I can’t believe he’s just said what he has. I watched her for a few days, but then a prospect took over, and I got away from her sexy-as-fuck pussy as quickly as possible. I wasn’t just about to completely break all the rules again and fuck her.
“We got a run to make with Robin’s trucks, and we got a security job. That’s taking all the manpower we have, especially with the prospects who betrayed us. We’re running on a serious skeleton crew. This feels like more than growing pains.” His last words come out on a mutter. I almost don’t make them out, and it takes a second for them to register.
“What about Viking or one of the others?” I ask.
He doesn’t say anything immediately. Maybe he’s trying to calm himself down because I’m pushing back. I try not to do that too much. Honestly, not much bothers me. I’m fairly go with the flow. Whatever the majority decides, I’m good with, and whatever my president wants, I’m also usually pretty good with. But this is something I’m going to have to push back against,because if I am alone with Cidney again, I’m not going to be able to control myself.
I will fuck her.
I barely made it out of there last time without whipping my dick out. Next time, it’s on.
“With Lightning still recovering, I'm down to less than bare bones. What’s the fucking problem? Her building has a gym if you’re worried about that.”
Holding back my growl, I try not to tell him to fuck all the way off. “Trust me, Bullet. You want someone else. What about Ivy?”
In the silence that follows, he exhales a heavy breath, clearly annoyed as fuck with me. He doesn’t tell me to shut the fuck up and do what he says, although I can tell he probably wants to. Instead, he attempts to be somewhat reasonable, given my lack of reasoning.
“I don’t know what went down between the two of you. I assume the last time you watched her, you fucked her, and you know Ivy has already made it perfectly clear she’s off-limits.”
Well, he clocked that shit immediately.
It shouldn’t surprise me. I didn’t advertise the situation, but I’m sure the fact that I’ve appreciated Cidney from afar, attentively, more than once and been called out on it by the guys is the main reason.
“It’s best if I’m not alone with her.”
Something in the conversation shifts, and it’s Bullet who shifts it. Clearly, he’s making a point to have me go over to her place, no matter how much I try to resist, but when he’s finished, I have to fucking agree with him, which annoys the shit out of me.
“There’s nobody else I trust right now who is here. It has to be a ranking member. She’s Ivy’s family, but beyond that, she’s Ivy’s father’s family.”
There it is.
Ivy’s dad was one of the original members. He was the club’s attorney before Ivy, and he is beyond respected. I don’t know what word could even describe him. But what I do know is that Bullet is right.
“You’re the only one who’s going to protect her with your life.”
“Lightning did,” I point out.
He clears his throat, ready to tell me to shut the fuck up and do it, but doesn’t. Instead, he continues speaking, laying it out for me and giving me no other option. He’s close to telling me it’s an order, but he wants me to make the decision for myself without him demanding it.
“He did, but I also know that you won’t let anything happen to her, Goose. It’s not your president telling you this. I’m asking you as a friend to protect our brother’s family.”
The fucking guilt trip.
“I’ll do it, but I don’t want to hear shit about shit when it comes to rules,” I grind out.
Bullet chuckles. “I don’t want to know what happens behind those closed doors. I just want to be able to sleep at night until we find this fucker. And, Goose?”
“Yeah?”
“Get as much fucking information on him as you can. I don’t think she’s intentionally hiding anything, but I wonder if she’s possibly forgotten to tell us something that could be useful.”
There it is.
He wants me to do some digging.
“I’m not going to tell you how I’ll get my information,” I say, thinking about all the ways I could possibly fuck it out of her. Because that would be a good damn time.
“I’ll never ask, either. She’ll be expecting someone today. She’s on house arrest until we get something solid.”
