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Ghostwriter- Thank you, thank you! I'm so happy you loved the last update. Here's hoping you love this one as well.

Ks- Than you! I'm glad Dani felt realistic to you, that's always my goal so, yay! I promise to do my best to give Dani, you, and all the other readers satisfaction in the justice department… Just won't say how yet, lol.

Khyharah- Thank you, I love the friendship she's developing with Chibs too, and I really wanted him to be the one to make her realize that she had more than just Jax and Opie who cared about her. Yes, everyone knows everything and it may not seem like they can do much with the information, but I'm fairly confident that they'll figure something out.

Now, let the reading begin! Be warned, it might get a bit steamy in here.

Chapter 21

Neither Dani nor Opie spoke as they dismounted his bike when they returned home that evening. He took her hand and led her into the house.

Dani took a breath and voiced one of the questions that were concerning here. "Opie, are you upset with me?"

Opie's eyes shot to her. "No. Of course not, babe. Why would you think that?" He wrapped his arms around her as he looked down at her.

"Back at the clubhouse, when I said I'd rather do nothing than risk someone getting hurt going after…them, you seemed tense. Like you were maybe upset."

"Upset at the idea of doing nothing, yes, upset with you, never. Baby, you have no idea how much I want hurt those people. Your ideas of revenge are tame in comparison to what I want to do to them. Doing nothing is not acceptable. We may have to be smart about it, but one way or another, they will pay for what they did to you." The look in his eyes was so intense that Dani thought she might drown from just looking into them, so she looked away. Opie put her a hand under her chin and gently nudged her head back up to look at him. "What else is bothering you?" he asked softly.

Dani's eyes filled with tears. "You saw… you saw everything. It's one thing to know it happened, or to see it written down in vague details, or to see the aftermath," at that she touched the scar on her shoulder, "but to actually see what he did to me, how he hurt me, carved into me like that. Then to see me kill him—"

"That part was mildly satisfying." Opie interjected, but Dani shot him a look and he stopped talking.

"I'm terrified that at some point its going to hit you how messed up my past is, it will wind up being too much and you won't want me anymore." She confessed.

"Baby, I'll say this as many times as you need before you really believe it. I knew what I was getting into when we started this. Your past will never change how I feel about you. The only thing that matters is what's between us right now, what we've been doing, what we do now and going forward. I want this. I want you, you got it?"

Dani nodded and, placing her hands on his face, pulled him to her for a kiss. When she finally removed her lips from his she looked into his eyes and said "I want this too."

"No more overthinking, ok?" Opie said placing a kiss on her neck.

"I'll try." Dani said. Opie looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "What? I'm not going to be able to shut off my overactive brain overnight, but I promise if I start thinking crazy thoughts to let you chase them away."

"Acceptable," he said with a smirk. He moved his hands up to her shoulders to give her a squeeze and frowned at the stiffness he encountered. "You're so tense." He said rubbing her shoulders.

"It's been an intense day." She said. A thought flitted through her mind and she spoke before she could talk herself out of it. "Maybe you could give me a backrub…" she suggested.

Opie looked surprised but intrigued. "Are you sure? Last time I had my hands on your back, it didn't end well."

"OK, this might sound a little weird, but it was something Chibs said to me that got me thinking. When we working together after lunch and he had Kip in that suit, I almost freaked out with all the grabbing at me, but Chibs said it was like exposure therapy, if I can train my body not to freeze if somebody comes after me, I'll be able to try and escape without thinking or freaking out. So I figure that exposure therapy will work with this as well. If I can train myself not to think about my scars when you touch them and just focus on you touching me and how much I like that, then we should give it a try." She bit her lip and looked up at him coyly. "It's very scientific. I think we owe it…to science."

Opie smirked at her and leaned in so his lips were practically touching her ear as he spoke in a low, rumbling tone. "Well, if its in the name of science…" he nipped at her earlobe, eliciting a gasp. "Go to your room, take off your shirt and lay down on your stomach. I'll be there in a minute." His voice had a slight edge of command do it, and it sent tingles running through her body. She nodded and backed up to move towards her room when he tightened his grip on her shoulders and pulled her in for a searing kiss. When he released her she felt flushed as she felt her insides stir with desire.

She retreated to her room and closed the door. She changed out of her jean shorts, choosing to slip into some more comfortable pajama shorts. She pulled off her top and, after a moment's hesitation, her bra as well, and crawled into bed, laying on her stomach, grabbing a pillow to rest her head on and tucked her arms under the pillow. She stared at the door as she lay there waiting until she heard a knock at the door.

"Come in." She called softly.

