Smolder: Trojans MC (61 page)

Chapter Twenty-Four

“Falcon, just listen to me,” Grace said, reaching to grab his hand but he pulled away from her.

He abruptly stood up, knocking his chair over as he backed across the living room until he ran into the counter.

“Falcon, I can explain this.” Grace said as she stood and walked towards him, her arms outstretched in an appeasing gesture.

“Witness protection was never part of the deal!” Falcon screamed as he slammed his fists down on the counter.

“Keep your voice down,” Grace hissed at him as she glanced towards the window. For a moment they both froze and stared at the window, waiting to see if anyone outside listening was going to come bursting in. But after a few moments of silence they both relaxed.

“I am not going into witness protection.” He stood tall. Grace had slipped out of her tall shoes and she was now a little shorter than he was and he loomed over her. He was twisting his fingers into fists, clenching and unclenching his hands as he searched for anything he could hit or break or smash.

“Why not?” Grace said. “It would protect you and your daughter forever. You would never have to worry about the Screaming Eagles again.”

“I did this so I could be with my daughter. I did this so I wouldn’t be another deadbeat loser in jail. I don’t want to be her absentee father that she never sees. I did this so I could watch her grow up and be there for her when she needs her father, and now you’re telling me that you want to fake my death and put me in witness protection? No! We had an agreement and witness protection was not a part of that.”

“Falcon, I cannot guarantee your safety. We can get a lot of the Screaming Eagles, but there’s no way we can get all of them. Word will get out that you helped us and there are limits to the protection we can offer you.”

“So, I put my life on the line, I betray my gang, and I get nothing!? Why would I help you now?”

“You are in too deep now to back out, so don’t try and threaten me, Falcon. Do you think it was easy for me to put you in witness protection? You’re an ex-biker gang member with a rap sheet a mile long and a connection to over half a dozen unresolved homicides. I’ve been working my ass off to put this together for you. That’s why I’ve been so hard to reach. I’ve been dealing with endless layers of bureaucracy to keep you safe, and I’m not letting you walk away from it.”

“No, Grace. It’s the one thing I didn’t want. I want to be there for my daughter. I can’t disappear on her and Kelly. I don’t want her growing up not knowing her father.”

“Then you need to get a time machine and go back fifteen years and not join a biker gang. This is it, Falcon. We don’t have a lot of choices. I don’t want to keep you out of jail just so you can die from a hit in a back alley somewhere. For better or worse, Falcon. You joined a gang and you’ve done a lot of illegal, jail-worthy stuff. You could easily look at a lifetime in prison. You have the deal clearing you of all charges, but if something else comes up, something not related to the Screaming Eagles or this investigation, I might not be able to help you.”

Falcon shook his head and walked away from Grace. He leaned against the counter, pressing his palms into the cheap counter top. He shook his head as he tried to find some other solution. He couldn’t leave Sophie; he couldn't leave his life. He couldn’t let her be that girl who didn’t have a dad.

“You have money saved up for Sophie and we could send more her way, as well,” Grace said softly.

“So, you think that’s all a father is? Someone who gives his kids money?”

“No,” Grace said. “But if you do stay, you would be marked all over town as a traitor. You would spend your entire life looking over your shoulder and, if we’re being honest, Falcon, Sophie would have a target on her back. They would know getting to her would get to you. She wouldn’t be safe, Falcon.”

Falcon shook his head in disgust and looked away. Grace was following him around imploring him to look at her. But every time she reached for him he would pull away from her.

“This wasn’t what we agreed to,” Falcon said angrily. “This isn't how this was supposed to play out. I’m going to lose everything, Grace. Do you understand that? Sophie is my family and you’re asking me to leave her behind.”

“I am asking you to think about the long term, Falcon,” Grace said quietly. “I am asking you to think about life as it is, not as we want it to be. I know that you want to be with Sophie. But you need to think of what is really going to happen if you stay. You really need to think about what that means to Sophie.”

***

“Yeah, I get it,” Falcon said as he shook his head in disgust. “You get everything you want. You get a big bust and a huge promotion and I get nothing. I get to leave my entire life behind. That works out really well for you.”

“It’s not like that,” Grace said.

“Then what is it like, Grace? What can you say that’s going to make any of this better? We have amazing sex and then you disappear for days and now you come back just to tell me that doing this with you, that helping you is going to cost me everything!”

“You’re doing this because it’s the right thing.”

