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The fact Damien had black out curtains was the best part of waking up, well, that and the fact I woke up cuddled up next to Damien. I smiled as I felt his bare chest against my back, his hot breath against my neck. I was so in love with this man behind me, his skin hot and soft against my own flesh.

I spun around and placed a kiss on his chest, removing his hand to go to the restroom. I finished my business and looked at myself in the mirror, my eyes brighter than before as I looked at all the love bites along my body. My hair was wild like always, falling down my bare chest onto my defined tattoos.

"Fern?" I opened the adjoining door to find Damien sitting up on the bed, his bare chest pretty much beckoning for me to kiss it all over again. I grinned as I looked at the love bites I had given to him myself, my own personal marking along his tan olive skin.

I'm not a wolf or anything, but he's mine bitches.

"I was worried you left..." He trailed off, earning a chuckle and a small shake of my head.

"I'll never leave you." I practically leaped onto the bed, straddling his stomach as I looked down onto his warm dark brown eyes.

He placed a kiss on my collar bone before peppering upwards, finally hitting my lips. I moved them along with his, his tongue caressing my own as I moaned involuntarily into his mouth. His hands trailed along my naked body, leaving spurts of fire all along my skin. He made me feel so alive, more alive than I had in years.

The door named open as I shriek and fell behind Damien onto the bed, looking over Damien's shoulder to find a blushing red Joey and Charles. Damien practically growled at them as he shifted so he covered my body, his muscles tense and coiled.

"Get the fuck out!" They quickly spun around as Damien shouted, my face heating up as the door shut quietly behind them.

"Damien-"

I was quickly shut up with his lips pressed to mine, his fingers taking through my hair. I sucked in a deep breath when his lips finally moved down my neck, sucking and nipping at various parts of my skin as I moaned out into the open air of the room.

"There, now they know you're mine." I furrowed my eyebrows before standing and rushing to the bathroom, my eyes widening as I saw very big and very noticeable love bites all along my neck. The ones from before I could have at least covered, there was no way in hell I could cover these; especially since I didn't have any makeup with me.

"Damien!" I shouted, my head popping back into his bedroom to find a very smug looking Damien. I rolled my eyes as I stood in the doorway, his eyes taking up and down my still naked body.

"I'm taking a shower, and you," I pointed to the growing tent under the sheets. "Need a cold one."

He stood up up and dropped the sheets, walking over to me before throwing me over his shoulder and landed a sharp smack on my behind. I shrieked at the unexpected touch, my eyes widening when he brought me into the bathroom and set me down on the counter. He captured my lips with his before turning the shower on behind him without breaking the kiss.

"Don't mind if I do."

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After a shower that wasn't really much of a shower, I finally migrated downstairs with Damien not far behind me. I ducked my head down at all of the knowing stares, heat flashing across my cheeks.

I whacked Damien as he snickered behind me, my feet padding themselves into the kitchen to get me a well needed cup of coffee. I stood at the counter while Damien pretty much danced around me, taking out eggs and bacon and other various breakfast stuff.

Charles and Joey walked in with a trailing Jake, Joey adverting his gaze while Charles just smirked at me. The bastard.

"Have a good nights rest Fern?" I growled at him, taking one of the grapes from the bowl before me and chucking it straight at his head. He just shook it off and laughed with Jake, while Joey blushed and still didn't look at me.

"Joey, you can look at me you know." He still adverted his eyes and blushed even harder, earning a snicker from Charles. I groaned, the sound of Damien cooking filling the room. "Would you like me to flash everyone Joey?"

"The fuck you will!" Damien shouted at the stove, Charles and Jake laughing up a storm bc the pantry. I rolled my eyes as I ate, staring as intensely as I could to Joey.

"Joey," I took my fingers and forced him to look over to me. "I have tits, boobs, pounds of fat covered in flesh that guys find attractive, get over it."

Damien practically howled with laughter while Jake and Charles were rolling on the floor with tears streaming from their faces. Joey just flushed incredibly bright red, nodding his head hesitantly while looking me in my eye. I had never seen Joey like this, so closed and quiet.

"Good, now we need to talk about the Black Burn gang." My blood ran cold as I looked up to him, his eyes staring at me while he spoke about the gang that almost ruined my life.

"I don't want to talk about them." He sighed as he walked closer to me, setting the cooked eggs and bacon on the countertops.

"We have too, they're getting closer to my territory and testing my patience. They have repeatedly halted my shipments from other countries and I think they know you're with me. I want to kill him, torture him, but I need you to give me his name."

The names of the leaders were kept secret from any rival gang, almost like they were crucial and such a secret. So many thought that knowing the name of the leader could cause the entire gang to crumble, and they weren't exactly wrong. If you know the name, you could track the family, their friends, and kill everything close them before finally killing them yourself.

"Jason Craig."