As soon as we stepped through the door leading outside to the back parking lot, into the darkness under the desert sky, I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

I grabbed onto Cole's arm tighter as I walked with both arms wrapped tightly around his left arm for dear life.

"I have a bad feeling" I whispered into his ear as I pulled him down to me a little.

His grip on my waist tightened

"We're almost at the finish line baby, keep it together" he kissed the side of my temple. I nodded.

"Hold up Ghost, right here's good old man" Ghost halted Rex in his tracks once we reached a white cargo van.

"Ghost" Cole gave Ghost an instruction simply by saying his name, making Ghost turn Rex towards him, a zip tie visible in his hand. He tied Rex's hands up at the wrist and held them there in front of Cole.

"What are you doing son? You gonna kill your own father? You got the guts for that? You won't live with yourself Cole" Rex actually sounded a little scared.

"Load him up and get his phone" he told Ghost who took the phone out of Rex's back pocket and handed it to Cole.

The van door opened and Gloria was in the drivers seat with a shit eating grin on her face.

"Hello fuck face!" She said before taking a drag of her cigarette and dramatically blowing the smoke towards him from the drivers seat.

"Fuck you Glo and fuck you Cole!" He started struggling against Ghost then.

I have no idea why he was scared of Gloria but the terror on his face led me to believe that all of the voodoo talk at her place might have held a bit of truth to it.

"I'm not gonna kill you pop, I'm letting mom take a little bit from your hide though. Then you'll be dropped back at your club, don't set foot in Vegas again, you've lost all the privileges you had here. Stay the fuck away from my wife. If you do all those things, you live, if you don't, well you see Big Phil back at the club with the shaved head? Recognize him? Probably not with his head shaved, but he knows you, and He has no problems putting you in a hole in the desert for what you did to his club. Now that... I would be able to live with" Cole basically told him how it was going to be if he wanted to live and put him in his place before Ghost moved Rex towards the van.

"Cole, son-please don't do this. We can work it out" Rex pleaded with Cole who let his words go unanswered. I saw a fleeting moment of sadness or maybe disappointment before hardening back up and turning away from the van.

"It didn't have to be this way" I called out to Rex when Ghost pushed him in the van and closed the door. Gloria took out of there like a bat of hell.

"Alright let's get home and kick those fuckers out, take our place back. I have his contact for Ryan in his phone. We got this baby" Cole brought me to his lips for a kiss "I can't wait to get you home my sexy vixen" He whispered into my ear then pulled back going back into President Thomas mode.

He dismissed everyone who had set up a perimeter around the parking lot we were in. The few club guys Rex had outside were knocked out and tied up by Seven and the others.

Rex clearly didn't expect what happened to happen. He must not have thought Cole had it in him to turn against him. That just told me all the more how much he loved me. He will never know how much what he did means to me...what he means to me.

I couldn't shake the feeling in my gut even after all the commotion settled down.

"Something's not right Cole. Why hasn't Ryan showed himself?" I asked keeping my head on a swivel as we walked to our bikes.

"I don't know baby? Too many of us maybe and with my old man out of commission he probably took off? Let's just go home baby...home" he was so happy right now I swallowed my gut feeling for now.

The feeling of finally getting inside our house and having it be just us was amazing.

A group of the guys had ridden ahead and had the place cleared out by the time we made it home. A couple of the Slayer girls even cleaned up the house by the time we made the hour and a half ride home.

I had no idea who's been in our bed so I stripped the sheets and had Cole flip the mattress before I put clean sheets and blankets from the hall closet on the King size bed.

"I want a new bed tomorrow Cole" I said as I tossed up the last pillow with a fresh pillow case.

He chuckled at me but agreed.

We shared a quick shower just to get clean, now we were snuggled in bed smoking a backwoods grape blunt and talking about everything that had happened.

"Let's go to bed" Cole was utterly exhausted at this point and so was I.

He reached over to the bedside table and put the blunt out, when he rolled back over he pulled me to him, and I snuggled down into his chest.

I ran my hand down his chest over his t-shirt until I reached the hem and put my hand under his shirt so I could feel his abs.

I tipped my head to look at him, he brought his head down, bringing lips down to mine for a searing kiss.

I rolled towards him more and got up and put my leg over him so I could straddle him. I could feel him already hard through his fleece bottoms he was wearing to bed on this cold December night.

I pushed his shirt up so he would take it off. He reached behind his neck and pinched the material in his hand and yanked it over his head.

He reached out and grabbed the bottom of the baggie sweatshirt I had on and lifted it up over my head in one swoop.

I grabbed him once the material cleared my head and brought his bare chest to mine and pressed my boobs against his firm body. My fingers ran through his dirty blonde hair at the back of his head as we kissed each other passionately and expressing our love through our kiss.

I rolled off of him and laid on my back next to him to take my pants off while he pulled his pj bottoms and boxers down to his ankles at the same time. He took his feet to push them the rest of the way off right before I climbed back on top of him.

Holding his shoulders I sunk down slowly on him, taking him inch by inch torturously slow until he completely filled me up, making both of us moan out at the pleasurable feeling.

We clung tight to each other as we slowly made love in our bed.

"Hailey? Baby what's wrong?" Cole asked concerned.

When I opened my eyes, my lashes were wet and my vision distorted. Once I pulled back and focused on Cole, I saw wet drips in his chest, I was crying.

"Nothing...I'm happy" I smiled at him as he took my face in his hands.

I brushed my fingers over my eyes to wipe the tears away before he brought my face to his for a soft kiss.

"I love you" he mumbled against my lips.

"I love you more" I confessed as I held him tighter to me.

We continued to make love until we had nothing left to give each other and finally collapsed into a deep sleep around 4am.

I woke up to Cole singing to the Christmas music playing. I groaned and looked over at the clock to find it was almost 1 o'clock in the afternoon.

I got out of bed and pulled on my white fluffy robe that fell to my mid thigh and walked out into the hallway towards the sound of Cole's voice.

He was in the living room where he was struggling with Ghost to get a Christmas tree into the little metal green stand.

I stood back quietly until they had it straight and then started clapping.

"Merry Christmas baby!" He exclaimed and quickly crossed the room to me and picked me up in a bear hug, making my feet come off the floor before setting me back down.

"Merry Christmas. Where did you get a fresh tree in he desert? It's beautiful and smells so good" I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I could smell the fresh pine that was already filling the room with the distinct scent that says it's Christmas.

"They truck them in and set up stands. We took the Jeep this morning while you slept"

"Thank you" I told him pushing up on my tip toes for a kiss.

"You're welcome, it's almost Christmas and with everything that's been going on, I know it hasn't felt like it. Soooooo, I wanted to surprise you"

"I love it" I say still smiling.

"Well we will have to decorate it later. That wasn't the only thing we were doing. We set up for tonight. We're going on the strip tonight and lure Ryan out, it's time for the finale baby" he grinned a wicked smile that told me Cole was very much going to enjoy ending Ryan as much as I was going to.

I smiled back at him

"I'm ready"

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Author's Note:

Starting Over In Sin City is coming to an end shortly. I have however kicked around the idea of making this into a series the next book will follow Drew. Is anyone interested in something like that? Please comment below.

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As you're waiting for updates, try my new erotic thriller, Seattle Slayer. It's different from anything I've ever written but it's going to probably be the best thing I've done yet. The first five chapters are up. A hot cop, a psychic-medium and her sexy new employee that she's fantasized about since she shook his hand and had visions of him when they met. Add in a killer on the loose in Seattle and it makes it pretty exciting in the Emerald City.

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