CHAPTER 8

Adam

She glowed.

There was no other way to explain how Tilly looked as I watched her chatting with Maya, Lana, and a few of the Old Ladies from the Crow MC.

“I see another O’Shea man has taken a tumble into the wild ride of love, happiness, and family,” Onyx smirked at me. All of us men had somehow ended up at the bar, and the ladies were sitting on the comfy sofas and chairs.

“Yeah,” I agreed. There was no point denying it. I loved her and her girls. I may not have told her that yet. They’d only been with us just over a month, but I’d known as soon as I’d seen her, bruised and in pain but so fucking brave that I wouldn’t be letting her go without a fight.

Onyx chuckled in amusement, “You’re not even denying it.”

Turning my head slightly to look at him, “Nope, there’d be no point. I love her, I’ve just got to find a way to ensure she feels safe enough to stay with me. And once we find her fuckhead ex, I’ll have a better chance of that.”

“And her girls?” Onyx asked curiously.

My smile widened, and Onyx’s gaze flared in surprise. It wasn’t often that I smiled, but just the thought of the girls had me doing things that I never thought I would. Smiling, playing games in the evening, watching movies. I enjoyed it all.

“Love those girls,” I replied quietly. “Jeanie is light and love personified. Nothing gets that girl down, and she’s so fucking strong, you know. All she wants is for her mum and sister to be okay.

“And Ally, that girl’s been through hell, and yet she still trusts me to make sure they’re safe. She was the first to give me her permission to take her mum out. She’s quiet but fierce. She’ll be okay because I’ll make sure she is. It’s why I’ve started them at the gym with Carly. I know they aren’t mine biologically, but damn, brother, as soon as I saw them, something in me knew they’d be mine.”

Onyx nodded at me in understanding, “Yeah, Adam, I hear you. I know that exact feeling.”

“I guess if anyone would know, it would be you,” I acknowledged, knowing that Rea’s daughter wasn’t his biological daughter, but she may as well have been with how much she looked like him.

“Johnny, Reaper, and Hawk too,” Onyx agreed. “We all know what it’s like to love children not of our blood. Those girls know how lucky they are, Adam, to have found you and your family.

“I’m happy for you and Johnny. There’s nothing like your own family that makes you fight harder to ensure their safety. You know we’ll be there if you need us. I still can’t believe the guy we served with lived such a double life. But when we all thought back, he’d slip every now and then with the women who served, but never enough that it was noticed. Even the women laughed it off, and he always apologised. We’re all kicking ourselves for not seeing that he was an abuser.”

To reassure him, because I could see how guilty he felt, I told him, “I think he’d lived the life he’d built so well that he believed his own lies. People like that are good at hiding stuff, and you wouldn’t notice because they are living their lie and believe in it so much that it doesn't come across as such.

“I’d love to know why he wants Jackson, though. From everything that Maya has told us, he didn’t get away from feeling his father’s wrath.”

“We’d like to know the same thing,” Onyx agrees, then stops. “Heads up. Our ladies are headed this way.”

Turning back to where Tilly had been sitting only to find her no longer there; instead, she was walking with the rest of the ladies on their way to us.

Holding my hand out for her to take, I pull her into me, running my nose up her neck, inhaling her scent until I was near her ear, whispering softly, “You okay, a stór ?”

“Mmh,” she hummed, “I’m good. I came to see if you wanted to have a dance before we have to leave.”

“I’d love to dance, a stór ,” I assured her, pressing a kiss to her bare shoulder, smiling slightly as she shivered, and goosebumps rose along her arm, “or we could just go home,” I continued nipping lightly at her ear.

Tilly giggled slightly, tucking her head into my shoulder, “We could, but I’d really like one dance first.”

“One dance it is then,” I agreed, moving us towards the dance floor. I loved how affectionate she’d become now that we’d moved onto the next step. I didn’t mind dancing; it meant I got to hold her close to me, which was no hardship.

It was more than one dance, though; we spent the next hour lost in each other on the dance floor until last call was announced and Johnny motioned that we needed to go home. Nodding, I held up a finger that we’d be a minute.

“Time to go home, a stór .”

“Okay,” she agreed, lifting her face. Keeping it short and sweet, I pressed my lips softly to hers, then walked us off the dance floor.

It didn’t take long to say goodbye to everyone, and we were on our way home.

The air was electric by the time we arrived home. Helping Tilly down from the vehicle, allowing her body to slide slowly down mine until her feet were on the ground. The little whimper that escaped her had me grinding my teeth to stop the answering groan from breaking free.

We hardly acknowledged Johnny and Maya as they shouted out goodnight. My focus was completely on the gorgeous woman that had me tied up in knots. I couldn’t wait to get her into our home and into my bed. With that thought in mind, I bent and scooped her up in my arms, smiling as she laughed in shocked delight. Her arms hurriedly flung around my neck, “Don’t drop me.”

“Never, a stór , I’d never drop you. Ever.”

“Oh, Adam, what you do to me. I wish I’d met you years ago.”

“But then you wouldn’t have our girls, and the world would be a poorer place without them.”

“Our girls,” she whispered. “You’re going to make me cry,” she sniffled.

“Can’t have that,” I whispered as I climbed the stairs onto our veranda and to the front door. Removing my arm from under her thighs, I let go of her legs and allowed them to gently drop down until she was standing, leaning up against me, arms still around my neck. Running my nose along her bare neck to the curve of her shoulder, I pressed a kiss to the curve. Tilly moaned low, tilting her head to the side and allowing me better access that I didn’t hesitate to take. Running my tongue along the pulse beating at the base of her throat before closing my lips and suckling gently until she shifted restlessly. Leaving small biting kisses up her throat until I reached the corner of her mouth, where I pressed a kiss before turning my attention to her soft, plump lips.

