Red Ink (Mad Jackals Brotherhood MC Book 2) by Evelyn Glass Read Free Book Online

widening her eyes. “I told you I came back every now and again. I came back to check on you, to make sure that you were doing all right.” He sighs again, as his expression tells her he’s remembering that day. “I always made sure to be so careful. I’d wear a baseball cap, sunglasses, whatever I could find to stop people from recognizing me. I kept out of sight. But sometimes I couldn’t resist getting a little closer to you. That day I was walking towards you before I’d even realized what I was doing.”
     
    “Why did you stop? Why didn’t you stay and talk to me?” Mia tries to reconcile the idea that she had been wrong all those times about the guy she had seen that looked just like Ray with his admission.
     
    “I wanted to, more than anything.” His eyes shine with feeling. “But what was I supposed to say? Sorry for disappearing, I’m only back to check that you’re still in one piece, gotta go.” His mouth twists in a grimace. “If you’d known I was there, it just would have made things worse.”
     
    “Maybe.” Maybe not, she thinks to herself but stops short of saying the words out loud. Ray clearly has his reasons for behaving the way he had. Besides, what good will it do now just to rehash the past? What is done is done. There is nothing that can change what had already happened.
     
    “What else?” Ray whispers the words by her ear, making her shiver and forcing her to lose her train of thought.
    “What else what?” Her voice comes out breathless, full of need.
     
    “What else did you want to say to me?” She feels Ray smile against her cheek.
     
    “You don’t give up, do you?” She shakes her head, laughing at his determination.
     
    “Not until I get what I want.” He locks eyes with her in a way that tells her in no uncertain terms that she is what he wants. “You told me you loved me before I left. But you never answered my question about how you feel now.”
     
    Mia bites her lip, suddenly feeling nervous, but she covers it with humor. “Let’s not start a tally on questions left unanswered, because I’m pretty sure I’d win!” She laughs lightly but sobers when she sees the serious expression on Ray’s face.
     
    “Tell me, Mia.” His voice is soft but there’s a commanding tone that tells her he will not give up until he’s gotten what he wants from her.
     
    “What do I get in exchange?” She smiles at him, flirtatiously, watching as his eyes darken.
     
    “You get a prize.” His answering smiles maker her melt inside.
     
    “Will I like it?” She can barely breathe.
     
    “Oh, I can guarantee you won’t be disappointed.” Ray’s grin turns wicked and it just makes him look even sexier, if that is possible.

 
    Chapter Seven
     
    She takes a deep breath, closing her eyes as if it’ll make it easier to open her heart, to make herself completely vulnerable. “I’ve always loved you, Ray.”
     
    She opens her to eyes to see his eyes flare with a mix of emotions: happiness, relief, all quickly replaced by the steely determination she knows so well. “Don’t talk in the past tense, Mia. Tell me how you feel now, right now. I need to hear it.”
     
    The entreaty in his voice makes her realize how much this means to him, that he needs to hear what she has to say as much as she needs to tell him. They’d wasted enough years. It was time. “I love you, Ray. You’re the one. You always have been.”
     
    She barely manages to finish her sentence before his mouth is on hers, taking possession of her and kissing her so deeply she moans against him, only pulling away to catch her breath.
     
    “Where’s my prize?” She gasps as Ray nips at her neck, finding the sensitive spot that he’d claimed as his own. The pheromones firing between them make her feel like she’s going crazy.
    “It’s right here for you, baby.” He covers her hand with his leading it to the bulge in his jeans. She licks her lips, palming him through his pants and wishing