“Thank you.”Naya could hear the laughter in his tone as she pulled her arms from around his waist.She started to slide off the seat, but when she stood beside the bike, her legs gave out, and she landed on her ass.Several of the men started laughing, and she felt herself blush.Tara came over and helped her to her feet.
Naya wiped the dirt off her ass.“Thank you.”
“I guess that was the first time you’d been on a bike?”
Naya nodded.“Yeah.”
Tara grabbed her hand.“It gets easier.Come on.We want you to meet the others.”
“Other what?”Naya said, trying to keep her footing as Tara dragged her.
“Other women like Amelia and me.”
They walked into the back door, into a kitchen, and Naya saw three other women making something.
“Hey, guys, this is Naya,” Tara called out.“She’s going to be living here.”
Naya’s mouth dropped open.“What!I can’t just move in.I don’t even know you guys, and you don’t know me.What if I’m a bad person?”
The women laughed, and even a few of the guys standing around grinned.
“Fury would have never let you come here if he didn’t know the type of person you were,” Amelia said.“He can read a person within five minutes, and he’s always right.”
Tara nodded.“Meet Lindsey, Harley, and Zoe.”
Naya smiled but could feel her lips twitch.“Hi.”
“You’ll get used to us,” Zoe said.“I was a little overwhelmed at the beginning, too.”
Naya just nodded.
“We’re starting lunch,” Harley said.“Do you want to help?”
“Sure,” Naya said and walked to the sink to wash her hands.
The rest of the day slid by quickly, and Naya couldn’t believe how much fun she had and how comfortable she was around all the bikers.
Lindsey showed her to her room later that night.It was a good-sized room with a king-size bed and a dresser with a flat-screen TV.Naya looked to her right and saw two doors.One she assumed was the bathroom and the other the closet.The place was a million times better than her apartment at home.
“This is yours for however long you want it.”
“Thank you,” Naya said and hugged the other woman.
“I’ll see you in the morning.”Lindsey waved and walked down the hallway.
Naya shut and locked her bedroom door behind her, and the first thing she saw was her bags on the bed.She rummaged through her things, putting some away in the closet, and took a smaller bag into the bathroom.
Within thirty minutes, she was showered, in her sweats, and lying on the bed.She thought she’d have trouble falling asleep because she was in a new place, but she was out between one breath and the next.