“Fuck the right thing! I don’t care about doing the right thing! I want to keep my life! And what about us? I’m gonna lose you, too, aren’t I? Did you ever even feel anything towards me? Or was I just a tool you used to get what you wanted.”

“I do care about you, Falcon,” she said. And finally she had him cornered in the room and she took his face in her hands and implored him to look at her. Her green eyes were watery with tears and she was begging him to listen. “I care about you more than I should. It’s put this whole operation in jeopardy. Do you think it’s going to be easy for me to watch you leave? Every time I see you or talk to you I know that eventually I’m going to have to say goodbye to you forever and I don’t know how I’m going to do that.”

Falcon tore himself away from her touch. He was so angry and frustrated and at the same time he knew she was right. He couldn’t stay here after betraying the Screaming Eagles. He would have to leave forever. The only way to keep his family safe was to never see them again.

“Please say something,” Grace whispered from the other side of the room.

“What am I supposed to say? I can’t even really be mad at you. You gave me an out and I took it. I just, I didn’t think I would be losing so much.”

“I know it’s hard, Falcon. But it’s the only way. You’ll go somewhere nice and make a new life for yourself. A life that’s free from gangs and drugs and cops. Doesn’t that sound nice?”

“It would sound better if I didn't have to go alone. But I do, don’t I? No one else can come with me, no one else will know. I will be dead to the world. My daughter will mourn me and then forget about me. I’ll be nothing more than an old picture hung up on some forgotten wall in her house.”

“Falcon, if there were any other way-”

He cut her off. “No, you’re right. This is the only way. It’s the only way to bring the Screaming Eagles down and keep Sophie safe.” Falcon couldn’t help it, a single tear escaped his right eye and he brushed it away furiously. “I guess I’ll just have to do the best I can with the time that’s left for me.”

Grace was right next to him, her hand was on his arm and she was staring up at him. He couldn’t help himself and he didn’t want to stop himself. He didn’t have much time left and so he leaned down and enveloped Grace’s mouth with his own.

Chapter Twenty-Five

She leaned into him and pressed her palms against his chest before caressing his face and wrapping her arms around his neck. Falcon had missed this. He had missed her touch, her hands, her arms, her tongue. He had missed the smell of her, the way his rough fingers travelled over her smooth skin. He had missed tangling his fingers up in her hair.

Falcon pulled away from the kiss and took her chin firmly in his hands. He looked into her green eyes and said, “I missed you.” He tilted her chin to the side and bit her earlobe making her gasp as he bit and licked and kissed his way down her neck until he was at her collarbone. Her chest was heaving; he could feel her heart pounding underneath his fingers as he brought both hands up and wrapped them around her breasts.

The feel of her was amazing. Her eyes were closed and her hands were running up his arms. When he squeezed her breast she gasped and arched her back towards him. Falcon felt like an animal finally released from his cage. He pushed Grace back until she was flush against the back wall of his apartment and he pinned her arms against the wall with his hands as he kissed her fiercely. His tongue was plunging into her mouth and then he was sucking on her lower lip, leaning down to kiss her neck.

“Falcon,” Grace said and it was almost like a sigh. She pushed her arms against him, but he tightened his grip, wrapping his fingers around her wrists and holding her in place. She was moaning as he kissed along the lines of cleavage and her shoulders. She was reaching for him with her mouth in a desperate attempt to kiss him.

“I want you,” Falcon said, pushing his forehead against hers. “I want to fuck you,” he said and he looked into her eyes.

She bit her lip and nodded.

Taking her by the wrists he pulled her back into his bedroom and slammed the door closed behind them. He pulled Grace towards him and then turned her around so her back was to him. He pulled her to him in a crushing embrace and as he kissed her neck his hand pushed up her short skirt and touched the lacy panties she was wearing underneath. He pushed them aside and ran his fingers over her edges, not yet slipping inside.

He teased her with his fingers as he kissed his neck and it wasn’t long before Grace began to writhe and push against him. Her ass was grinding against Falcon’s lap; he could feel her body as it swept against his and his penis rose in response to her attentions. Falcon growled into her ear as he slipped two fingers inside of her.

Grace gasped and arched her back, but he held her tight against him as his fingers found her clit and he began to move over it in tiny circles. She was already slick and ready for him, her body shuddering as she moaned his name and moved her hips with his fingers.

