Knox's Stand (19 page)

Chapter Nineteen

No one was home as Diamond put her key into the door, going inside the quiet house. It was ironic that the last few weeks her parents had called and Diamond hadn’t returned their calls, yet now that she wanted someone to talk to, no one was around. Diamond walked around the empty house, unsure of what to do. She went outside onto the back porch, sitting in the swing that faced the yard. Her foot gently sent the swing into motion.

She heard the back door open and close. “Diamond? Why are you sitting out here? It’s freezing out.”

Her father walked around to the front of the swing.

“What’s wrong?” He sat down beside her.

“I love Knox. I love him so much.” Diamond buried her face in her hands. “I don’t even know why I love the big jerk.” Her father put his arm around her shoulder. Diamond turned to him, crying on his shoulder.

“How does he feel?” Her father looked over his shoulder to his wife and Sex Piston standing silently behind the swing. He started to get up and let his wife handle the situation, but Sizzle shook her head.

“He doesn’t love me back.” Diamond cried harder.

“Are you sure?” Her father pulled her closer.

“Yes, now he won’t even talk to me.”

“Then make him,” he said matter-of-factly.

“What?” Diamond looked up from his shoulder.

“Make him talk to you. It’s what your mother did.”

“When?” Diamond couldn’t remember her parents ever even having an argument.

Her father took a deep breath. “When you girls were little, we broke up for a while. We argued over custody so we decided to live together until you girls were older. It was the worst six months of my life. I loved your mom, but she was sick of me putting the Destructors first. She didn’t want me to leave the club, she just wanted equal time. I was
stupid and put the club first and you guys second. When I missed Sex Piston’s birthday party, she’d had it. Living with your mom and yet not being with her was terrible. I’m ashamed to say I did stupid shit that I regret, that I will always regret, Diamond.”

“How did you get back together?” Diamond asked.

“It was because of you, Diamond.”

Her eyes widened in surprise. “Me?”

“After you saw me at the club with that woman and didn’t talk to me, your mom and I talked. She couldn’t understand the change in you towards me. You went from being a daddy’s girl to not wanting to sit at the dinner table with me, so yeah, she knew something was wrong.”

“How did you know?”

“One of my men saw you running from the back of the club. When I got home I could tell from the way you treated me that you had seen. I didn’t know what to say to you, and your mother finally made me tell her. It was the worst day of my life, confessing I had cheated on her and had been for a long time. The thing was, she had known all along and that was another reason she’d had a problem with the club. We talked all day and night, Diamond, and worked it all out, but I paid for that day for years. It destroyed my relationship with you and your mother wouldn’t marry me for a long time. I had lost her trust; it took all these years to get it back, but I lost my little girl forever.

“Diamond, go after Knox, make him talk to you.” Her father looked at her with watery eyes.

“But you loved mom, Knox doesn’t even care about me.”

“He ever give you a nickname? Even when you were messing around?” Her father turned red at his question.

“No.”

“Not once?” he pressed.

“No, he always called me Diamond.”

“Do you know why we called you Diamond?” her father asked, his voice gruff.

“No.”

“Because the second we saw you, we knew you were going to be the most precious thing in the world to us. Our precious jewel, our little Diamond.”

Diamond burst into tears, her arms going around her father, crying for how much time they had lost.

“If Knox hasn’t called you anything else, then he knows what he’s got, probably just too stubborn to admit it. Go talk to him, sweetheart.”

“Maybe I’ll go see him tomorrow,” Diamond prevaricated.

“Fuck that. Get off your ass, I’ll take you.” Shocked at the sound of Sex Piston’s voice, Diamond stood up, seeing her mother and sister behind the swing.

“Go ahead, Diamond. What have you got to lose?” her father urged.

“My dignity?”

“Dignity isn’t going to keep your ass warm tonight, move it.” Sex Piston took her hand, dragging her inside the house. They were almost out the door when Sex Piston changed her mind and turned towards her bedroom.

“You can’t go on a manhunt wearing that shit you got on.” She went to her closet and pulled out a pair of jeans and jerked a top off the hanger. “Get dressed.”

