“You are going to open your ears and listen to me very carefully right now, little dove,” he growled out fiercely, raising both of his large hands to roughly but tenderly cup the sides of my face, forcing my eyes to stay locked onto his dark stare. “Raven was absolutely never the kind of woman I needed in my life. She was just easy to have around because she was comfortable. She was familiar to me because of the club business. But in all the long years she sat by my side, she never once made my chest feel like it was going to completely explode with emotion every single time she walked into a room. She never once made me willing to completely kill my own club brothers’ loyalty just to keep her body safe from harm.”
He leaned his head down low, his warm breath fanning across my skin as he