Raising my hand to cup her cheek, I tilted her head slightly for better access to her luscious mouth. Her breath hitched as I gently pulled her lower lip from between her teeth. Running my tongue along her abused lip to soothe it, she parted her lips slightly, her breath mixing with mine.

“ Open your eyes for me, mo chroí ,” I demanded and waited until her gorgeous brown eyes fluttered open and looked at me with hazy need. When I had her attention, I asked, “Are you sure this is what you want? You need to be absolutely sure, mo chroí , because you’re already in my heart, and once I have you in my bed, you’ll never leave it. It will be you and me until the end of time. So, you need to be absolutely sure this is what you want.”

The hazy need cleared from her eyes, and I almost regretted putting a stop to where our evening had been going, but I needed to make sure that she wouldn’t regret this in the morning.

“Will you ever raise your hand to me?” Tilly asked softly, her eyes never leaving mine.

“Absolutely not,” I adamantly stated.

“Will you raise your hand to my girls?”

“Never.”

“Will you ever force me to do something I don’t want to?”

My gut tightened at her words as anger rose quick and hard. Taking a calming breath, I replied, “Only if it has to do with you or the girls’ safety; otherwise, I’d never force you to do anything.”

She smiled a soft smile at me, pressing her lush lips to mine, whispering, “Will you love me forever?”

“I will.”

“Will you love my girls and show them what a good man is?”

“Already love your girls, mo chroí . And they’ll only ever be surrounded by good men with me.”

“Then yes, Adam, I’m yours and you’re mine. Take me to bed and show me what it’s like to be loved and wanted.”

“Oh, fuck, mo chroí , you have no idea how hard those words have made me.”

“Oh, I have a pretty good idea,” she sniggered against my mouth while grinding her hips against mine.

Hurrying, I entered the code and opened the door, our lips fused together as we rushed through and slammed it behind us. With a groan, I walked us back to my room, my hands massaging her tight arse until Tilly’s knees rested against the bottom of the bed. She reached her hands up and around her neck, untying her dress and allowing it to fall to her waist.

“Fuck me,” I whispered as her breasts lay bare before me, two perfect globes with dark nipples. A groan rumbled out of me as I took in their perfection. Bending my head, I wrapped my lips around one of the hard points, smiling as Tilly ran her fingers through my hair, holding me to her as she threw her head back in ecstasy while I feasted on them, sucking and nipping them into hard points.

Impatient, I pushed her dress down and off her hips, leaving her in her silky black panties and gold gladiator shoes. My jacket and shirt followed shortly after. Toeing off my shoes, I shoved them away from me. Picking Tilly up, I tossed her gently onto the bed, her cloud of long blonde hair spread out against my dark bedding like fine silk as she lay splayed across my bed just waiting for me to take her. Pressing down hard on my cock to get it to behave, I wondered where to start first.

Running my finger along the edge of her panties, I slipped it under until I found her hot, pulsing heat, already dripping wet and ready for me. Sliding a finger deep into her, she thrust her hips up against my hand, rocking against it with her need. Adding another finger, I growled, “That’s right, mo chroí , fuck my fingers, take what you need.”

“Adam,” she moaned, tossing her head restlessly against the mattress, fingers gripping at the sheets. Unable to ignore the need in her voice, I removed my fingers from her pussy. Hooking them into the edge of her panties, I pulled them down and off her legs, my mouth watering at the sight of her pink slit, silky wet and ready for me, a slick of moisture coating her thighs.

“Fuck me, mo chroí , you are absolute perfection. I’m going to fuck you so good,” I groaned hungrily. Undoing my trousers to give me some relief, I pushed them down and off, along with my socks, leaving me just in my underwear. Falling to my knees between her parted thighs, I ran my tongue up the inside of her thighs, savouring the taste of her need until I reached her pussy. Strumming her clit with my tongue, her cries echoing around our room, making my cock weep at the sound.

Sucking her clit into my mouth, I gently eased my fingers back into her tightness. Curling my fingers, I found the spot that I’d been looking for. Tilly thrashed as she let out a guttural cry as she came, coating my fingers with her cream.

Removing my fingers out of her still spasming pussy, I sucked on them, removing all evidence of her essence, “So fucking gorgeous when you come, Tilly. I can’t wait to see you come on my cock, mo chroí .”

“Then hurry, Adam, I need you to fill me up. I’ve never felt like this before.”

Bending, I picked up my trousers and removed the condom I’d put there earlier, hoping that this was where our evening would end up and wanting her safe.

Ripping the packet open, I hurriedly sheathed myself, settling back between her raised knees. Rubbing my cock across her clit, she shuddered out a sigh before biting her lip on a hiss as she rocked against me.

“Feels so good, my love. I never knew,” she sighed as I slowly pushed into her until I was seated all the way, gritting my teeth so that I didn’t come like a boy who’d never been inside a woman in his life.

Sliding my arms under her, I wrapped my hands around her shoulders, lifting her slightly so that I could get my mouth on hers. Moaning as her tongue twined with mine as she wrapped her arms and legs around me, her shoes biting into my back as I slowly pumped my hips. She rocked against me until we had a soothing rhythm going, and I gently fucked my beautiful woman, giving her the softness that she’d never had as she came so sweetly undone, pulsing around my cock and drawing my orgasm out along with hers. Kissing her soft and sweet until we stilled, breathing heavily but content, arms wrapped tight around each other. I’d never felt this close to someone in all my life.

There’d be time for hard, fast fucks later, but not tonight. Tonight, I needed her to know how much she was loved, needed, and wanted.

By the end of the night, I’d done that several times. Contentment filled me as we fell asleep, arms wrapped around each other.