“Sure is. I wonder if they’ll ever find his body,” Finn pondered for a moment. “Nope. They won’t.”
It was good having most of my people in one place. Kane pulled the stick from his ass when it came to Finn, allowing him to sit at our table.
“Piece of shit deserved every second of it,” Gemma mumbled, surprising me with her vulgar mouth.
I noticed Finn’s eyes light up as he looked at Gemma, pulling his pierced lip through his teeth.
Whoa,something was going on there. And I definitely didn’t hate it.
I glanced at Kane but he was so engrossed staring at the side of my face, he hadn’t realized anything was amiss with his sister.
“I couldn’t agree more,” I smiled, interlocking my fingers with Kane’s. “Glad to know my dad’s rotting in hell right next to him.”
I still couldn’t believe Dad was dead and that I didn’t have to worry about him fucking with my life anymore. It didn’t feel real. I waited for him to barge into the mansion or the club, demanding my services at any moment.
Seeing our home on the Moretti’s property stunned me, thinking about all the pain he’d inflicted on us there. He’d treated Dominic like his slave for a lot of years. He made him do things to people in the basement…things he never elaborated on, but I knew it severely fucked with his head.
Dad inflicted an obscene amount of pain on innocent people.
As soon as Kane saw how the house affected me, he called in a demolition crew to tear it down and remove the remnants and rubble. Now it was just a plot of dirt, but the awful memories of what happened there still lingered.
Gio offered to build a new house to replace it, and maybe we would let him eventually, but for now, Kane and I decided we wanted to start over somewhere fresh once we graduated. Until then, I would stay in the guest room next to Gemma. Kane wanted me to stay with him–which I often did–but I wanted some space of my own. I loved being around him but I didn’t want him hovering all the time, and he needed his own space too.
Even though I could stay at my shared apartment at Ethereal, I wanted to give Dominic a place of his own now that our house was gone. He spent most of his time there anyway, and now that Dad was gone, I wanted him to feel some of that well-deserved freedom and privacy.
Kane bit my earlobe, pulling me from my head. “You still here, babe?”
“Yup,” I kissed him. And kissed him again. “Just thinking.”
“I was just thinking that I want to take you to my car and fuck you until you can’t walk,” he said quietly in my ear.
“I just got back from suspension,” I laughed. “Probably not the best idea to fuck in your car again.”
“Class doesn’t start for another twenty minutes,” he kissed my neck, knowing I couldn’t resist him when he did it. “I don’t know about you, but I sure as fuck can come in less than twenty minutes.”
“No, I shouldn’t,” I groaned, going against every instinct in my body.
“How about this: we go to my car and have a little fun, and then this weekend, I’ll drive us down to Fremont to see your friend and his band play.”
“Are you bribing me to fuck you?”
“I guess I am,” he smiled. “What do you say?”
What could I say? I had this perfectly imperfect human wanting to make me happy, to spend time with me, and be undoubtedlymine. I couldn’t ask for much more.
“Deal.”
Epilogue
Dani
Two Years Later
“Congratulations, babe!” I said to Ashtyn. Beaming in her white sundress, she admired the massive sparkling rock on her finger and smiled. “I’m so happy for you!”
“Thank you so much! You did an amazing job with this party. I can’t believe you and the guys planned this without me finding out,” she smiled as she looked around, taking in the massive floral arrangements on every table, the pile of gifts off to the side, and the twinkling fairy lights that cascaded across the trees.
West called me a few days ago asking for help throwing an impromptu engagement party. He wanted to surprise Ashtyn after his proposal, which was the sweetest thing ever. We decided to host it outside at the Moretti’s mansion, and with Alana’s expertise, it looked like a southern winter wonderland.