After the Ride (Night Riders Motorcycle Club Book 2) by Kathryn Thomas Read Free Book Online Page A

said, her hands gently pressing into his disfigured back. She trembled at the thought that Nate could have followed through on his promise.
     
    Gonna give you a matching set. .
     
    “I—”
     
    “So why do it?” he snapped, his fist pounding into his hard thigh as he kicked the toe of his boot into the ground. “Why didn’t you think? Why couldn’t you listen?”
     
    “I said that I—”
     
    “That doesn’t change anything,” he said.
     
    Turning the key in the ignition, Blake left the bike and stepped away from her side. As she watched him move across the sand, Lauren saw his back tensing with each step. Paul and the others kept riding towards the horizon, and she hopped off the bike and hurried to Blake’s side.
     
    “I get it,” she said as soon as she caught up with him and managed to grab hold of his arm. “And now you’re… you’re giving so much up for me.”
     
    Blake spun around to face her, and Lauren bit down on her lip when she saw a small smirk cross his face.
     
    “You have no idea,” he said.
     
    “But I do,” she ventured as she tried to caress his face. Blake flinched under her touch and waved his hands in the air.
     
    “Not by a fucking long shot,” he said.
     
    Reaching into his pocket, he lit a cigarette and took a slow drag.
     
    “What do you mean?” she asked as the smoke stung her eyes. Lauren trembled where she stood, but she stayed in his eyes as she waited for him to speak.
     
    “The decision was made before your little adventure,” he said. “Maybe if you’d stuck to eavesdropping, you would have known that.”
     
    He pointed a sharp finger towards the bruise crossing her cheek. Leaning into his hand, Lauren sensed him wanting to cradle her discolored flesh, but he suddenly pulled back and sucked on his smoke again.
     
    “But I guess there’s just no stopping you,” he said.
     
    “I… you said that my family was looking for me,” she started. “Said there might be trouble.”
     
    “Yeah?” he asked. “How do you feel about that?”
     
    Lauren’s mind twisted with a million emotions, and when she was slow to speak, he snapped his fingers in her face and demanded her total attention.
     
    “Answer the question.” he demanded. “What did you think you were doing? Thought you might meet some rescue party half way? Don’t lie to me.”
     
    He started back towards his bike when Lauren grabbed him again, her nails grinding into his arm.
     
    “Wait!” she screamed.
     
    Blake kept moving, and Lauren’s feet made tracks in the sand as she held on tight and trailed after him.
     
    “What did I lie about?” she said. “When did I—?”
     
    “When you said you wanted more.” he flicked his smoldering smoke at her feet and took hold of her arms. Blake pressed her closer to his chest. The nearness of his hard skin and the smell of the desert wafting off his body brought a sigh from her lips. But Lauren kept her eyes wide as she peered intently into his face.
     
    “Asking me to fuck you,” he hissed. “Practically begging for it. You even wanted to know if I’d had the same thing with someone else. What was that about?”
     
    Lauren rested her fingers to his chest and slowly hung her head.
     
    “It wasn’t a lie,” she confessed. “I did want more.”
     
    “Then why not go back to bed and just wait,” he said. “Why couldn’t you do as you were told?”
     
    “I—”
     
    He pushed her away, his eyes blazing as he clenched his fists. “What is this to you? Playing like you’re my old lady so you can have a story to tell? Won’t all your little friends be jealous?”
     
    Lauren started to reach for him again when she suddenly held back and scoffed.
     
    “I didn’t ask for this, okay?! Those creeps kidnapped me! And you.” Her finger stabbed at him. “You bought me like a pack of cigarettes. I didn’t ask for any of this to happen!”
     
    Blake grabbed her again, and Lauren gasped when his mouth was close enough