Well done girl.

“No problem.” Maci smiles back and I see her eyes shine through her tears. In that moment we all strike a bond and I know why. Even if I hadn’t had heard Maci’s story from her hard past, I would recognise it from the look in her eyes and the way she observes everything. Yes she’s young, but her troubled life has made her mature faster and for good reason.

“I was so shocked when I came here.” Maci laughs. “I’m treated so well here and because I’m not a club whore, I get respect. Something my mother never had.”

I never heard of the term of bunny before Dyson was killed by the Devils and that’s probably because when Lauren and I were new here. Dyson ran things within the whores and from what Maci has told us, Dyson didn’t want the divide. Most probably because she wanted the respect the young bunnies had.

“Yeah, we were shocked at that when we arrived too.” I laugh, remembering how hard it was to adjust at first.

“So why the Kings?” Lauren asks.

Maci bites on her bottom lip and I almost see a cloud cover her. She shuts herself off from us and by the look Lauren quickly flashed me, she knew it too.

“I just heard they were a good club.” She answers and decide to leave it there. She obviously doesn’t want to answer that question and it leaves me wondering why.

Today I’m home alone. Well, it’s not my home because this isn’t technically my home, even though Grim insists that it is, bless him.

Lauren has left in a nervous blur for her first day at the magazine, she doesn’t have to work in the office building all week which Lauren loves, but she has to make sure she has been in at least twice a week. You can’t argue with that. Grim wanted to go with her, so he followed her on his bike and told me he had business to deal with right after so I’ve got the house to myself until Lauren comes home.

I think this is the first time and I plan to take advantage. My hair is in a scruffy knot on the top of my head, I did used to have short hair but I wanted to change my look since the Devils and decided to keep it long as it grew. I have on my baggy black cotton bottoms on with a simple white vest top as I google the building Drew told me Franky thought was the perfect place for us. I still needed to thank Franky but he seems so busy lately that I haven’t seen him. Maybe I should get his phone number so I can ring or at least send a text message.

The building looks fucking amazing and as I stare at it on Laurens computer screen my eyes bug out and my mouth hangs open.

“Holy mother fucking shit balls.” I whisper. I grab my phone and ring Drew.

“Hey!” She sings down the phone.

“Have you seen the building?” I ask her.

“Yes!” She squeal. “It’s amazing right?”

“Amazing?” I ask. “It’s perfect!”

“I’m so glad you like it.” Drew sighs.

“How could I not?” I laugh. The place is big, not massive but bigger than what I had in mind. It’s one large room with huge pretty white framed windows. The place even has an underground storage unit and extra space upstairs. So all in all, it has three levels and is gorgeous. Did I mention I’m not paying?

“I know right? My dad wants to meet us in a few days actually to talk things over with us if that’s ok?” She asks.

“No, I was just thinking that I need to thank him so that’s perfect.” I answer.

After we get excited about what we could do with the place, we end the call and I sit alone with a huge smile on my face as I look at the computer screen. I can’t believe this is actually happening!

A couple of hours later, I’m a sweaty mess. I decided to get off my ass and clean the house. It’s pretty much clean and tidy anyway, but I don’t want it to look like I’ve been doing nothing all day while Grim and Lauren have been out. I turn off the vacuum cleaner and store it away, out of nowhere there’s a knock on the door. I stand still and look at the door like an idiot. Another knock makes me jump.

“I know you’re in their babe, I heard you cleaning.” I hear Devlin from the other side and I breathe a side of belief. I don’t know why I got a little scared, I’m perfectly safe now. However, try telling that to my fast beating heart. But then I remember what I’m wearing and what I look like. FUCK!

“Tasha!” I hear him shout.

“What do you want?” I shout through the door.

“Open the door and see.” He demands.

“I’m not decent.” I admit.

“You naked?” He asks shocked and I can’t help but smile.

“No, the opposite.” I still laugh.

“I’m confused.” He admits. “Are you hungry?”

At his question my stomach growls. He’s not going to go away, I could let him in a run for my room to change. When Devlin knocks loudly again I decide to open the door and fuck the consequences. When I open the door I look to the floor in embarrassment.

“What’s the matter?” Devlin asks.

I look up at him, eyebrows raised in question.

“Seriously? Look at me!” I point out.

“Tash you look fine.” He walks past me and into the kitchen. I shut the door behind him and follow as he continues talking. “It’s nice to see you natural. I don’t think you could ever not look beautiful.” His words make me stop. I can’t believe he just said that.

“Just give me a couple minutes.” I say as I speed walk to the bathroom.

I splash cold water on my face to freshen up, tidy my high bun and decide there’s not point changing my clothes so I give myself a fresh spray of perfume and leave to find Devlin where I left him. I find him making himself at home, getting out plates from the cupboard and reaching into the bags her bought in with him.

“What have you got there?” I ask as I stand behind him.

“Grim told me you were alone so I left them to it and bought you something to eat.” He simply answers. I’m speechless, I don’t think anybody has done something so sweet for me and yet, it’s so simple. I don’t have the words but by his smile he knows what I’m thinking. He can read me so well. I watch as he takes out the Subs, muffins and cookies. My mouth waters as I follow him to the table. I haven’t had anything to eat since I had toast with Lauren this morning. I wonder how she’s getting on, I would send her a cheeky text but I don’t want to disturb her.

“So I saw the building for the salon.” I say, deciding to break the silence.

“What’s it look like?” He asks.

“You haven’t seen it?” I’m shocked, I thought he would know.

“No.” He laughs. “I left that to Drew and my dad.”

I take a bite out of my sandwich and moan from the taste. “God this Sub is good!” I open my eyes and see Devlin gazing at me. I swallow the food and place it back down on the plate.

“Sorry.” I laugh.

“Don’t apologise.” He smiles, taking a big bite out of his own. How can a man eating look so sexy? Once we have finished eating, Devlin decides that he wants to get a drink and head outside.

“Did you tell the girls we kissed?” He asks me with a mischievous grin. I feel my cheeks burn as I look away. I nervously laugh as I feel him looking at me.

“Of course I did. They already knew we left together, I woke up to a phone full of texts.” I answer, still looking down at my hands as a distraction.

“Yeah, that dance wasn’t fooling anyone was it?” He asks. Devlin’s voice sounds deep and husky.

“No.” I breathe. The atmosphere becomes thick with what I’m assuming is lust. I love flirting with Devlin and the attention he gives me even more. He makes me feel beautiful but once he sees my hidden scars I know he won’t think the same of me. As soon as he looks at the deep scars in my most intimate areas, he will be disgusted and will want nothing more to do with me. I don’t if I should take that chance and get closer to him keep him at arm’s length so he will never see me. I can’t make up my mind.