"Nothing is going to happen to me, Tessa," he promised me in a low, fierce whisper, his large hands coming up to firmly cup both sides of my face, his thumbs wiping away a stray tear that had escaped my eyelids. "I have too much to lose now to let some scarred bastard put me in the dirt. I have you. You are my absolute world, little dove, and I am coming back to this bedroom tonight to hold your body all night long. I need you to stay locked inside this room with Riley and Jax's old lady until my motorcycle rolls back through those gates. Do you promise me you will do that?"
"I promise," I whispered out softly, leaning my head forward to press my lips against his in a deep, lingering kiss that was full of all the desperate love and fear twisting inside my soul.
He kissed me back with a r
