Chapter 2

Silence settled over them for a few moments. Danni took in his black jeans and plain grey polo shirt with his cut over it. His hair was still in that Mohawk that he loved so much and he was still as delicious looking as ever. But most importantly he was alive. This means that he lied about his death. He lied to her…

Juice saw her eyes narrow ever so slightly like he remembered before she straightened herself out the anger clear on her face.

"JEAN CARLOS ORTIZ!" she yelled his full name at him and he cringed.

"Hi" he offered pathetically.

He saw her open her mouth to no doubt yell at him which he knew he deserved but seeing her standing there after three years…he just couldn't stop himself.

He strode forward and watched as she took a step back in surprise at his bold movement and her mouth snapped shut. He wasted no time when he reached her and grabbed her face in his hands before crushing his lips to hers. Danni pushed against his chest trying to free herself but Juice wouldn't let her go, he couldn't. Finally with a groan of defeat Danni stopped pushing against him and instead fisted his shirt to pull him closer and he moved his hands to her hips to bring their pelvises flush against each other.

"Juice…" he heard her breathless moan as he lifted her by the hips easily onto Gemma's desk.

"Jesus Danni…I missed you" he groaned into her neck as he sucked on her pulse point trying to mark her as his again after so much time.

"Ugh, I missed you too, so damn much. You have no idea how happy I am that you're not fucking dead" she whispered. He looked up at her and saw a tear leek out of her eye which is a rare thing to happen so he kissed it away before grabbing her knees and pulling them apart to stand between her legs, their bodies flush against each other.

With a groan he fisted his hands into her hair and pulled her head up from his neck so that he could kiss her again. He forgot how amazing it was to just kiss Danni, to have her in his arms and he was definitely going to make the most of it. He pushed her further back onto the desk by his hands at her waist before pushing her to lie on her back. His lips went to her neck kissing and nipping down to her cleavage as she tugged his cut off of him and then pulled his shirt over his head desperately. Her hands ran over his bare chest and back dragging her nails as she went trying to memorise everything that she had thought she had lost making Juice moan into her breast when she dug her nails particularly hard. He slipped his hands under her top and slowly ran them up her sides and ribs taking the top with them before pulling it completely over her head and splaying his hands on her ribs as he took one of her uncovered nipples into his mouth.

He ran his tongue around her dusty pink nub before sucking it into his mouth making her arch off of the desk before he bit lightly and tugged on it as she gripped the back of his neck. Switching breasts he gave the other the same treatment as Danni moaned underneath him digging her nails into his shoulders. When he rose back up to her level she immediately kissed him hard biting his lip before he sucked her tongue into his mouth. Her hands reached down to his jeans and she undid the belt, button and zipper before hooking her toes into them and dragging them down his legs letting him kick them off. She ran her hands down his back slipping them into his boxers slightly feeling even more of his delicious dark tanned skin. Juice followed her example and hastily undid her jeans as she kicked her boots off before he yanked them down along with her red panties and his boxers.

Lining himself up to her entrance he kissed her shoulder, her cheeks, her head and then finally her lips as she ran her hands up his chest and she whispered "I love you Juice" moaning at her words he had to tell her how much he loved her too "God, Danni I love you, so damn much" and with one more kiss they locked eyes and he pushed forward until…

"JEAN CARLOS ORTIZ!" she yelled his full name at him.

Juice jerked back to reality and looked around visibly deflating when he realised that he had been daydreaming and that by the look on Danni's face it wasn't a dream that was going to come true. But still like an idiot all he said was

"Hi" with a tiny smile trying to hide the fact that he had been thinking of them going at it on her mother's desk and that he was disappointed it wasn't about to happen.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? YOU LET US THINK YOU WERE DEAD…FOR THREE FUCKING YEARS! YOU LET ME THINK THAT YOU WERE DEAD AND THAT I'D LOST YOU! I GRIEVED FOR YOU I FELT LIKE I HAD TO SAY GOODBYE WHEN REALLY I DIDN'T HAVE TO DO A GOD DAMN THING BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT DEAD!" she screamed at him as she threw a stapler at the wall beside him and although she was outwardly expressing her anger he could see the hurt and the pain behind her mask "I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU ALLOWED ME TO SCREAM AND CRY AND PUNCH WALLS AND ALL THAT OTHER STUPID SHIT YOU DO WHEN SOMEONE YOU LOVE DIES WHEN YOU WERE ALIVE AND PROBABLY RIDING AROUND ON YOUR BIKE! I ALWAYS SAID THAT I NEVER THOUGHT YOU WERE STUPID BUT APPARENTLY I STAND CORRECTED! YOU ARE COMPLETELY FUCKED IN THE HEAD CARLOS! YOU LET US THINK YOU WERE DEAD…WHO THE FUCK DOES THAT? I FUCKING COULDN'T BREATHE PROPERLY WHEN THEY TOLD ME…GOD DAMN IT I HAD TO GET SEDATED I WAS SO HYSTERICAL AND YOU COULDN'T DROP ME SO MUCH AS A TEXT OR EVEN A GOD DAMN FUCKING HAND WRITTEN LETTER SAYING "DON'T SHIT YOURSELF I'M NOT REALLY DEAD"!" Danni had began pacing as she shouted at him and now she was standing in front of him as she glared and he felt like his heart was being grinded to dusk as she spoke. Sedated? Fucking hell! "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I WENT THROUGH? HELL WHAT WE ALL WENT THROUGH! I GET THAT MAYBE CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD ENABLE YOU FORM BEING ABLE TO CALL BUT YOU COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING, ANYTHING GOD DAMN IT CARLOS! HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF I FAKED MY DEATH ONLY TO TURN UP THREE YEARS LATER WITH NOTHING TO SAY BUT "HI"?" she continued and then her shoulders dropped and she too visibly deflated as she stood in front of him with her breathing laboured and they just stared at each other.

