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come with you?
 Because we re family, Griffin said simply.
Decker sighed, knowing he d go with Grif tonight and be welcome like he was their son, brother,
and friend. Hell, even Gunner would be accepted as one of them without a second thought. That was
another reason why the Montgomerys were the best people in his life. He wouldn t change them for
anything. Without that relationship, the one with Marie and Harry, well, he wouldn t be the man he
was today. They d opened their arms for him and never let him go.
He d needed that more than they d ever know.
Hell, he still needed that.
Yet another reason he couldn t be with Miranda Montgomery.
The reasons were piling up, yet he couldn t get her out of his head. He d find a way though.
There wasn t another option.
Chapter Seven
Getting older sucked.
Feeling old at twenty-nine was hell.
Sierra Montgomery rubbed her hip and winced. The accident had happened a decade ago, and yet
she still hurt every morning and in the evenings after a long day. Sometimes she even hurt in the
afternoons too. There was no escaping the damage from a motorcycle accident externally or
internally.
With a sigh, she turned so she saw her scars in all their puckered glory. She d just gotten out of
the shower, so rivulets of water trailed over the damaged skin and the bloom of daisies Austin had
inked carefully on her skin. Her fingers danced along the petals, knowing her fiancé had touched each,
softly, roughly, purposely.
She stretched her arms over her head, ignoring the ache. Her breasts rose, her nipples hardening
in the cool air of the bathroom. Austin thought her body was perfect, his, and after finally giving in,
she agreed with him. She was perfect for herself. Perfect for him. The evidence of their rough
lovemaking from the night before dotted her skin. Beard burn on her inner thighs, along her neck. Bite
marks dotted her breasts, her stomach. She could see the faint outline of Austin s hands on her hips
from where he d gripped her hard, pummeling into her pussy. She d clamped around him, begging him
for more. Her wrists had been tied to the bedpost, so she hadn t been able to reach for him.
Her body shivered at the memory.
Austin knew exactly how to love her, make love to her, and just let her be her.
That s why she loved him so freaking much. Scary to think that she d almost lost it all because
she d been afraid to take that chance, afraid to let herself love again. When she d lost her first fiancé
in the crash, she d figured she d had her one shot. She d lost him and the baby she was carrying. She
hadn t known she was pregnant at the time. No, that had come as an awful surprise later on in the
hospital.
Now because of that day, that horrible memory, her joints ached like an eighty-year-old s, and
she had to talk to Austin about their future. She was going to marry him. That wasn t going to change.
But she was so freaking worried she d never conceive. It wasn t like they d been trying in the first
place, but it was something that had been tumbling in the back of her mind for far too long.
Sierra was only twenty-nine years old, so if she hadn t been in the accident, she d have a good
five to ten years of possible childbearing time left in her. Now, though, she wasn t so sure. The
accident had bruised her heart, as well as many organs. It wasn t going to be easy. The doctor had
broached that subject years before. So now she had to talk to Austin about what would happen if no,
when they tried for a baby.
They had plenty of time before their small as small as a Montgomery event could be anyway
wedding. Austin, however, was turning forty within the next year, and she knew he wanted to be able
to run with his kids and not feel like an old man. He d never be an old man to her since he was damn
sexy at thirty-nine, and she knew that wouldn t be changing any time soon. They both wanted his son,
Leif, to have siblings nearer to his age though.
Leif had just recently come into their lives after being hidden away with his birth mother for the
first ten years of his existence. After a few bumps, he d fit into their new family nicely. He called
Austin Dad and her Sierra. It didn t hurt her in the least that he didn t call her Mom. He d had a mom
who had cared for him even as she d hidden the truth of his birth from Austin for all those years.
But now Maggie was dead, and Sierra was raising Leif at Austin s side.
Sierra might have been an only child, but Austin came from a huge family. They wanted to meet
in the middle.
If only her body would cooperate.
Sure, she knew she was freaking out and worrying before anything actually happened or didn t
happen, as the case might be but she couldn t help it. She refused to hide things from Austin, so [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]