She saw the door open as Opie entered and her mouth went dry. Opie had changed too, and was currently shirtless, wearing only a pair of sweatpants that hung low on his hips, so Dani took a moment to admire his broad, muscled, tattooed chest. She felt her face flush as she saw his own heated gaze as he took in the sight of her bare back and shapely legs.

"Hi," she said softly feeling suddenly shy.

Opie's gaze softened as his eyes met hers. He stepped closer and crawled on the bed so he was kneeling on the bed beside her. He leaned down to press a kiss to her cheek. "You are so beautiful." He told her as he brushed her hair off to the side to expose all her back and shoulders to him. He placed his hand at her neck and began tracing his way down to the base of her spine. As his hand started reaching the lower part of her back, Dani felt herself start to tense and so did Opie, so he leaned down and pressed a kiss to the side of her neck. "Don't think. Just feel." He reminded her as he began to trace his way back up her spine using only the barest touch of his fingernails.

The ghosting scratches caused her to shiver with a delicious sensation and Dani closed her eyes and allowed herself to relax and focus on the feeling his touches evoked. When he reached her neck again, Opie moved to straddle her legs and picked up a bottle of lotion he had brought into the room with him. He poured some into his hands and rubbed them together before he returned them to her neck and began massaging her neck and shoulders, working the tension out of her muscles. Dani sighed in contentment as he worked. "Does that feel good, baby?" he asked her.

"Mmm-hmmm." She managed to hum her satisfaction. Opie continued working her muscles with his hands, slowly moving down her back. As he approached her lower back, he leaned over her and started pressing a series of hot, open mouth kisses to each of the burn marks that marred her left shoulder. The normal intensity that Dani felt when Opie touched her increased tenfold and she felt a jolt of pleasure move through her with each kiss he placed to his back, all the while working his hands across her lower back.

He then moved to her right shoulder and kissed at the scar that wrapped around her shoulder before moving his lips across her back, pressing scorching kisses anywhere his lips encountered the raised skin of a scar. Dani let out a gasp of pleasure as he moved across her back in this manner. As his kisses moved to her lower back, Opie's hands moved to massage her ass and the tops of her thighs.

Dani's breathing was shallow; she was utterly lost in the moment, with no conscious thought of the scars Opie was lavishing with attention, only in the feelings he was evoking and wanted to feel more. In a moment of boldness, she shifted underneath him enough for him to pull back. She turned underneath him so she was now laying on her back and exposing the creamy smoothness of her stomach and the fullness of her breasts, topped with rigid rosy pink nipples.

Opie took in the sight of her as she reached up and put her hands on his body, roaming over his chest and abdomen, causing him to let out a groan of his own. She moved her hands back up to his shoulders and pulled his face to hers so she could kiss him. As their tongues began an intimate dance, Opie did two things. First he moved his leg to midge between her thighs, which she parted willingly to make for him. As he settled there, his hardness made contact with her center. At the same time, one hand instinctively found its way to her breast and he massaged the flesh in his palm, running his thumb over her nipple. He had pulled away from the kiss to gauge her reaction to his actions. She was looking at him with lust and longing and pulled him back into another kiss as he rocked into her again. This time she lifted her hips to meet his and to increase the delightful friction the motion was causing.

They settled into a pleasing rhythm and Opie pulled her lower lip in between his teeth and gave it a gentle tug as he broke away from the kiss and began a trail of kisses down her neck to her chest. He circle her nipple with his tongue before sucking the taut flesh into his mouth. Dani's hands flew to Opie's head wound into his hair as she clasped him there to her as she moaned out his name. He alternated between sucking on her nipple, flicking it with his tongue and gently taking it between his teeth for a playful tug. He never stayed with one action too long, successfully driving Dani crazy as she let out incoherent sounds of pleasure.

He moved from one breast to the other to give it its fair share of attention and as he did so his hands drifted down her stomach to the waistband of her shorts and stroked back and forth along her skin there. Removing his lips from her nipple, he looked into her eyes. "Baby, can I touch you here? Let me make you feel good. I want to feel you come around my fingers." Opie's words went right to her core and made her feel like she was on fire in the best of ways, but her hand went to his at her waist, and instantly his hand stilled. The look in his eyes shifted from desire to concern. "Is it too much?" He asked.

Dani shook her head. "No. God, Opie, you have no idea how good this feels, how much I want you to keep going, but I should tell you…" She trailed off and her face flushed with embarrassment. "I've never, er, had an…orgasm before. I'm not even sure I can. So you, uh, don't have to…" She stopped talking and covered her face to try and hide her embarrassment.

Opie gently drew her hand away from her face and took a moment to pepper little kisses across her cheeks and forehead, even one on her nose. He understood why she wouldn't have reached that point during her captivity, when she was being forced, but he asked, "You haven't been able to give yourself one?"

