Authors: Amanda Anderson
Eleven
Choo-Choo had watched Josie all evening. She was so pretty she made his teeth ache. He kept waiting for her to flirt with Valentine the way all women had his whole life, but she didn’t. She smiled, but she reserved a certain smile just for him. He knew it was way too early to entertain the thoughts that he couldn’t seem to shake, but they were there and he wanted them to stay there. He wanted to pretend he could keep her.
She was way too good for a man like him. He felt someone watching him and turned to meet Granny’s knowing gaze.
“I think it’s time for bed.” She said as she pulled herself to her feet. “I get to have my boys under my roof for the first time in too many years to think about. I’m going to rest easy tonight.” She patted Valentines cheek and hugged Choo-Choo when he stood. “Josie is in your room. I thought that would be alright.”
He smiled down at her. “Yes ma’am. Should I sleep on the couch then?” He raised a brow and she smacked his chest.
“I don’t think I need to tell you where you need to sleep.”
“No ma’am.”
She nodded and patted Josie on the shoulder as she passed.
“Goodnight honey. Rest easy tonight.”
“Thank you.” Her eyes found Choo-Choo and she smiled that smile just for him.
Granny went to her room and closed her door with a decisive clunk. The room suddenly felt too hot and Josie wanted nothing more than to escape. She stood, but before she could speak Valentine spoke up.
“Think I’ll head up to bed too. I don’t lock my door incase you’d like to come in for a visit later Josie.”
He winked and Choo-Choo felt his face heat. He wanted to punch that smarmy grin off Valentine’s face, but Josie stepped closer and laid a hand on his chest, draining all his anger.
“I think I’ll be fine.”
She looked up at him with a look of such happiness that he almost stumbled. He couldn’t find words.
“As smooth as always I see.” Valentine chuckled as he made his way up the stairs to his room.
It was the first time they had been alone since Eddie had taken her from his bed.
It all rushed back to him in that moment and the relief of having her standing in front of him smiling almost toppled him over. He pulled her against his chest and breathed her in.
“Are you alright? Sniper said… shit, I’m so glad you’re safe.”
“Thank you so much for helping me. I was so scared. I had no place to go.” She looked up at him. “I’ll find a way to repay you.”
He shook his head. “No you won’t and don’t try.” He kissed her before she could argue. “Let me share that bed up there with you? Not to repay me, but because you want to.”
She nodded and it was all he needed. He scooped her up into his arms and took the stairs two at a time.
When they reached his room, the room she had been sleeping in, he opened the door and stepped inside with her still in his arms.
“Just us tonight. Nobody else matters. Nothing matters.”
“You’re leaving in the morning?” Her voice was breathless as she kissed him.
“Yeah. Have to get Mrs. back, but you’ll be safe here and I’ll come back for you. I swear I will.”
She leaned back to look into his eyes. She saw it there. The same burning need that scorched her glowed in his beautiful miss matched eyes.
“I believe you”
That must have settled something because he lost control. Josie was naked before she could take a breath and she bounced on the bed when he tossed her in the center of it so he could rid himself of his own things.
She was breathless. Her heart raced and she struggled to catch her breath. His eyes were drawn to the rapid rise and fall of her breasts and she arched to him like a cat in heat.
He shed his clothes and stepped to the side of the bed. His shaft was rigid as it stood out from his body. Josie had never wanted to taste anything so bad in her life.
He fisted his impressive girth and stroked himself as she watched. It was the single most erotic thing she had ever experienced in her life. She licked her lips as a pearly drop of moisture beaded on the tip and he groaned.
“You’re going to be the death of me.”
He slid into bed with her and took her mouth. He stopped her seeking hand and pressed it above her head as his lips trailed kisses down her neck and over her collar bone.
She moaned as he grew closer to her aching breast and she felt him smile against her skin.
“Patients Goldilocks. You’ve been sleeping in my bed and its time Papa bear taught you a lesson or two.”
“Please,” she begged as the tip of his tongue circled her taught nipple, but he didn’t touch the aching peak.
“Tell me what you want baby.”
“You.” She panted.
“You have me. All of me. All you want. Tell me what you want.”
“Your mouth.”
“You want me to kiss you?”
“Yes.” She panted as he rolled his hips against her leg. The feel of him, so hard and ready was driving her crazy.
“Your lips?”
