An Outlaw Wedding (13 page)

“Oh
my God,
Nico
,” she said almost breathlessly. Her eyes
were wide as saucers, and she stared at the ring box with this shocked
expression on her face.

He
popped the lid, and it was like fate was trying to show her with the
glistening, gleaming diamond that he was a good match. At least that was the
fucked up fairytale vision he had in mind.

“Oh
my God,” she said again. “It’s so beautiful.”

He
took the ring out, snagged her left hand, and slid the band of platinum with
the big ass diamond in the center on her ring finger. He then covered her hand
with both of his. “Look at me, baby.”

She
lifted her gaze so she was looking at him, and he heard her swallow. “
Nico
—”

“
Shh
, baby, let me get this out before I lose my nerve.” Now
he swallowed and tried to calm the restlessness of his inner bear. The beast
was pacing back and forth, anxious for him to grow a set of balls and do this
already. He had beaten the shit out of grown men that had crossed the club, had
been on runs that put him in the thick of violence and illegal activity, but
asking his woman to marry him made him feel like a vulnerable juvenile. “I love
you,
have loved you for longer than I can even
remember. Maybe it goes back to the first time I gave you my favorite toy
truck…”

She
started chuckling, and the glossy look in her eyes intensified. She was going
to cry, and he didn’t know if that was a good thing or a bad thing.

“I
want you by my side as my wife and my old lady, Alexis. You’ve always been
mine, but I want it legal.” He stared in her eyes, ones that were the same
dark, inky color as her father’s, but that held a light that the Sergeant at
Arms’s
didn’t. And with her creamy complexion and dark hair
that brushed her shoulders, it made for a striking contrast. “Will you marry
me, Alexis?”

She
didn’t answer right away, and
Nico
felt his heart
start to pound fast and hard. Would she seriously turn him down? That had
crossed his mind, of course, but then again he had been a nervous fucking wreck
since he first bought the ring and decided he was actually going to do it. The
tears were the next thing that came, and he moved an inch back, giving her some
space, as those fat beads of wetness slid down her cheeks. She continued to
stare at the ring, and with every passing moment he worried that she was
ultimately going to say no.

“Baby,
you’re making a male feel pretty fucking worried here.”

She
looked up at him, and he couldn’t help it. He reached out and brushed her tears
away.

“Alexis,
are your tears good or bad?” He was a man, and didn’t know jack shit about
females and what it meant when they cried during these situations.

“They
are good tears,
Nico
. God, they are so good.” She
launched herself into his arms, and he fell back with
an
oomph
.

“So,
that’s a yes then?” He cupped her face and grinned up at her.

“Yes,
of course I’ll marry you.” She leaned down and kissed him. “But my dad’s okay
with this all? I mean I would marry you even if he wasn’t, but if he is against
it this will probably be a challenging wedding and marriage.”

He
couldn’t help but chuckle. “Yeah, I got the all clear from your scary old man.”

She
smiled and then chuckled. He certainly was a scary old man. “I love you so much,
Nico
.” She kissed him over and over again, and then
those kisses of happiness turned into ones of passion. “Shift for me,
Nico
,” she said softly, heatedly.

Nico
pulled back and
looked into her dark eyes. “You want to see my bear, baby?” He lowered his gaze
to her lips. “You want to snuggle with a grizzly?” He grinned, teasing her. He
had shifted quite a bit when he could first do it, and aside from his emotions
taking control, or needed to run wild for a while,
Nico
stayed in his human form more times than not.

“I
miss the big, soft and grouchy beast.” She leaned forward and kissed him. “Come
on,
Nico
.”

His
woman didn’t need to ask him twice. He moved back and stood. After getting off
all of his clothes, he allowed his bear to come forth. Skin tore, muscles
stretched and grew, and he felt his feral animal come forth. Fur replaced
flesh, he grew to a staggering height of ten feet tall, and his hands and feet
became paws. He stood before her, his bear aware of his surroundings, always on
alert, but also focused on Alexis. He huffed and glanced down at the hand she
held out to him.

“Come
here, you big grizzly.” She smiled, and he felt his human and bear fall harder
for this woman. She was theirs.

He
moved closer, and when he rested his big body beside her, he closed his eyes
and reveled in the feel of her running her hands through his fur. For several
minutes all they did was stay like that, with her breathing steadily, moving
her hands through his fur, and pressing her face into his neck. She felt safe
with him, and he fucking loved that. He’d protect her with his last breath, and
never let her get hurt.

“
Nico
, shift back,” she said softly.

It
only took her a moment for him to turn back into his human side, and then he
was moving onto his side and facing her. He kissed her hard and possessively,
and grabbed the back of her head, molding her closer with him. “Baby, if we
don’t stop I’m going to end up fucking you on the forest floor like some kind
of animal.” His cock punched forward when she groaned.

“I
want you to take me right here. I feel so incredibly good right now,
Nico
. I want your animal to claim me.” She took control of
his mouth, but his inner beast wasn’t about to be dominated.

“You
asked for this, baby,” he growled out and flipped them so she was now the one
on her back. “You’re mine, Alexis.
My old lady, my woman, and
soon to be my wife.”
And then he tore her clothes away and claimed his
female with his human side and his bear.

