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“The good news is, babe, you don’t have to worry, because I’m not a virgin.I ...I’ve been with a lot of women.I’m clean.I would never do that to you.I’ve been with them even before I knew you existed,” he said.“But I promise you, since I met you, since I’ve gotten to know you, there has not been another woman.”

Ava was shocked by his admission.“You haven’t?”

“No.None of those women are you, Ava.”

Her heart beat even faster.

“I can understand if you don’t want me to be the one.”

“I do.”

“Ava, I’m not a good guy.I’ve done things—”

She cupped his face and forced him to look at her.“I know this club has a past.I also know it has a future.I’m not delusional.I also know you were in the forces as well.I know you’ve had to do a lot of things.Some of them, I imagine you didn’t want to do, and others, I imagine you wanted to do a lot more.I am not going to judge you.I want you, Pat, because I like you.I like the man you are when you’re with me, and that is all that counts, right?I want you to be my first.”

She would keep theonlypart to herself.Ava didn’t know if he was ready to hear quite how devoted she was to him already.

Chapter Ten

Pat locked the door.He was not going to risk any interruptions.Not that the guys made it a habit if his door was closed.However, once alcohol was involved, most of sanity went out of the window.

Turning to Ava, he saw that she had perched on his bed.The black hair was cute, but he looked forward to when it was washed out.

“Hey,” Ava said.

“I have never been with a virgin,” Pat said.

“You haven’t?”

“No.”

She smiled at him.“Then I will get to be your first.”

Ava would be his one and only.Pat didn’t say that, though.Ava was so much younger than him.

Even as he knew she should be with someone her own age, he couldn’t do it.There was no way he could allow anyone else to be with her.It just wasn’t right.Ava belonged to him.Once they crossed this line, he would never let her go.