“Falcon, yes,” she moaned and she pushed herself back against him. Her body was tense and she threw her head back.

Falcon turned her face to him and he kissed her as his fingers continued to spin inside of her.

“Oh, yes. Yes!” She cried out breaking the kiss and Falcon watched her face as she opened her mouth in a silent scream as her body tensed beneath him before screaming out his name, her body convulsing around him. Falcon held her against him as she rode her orgasm to finish and collapsed against him.

God he wanted her. He found the zipper on her dress and quickly lowered it before shoving the dress down her lithe body and into a puddle on the floor. Still shaking from her orgasm she held onto his hand and then, once the dress was off, she turned around to face him. She was wearing a lacy black thong and a thin bra that looked like nothing more than decoration. Her taught and strong body stood before him and he couldn’t help himself as he stroked up her thigh and then along her stomach to her breasts behind their thin veil of the bra.

He cupped her breast gently and stroked his thumb over her nipple, reveling in the way she closed her eyes and moaned as he did it. The bra closed in the front and he smiled as he gently undid the clasp and opened it as if he were opening a present. Her breasts were perfect and he took them in his hands, massaging them before leaning down and kissing them both gently.

With one gentle shove she was back on the bed and Falcon pushed again until she was flat on her back. He took both of her wrists in his hands and, taking the thin material of her bra, he brought her wrists up to the headboard and tied them there. The knot was sturdy and he looked down at her as she pulled against it, testing the strength of the fabric. It held and he looked at her to make sure she was all right.

Her body was spread out before him on the bed, naked and perfect in the moonlight. He breasts were heaving and she squirmed a little against her restraints. Her body was writhing over the bed and it was the most beautiful thing Falcon had ever seen. He stood up off the bed and quickly removed his clothes before climbing back on.

He kissed her deeply and she kissed him back. He worked his way down her body, kissing both of her breasts before kissing her stomach and thighs before finally settling down between her legs. He worked slowly; he knew were her clit was, but he didn’t want to make it easy for her and so his first few licks touched every part of her but her clit.

As his tongue worked long strokes inside of her going everywhere but where she really wanted him to go, Grace pushed against him. Her hips moved in a desperate ploy for him to touch the place he wouldn’t.

“Falcon, please,” she murmured and he could feel her as she pulled against her restraints. “Please, Falcon.”

“Please what?” he asked as his fingers replaced his tongue. He let his fingers graze her clit as he watched and she shuddered and arched her back as his fingers teased her and then pulled away.

“I want you to make me come,” she whispered. “Please, Falcon. Don’t leave me on the edge like this.” She pulled against her wrist restraints and Falcon felt his erection grow.

He leaned down between her legs and his tongue focused on her clit; it was like a jolt of electricity passed through her. Her body jerked and strained and she was moaning and crying out loudly. Falcon slipped one finger inside of her and stroked her from the inside as his tongue worked from the outside and then she was screaming out his name; her whole body tensed as her orgasm gushed through her.

Pleased, Falcon came up and untied her arms. He kissed her wrists gently as he threw her bra to the side. Then he took her wrists and pulled her up and out of bed. She stood on her tiptoes as Falcon kissed her and he held her up with his strong arms before he spun her around and pushed on her back until she was bent over. He reached into the top drawer of the dresser and pulled out a condom, quickly ripping open the packaging and sliding it over his cock.

She had her hands against his dresser and they were facing the mirror as Falcon took his throbbing cock and easily slipped it inside of Grace’s ready and eager body. He groaned loudly as he entered her, gripping her hips with his hands as he pushed himself into her. He could see her reflection in the mirror and he could see the way her eyes closed and her mouth opened as she took in the sensation of him.

He remembered how wonderful it was to be inside of her. She was tight and as he began to thrust into her she pushed back against him as their rhythm sped up. He reached around her again and she let out a sharp little gasp as his fingers began to move against her clit.

“Falcon!” she cried out. “Yes, Falcon, yes!” His fingers spun around and around as he felt her getting closer and closer to her orgasm. He spun his fingers in her as he continued to thrust with his cock. He was ready to explode, but he held himself back, waiting for Grace.

“Come for me,” he whispered and she whimpered the word yes as her body tensed underneath him. Falcon pushed against her harder and faster until she was screaming his name and he could feel her body convulsing around him. Finally like an explosion his orgasm pushed through him and, with a few final thrusts, Falcon Marks was spent.