Chapter 5
Waking up the next morning, my head is on Koz's chest and we are still naken from the night before. I open my eyes and place a soft kiss to his chest and he opens his eyes and smiles at me. "Morning Pretty Girl." he says. "Morning baby." I say smiling softly. "How'd you sleep?" he asks. "Better than I have in a long time. Thank you." I say. "Good. You look better." he says. "I feel it. I'm honestly feeling more like my old self than I have in a while." I tell him. "Good. Gotta make sure my girl is happy." he says. "I am." I say simply. He hovers over me and kisses me deeply before entering me slowly. Thrusting in and out slow and steady, I start to come undone underneath him. "That's it baby. Cum with me." he says. A few more thrusts later we find our release together. Getting up and ready for the day, we head out to the bar and the prospect places a cup of coffee in front of both of us.
After we finish our coffee, we head to the office to clock in. He kisses me softly and heads to the garage and I move to the desk. Gemma walks in and looks at me and smiles. "You look better." she tells me. "I feel better." I tell her. "You're almost glowing." she says. I blush a little and say "It's Koz's fault." Koz walks in and asks "What's my fault?" Gemma smirks and says "The reason she's glowing." He smiles at me, kisses me softly and says "Gotta make my pretty girl happy." I shake my head and when he leaves the office Gemma asks "What happened last night? You weren't glowing like this when I left." I look down at my hands and say "When we went to his dorm last night, I slept with him. This morning too." I tell her. "That's good baby. Means you're healing. You're moving on." she tells me. "I know." I say. I look up at her and say "I honestly feel like I'm getting back to my old self again." Gemma just looks at me and smiles.
That evening, when I go to leave work, Koz comes up to me. "Gotta handle some shit for the club." he says. "Will you be by after?" I ask. "Might be a late one." he says. I take my keys and hand him the spare and say "Let yourself in." He kisses me softly and says "Will do." I look at him one more time and say "Please be careful." Kissing me again he says "I will baby. See you later." before he has to head out with the guys.
I pull into my driveway and see a familiar car sitting there. Taking my time getting out, I have my keys in my hand and one key in between my fingers like Tig taught me to when I first started working with him. "Can we talk?" he asks. "Nothing to talk about." I say. "I miss you." he says. "Don't do that. You need to leave." I say. "Why? Look, I know I messed up. But I'm sober. I won't drink anymore." he tells me. "You pushed me down the stairs after cheating on me in my bed. You moved out while I was in the hospital. That is after beating me and forcing yourself on me. I'm done." I tell him and move to unlock the door. "You're with him aren't you?" he asks. "Yeah. I am. He hardly left my side while I was healing and he'll be here anytime." I tell him. "You moved him in?" he asks. "That's none of your business. It's my house. Not yours." I say as I move close to the door. "You really are a whore aren't you?" he asks. I turn back to him and he smacks me across the face. I take the hand that has the key between my fingers and go to punch and slice his face with the key before kneeing him in the nuts and running into the house and locking the door. I lock the door, knowing that I had the locks changed after he moved out. I grab my phone out of my purse and hope like hell he can answer. "Hey baby, I was just about to call you." he says. "Koz, Jason's here." I say. "Where are you?" He asks. "Inside the house. Door's locked." I tell him. "Stay inside. In the nightstand is a gun I left there for you. Get it. We're on our way." he tells me. I do as he says and hear Jason banging on the door. "Let me in you stupid whore." he yells and I stand holding the gun aimed at the door. A few minutes later the banging stops and I hear bikes pulling up. I don't move. The door opens and Bobby walks in and I lower the gun. "Hey sweetheart. It's okay." he says, pulling me into a hug. I collapse into him. He looks at my face and sees a bruise forming. "That the only hit he get in?" I nod my head. "Had my key between my fingers. When he smacked me, I sliced his cheek and kneed him in the nuts and ran inside." I say. "You did good baby girl." he says. Koz comes running in and pulls me to him. "Are you okay baby?" he asks. "I am now." I tell him. He looks at my face and I say "I got him worse than he got me. I'm okay." I say.
Koz looks me over and I assure him I'm okay. "The guys are taking him to the cabin." Koz tells Bobby. "This one's mine." Koz says when Bobby nods. "I want to be there." I say. Koz looks at me and I say "I need this. I need him to see he didn't break me." He kisses me softly and says " You stay beside me and if it gets to be too much, one of the guys will take you outside." he says. "Okay." I say simply. We walk out to his bike and Tig walks up and sees my face. "I'm okay." I tell him. "I saw his face. You do that?" he asks. "Key between the fingers just like you taught me." I tell him and you can see the pride in his face. We head out, me on the back of Koz's bike and my arms around him tightly.
Pulling up to the cabin, we get off the bike and Koz asks "Are you sure you want to be here?" I kiss him softly and say "I need him to see that we're together and he didn't break me." I say. "Okay but remember what I said." he says. "I will." We go to walk in with everyone else but I stop him. He looks at me concerned and so do the rest of the guys with us. "Can I get a minute?" I ask. The guys nod and head inside. "You okay?" Koz asks. I kiss him softly and say "I just wanted to tell you I love you." He smiles wide and says "I love you too Pretty Girl." Kissing me again, we walk inside. Tig walks up to me and asks "You okay?" I hug him and say "Never better." He looks at me and then sees the smile on Koz's face and says "Well, I'll be damned." Jax looks over and asks "What?" Tig smiles and says "Our Grace is back." Jax looks at me and I say "Let's handle this shit." They all smile and we head into the room he's being held in.
Walking into the room, Koz and I, hand in hand, we walk over to Jason. Before Koz can say anything, I squeeze his hand. He looks at me and nods, knowing what I need to do. I walk up to Jason and see he's bound and gagged. "I don't know what I did to make you hate me so much and you know what? I don't care anymore. You treated me like shit and for awhile, I took it. But you know what? This man here?" I say as I point to Koz. "Has been so good to me. This man loves me and I love him. But you, you will never touch me again. Never cheat on me again. You thought you broke me. You didn't. I'm back and better than ever but you? You, sweetheart, are going to feel what you put me through. You're going to scream like I did. Only difference, is you won't come back from it. I did." I say. I walk over to Koz and kiss him softly and say "Make it hurt baby." He smirks and Happy lays out his bag of tricks for him.
An hour later, after hearing Jason scream and beg for it to stop, Koz finally puts a bullet in his head, killing him. We walk out of the room and everyone gives us a minute. "You okay baby?" he asks. I lean up and kiss him and say "Never better baby. Thank you." He kisses me again and says "I love you." Smiling bigger than I have in a long time I say "I love you too baby. Let's go home." He smirks and we head to his bike. Walking up next to Jax I tell him "Let Gemma know I'm back." I tell him and he knows what I mean. Koz and I head home and straight to the shower where he takes me against the wall and for the first time in a long time, I feel like my old self.