“No!” She arched her back again as he made another lazy circle around her nipple.
“Suck me please. Suck my nipples Choo-Choo.”
She had barely gotten his name out before he sucked half of her breast into his mouth. The feel of his warm mouth surrounding her breast was enough to send her to the brink of orgasm. She cried out before she could stifle the need and felt him grin against her skin.
He sucked deep on her breast before biting down on her tight peak and moving to the other side.
He released her nipple with a loud smack and kissed her lips again.
“That what you wanted Goldilocks?”
“Yes.” Josie almost lost her mind when his hand caressed her belly. This man was dangerous to her senses. All she could think about was the feel of hi inside her. She wanted him.
His fingers found her bare mound and he caressed her, petted her as if the feel of her skin there was enough for him. He had more control than she did. She shoved at his chest and found him immovable. He looked puzzled for a second and then allowed her to roll him to his back.
“Easy Josie. Slow down baby.” He gripped her hips when she straddled him.
“I don’t want to slow down. I want you. I want to feel you inside me and forget…”
She hadn’t meant to say it. She hadn’t allowed herself to even think it, but she was alright. She was safe with Choo-Choo and she could let herself feel.
He turned to the side and pulled her against his chest.
“Shh.”
She wept like a child into his heated skin until she was empty. She felt like three kinds of a fool too. Here she was in his arms and naked and all she could do was cry.
“Oh no, oh no, oh no.” She shook her head and tried to sit up, but he held firm.
“Hush. You needed that.” He looked down at her and stopped her heart with a smile so tender it looked out of place somehow. She knew without asking that he rarely wore that particular expression.
“Feel better now?”
His deep voice vibrated through her and made her body begin to heat again. She nodded and tried to push him to his back again, but he shook his head.
“I’m going to love you. I’m going to wipe out every memory your body has of another man and then I’m going to keep you so well loved that you never look for anything else.”
He pushed her to her back and kissed her lips before she could say a word or even process what he had said to her. It felt right. She felt whole and he had barely touched her. Her mind blanked as he tasted her lips before moving lower. He was unhurried. She refused to rush him. Even back at his clubhouse she had rushed him. The urgency and risk had added a measure of excitement then, but now there was no rush. No one would interrupt them and take her away from him. She would stay with him as long as he wanted her… and then he would break her when he left.
She pushed the thought away. There was no place for that thought while she lay in his arms, while his lips placed suckling kisses on her belly.
His hands gripped her thighs and she allowed him to open them wide. He blew on her wet folds and she shivered. He closed his eyes and inhaled her musky scent and Josie wanted to push him a way, but he resisted her.
“So good Goldilocks. So good.”
Then he tasted her. Her back arched off the bed. He wasn’t gentle now. He devoured her as if her were a starving man at a banquet. His hands slid to her ass and he lifted her so he could get to her better. Josie could do nothing but grip the blue quilt under her as he sated his hunger between her legs.
Her thoughts swirled in her head. She shouldn’t let him taste her. She was so dirty after…
She stiffened and he growled deep in his chest. He gripped her ass with a grip that made her whimper then he pulled the bud of her clit between his teeth and sucked so hard that she cried out.
“When you’re in my bed, you don’t think.” He lifted his head and looked her in the eye. His lips glistened with her juices and her thighs quivered at the erotic sight of him. His eyes blazed with desire and anger. The heady combination drove her passions higher.
“Yes.”
“Good girl.”
He dropped his mouth to her again and she shattered. She lost count of how many times he’d forced her over the edge of ecstasy before he hovered above her. His eyes heavy lidded as he kissed her lips. She tasted her own satisfaction on his tongue as he slipped inside of her. He swallowed her gasp as he filled her with one thrust.
“I don’t give a shit how crazy this is Josie. You are mine. I’m yours. That’s the only way this works. That’s the only way we can work.”
Did he expect her to make life decisions while he slid slowly in and out of her? He didn’t play fair! She could tease him too.
She concentrated and squeezed her inner muscles tight around his tunneling cock and she was rewarded with his groan of pleasure.
“Fuck.”
“Yes. Do that.”
“I’m not rushing this. We don’t ever have to rush.” He was breathing hard as he rested his forehead against hers.
She sighed and let a contented grin curl her lips. Her hands cupped his face until he looked into her eyes.
“I know what you’re doing. You have already proven yourself to be different from them. It’s ok to let go. I know you want to. Take me baby. I’m yours.”