Diamond looked down at herself. She was wearing the dark blue suit she’d been in all day, and for once, she agreed with her sister. Taking of the suit, she managed to squeeze herself into her sister’s jeans and pulled on the top. Her breasts were larger than Sex Piston’s and the top was low cut. The globes of her breasts were displayed to an extent that Diamond didn’t think was decent.

“Do you have another top I could borrow? This one is too tight.” Diamond looked at herself in her sister’s mirror. The top was practically indecent.

Sex Piston closed the closet door with a pair of high-heeled boots in her hand. She handed them to Diamond. “Put them on, and no I don’t have a bigger top. That’s the largest one I have,” she lied.

Diamond sat down on the side of the bed, putting the boots on. When she was done Sex Piston pushed her down at her dressing table and took down her hair, styling the thick mass until it was curled and fluffy.

“Now you’re done. Let’s go.”

Diamond followed behind her sister, her resolve weakening. “Sex Piston, I think I’m going to wait until I’ve thought this over a little more.”

“Think over what?” Crazy Bitch asked, coming out of the kitchen with Killyama and T.A..

“Damn, I forgot we were supposed to watch Stud’s kids tonight while they had their meeting,” Sex Piston said, coming to a halt.

“Stud has kids?” Diamond asked.

“Yeah, three kids from hell. Is Fat Louise here?” Sex Piston asked, thinking fast.

“She’s in the kitchen,” Crazy Bitch answered.

“Fat Louise!” Sex Piston yelled. Fat Louise came out of the kitchen, eating a Pop Tart.

“You go on to the club and watch Stud’s kids, we have somewhere we got to go.”

“I ain’t watching those monsters by myself,” Fat Louise argued back.

“If you do it, I’ll take you out to dinner, anywhere you want to go.”

“Anywhere?”

Sex Piston hesitated. “Yes.”

“Even Popeye’s?” Fat Louise’s eyes lit up.

“Yes. We are going to The Last Riders’ clubhouse to get Knox for Diamond.”

“Why?” Fat Louise asked, confused. “We don’t like that asshole.”

“We don’t, but Diamond’s in love with the mother fucker, and what she wants, she’s going to get,” Sex Piston said resolutely. “Let’s go; time’s a-wastin’. It’s Friday night at that club; things will be getting freaky there.”

Diamond tried to interrupt Sex Piston, but found herself dragged outside by her and Crazy Bitch.

“My keys are in the house,” Diamond said.

“They can stay there, we’re taking my car.” Killyama opened the back door and Diamond barely had enough time to lower her head before she was shoved into the back seat.

“Scoot your ass over,” Killyama said, sliding in next to her.

Crazy Bitch got in the front seat with Sex Piston and T.A. grabbed the last seat, sliding in next to Diamond in the back seat.

Sex Piston put the car in gear, accelerating with a squeal of her tires. Driving like a bat out of hell, her sister drove towards Treepoint.

With each mile, the butterflies in Diamond’s stomach made her more and more nervous. Completely sure this was a terrible mistake, she attempted to get Sex Piston to turn around.

“Fuck, no, we ain’t turnin’ around,” Killyama said. “I’ve been dying to see one of their parties ever since Beth told us about them. Who knows, maybe we’ll like them more than the Blue Horseman and we’ll start hangin’ with them instead.”

Diamond stared at the grim-faced women in the car. The Last Riders had no idea what was headed their way. God help them.

Chapter Twenty

The Last Riders’ parking lot was filled with motorcycles and cars. It was the one day of the week that hanger-ons were allowed in the clubhouse. Diamond, Sex Piston and her crew got out of the car, staring up at the huge house. Music could be heard from where they were standing.

“Sex Piston, I’ve changed my mind.” Her sister glanced at her before walking over and taking her hand.

“You can do this, Diamond. I’ll be right there with you. I shouldn’t have butted in when I saw him at your office. Now, get your ass up those steps,” she said, giving Diamond a shove on her back.

“What if I see him with someone?”

“Beth caught Razer fucking Evie. She got over it.” She shrugged.

Diamond wasn’t so sure she would be able to get over seeing him with another woman.

When they walked up the steps, Diamond tried to hesitate at the door, but Killyama pushed her through. The sight that met Diamond’s eyes were her worst fears confirmed. The Last Riders were as Diamond had never seen them before.

