“No more than we expected. Howard Sutton stopped us on our drive through town. He knows you’re out. It’s why we only just made it back here ourselves.”
My lazy half-grin pulled up on one side of my face again. “Sutton marking his territory ‘cause he knows I’m out?”
“You know about Maisey?” Jedd asked roughly, his chin dipping as he looked down on me through cautious eyes.
“Yeah. Can’t say I give a shit, either.”
He nodded once and smiled flatly. “Fair enough. As for Sutton, he just gave us the usual verbal crap about not riding through his town as a pack, lowering the noise levels for the locals. Oh, and keeping you out of his sight for the foreseeable future.”
“Damn.” I laughed. “Anyone would think I’d fucked his wife.”
His hand landed on my shoulder before he gave it a squeeze and looked over to the door on the opposite side of the room. My door. My sanctuary. The one place that no one else was allowed inside except me, and the door that was hardly ever used because I always kept a padlock on that fucker, preferring people to get to me in my office instead. “How about you go see what we have waiting for you in there. She’s a beauty.” Jedd reached into his jacket pocket, slyly pulling out a pack of gum and a box of condoms, too. I knew I liked him for a reason.
Taking them from him, I looked up and raised a brow. “Is this you feeling guilty for the van beats?”
“No, this is me wanting you to wake up with a fresh head tomorrow… in more ways than one. We’ve got a lot of business to go over.”
I didn’t hang around to ask any more questions. I was still drunk as hell and now I was tired, too, but not exhausted enough to dismiss the idea of a naked woman waiting for me. It felt like a long walk through the rest of the leather-clad men as I made my way over, shouting over my shoulder as I smirked. “Turn the music up, boys.”
When I pushed the handle down on the door and took my first step across the threshold to my bedroom, my eyes roamed all around it—down on the carpets, up to the walls that still had the same photos and postcards pinned to them, then all across the ceiling, before eventually landing on the beautiful, half-naked redhead sprawled on top of my bed sheets. Her hair was the color of the devil and her face spoke of nothing but sin as she twirled the fine curls of her locks around one finger to try and look even more seductive. I stepped through that door and slammed it shut in less than a heartbeat, smiling over at her as I started to unfasten my belt, my eyes locked on hers the whole time.
“You have a name?” I asked smoothly.
“Not tonight,” she cooed over at me and I instantly felt my balls shrivel up. Her voice was like nails on a chalkboard, and I could tell from the way she let her tongue roam all over her mouth that she was going to be a noisy bitch.
“Good,” I mumbled, taking a step forward.
Lifting my T-shirt up and over my head, I tossed it to the floor and began to kick off my shoes at the end of the bed. With her eyes on mine, she spun around to crawl on all fours and started making her way over to me. “Let me undress you.”
I didn’t answer as I looked down on her, but I paused what I was doing and my smirk grew. Her hands soon found my stomach as she traced her fingernails across skin thathadn’t been touched for so long, and that’s when my whole body stood to attention and I had to grind my teeth together and work the muscles in my jaw at how fucking weird it felt. Half good weird. Half bad. My instincts were telling me to throw her off and get her as far away as I could. The prison paranoia was still lurking in the back of my mind. Anyone close could hurt me, and she was really fucking close. Too close. I tried to control my breathing, but it was just getting heavier and harder. I could see this whole thing heading south, not just her hands and mouth.
“Loosen up, Tucker,” she purred as her fingers drew down the zip on my jeans and she looked up through fluttering eyes. “I'm here for you for as long as you want. I'll do anything you want.”
Her hands slid around the back of my waistband as she began to guide it down, and the small touches of her hands on my bare skin had my ass cheeks clenching and my muscles tensing even harder.
“Get off me,” I whispered through tight lips.
“That's what I'm doing, handsome.” Her body rose until she was on her knees in front of me. “I'm getting them off you so we can give you some TLC.”
I shook my head at her and closed my eyes. “No,” I breathed out. “Get. Off. Me.”
“You want to be the one in charge? I forgot…TheDrew Tucker doesn't take orders from anyone.” Her eyes flashed in the muted light and all I could think about was hurting her. And that wouldn't have been good for anyone, especially not me.
I broke contact with her completely, removing myself from the situation as much as I could and taking two stepsbackwards. “Look, sweetheart, I appreciate this little performance you're putting on, but this ain't gonna hap—”
And that's when I heard it the first time. A banging in the room I was standing in that didn't come from either of us. We froze in place and stared back at one another. Her eyes popped wide open, while mine narrowed without thought.
“What was that?”
“I don't know.” I held my finger up to silence her completely. My attention moved to the built-in closet that was against the far wall. “I don't know,” I repeated in a whisper, my feet crossing over one another as I side-stepped my way over to the spot I was staring at.
Then I heard it again—the dull thud against the carpeted floor, and I instantly snapped my head back over to the bed and let my eyes fall underneath it. I couldn't see shit in this light and my hand was too far away from the switch on the wall, but as I crept closer, I prepared my body for a fight, just in case.
Glancing up at the broad, I shook my head at her in silent warning before I bent to crouch down and investigate. The sound of my bones cracking must have alerted whoever was hiding underneath, and before I could even take a good look at who was there, their body began to move and scurry across the floor.
“What the fuck?” My growl was low and threatening, but it was soon drowned out by the sound of the chick as she screamed out like she was being murdered.
I didn't have time to react much, but as soon as I saw the shadow fly over to the door and swing it open, I threw my arm over my eyes and cursed the harsh light that shone straight at me.