****

One month later

The
Landon house was filled to capacity as everyone gathered round the massive
dining room table for
Nico
and Alexis’s engagement
party. Odin had even driven up from school to celebrate, and the atmosphere was
happy, energized, and filled with family love. All of The Grizzly members from
Steel Corner were in attendance. Stinger, Molly, Lina, and Ben were sitting at
one end, and Stinger was laughing at something Dakota said beside him. She
glanced at the young human woman that Dakota had brought to the dinner with
him. She had never done the lunch date with Dakota like they had talked about
when she first came back, but she knew Dakota had gotten busy with the club,
and she had been busy, too. She had met Michelle, Dakota’s girlfriend, right
before they had all sat down, and although the girl seemed nice and genuine,
Alexis didn’t know if it would work. She seemed very high maintenance for
Dakota, with wearing a ton of makeup, carrying around her designer bag, and
then there was her tiny cell phone with the Swarovski crystals etched into the
back. Dallas and Hope sat on the other end with their kids
Tarren
and Tawny. What put a big smile on Alexis’s face was that Lucas was beside
Tarren
, and the grin he gave her best friend wasn’t that of
a man that just wanted a piece of ass, but wanted something much more.

“You
doing good, baby?”
Nico
asked from beside her at the head of the table.

She
turned to face him and leaned in and kissed him as her response. Jagger started
talking to
Nico
, and Sonya and the youngest Landon,
Cain, came in with a few more dishes of food. She looked around the table again
and took note that this was
her
family, the ones she wouldn’t have changed for anything else in the world.
Court and Lilly were sitting beside each other, and Mason was beside his mom,
pouring her some more iced tea. Diesel was speaking with
Drevin
,
and Diesel’s wife, Maggie, and their sons Bodhi and
Jakob
were saying something to their mother that had her scolding them. That had
Alexis laughing because it wasn’t too often she saw grown Grizzly members being
reprimanded by their moms. But that was the thing with the MC. They might be
tough and hardcore, take care of their families when the time called for it,
but deep down they had a soft spot for their families, and were vulnerable at
times, too.

Alexis
stood and held her champagne glass up. Looking around the table showed men in
leather cuts, sporting beards and bandanas, and hard expressions, but she saw
beneath all of that to the real men and bears that were sitting before her.
They came to celebrate this moment in their lives, and she couldn’t have asked
for anything more heartwarming. “Thank you all for coming.” She held her glass
higher. “I love you all, and I have never been prouder to be a Grizzly member
than I am right now as I see all of you here to support
Nico
and me.”

There
was a moment of silence, and then all of the men at the table started pounding
on the wood hard enough that the dishes rattled. They didn’t need to say they
loved her back, because that small gesture, and then the low hum that turned
into a dull roar was all she needed to know that everyone here had each other’s
backs. They were one unit, one family, and God help anyone that fucked with
them. They were The Grizzly MC, and they were definitely a force to be reckoned
with.

Chapter Nine

The bachelorette
and bachelor party

“It feels like it’s been a long fucking time since I
actually took you out on a date, like a date-date,”
Nico
said and grinned.

“It has been a really long fucking time,” Alexis
said in return and started chuckling when
Nico
growled
low in his throat.

“You know how hard I get when you drop the f-bomb,
baby.” He reached out and grabbed her hand. “Say it again, baby.” He leaned
forward,
grinned
this cocky smile, and wagged his
eyebrows.

“You get hard over everything,
Nico
,”
she said, and couldn’t help but laugh at the expression he had on his face.

“I only get hard when you’re in the damn room.”

She laughed harder. They had just finished dinner,
and after
Nico
insisted on getting dessert, which of
course required him to feed her the chocolate covered strawberries and whipped
cream, they were now waiting for the check.

“Come on, say it, baby, ‘cause my cock feels like
it’s about to explode if you don’t.” He made this pouty face. To see this big
bear shifting biker giving her puppy dog eyes, and all but begging her to say
the word “fuck” just so he could get his rocks off, turned her on to no end.

She slipped off one of her heels, shifted so her ass
was slightly off the chair, and placed her foot right between his big, muscular
thighs. He let out this groan, and her pussy instantly became moist. The length
of his hard cock was monstrous as it pressed against his jeans. She moved her
foot up and down, stroking him and grinning when his pupils dilated. She could
make him lose control and shift right here and now if she tried hard enough. “I
can’t wait to leave here, go back to your place, and let you fuck me so hard
and rough that I won’t be able to sit comfortably the next day.”

He growled so loud this time that a few of the
patrons in the next table over glanced their way.

“I want that big cock of yours inside of my wet
pussy, and I want you to fuck me like you own me,
Nico
.”

“I do own you, baby.”

She was so wet now, and her clit felt like her heart
was beating a mile a minute in the tiny bundle of nerves.

“Can I get anything else for you two?” The waitress
showed up at that second, of course, because it was the most inconvenient time,
and flashed a fifty-watt smile their way.

Nico
grunted in annoyance and shook his head. The waitress set the check down, and
stood there for a minute, which was an awkward minute too long. When they were
left alone again
Nico
pushed back in his seat,
adjusted himself, which had her grinning, and grabbed his wallet. He tossed
some bills on the table, stood, rolled his head around on his neck, and overall
looked like he was ready to crawl out of his skin. “Come on, baby.”

“I need to go to the bathroom.” The low sound that
left him was one of irritation, and she chuckled softly. She turned and headed
to the bathroom, did her business, and once she was at the sink and washing her
hands she looked at her reflection in the mirror. Her dark hair was getting
longer, nearly touching the center of her back now.
Nico
had asked her to grow it out for the wedding, and she couldn’t help but think
that he wanted it long so he’d have something to hold onto when he fucked her.
A shiver worked through her. Before she was anything more than friends with
Nico
she had never spoken so coarsely or with so much
vulgarity in her tone. But it was like
Nico
brought
out this other side in her, one that wanted to be bad and say bad things.