Cash had Jewell on his lap, sucking her bare breast, while Train had a woman pressed against the wall with her skirt up around her waist as he was fucking her. Razer and Beth were sitting on the couch, necking, and while they were the most circumspect of the group with their clothes still on, Diamond wasn’t so sure what she would’ve found if they had come in a few minutes later.

“Do you see him?” Sex Piston asked.

“No, he’s not here.”

“He must be in his room. Where is it?” Sex Piston asked.

“Upstairs.” Diamond felt a hand on her back, pushing her towards the steps.

“Stop pushing me T.A.,” Diamond hissed, seeing Beth’s eyes widen and jerk from Razer’s arms before coming towards them.

“What are you doing here?” she asked as she drew close.

“Diamond is going to talk to Knox. He upstairs?” Sex Piston told Beth as if they stopped by for a visit regularly.

“I don’t know. We just got here. Go outside and wait. I’ll get Razer to go get him for you.”

“We can get him ourselves.” Sex Piston ignored her offer. Diamond felt herself move toward the steps and then up them. As Beth followed behind, she saw Razer get up, coming after them.

“Sex Piston, I really don’t think this is a good idea.” Beth tried again to stop them. The woman ignored her, reaching the top of the steps.

“Which one is it?” Sex Piston asked. Diamond almost didn’t tell her, but she knew that she would go into each and every room until she found him.

Diamond took a step toward Knox’s door. She was going to knock, but Sex Piston opened the door before she could. The light from the bathroom shined into the bedroom, highlighting the people on the bed. There were four people on the bed.

Diamond took one look and then turned around, running into Sex Piston who knew the instant she saw Diamond’s face that she had made a mistake in making her confront Knox in his room.

“Mother. Fucker,” Sex Piston said angrily.

Diamond pushed through the group of women, her hand to her mouth. She got to the top of the steps before she stopped. Sex Piston, Killyama, Beth, Crazy Bitch and T.A. all came to a stop behind her as Razer stood at the top of the steps, watching the women. She saw the recognition in his eyes; he was aware of what she had encountered. Diamond turned around, unable to face the sympathy she saw in the hard ass biker.

Taking a deep breath, Diamond tried to breathe through the pain tearing her heart apart. She had seen the short blond hair on top of the man on the bed while Rider had Evie on the other side of the bed and was fucking the woman.

“Bliss is mine,” Diamond said, pissed off like she had never been before. Sex Piston and her crew all gave a grin.

“Let’s kick some ass.” Sex Piston let Diamond take the lead.

“What?” Wait!” Beth yelled.

Diamond rushed back into the bedroom before Beth or Razer could react, burying her hand in Bliss’s hair and jerking her off the cock she was riding. At the same time, Sex Piston went for Evie who was straddling Rider’s lap, pulling her off backwards to land on the floor. Through all of this, Crazy Bitch held Beth and Razer back at the doorway, threatening them with a lamp she had quickly picked up from the dresser.

“What in the fuck?” A man growled, though Diamond didn’t even pay attention to the male voice coming from the bed.

Bliss screamed, trying to get away, but Diamond had a good grip on her hair. Evie was doing better defending herself against Sex Piston, but not by much. As Rider tried to jerk Sex Piston off Evie, Razer finally managed to get by Crazy Bitch.

Diamond glared at him as he approached her. “You get away or I’m going to smash your nuts.”

No sooner had the words left her mouth than the doorway filled with Last Riders trying to get into the bedroom and someone hit the light switch.

“Diamond!” Knox yelled from the doorway. He stood there, dressed in jeans shirt and boots with his jacket on.

“What is going on in here?” Viper came to the doorway with no shoes or shirt on. The tribal tattoo he had on his arm and shoulder and the huge one he had on his chest had Sex Piston and her crew pausing to look at the biker despite the turmoil going on in the room. Knox gave Diamond a threatening glare when he saw her eyes linger on Viper’s display of muscular perfection a little longer than he deemed necessary.

“I thought that Knox was in here.” Diamond reluctantly tore her attention away from Viper, giving Bliss’s hair a final tug before releasing it. Evie and Sex Piston were still fighting despite Rider trying to separate the women when Train got up from the bed, grabbing Sex Piston so that Rider could help Evie get to her feet. Sex Piston’s hand reached behind her back and grabbed Train by his nuts. To Train’s credit, he bellowed, but he didn’t release the bitch.

