt over my head and it falls down around my thighs.

  Keeper comes out of the bathroom and with one look at me, he strides over and lifts me against him to kiss me breathless. “I like you in my shirt.”

  Smiling, I tug on him back toward the bed. “C’mon, Keeper. We can go talk to Sniper later.” I try to tempt him back to bed, not because I’m worried about talking to Sniper, but because I really just want Keeper again.

  “As soon as we’re done, we’ll grab your things and come back here. Plus, I’ve already texted Sniper and told him I was coming to see him.” He kisses me with a smack on the cheek and pushes me gently toward the bathroom. “Now, let’s go. The sooner we get this over with, the sooner I can have you again.”

  At that incentive, I start getting ready. I worry about what Sniper is going to say but he seems to have mellowed out since he married Avery. I hope he can see how much I want this.

  As soon as I’m ready, we walk out the front door and I walk to his truck.

  “This way, honey,” he says and grabs my hand, pulling me to the garage.

  The door raises and sitting in the middle is his motorcycle. I can’t hide my excitement. “I get to ride with you?”

  He laughs. “I thought I would have to talk you into it.”

  I walk over to the big metal machine and run my hand along the seat before looking up at him. “Are you kidding? I wanted to ride with you that day you took me hiking two years ago.”

  Remorse hits his face, but I rub my hand along his jaw. “It’s okay, Keep. We have the rest of our lives to make up for it.”

  He hasn’t said anything about the future, but I want him
to know where I’m at. I can’t imagine walking away from him now. He’s my life. He’s my future.

  He kisses me before sitting on the bike and holding out his hand to help me on. I lift my leg over the side and slide down with my front plastered to his back. I hold on to him tightly and the muscles on his chest ripple under my palms.

  He squeezes my hand. “Hold on, baby.” And I can hear the smile in his voice.

  We are at the clubhouse in a few short minutes and when I get off, Keeper grabs my hand and walks me toward the door.

  Before we walk in, I try to tug my hand from his, but he stops me. “Oh no, baby. We’re not hiding anything.”

  I want to argue with him. I don’t want Sniper mad at him, but I see where he’s coming from. I smile up at him, take a deep breath, and follow him in the door.

  There are a few men milling around and they’re laughing and cutting up. When they see my hand in Keeper’s, the room instantly gets silent.

  Keeper just ignores them and leads me to Sniper’s office. He stops before we go in. “Stay out here. I need to talk to him on my own first.”

  I lean up against the wall, bending my ear, hoping to hear something.

  Keeper

  I thought I would be more nervous than this but I’m not. Once I had Lilly in my arms, I knew what was coming and I knew that I wouldn’t let anything get in my way. Not even my best friend, her brother.

  “Sniper.” I address him as I walk in.

  He takes his eyes off the laptop and looks up at me.

  “Keeper.”

  He’s quiet and I know he’s curious about why I requested this meeting.

  “I need to talk to you about Lilly.”

  He purses his lips and nods his head. “What about Lilly?”

  I crack my knuckles. “I know you don’t want her mixed up with any of us. I know you wanted her far away from all this, but I have to tell you, I love her and well, she loves me.”