Rip stands to his full height, and Mrs. Sharpe walks backwards. She falls on her bony butt, stands, and runs away as fast as her old legs can take her.
“Your friends are here,” Rip says moments later.
“Oh, my God,” Selene says. She sits across from me, and so does Cori. Rip finally turns around and faces them, but he doesn’t say a word. “My father’s head almost exploded. He called me today and warned me about the path to damnation and eternal hellfire.”
“That guy sounds like a downer,” Rip whispers in my ear right before he nips it.
“Everybody’s phone in Shadow Cove has been ringing off the hook,” Cori says. “Selene’s dad told her to stay away from you.”
“And I told him he can pray ’til the cows come home, and that wouldn’t happen.” She offers me a fist bump. She offers Rip one, too, but he stares at her fist until she puts it down.
“How did you two know we were here?”
Selene chuckles at my question. “How do you think? Mrs. Sharpe called my father so he could pray for you. He called me and warned me to stay away from this place. We were already down the street, so we came to see you.”
Chapter 34
Rip
“Stay on him,” I tell Preacher. “I want to know everything he does.” I end the call, still disturbed by seeing that asshole Brennan driving down Main Street in his shit green colored sports car.
I shouldn’t have been shocked to see him. Not since Preacher told me that Brennan was asking him questions about me. He didn’t say it outright, but he suggested Preacher work for him instead of Dax.
Brennan runs nothing in his family’s organization. He doesn’t have the power to hire anyone, not unless he plans on branching out on his own, which would be a guaranteed disaster.
But Brennan’s an idiot, and his asking Preacher to work for him is proof of that. Dax started this business, and everyone he’s vetted is loyal.
I end the call with Preacher, but decide to send Randall Rose a text, reminding him of what he has to lose if he can’t control his wife. I don’t trust that she won’t do anything to upset Eden.
After sending him the video of the day he almost lost his wife, his home, and his reputation, I slide my phone in my pocket and go find my girl. She’s in the middle of the bed, rolling her eyes at something on the phone. She tosses it aside when she sees me, and I get in next to her.
Eager to know every little detail about her, I ask, “What had you rolling your eyes so hard?”
She picks up the phone and shows me a video of three black kittens playing together. “Selene is obsessed with cats and cat videos. Every year for her birthday, she would ask for a cat, and her father would never let her have one.”
“She can get one now,” I say, already bored with that information. I want to know about Eden, not her friend.
“She doesn’t.” She shrugs her shoulders. “Oh,” she says as if she just remembered something, “I get paid this Friday, so I’ll buy you dinner.” She looks up, grins, and nods her head.
I scoff, but I pull her close. “Do I look like a pussy to you, Thorny? What kind of man lets his woman buy him things?”
“Your woman works. And let me?” She looks into my eyes. “Boy, please.”
“You’re not allowed to buy me shit,” I warn. “I have to work at the club Saturday night, but that’s it.”
“I’ll see if—”
“Nope,” I cut her off before she finishes her statement. “You and your friends are banned from my club.”
“It wasn’t my fault, and you’ll be there. Please?” She straddles me and lifts my shirt over my head.
“What are you going to do for me?” I tease.
Eden leaves hot, wet kisses from my neck down to my belly button. When she looks up and wiggles her brows, I pull off mybelt and kick my pants off. My dick springs free, and she slides it into her eager mouth.
She sucks and teases me until I’m ready to combust, but rather than come in her mouth, I move her head away and help her undress. I lift her, and she slides onto my dick. She rides me slowly while we kiss. I pull her closer, crushing her breasts against my chest. Her scent is almost like a drug, but it’s not enough. I stick my head in the crook of her neck and inhale. My hands slide down her smooth back and cup her ass as I reclaim her mouth.
She’s only been in my life for a month, and I already don’t know how I went thirty-two years without her. She trembles in my arms and murmurs my name against my lips. I feel her juices run out of her and fall on my legs and thighs. I come inside of her, holding her while I give her everything I have.