Dani shook her head. "I, uh, started trying a little before I came to Charming. I just can never get there." She confessed, sure her face was redder than it had ever been.

"But you like what I'm doing tonight?" Opie asked her.

"God, yes." She blurted out and Opie chuckled.

"Let me keep making you feel good, then. If it doesn't happen, you still feel good, and we'll try something different another night and keep trying until we find something that works. And if it works, well then we both win." He placed a kiss on her collarbone and looked back at her. "Do you want to try?" Dani slowly nodded. Opie shifted back up on his knees as both his hands rent to her waistband this time. "Can I see you, baby?"

Dani bit her lip wantonly and nodded again. Opie's hands dipped under each side of her waistband and dragged down her shorts and panties together in one motion and removed them from her body. He took her face in his hands and leaned down, kissing her passionately. "Remember, don't think, just feel." He told her as he removed his lips from hers and began trailing kisses from her neck back to her breasts to resume his ministrations there. At the same time his hand moved down across the smooth skin of her stomach, down further until his fingers slid between her slick folds.

She let out a soft cry of pleasure as his fingers made contact with her clit. "That's it baby," he told her, "just feel it." His fingers began moving in circles over her sensitive nub. "You're so wet, so ready for me, aren't you baby." He murmured in between placing slow kisses across her neck and chest.

Dani whimpered at the loss of contact when his fingers moved from their current spot and traveled further south but let out another gasp of pleasure as they began teasing her entrance. He slowly inserted first one then two fingers inside her and slowly began stroking in and out. At the same time his thumb moved to resume the circling motion on her clit.

She felt like every nerve ending in her body was tuned into what was happening at her center, sending flashes of fire and pleasure through her with each movement of his thumb as her arousal grew. It felt like an intense pressure in the lowest part of her stomach, aching to burst. Dani began rocking her hips against the movement of his hand, once again trying to increase the friction.

Opie began kissing his way from her breasts down her stomach, and in one swift motion removed his thumb and replaced it with his mouth without disrupting the movement of his other fingers and they stroked in and out of her.

Dani forgot how to breathe for a moment as she felt her pleasure rising, the pressure in her stomach building exponentially. She finally drew in a ragged breath. "Oh, God, Opie!" she cried out. Opie increased the speed of his fingers and began curling his fingers every time he moved inside of her, hitting a spot with each stroke that caused more pleasure than she thought possible. At the same time he hummed in satisfaction at her cries of pleasure. It was that combination, the vibration from his hum, the movements of his tongue over her clit, and that delicious spot inside her that he kept hitting that caused her to reach her breaking point. She cried out as the intensity that had been building inside her snapped, causing her body to spasm and clamp around his fingers as she felt wave after wave of pleasure, of fire wash over her as her insides flooded with her release.

Opie continued his ministrations with his tongue and fingers until the last spasm passed through her before he finally withdrew from her and moved back up her body to lay next to her as his arms wrapped around her. Dani grabbed at Opie's face and brought him to her for a desperate kiss. Dani didn't care that she could taste herself on Opie's lips, she just focused on putting all of her emotion into the kiss. Breaking away only when she needed to breathe, she gasped. "Opie, I—that—wow." Was all she could manage to say.

She could feel the rumbling of his chest next to her as he chuckled. "That's good, baby." He said, his voice full of amusement and satisfaction. Dani put her hand on his chest, and she registered that she could feel Opie's arousal pressing against her side. She contemplated returning the favor but paused. As much as she wanted to please Opie in return, she wasn't sure she was ready to cross another physical barrier.

As usual, Opie seemed to sense what she was thinking, and his hand came up to entwine itself with hers where it rested on his chest. "Tonight is all about you," he said, and his eyes looked at her is what she could only describe as adoration, a look she was sure she was returning. Opie pressed a tender kiss to her forehead and moved to get up. Dani's hand tightening over his paused his movement. "I'll be right back, he told her as he went into her bathroom. She heard the sink running, and Opie returned a moment later with a damp washcloth and he gently cleaned her up.

He returned the washcloth to the bathroom and then went to her dresser, searching through her drawers until he came back with an oversized sleep shirt and panties. He helped her dress before climbing back into bed with her, holding her in his arms. She felt so complete, so satisfied, that she tried one more time to try and express herself. "Opie, I…" She trailed off again as she failed to find the right words to convey what she needed to.

Opie gave her another tender kiss. "I know, baby. Shh. It's all right. Get some rest." He whispered. She snuggled into him and closed his eyes, letting herself succumb to the exhaustion brought on by her utter bliss.