With a growl that was almost too animalistic to come from a man, he slammed into her. It felt delicious and she wrapped around him as he continued to pound her. The headboard hit the wall and she knew everyone in the house could hear them, but she didn’t care. They belonged to each other and she didn’t care if the whole world heard them consummating that agreement.
He thrust into her again and again as the pressure inside her built. He gritted his teeth and she knew he held back for her.
“Do it baby. Fuck.” He gritted out.
With a moan she let herself go and came around him. She melted to the bed as he stiffened above her and spilled his desires into her body. He fell on her and she sighed as his weight pressed her into the soft mattress.
She was boneless. She lay on the bed like a ragdoll, content for the first time in her life.
“Stay right there baby. I’ll be right back.” He kissed her face and climbed off the bed. He stood for a moment and took in the sight of her before he headed to the small bathroom. Josie heard water running and knew she should get up and clean up, but before she could force her heavy limbs to move, he was back. He cleaned her with gentle strokes. The warm cloth felt heavenly against her tingly flesh.
“Did I hurt you baby?”
Josie forced her eyes open. He looked so concerned. Had anyone ever worried about her the way he was right now? Not since…”
“No. No, you didn’t hurt me.” She reached up and ran the backs of her fingers down his cheek. “That was magical.”
The look of relief that passed over his face left her speechless. He tossed the soiled cloth to toward the bathroom and pulled back the covers. Before she could say a word she was tucked securely against his chest.
“Sleep Goldilocks. Sleep with me.”
Nothing had ever sounded so heavenly. She fell asleep with a contented sigh, safe and warm. She knew morning would bring back all their troubles, but for one night she would forget.
Twelve
Josie woke to the delicious smell of coffee and bacon.
“Wake up sleepyhead. I’m heading out in a few minutes and you need to tell me goodbye.”
Her heart sank. It could be goodbye and she knew it. If she allowed herself to be drawn back into this life she would wonder every time he left her. She would worry too, because she was falling for him. She wouldn’t just be worried about a roof over her head, she would fear for him in earnest.
“Come on now Goldilocks. I know you’re awake.”
She cracked her eyes open to find his colorfully bruised face hovering above her. She gasped.
“You look terrible.” She clapped a hand over her mouth and one cupped his bruised cheek. “This is all my fault.”
“This is,” he ran his hand through her short curls and raised his brows in question.
Josie blushed. With all the excitement the day before they had hardly talked at all.
“I thought it would be easier to hide.”
“Mmhmmm.” He leaned down and kissed the side of her neck. “I like it.”
Josie sighed as Choo-Choo kissed his way down her neck. She wrapped her arms around him and squeezed.
“I don’t want you to leave me. Please take me with you.”
He was shaking his head before she finished. “I can’t think if you are in danger. Stay here and keep us both safe.”
“But I could help. Have you heard from Shadow?”
“You can’t get mixed up in club shit sweetheart. You don’t want to.”
“That’s crazy! I’m already mixed up in it. I caused it!” She couldn’t just sit and wait when everything was hinging on this. She had to help. She was no fool, she knew how club life worked and she was an outsider, and enemy even. She had to prove herself to the Defenders if she ever hoped to win Choo-Choo and keep him.
Choo-Choo pinched her chin and met her eyes. “Don’t even think of doing something stupid. I need to be able to trust you. I’m trusting you to keep your ass right here and stay safe for me.”
Josie knew she couldn’t do that, but she wouldn’t tell him. She also refused to lie to him, so instead of answering she kissed him. She poured all of herself into that kiss and it only took him a few seconds to give in.
“I don’t have time to make this good baby.” He panted as she reached for his belt.
“It’s always good with you.”
She freed him and he groaned as she closed her hand around him. She started to turn around, but he stopped her.
“Not that way.”
She could see in his eyes that he had talked to Sniper, that he knew, but instead of filling her with shame and pain, it filled her with something warm. He cared.
He sat on the edge of the bed with his pants around his ankles and pulled her to straddle him.
“I like to see your face when I’m inside you,” he said as he guided his thick shaft into her body. She was already wet for him, without trying. Her head fell back as he filled her with his delicious heat and she began to move. This time she didn’t want to rush, she wanted to savor him.
