The Biker's Rules novel Chapter 28

***POV - Damion

Her dead phone suddenly rings, it must have dried out, and she picks it up to look at the caller alert, and then she puts it on speaker.

"Hi, Kiara, how are you?"

"Good, but when are you planning to get back. Ur bros are driving me insane. What do I tell them?"

"Tell them to fuck off!" I butt in, giving my unrequested opinion.

"Excuse me?" Kiara sounds surprised, probably because she didn't know I was listening.

"Never mind him. Damion is being a dick as usual." She sticks her tongue out at me and I pull a face back.

"He's a pain in my ass."

"M.e.l." I draw out her name.

"D.a.m.i.o.n." She does the same adding some sarcastic attitude.

"What's up with you two?" Kiara asks.

"Nothing," she answers too fast, cause something is definitely going on. I just can't let the opportunity to tease her pass me by.

"We kissed. Now she's acting out." She looks at me as if the living-dead ate my brains, and if she's seriously considering killing me right now.

"WHAT?!" Kiara is shouting through the phone. Mel looks at me again as if I really am braindead and takes the phone off speaker, putting it against her ear.

"It's not like that! He's just being Damion. I'll be home soon." She ends the conversation, still looking at me as if I'm Lucifer's, right-hand man.

"I really really really hate you!"

"It's just because you haven't made love to me yet." This time her blush creeps down her neck and disappears in her cleavage. So magnificent. I pull her onto my chest again.

"I think I'm going to like this story," I mutter above her head as if nothing happened. We're busy with the second episode. We watch in silence as Elena walks into the Salvatore house looking for Stefan, then the crow flies in and Damon appears with his usual cocky, sexy attitude.

"I like that dude," I say, breathing into her hair.

"Who Damon? Yeh, you would cause in the beginning he s a dick like you, but love changes him. He becomes the guy that always saves her, that puts her above anyone else, even himself - even if she hates him for it. Secretly he's the hero but nobody seems to notice, and that's true love, to be unselfish."

I stare at the TV for a long time in silence, thinking about what she just said, before I speak my mind.

She's right - if you love somebody you have to think about them first. Am I selfish to want to be with her if it means maybe destroying her bond with her brothers, with her uncle? And being my girl will change her life, everything she does will be scrutinized and pulled out of proportion by the press, twisted into something ugly for the whole world to see. And then there's also the demons hiding in my mind. Can I do this to her? Or a better question would be, can I ruin her life?

"Umm, bad boys always fall the hardest," I say then

"Is that a fact, or are we talking personal experience?" She asks and I scuff at this comment.

"Yep." Not sure which one I'm agreeing to, but I close my eyes for a second, breathing in her scent and it's the best smell on earth I swear.

"Then there s still hope for you guys. I would love to see you on your knees."

"I thought we covered the what-can-happen-when-I m-on-my-knees topic, angel." I turn my head now fully facing her and then for the second time my lips land on hers, but this time it's softer, deeper, and still fucking mindblowing. I know I shouldn't do it, but my willpower is not that strong.

"But seriously I ve been on my knees for more than 10 years already." My voice is husky and barely a whisper. She stares wide-eyed into my eyes as if she s looking for something, maybe the truth. Then I turn towards the screen again. Stephan intervenes and the brothers get into a fight.

"I just don't get why they are not close, they're brothers and brothers should be close." I'm still all coiled up from the kiss, my mind running on hormonal energy right now to just try and act normal.

"They'll get there later. We're lucky to have brothers that we get along with, that we love to bits. Not everybody is that privileged." I'm lucky, I have Luke and her brothers and Axel, but for how long? Will they hate me if I date their sister?

"Mel, Luke is not my real blood brother, he's actually my cousin that's been adopted by my parents." I have to tell her. I don't want any secrets between us, so I'm going to trust her with this.

"My father had a younger sister, Sophia. She struggled with MS but was very stubborn, she refused any help, until she got pregnant. And not by just anybody, but by Alberto Garcia himself. He didn t know about the baby. Luke was born in secrecy and my parents adopted him, saying he was their own. Sophia died before Luke was even a year old."

"Tsk." She clicks her tongue and she tilts her head, trying to look innocent, but instead looking anything but. I push her down the stairs before I lose all my willpower and teach her every dirty position coming up in my mind s eye.

We take my truck this time and just when I pull away, her phone suddenly alerts her of a message.

"Ug, why can't this guy just get the message!" I don't think she meant to say that out loud.

"Yeh, I hate that guy by the way." Guessing that she s talking about Ren.

"I've noticed. You did beat him up." I blink my eyes.

"He punched me first. Why were you with him?" I'm being serious, and it's the truth. He tried to liberty me when I walked out of the bathroom, so I punched him, once ... just once.

"He was the only guy to ever ask me out, thanks to you!" I do feel a little guilty about threatening everybody to stay away from her, but I was young and in love. Nah, whom I kidding, I'm glad I did it. This girl is mine, she'll always be mine. I must just get a way to make it official.

"He's a duce. Luckily you didn't love him." She looks down quickly, but she doesn't contradict me, telling me that I'm right and making me feel a lot better.

"So now you're some kind of love expert?"

"Well, I think if you're truly madly in love, your eyes will always find that person, you will drown in passion and you ll be so overwhelmed that it will consume you. Even if that person drives you insane and makes mistakes, you will always forgive and forget. You ll put them before yourself in an instance. You can't think about living without them, even willing to die without hesitation, that there is real love." I take a breath before continuing, "And whenever you re in a crowd, your eyes are more on me than him, and no offense, but your relationship with Ren had all the passion of a pair of gay rats. NONE!"

"My eyes on you …" she says as if in a muddle.

"Yeh, I would know cause my eyes are always on you." I smile at her.

"Wow, that's ... " I can see she's surprised by my answer. She didn't take me for someone deep. She looks at the trees going by and would love to know what she's thinking about. She almost seems sad and I don't like seeing her like that.

"So ... have you ... I mean ... felt like that ... real love?" Her head is still turned away, so I can't see her eyes.

"Yes. I fell in love long ago when I was in a very dark place."