chuckling.
“No,
of course not. I just thought you were never going to get serious with anyone.” She shrugged.
“Alexis,
I think I said that when I was like sixteen and that bitch Sheila slept with my
friend.”
She
glanced down at the ground, thinking back to the time he was speaking of. Now
she remembered them actually talking about it, but right up until he mentioned
she had actually forgotten all about it. “God, I totally forgot that was the
reasoning behind that. All I could hear in my head was you saying that.”
“It’s
cool. That was a long ass time ago.” He grinned. “Besides, I value your
opinion. How many of the girls I dated did you tell me were no good?”
“A
lot.” She said on a chuckle.
“And
how many were actually bad news?”
“All
of them.”
He
nodded. “Yeah, and even if we were only kids at the time you knew, or your bear
could scent out the bitch in them.” That had both of them laughing. “So,
anyway, I’ll let you get back to it. I’m sure the guys are anxious to see you.
Just hit me up if you want to do lunch sometime.” He turned and walked back
over to the bike.
She
turned away from Dakota and headed back toward the front of the clubhouse. When
she gripped the handle and opened the door, the sight before her didn’t
surprise her one bit. It was guys all around, playing pool, cards, getting
drunk, and even engaging in sexual acts with the club girls. But it was a sight
she had seen with members of The Grizzlies that hadn’t had old ladies. She
didn’t see her dad, but she did see Mason, Bodhi, and Jakob hanging around the pool table. Over the last year she had been wrapping up
things for graduation, but looking at the guys proved that they hadn’t changed
one bit. The most identifying thing about all of them was that they wore
Grizzly MC cuts. Jakob and Bodhi, brothers and only
two years apart in age, were Diesel’s sons and looked just like their father
with their shoulder length blond hair tied at the nape of their necks, and
their light blue eyes. They had probably already seen far too much in their
twenty-four and twenty-two years of age. But being in the MC meant the members
had to grow up fast. Mason, Court and Lilly’s only kid, took after his father
and mother with his green eyes and dark hair. Still in his early twenties he
was the oldest of The Grizzly MC children, and she knew there was talk about
him taking over as VP when Diesel actually stepped down. The stories that she
heard the other club members tell over the last four years told her that Mason
was a lot more hardened than any of the prospects of the other patched in
Grizzly offspring.
Curse
words and laughter filled the room, the lewd and obscene comments were plenty,
and the smell of weed and alcohol surrounded her.
“Dude,
all I’m saying is that I fucked her hard last night.” That was Bodhi speaking,
and he had a grin on his face as he bent over the table and cracked a pool ball
with his stick. “She was begging me to go slower, and then squealing for it
harder.”
Mason
and Jakob had their backs to her, but their laughter
and the fact their bodies were all but shaking in their amusement was evident.
“Man,
club pussy isn’t going to say no to a patched in member. You keep fucking Poppy
and she is going to latch onto you and think she is your old lady.”
Bodhi
stood and glared at them, but her position had her partially behind one wall so
he couldn’t see her. “Fuck no, I am not taking on an
old lady, let alone one that you jokers have stuck your dick in, too.”
Mason
took a step forward, grabbed the shot glass resting on the rim on the rim of
the pool table, and drank the liquor in one swallow.
“When
I get an old lady I don’t want her used up by the whole fucking club, including
my old man.” Jakob was the one to speak. The other
two guys grunted in agreement.
“That
might be hard if you stay in Steel Corner,” Alexis said, but she was only
teasing. The three of
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