Stripping Callum (Last Hangman MC Book 6)(57)

“I like them.” She smiles and kisses me softly.

“You’d get along with them.” I stroke her cheek, and she leans into my touch.

“Oh, I’m sure, imagine all the good intel I could get on you.” She smirks at me.

“Fuck,” I groan. “I’m going to get you some empty boxes. You can take everything if you want. I won’t be pissed or anything. Don’t go and take just a few things because you think it’s too much. It’s not. Got it?”

“Got it. You’re one of a kind, Callum.”

“I know and not always in the right way.” I kiss her and get her the boxes before disappearing in my room. As much as I don’t mind her taking everything, I can’t watch her put everything in boxes.

Half an hour later, she comes into my room. She strips and joins me in bed. We don’t speak. We don’t need to. We just hold each other. My heart might be shattered into millions of pieces, but Bella’s love is slowly piecing them back together.





Annabella

A Week Later

Callum has been slightly avoiding me this week. I know he was on some club business, and I totally hate the fact that he’s not allowed to tell me shit because I’m extremely curious. He keeps telling me it’s for my own good, and it’s a club rule, but I call bullshit on that. I know I’ve been speculating about a couple of things with Nancy. She’s been at the coffee shop a couple of times.

She doesn’t like it either when Bennett doesn’t tell her anything so she and the girls come up with their own theories and they are always hilarious. Most of the time they are just ridiculous which makes the whole biker thing slightly less scary. I’m not going to lie, I’m scared shitless of what could happen to Callum while he’s on one of his runs, but there’s nothing I can physically do to prevent any of it.

The other thing that scares me is that Callum could snap at any time and do something f*cking stupid. Even though he hasn’t said anything about it, he’s clearly still struggling with the whole ordeal about my car blowing up and the memories of what happened to his ex and kid coming back to the surface. I wouldn’t blame him, but I don’t want anything to happen to him.

Elijah loved all the things I brought back from Callum and I almost took everything, leaving a few items behind. Not out of greediness, but as he said, Callum won’t need any of those things so I could put them to good use. The next day he told me to save whatever could be saved and to give them to the other girls so that they can be used. It’s a way for him to keep the spirit of his kid alive, I guess.

Callum has seen Elijah in Billy’s clothes, and I could tell it was hard at first to see him in them, but he either got over it quickly or recovered and hid it from all of us. Elijah thanked him, and it was hard for Callum not to break down again. These two haven’t spent much time together, but Elijah really took to Callum which makes me happy. Let’s just hope Callum isn’t going to up and leave at any given time. I know we’ve never promised each other anything, but it’s more for Elijah than for me.

“Morning, sunshine,” a deep sexy voice says from behind me, scaring me half to death.

“Don’t you ever do that!” I throw the rest of my toast at his head, and he catches it and pops it into his mouth.

“What? I’m saying good morning, and you’re getting all mad. Your mom is crazy,” he says to Elijah who just giggles as if agreeing with Callum.

“You don’t just show up unannounced! That’s rude.”

“Poor baby.” He kisses the back of my neck.

“Good morning,” I finally tell him and kiss him softly.

“Everything good?” he asks looking at me intently.

“Yes, why?” I look at him, confused.

“Just making sure.” He smiles at me, and my panties melt. If Elijah wasn’t there I’d totally jump on him and have my wicked way with him.

“And you?”

“I’m as good as I can be.” He kisses my shoulder and steals a piece of bacon from my plate.

“You know I’m here for you.”

“I know, thank you.” He winks at me. “Are you two ready?”

“Ready for what?” I ask, confused.

“The barbecue at the compound…”

“I didn’t know you still wanted us to come.”

“Of course. Stop thinking I was avoiding you. I was on a club run. Do you still want to come?”

“Sorry. If you want us there, sure.” I smile.

“Woman, I just asked you!” he says, sounding exasperated.

“Keep your knickers on, grandma. I’m going to go get dressed. Can you keep an eye on Elijah?”

“Crazy woman. Of course, go on.”

A part of me didn’t want to ask him to keep an eye on Elijah in fear it would bring back more memories, but he seems a lot more relaxed today. It’s good to see the Callum I first met coming back to life.

Not wanting to make him wait too long, I get ready quickly and put on skinny jeans, converse, and a flannel shirt. I do a light makeup and put my hair up in a messy bun. I don’t have the time or the patience to do anything else with it.

Looking out of the window onto the patio where Elijah and I were having breakfast, I see Callum in deep conversation with Elijah. They are both laughing and I dread to think what they could be talking about. It doesn’t take a lot for Elijah to laugh, but to see Callum laugh is so heart-warming. It’s not his usual short laugh when I say something stupid. It looks like proper belly laugh as they are talking. The things this man does to me. I sigh happily and make my way downstairs. I don’t want to break their bonding moment, but I also don’t want him to start on me that I take too long.