Choo-Choo would hear about this, but he couldn’t leave without satisfying her. He was in way over his head with Josie and he knew it, but he had never wanted anything so bad in his life. She tasted like sex and all woman and he wanted to hide her away so no one could take her from him. She pushed him to his back and he marveled at her beauty as she rode him.
Josie wasn’t a super model girl. She wasn’t so skinny you could see her bones like some of the club girls. She was curvy in all the right places. Her tits bounced as she rode his dick and he could fill his hands with the round globes of her ass just the way he liked it. She was softness to his hard and he couldn’t keep his hands off of her.
He ran his hands up her thighs to her perfectly rounded hips to help her set a faster pace and was rewarded with her moan. He felt the first flutterings of her orgasm as it built around him and he pulled her down harder until she was moaning loudly. He couldn’t even stop when his door opened and Valentine crossed his arms and leaned against the door frame along with Lawless and Lambhead.
“Think I’d be running late too.” Law said as he pulled his knife from its sheath and tapped it to his chin.
“Fuck. I want a piece of that.” Lamnhead made to step into the room, but Law stopped him with the blade to his throat.
“You can watch a man with his old lady, but you don’t take a turn unless asked and even then, it’s just a bad idea.”
“Choo-Choo’s got an old lady? Since when? ‘Cause Rena says…”
Law cut him off. “Rena can’t say shit anymore boy and questioning me will get your balls cut off. Get the fuck out of here, you just lost the right to watch.”
Lambhead whined, but disappeared.
Choo-Choo met Valentine’s eyes and anger burned in his gut. He hated the man’s eyes on Josie, blood or no blood. Law caught his look and cut his eyes to Valentine.
“Think he’d rather that door stay closed until they get done. Gotta respect a brother’s privacy when he’s fucking his old lady.”
Law reached for the door, but Valentine reached to stop him. Blood bloomed over the sleeve of Valentine’s shirt and he drew back with a wince.
“Don’t ever fuck with me Valentine. I know what you are.” Law said as he shut the door.
Josie had ignored them. She had just closed her eyes and ignored them, but she had gone stiff. He would remember that and he would make sure they kept their fucking private.
As soon as the door closed she relaxed. Choo-Choo sat up and pulled her against his chest as he took over the rhythm of their strokes.
“Come on baby. Give it to me. Let me feel you before I leave.”
At his words she wrapped her arms around him and let out a sound that was a mixture of sob and moan and she detonated around him.
Choo-Choo pulled her down on top of him as she thrust into her a few more times before he spent himself in her pulsing heat. Nothing had ever felt so right.
She shivered in his arms as he held her.
“I’ll be back in a few days. I’ll call when I can. Please be here. I need to hear your voice to know you’re safe.”
He kissed her face and her hair, anything he could reach. She kissed him too. Her warm lips covered his chest in kisses.
“Promise.” She said between kisses. “Promise you’ll come back.”
When he didn’t she bit him, hard and he smacked her ass just as hard.
“I won’t make you a promise I’m not sure I can keep.” He lifted her lips to his and kissed her with all the longing he felt.
“If I’m breathing, I’ll come back. I can promise you that.”
Josie felt fear and joy all mixed up in her head. She wanted to beg him to stay, but she knew it would only hurt him. He had a duty, and obligation to his brothers and she refused to make him choose between her and his club. She would wait for him. She would give him all of herself that he was willing to take and she would love him even if it ripped her heart to shreds.
“I’ll take that.” She whispered as she sat up and climbed off the bed. “Give me five minutes to clean up and dress?”
He propped himself up on his elbows and nodded.
He was the most erotic sight she had ever seen. The tattoos that rode over his neck connected to those on his chest. The whole right side was covered in dark ink. There was a black hole of a train tunnel with tracks leading inside, but the tunnel burned with flames that licked his body. Smoke billowed from the destruction and in the flames and smoke was the outline of a Harleys as if they were made from the flames. It looked like they would drive straight from his chest, just over his heart and the word “Brotherhood” curled in the smoke. The smoke curled up his neck and ended just below his ear. The words “Live to Ride” were inked along the pulse that still beat hard for her. He was beautiful. There were other tattoos along his body, but none as spectacular as this one. She wanted to spend hours exploring the ink on his body, learning the stories behind them, but he sighed.
“Get to it Goldilocks. I gotta hit the road.”
He softened his words with a grin and a wink. “You have a lifetime to look at me.”
