Revolution (The Lone Riders MC Series Book 1) by Michelle Betham Page A

Jesse whispered, finally pulling out of her. Lexi unwrapped her legs from around his hips and he lowered her down, his arms still holding on to her, and she was in no hurry to go anywhere.
    ‘Jesus, Jesse…’ She threw her head back, sighing heavily. ‘Why? Me and you…’
    ‘I know, okay? I know you can’t make any promises, and I know we have no idea what’s gonna happen, but… it wasn’t going anywhere, Lexi. Me and Deena. It really wasn’t.’
    ‘Shit!’
    ‘Stay here tonight, baby. Stay here, at the clubhouse. With me. No strings, I promise.’
    She looked at him, right into those beautiful, kind eyes. ‘I don’t know…’
    ‘Please, Lexi. I know what I’m doing, okay?’
    Did she , though? Did she have any idea what she was really doing here? Because if he thought they could ever get back what they’d used to have, he was wrong. So wrong. It was never going to happen. Not now. It couldn’t. She’d made sure of that.

Six
     
     
    ‘Cut her some slack, Kip. For me, brother. Please.’
    ‘What the fuck are you doing, man? She’s only gonna hurt you again, you know that, don’t you?’
    ‘She won’t,’ Jesse said, taking another beer from the ice barrel outside the clubhouse door. Loud rock music filled the closed compound, the orange glow of a fire and the bulbs strewn from the canopy above them lighting the yard as Kel’s welcome home party got underway. Blake and Cain had gone to pick him up from Hilton State penitentiary and bring him home to his favourite beer and a heap of barbecued burgers that were waiting for him on his arrival.
    ‘She won’t,’ Kip repeated dryly, taking a long drink of beer. ‘So, you’re quite happy to just fuck her every now and again and walk away when she’s done with you, is that it? You’re really okay with that?’
    ‘It wasn’t her who wanted sex, all right? That was all on me. I’m the one who made her do it, the one who suggested it. And if I want to go there then that’s my call, you got that?’
    Kip shrugged. ‘Hey, you want to fuck up your life a second time, be my guest. You do whatever it is you have to do, but I think you’re making a big mistake. You let her in, you give her all that room, and she is gonna kill you, Jesse. She’s gonna rip your fucking heart out all over again.’
    ‘And I can handle it, okay?’ Jesse looked over at Lexi. She was sitting between Luca and Walt, both of them looking incredibly pleased with themselves as they leaned in towards her, each of them with a hand on one of her knees.
    ‘You can handle it, can you?’ Kip asked, raising an eyebrow. ‘You see what she is, brother? Do you see that?’
    ‘Just keep out of it, Kip.’
    ‘She’s my sister, Jesse.’
    ‘Then stop talking about her as though she’s nothing but some low down mama. Treat her with some fucking respect.’
    ‘Like she did with you, huh?’
    Jesse ignored Kip, his eyes back on Lexi. It really was like she’d never been away, but that shouldn’t have been a surprise, the way she just slotted back into life here. Just like him, it was all she knew. Any other kind of life was alien to her. ‘I loved her, okay? I loved her so fucking much, and I can’t just switch that off.’
    ‘You managed it for eight years.’
    ‘I didn’t, though, Kip. I just pretended it wasn’t there. Do you understand?’
    ‘No.’ Kip took another long drink before setting his empty bottle down on the table beside them. ‘Not really.’ He noticed Lexi walking towards them, all long legs and biker-chick beautiful in tiny denim cut-offs and a figure-hugging, open-necked shirt, her mane of blonde hair falling loose around her shoulders. He couldn’t deny his sister was one scarily hot woman. If he wasn’t her brother he’d be thinking about going there himself, so in reality he couldn’t really blame Jesse for still feeling the way he did. ‘I’ll leave you guys to it,’ he said, walking away just as Lexi approached.
    ‘Something I said?’ she