The Biker's Brother (Sons of Sanctuary MC Book 2)
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He didn’t think he could wait to get her boots and leggings off. So he turned her around and bent her forward until she caught herself when her palms hit the bed. Even in Brandon’s feverish need, he was careful to be sure she was wet and ready for him.
The leggings were thick, tight and restraining, keeping her legs close together so that the extra squeeze created a delicious friction against her clit when he entered her from behind. For some reason, the fact that both of them were still wearing garments fed the urgency and heightened their arousal.
When Cami came, which didn’t take long, she cried out loud enough that she would have been heard through the walls of any of the other rooms. Brand’s climax followed seconds later as his thrusts became so powerful Cami had to fortify her brace to keep from falling over.
She’d never had a lover like Brandon. He was everything she’d ever wanted and more.
Eventually they shed the rest of their clothes and lay on their sides facing each other in the dim light of one low wattage bedside lamp.
He knew what she was asking, wordlessly, her eyes searching his.
“You’re free.” His voice sounded gruff, even to him. He reached up and pushed her hair back even though it wasn’t long enough to be in her face. “But it’s not over.”
Her brows drew together. “What do you mean?”
“You’re going to have to leave. Start a new life.”
She looked away, believing he was taking back what he’d said about them having a future together and not wanting him to see her distress.
“You’ll get a job at one of the New York museums.”
She shook her head. “Brandon, those jobs are plum. You don’t just walk in and say, ‘I believe I’ll start work here today’.”
It was his turn to look at her like she was being naïve. “Come on. You know how it works. I’ll offer to renovate a wing and mention that I know someone... I’ll gradually start spending more time at the New York office, making the party rounds. As will you. We’ll run into each other. Start dating. Get our pictures taken together. Announce our engagement in six months. No muss. No fuss. No suspicion.”
She blinked her eyes rapidly and took a deep breath when she realized he was laying out a plan. She didn’t like the idea of spending any time without him, but six months wasn’t forever. And if it got them to forever…
“I’d like to live here,” he said. “I could give it up, but I just discovered my pop and my brother.”
“That’s okay with me. I want you to be happy.”
“I want you to be happy.”
“I am happy when I’m with you. I’m not going to like six months away. I like twenty-four seven.”
He pulled her closer so that her face was nestled into his neck. “Me too. But we can do this. It’s smart.”
“Brandon.”
“Yes.”
“Thank you for taking care of me.”
“I discovered that it’s my purpose. The most important thing in the world.”
She sighed happily and snuggled in closer.
After a week Trey Michaels was officially declared missing. He had a lunch meeting with Henry Bartholemew on his calendar, but Bartholemew confirmed that he never showed up. Without a body, or a person with motive, or a family who cared about the victim, the police were not especially enthusiastic about dedicating valuable resources to solving the mystery.
For all they knew, Michaels had tired of his billionaire lifestyle and decided to disappear to Lichtenstein. Or wherever.
Cami stayed busy. She spent her days working at the Frick. She’d taken a sublease on the upper east side near the park, gotten in touch with a few friends from school who lived in New York, and made plans so that she’d be seen about town. But to her it was all part of the momentum carrying her forward to the day when she’d be with Brandon all the time.
As he’d said they would, they met at a party given by someone who’d become a mutual friend, and started dating. Brandon spent more time in New York than in Austin. Brandon and Cami finally decided to have a small wedding at the home of Cami’s parents. That, however, was followed by big receptions in Boston, New York, and Austin.
Brandon gave Cami the lot on the bluff overlooking the river in Austin as a wedding present and told her she could build any house she wanted, but make sure it had a lot of room for kids.
As Brigid had suspected, Brandon’s mother was crazy about Cami. She joined the campaign to suggest that grandchildren would be welcomed in the very near future. In the meantime, Cami’s new favorite thing was weekend rides with the SSMC and their women.
Sometimes when Cami found herself alone, still, and quiet, her thoughts wandered to the two lives that were forfeit for hers. When that happened, she felt neither sadness nor guilt. What she felt was gratitude that she’d been lucky in love. She’d found a man who loved her enough to kill for her and never look back.
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Sons of Sanctuary #3, NOMAD
Cannon Johns was a man who’d once had the world in his hands and lost everything. When he rode his Harley underneath the motel office overhang just after midnight, he was soaking wet and looking for the only comfort life still had to offer. The escape of sleep.
After being told there was no food available at that time of night, he pulled his ride into the room he’d just rented and went looking for dinner in the vending machines. When he was eight feet away, he saw movement by the Mountain Dew column. In addition to being bone weary, world weary, and out of options, he was out of sorts with no patience for shenanigans.
“Come on out of there and state your business.” He had to raise his voice to a near-shout to be heard over the pounding rain.
After a slight hesitation, a small figure emerged in a yellow plastic poncho, the kind you can get at the grocery store for a couple of bucks. As soon as she reached up to pull the hood back from her head he knew it was a woman by the delicate size of her hands and the way she moved.
The light was dim, but he saw her clearly as if it was noon on a bright sunny day. His late wife had once told him that he had to change out the light fixture in the kitchen because “nobody looks good in fluorescent light”. The girl standing in front of him was proof it just ain’t so.
Her eyes were violet blue. And wide. He wasn’t sure if that was because of fear or misery. Like him, she was soaking wet. Unlike him, she was shivering. Whether that was from fear or cold he couldn’t guess.
“What the hell you doing out here, girl?” He looked around. “Something got you spooked?”
She licked her bottom lip. “No, ah, I’m just a little down on luck is all. I don’t want any trouble.”
“Don’t want no trouble, huh?”
It wasn’t a question. He said it as if it was a provable fact. She shook her head to both punctuate his assessment and agree with it.
“Yeah. Me, neither. At least not tonight.”
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