"You feel any better?" he asked quietly.

"No" she whispered and he could see the tears forming but she refused to let them fall. She would not cry about this.

"Can I hug you now?" he asked her and she nodded her head needing to know he was really alive and she wasn't dreaming…again.

Juice reached out and gripped her hip in one hand and the back of her neck with his other hand and pulled her in close. Her arms encircled his waist as he continued to grip her hip and neck keeping her as close as possible for as long as possible. God, she felt the same and after three years without her it felt so unbelievably good to be holding her again. All too soon though she pulled back from their embrace and stepped back a little so there was some space between them.

"Don't ever fucking do that again" she whispered and Juice smiled slightly.

"Gemma beat you to it. If I do it again she'll cut off my dig and force feed it to me" he said.

"Yeah? Well I'll feed you your balls then" she said and he widened his eyes ever so slightly before nodding.

"I don't plan on going anywhere" he spoke gently.

Again they were locked in a staring contest before she managed to snap herself out of it and pulled herself together as though she hadn't screamed bloody murder or almost cried. She straightened herself up and closed her eyes for a brief moment before she opened them again and looked at him with a small smile.

"I am glad that you're not dead Juice" she said.

"You and me both" he chuckled and she smiled slightly wider than before "So anything major I need to know about you before we have time later for the longer conversations?" he asked her and she shifted slightly looking away before he caught sight of it and his heart completely crumbled. A mother fucking engagement ring on her ring finger.

She saw that he noticed and had to fight the tears again as she saw that he himself looked like he may scream and cry. Juice cleared his throat unnecessarily "You…you're engaged?" he asked hoarsely.

She sighed "Yeah…only since a month ago" she replied and Juice was kicking himself. If he had come back earlier maybe he could have prevented this form happening.

"Who?" he asked her.

"Juice…" she started to protest.

"Danielle…who?" he demanded this time but his voice was still chocked up.

"You won't know him…his name is Greg Winters" she said "He moved to town two years ago."

He swallowed the lump in his throat and fought the urg to burst into tears like a bitch boy "What does he do?" he asked "He's connected to the club right?"

Danni looked at him for a moment before shaking her head "No he's not connected to the club" Juice looked shocked "He's a lawyer" she finished hesitantly.

Juice snorted "A lawyer? How the hell does that work?" he asked genuinely confused at how that could possible happen.

"It's not easy…he doesn't exactly get along with everyone but after…everything I just wanted someone outside this life" she explained quietly and he knew what she was saying. She wanted someone who didn't go out and risk their lives everyday because eventually their luck is going to run out like she thought his had. She didn't want to fall in love and build a life with someone to lose them exactly like she lost him and everything they had together so she was going for the safe route.

"So you and I…" he trailed off.

"You were gone for three years Juice…I thought you were dead and I couldn't wait forever for a dead man. I continuously told him I wasn't ready until a month ago when I figured that it'd been three years and I couldn't keep holding on to a man that was never coming back" she said. He looked at her closely, up until a month ago she was still holding onto him…she couldn't have let go completely in a month could she have? He decided that if she loved Greg and was happy that he'd back off but if she didn't love him…and he knew her well enough to know that if she couldn't say it that meant that she didn't love him and if she didn't love him he was going to get her back.

"You love him?" he asked her.

She shook her head "Juice…I am not getting into this with you" she said.

"That wasn't a yes" he pointed out.

"It's not your business" she dodged again.

"Avoidance" he stated.

She glared at him "Don't you have some explaining to do to me and the boys?" she asked him trying to leave the office.

Juice grabbed her arm and pulled her back putting his hands on her hips again and Danni's breath caught in her throat as she looked up at him. She wanted nothing more than to grab him and ravish him on her mother's desk but she couldn't, she was engaged to Greg now. Juice had been gone for three years, things don't just change because he came back home. Juice new this just as much as she did as he leaned down and kissed her cheek lingering as long as he could before pulling back.

"It's really good to be back and see you again. I missed you so much Danni" he whispered to her.

Danni sighed "I missed you to Juice…I'm really glad that you're alive" she said "But now it's time for explanations I believe" she pulled away again and turned to the door with Juice following her as close as he could get to her.