Fuse's Hold by E.C. Land (books for students to read TXT) 📕

“What? Fuck no, ma douce, you are my ol’ lady and I lost you once. I’m not losing you again,” Fuse growls, his hands tightening on my hips.

“Okay, good, because I love you too much for you to break up with me now,” I ramble, nodding my head like a bobblehead doll.

This causes Fuse to grin. “Fuckin’ cute, baby, and I hate to take away from the cuteness that you got goin’ on right now, unfortunately, I can’t keep it from you any longer.”

“Tell me,” I murmur, not liking this.

Sighing, Fuse starts rubbing his hands up and down my bare thighs.

I still have a hard time wearing clothes that are revealing out of the house, but I have no problem when I’m in the house. It’s my safe place where I live with Fuse, so I’m okay with shorts.

“You know we never stopped looking for you, right?” To this, I nod my head and he continues. “We had pulled as many people into the hunt as we could.” This made sense of why Leonard would get pissed about moving us all the time. “The DRMC dealt with some shit not too long ago where they found a woman. At first, they thought it was you. They didn’t call us at first as the woman had been severely hurt and drugged out of her mind. Worst of all, she’d been pregnant. Found out about her, went up there thinking I was getting you back only to find it wasn’t you. She, in a lucid moment, finally told the guys there her name. It’s Simone.”

I suck in a harsh breath at the sound of my twin’s name.

“Simone,” I whisper.

“Yeah, baby, your sister is alive,” Fuse murmurs.

“Why didn’t you tell me this before now?” I ask, starting to get upset. I’ve been back for a while now and he saw her way before then, so why not tell me.

“Because, Ly, you weren’t in the right frame of mind to hear about her. Not after what all you went through. Second, she’s being taken care of. I spoke with Nerd, who put me in touch with their club’s charter that’s in South Carolina. According to Cy and Axe over there, she’s been placed in a facility in Alabama. From what I looked into myself and what they’ve told me, it’s the best place for her.” Okay, I get why he didn’t tell me. He’s right. I wasn’t in a good place, but that doesn’t negate the fact, my sister’s alive and I’m sitting here when I should be looking into her.

“Can we go see her? I need to see her,” I murmur.

“And we will, baby. I promise. The facility she’s in right now is working with her on some things that she needs help with. Soon as they say she’s allowed to have visitors, I’ll take you there first thing,” he states firmly.

Nodding, I bite my lip. “Um, is there more?”

“Yeah, baby. I’ve got more. I looked into you and your sister’s adoption. Did you know that your birth parents had another kid?”

“What?” I ask in astonishment at this news. I didn’t know any of this. Then again, I had awesome parents and didn’t worry about thinking about them. After Simone ‘died’, they became somewhat more protective of me, but they were great people.

“You have an older brother. I know who he is, baby, but I’m asking for you to give me a bit of time with this information until I know more about this situation,” he says. Something in his tone tells me he needs this.

Although I want to ask, I nod and give him what he needs. “Okay. But promise me the minute you can, you’ll tell me.”

“I promise, ma douce,” he murmurs.

“Is there anything else?” I probe.

“That’s it for now, baby,” he says, his eyes changing.

“Good, then, will you hold me?” I whisper my question wanting to feel his arms around me. Needing to feel him surrounding me.

“You don’t need to ask that, Lyrica. I intend to always hold you to me. For the rest of my life,” Fuse grins, sliding his hands up to cup both sides of my face. “Now, how about I hold you while we do something a whole lot more and I get your mind off the bad I had to give you?” I give him a smile at his suggestion and lean in for him to do just that.

Epilogue

Lyrica

Three Months Later

“Are you coming to the clubhouse tonight for the party? All the kids are gonna stay in the playroom as we have some fun.” I grin as Faith wags her brows up and down.

“Yeah, Fuse wants me with him tonight and I couldn’t say no,” I giggle. I’m usually always with him when he’s at the clubhouse. I also go with him when he has his fight nights.

I even had a shirt made to go under my property cut with FUSE written across my boobs.

This way, if someone wasn’t deterred by the cut, they’d see it on the boobs and hopefully back away.

“Good, I need a night without the kiddos. Love them, but I need some alone time,” Faith murmurs.

Nodding, I continue to smile at her.

“Why don’t we all head over there now? You guys get the kids settled, then we’ll have some fun,” I suggest, glancing between all the ol’ ladies. I’m the only one that doesn’t have a child yet and I’m not worried so much about it. At least for now. I have time for that, and it’ll happen when it happens. I’m just enjoying all the time I have with Fuse to myself for the time being.

“You guys have fun. I’m gonna head home and curl up with my book after getting Owen down for bed,” Nora mutters and stands. The small bump she now has sticks out and I’m happy for her even if something seems off with her.

“Okay, are you sure?” I ask, furrowing my brow.

“Yeah, I’m sure.” She nods and heads for