She laughed too, not because she wanted to or felt like it, but because he needed her to.
She rushed to clean up and pull on some clothes and was back in the bedroom before he left it.
He was fully dressed again, even wore his leather jacket over his black t-shirt.
“Come on baby. Let’s get this shit done so I can get back to you.”
He kissed her hard before he opened the bedroom door and led her down the stairs.
The living room was filled with big men, apparently they had decided to meet up at Granny P’s before following Shadow. Seemed out of the way to Josie, but she didn’t know everything so kept her mouth shut.
“Hey Choo-Choo, that really your old lady?” A man with unfortunate, white, curly hair asked from where he sat sprawled on the sofa.
“Yeah it is.” Choo-Choo answered without missing a beat, but he squeezed her hand and looked to her.
She couldn’t help the smile that broke her face as she nodded. No, it wasn’t what she’d thought of when she’d determined to get on her feet, but she had hoped, someday, maybe. Choo-Choo wasn’t Eddie though, he would encourage and help her.
“Thought that was the one them Bastard assholes are looking for, but she’s Poole’s woman and he’s got a big reward out for her. Must be some damned good pussy for that kind of cash.”
Josie stiffened. “What did he say?”
“Shut the fuck up Lambhead.” Choo-Choo spat and Josie saw anger on his face, real fury.
“What is he talking about?”
Choo-Choo turned to her and held her at arm’s length. “Listen, you don’t have to worry alright? We are going to take care of this shit. Nobody threatens our families. We are leaving Oscar here to help protect you and Granny. Sniper is on his way. If it looks like we need it we will pull some from the Denver chapter, but I’d rather keep this place as quiet as I can. You will be safe here. Trust me to keep you safe.”
Josie nodded. She did trust him, but was she bringing danger to GrannyP too?
“I’ll hang here for a few days.” Valentine spoke from where he’d been lounging against the wall. All eyes turned to him.
Josie got the distinct feeling that any man in the room would take pleasure in gutting the man, but they held back out of respect for Choo-Choo.
“Not sure that’s a great idea cousin.” Choo-Choo said with granite in his voice.
“Cut the shit Tony. She’s your girl, I get that. Yeah, I’d like to fuck her, but I won’t, ok. I won’t even if she crawls into my bed and begs me to.”
The smile that curled Valentine’s lips had Choo-Choo clenching his fists and taking a step toward him.
Granny P. stepped between them wearing a scowl so dark it rivaled the ones around the room.
“You two stop it right now. This is my house and Nicolas is welcome to stay if he behaves himself. Now it’s high time you put that piece of trash out of your heads. That was years ago and she was nothing but a skank. That woman would have crawled in my bed if she’d thought she could get anything out of it. I figure Anthony was lucky to escape her.” She cut her eyes to Valentine. “From what I’ve seen, she got plenty from Nicolas, but I doubt he claims that. Now, can we please put that to rest and let’s not let it happen again.” She turned to Choo-Choo and delivered a loud slap to his face as she plopped her fists on her hips. “If I ever hear you insult that girl the way you just did by even thinking she might possibly be anything like that sleazy whore I will crack you over the head myself.”
Josie’s eyes widened and there were several chuckles around the room.
Choo-Choo looked happy though. Something Granny P had said had made him very happy. His smile was bright as he rubbed his jaw and he bent and lifted Granny P in a big hug that had her clucking like and old hen. He kissed her wrinkled cheek and whispered thank you before he released her. She nodded and wiped her eyes on the apron she wore before patting his bulging bicep.
“Trust is a hard thing son. I know.”
He nodded and took a deep breath.
“Let’s get the hell out of here.”
The men stood with whoops as they pulled on leather jackets and gloves. Choo-Choo stepped to Josie again and pulled her in for a soul searing kiss that had her bare toes curling.
“Stay safe for me. I need you.”
She didn’t think. She just opened her mouth and let her heart do the talking. “I’ll be here waiting for you, always.”
She wanted to say she loved him, but it was too soon. She looked up and saw those same feelings mirrored in his eyes. He would come back and she would have the rest of her life to show him how she felt.
It almost destroyed her watching him go, but she put on a brave smile and waved. She stood with her toes almost frozen until they were out of sight and still she stood rooted to her spot on the porch. Warmth settled around her.
“Come back inside. You can’t do anything for him freezing out here.”