Black Dagger (Mad Jackals Brotherhood MC Book 1) by Evelyn Glass Page A

trouble?” She looks up anxiously at him, resting her hands on his chest, unable to keep from touching him any longer and she watches as his eyes warm.
     
    “Mia, can you stop asking questions for just five minutes and tell me how you feel?” His blue eyes are searching and she reaches up to smooth the frown line on his forehead.
     
    “I feel like kissing you.” She holds her breath as she watches his eyes gleam.
     
    “I’d like that.” His voice is husky, making her pussy ache.
     
    She reaches up to encircle his neck in her arms and pulls his head down to hers, going up onto her tiptoes to meet his lips with hers. It’s a soft, gentle kiss, but she can feel Ray’s heart hammering against his chest as he pulls her tight against him. He takes over the kiss, deepening it. His hands are in her hair and his mouth devours hers, hungry for her, kissing her with enough greed to make her moan. There’s a possession to his kiss; he’s staking his claim on her and she lets herself be conquered, lets him own her. Her whole body trembles, tingling, desperate for more, but she knows that she can’t do that to Eli, not again. She forces herself to cool down and rocks back abruptly planting her heels on the floor, breaking the kiss.
     
    Ray looks at her questioningly, but whatever he sees in her face gives him his answer and he nods in understanding.
     
    “There’s something I want to say to you, but it has to wait until…” she takes a deep breath, “until I’ve ended things with Eli.” Ray tries to hide the light of victory that shines in his eyes and fails miserably, making her laugh. “You could at least look a little sympathetic!”
     
    Ray studies her. “I am sorry for him. He’s losing the most wonderful woman in the world. But his loss is my gain and I’m not going to lie – that makes me…happy.” He says the word as if it were a foreign concept and the awe in his smile speaks volumes. Ray hasn’t been happy in a very long time and Mia intends to find out why.
     
    But first thing’s first. “I should go – the sooner I do this, the sooner I’ll stop feeling so guilty. That’s the plan anyway.” Her lack of conviction is clear in her voice.
     
    “Correction – we should go. I’m not going to let you do this on your own.” Ray bends down and kisses her lightly on the tip of her nose.
     
    No matter how much she wants to have Ray with her, she knows it would do more harm than good. “I don’t think that’s a good idea.” She hurries on when she sees Ray’s frown. “Eli deserves a real, sincere explanation from me and the two of us turning up at his door feels too much like a confrontation.”
     
    “What if he gets angry? If he touches you…” Ray’s hold on her tightens almost involuntarily, his fear for her putting him on his guard.
     
    “He won’t. Eli’s not like that. Just because he has a bit of a temper doesn’t make him violent, Ray. Trust me, I’ve known him for a long time.” She doesn’t add that the Eli she’s seen recently is very different from the man that she’d spent the last four years with; there’s no need to make Ray any more wary of him than he already is.
     
    “Me, too.” Ray’s voice is bitter and she looks at him sharply.
     
    “I guess that’s something else we need to add to the list of stuff we need to talk about once I’ve spoken to Eli.” Mia sighs deeply, wondering if she’s ever going to get to the bottom of all the secrets that Ray is hiding, if he’ll let her. “But for now, I need to go.”
     
    Ray looks conflicted but after a few moments he nods in agreement. “You’ll call me when you’re done?”
     
    Mia nods and before she can say anything, Ray has bent his head down to kiss her softly, claiming her. The kiss is a promise of more to come and it sets her body on fire. But there’s something else to it, something that feels like permanence, something that feels like coming home.
     
    “You’ll be waiting for