He Cheated With His Ex, So the Club President Claimed Me novel · Chapter 9 of 24

Chapter 9: One Night, No Club

Dot kept Eli that night.

She took him in her truck with his blanket and his stuffed bear, and said she would see us in the morning.

Neither of us argued.

Gage drove me to the cabin and carried the cardboard in from the porch and nailed it back over the window.

I stood in the middle of the room and watched him do it.

"What did you tell him?" I said.

He set the hammer down.

"Brock. The night before they took me."

"Tell me."

"I told him about the wake." Gage turned around. "I'd been drinking for two days. I told him I'd been with you, once, at the lake house, and that it was the only good thing that happened that week."

My throat closed.

"He knew."

"He knew. I asked him to look in on you if I went in." Gage's voice was flat. "I thought he was my friend."

"He came to me three weeks later."

"I know that now."

"He said he'd noticed me for months."

"He lied."

I laughed, and it hurt.

"So I was a favor."

"No."

"I was something you left lying around, and he picked me up."

"Hallie." Gage crossed the room in three steps. "You were never lying around. I thought about you every day I was inside."

"You didn't write."

"I wrote thirty-one times."

I stared at him.

"I told you I'm going to have them in my hand," he said. "I will. I'm not done. But I wrote."

I put both palms flat on his chest.

His heart was pounding, hard and fast.

"One night," I said. "That's what I'm saying yes to. No club business in my bed. No Brock, no votes, no letters. Tonight there's you and me."

"Deal," he said.

I pulled his head down and kissed him.

He made a low sound in his throat and lifted me against him.

My legs wrapped his waist, and he walked me to the mattress and put me down on it.

He pulled my shirt up over my head, and I tore at his jacket, and then his undershirt.

His chest was marked with old ink and a scar low on his side.

I ran my fingers over every one of them.

"Three years," he said against my neck. "Do you know what I did with three years?"

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