“Sex Piston, stop!” Viper yelled.

She let Train go reluctantly, who fell back onto the bed holding himself. Sex Piston’s top was torn and her hair was a mess from Evie using it to pull away when she had tried to strangle her.

“What are you doing here, Diamond?” Knox asked.

“I wanted to talk to you?” The statement came out as more of a question because Diamond felt self-conscious with everyone listening.

“Did you ever think of just calling me?” Knox asked, looking around at the pandemonium in the room.

Diamond looked confused. “I did, you never answered. Besides that, I texted and left messages.”

Knox searched his pockets for his phone. “I’ve been out riding my bike all day then I went for a walk at Cash’s homestead. I must have lost it.”

“You weren’t ignoring my call?” Diamond asked with a wavering voice.

“No,” Knox answered, staring deeply into her eyes.

“You would have answered?”

“Yeah,” Knox said softly.

Diamond smiled, walking toward him, this time not worried about making a fool of herself. She walked up to him and circled his waist with her arms.

“I’ve missed you,” Diamond confessed.

“I’ve missed you,” Knox said.

“Well, isn’t that sweet,” Killyama said in a sickeningly sweet voice. “Does that mean we can stay for the party?”

“No,” everyone answered at once. Diamond laughed into Knox’s chest.

“We help you out and we can’t even get a beer?” Crazy Bitch asked Diamond.

Diamond looked up pleadingly at Knox.

“One beer,” he agreed reluctantly.

“Knox,” Viper said in warning.

“One beer then they’ll leave,” Knox promised.

Sex Piston and her crew nodded their heads in agreement. As Knox and Diamond left the room with everyone following, she noticed Viper turning to go to a bedroom at the end of the hall where Winter stood in the doorway with a sheet covering her body. When she saw Diamond’s eyes on her, she shut the door just as Viper was about to enter. Unable to stop his momentum, he ran into the door.

Before she could so much as laugh at the spectacle it had created, they reached the top of the steps and saw the front door open and Stud enter with several of the Blue Horseman coming in behind him.

Cash, who was at the bottom of the steps, turned toward the door. “What in the fuck do you think you’re doing?” he asked Stud.

“We want our women.”

“What women?” Cash asked, blocking Stud from coming any further into the clubhouse.

“Sex Piston, Crazy Bitch and T.A., you can keep Killyama,” Stud said, looking up the steps. Catching sight of the women at the top of the steps with Rider and Train half naked sparked a fury within him that Diamond hadn’t expected the emotionless man capable of.

“What in the hell are you doing here, Stud?” Sex Piston yelled, leaning over the railing. Her hair messed up and her top torn, she looked down at the President of the Blue Horseman.

“Which one touched you?” Stud yelled back.

“What?” Sex Piston asked in confusion.

“Which mother fucking asshole touched you? Because they’re going to regret touching something that’s mine.”

“I’m not yours!” she yelled, putting her hands on her hips and glaring back.

“You damn sure are. Get your ass down here now!”

“We’re not going anywhere, we’re staying for a beer.” Smugly, Sex Piston continued to ignore his order.

“Yeah?”

“Yeah!”

Stud signaled his men at her response. Knox didn’t waste time, he moved Diamond back as Stud charged up the stairway after Sex Piston at the s
ame time that the Blue Horsemen came through the doorway in a mass.

Sex Piston tried to take off running down the hallway, but ran into Viper who had come back down the hallway when he heard the commotion.

“Just a minute,” Viper said, preventing Sex Piston from getting away.

As Stud reached the top of the stairs, seeing Viper holding Sex Piston seemed to piss the biker off even more.

“Let her go, Viper.”

“My pleasure.” Viper let Sex Piston’s arm go, and before Sex Piston could move, Stud had her.

“Let me go,” she said, trying to twist free.

“Pike.” Stud turned and one of the Blue Horseman came up the steps. “Take her to the truck.” Sex Piston tried to struggle away, but found herself tossed over the big man’s shoulder.

Stud turned back to the rest of Sex Piston’s crew.

“Now, you can go with her or be carried away, which is it going to be?”

T.A. immediately went after Sex Piston, giving Stud a wide berth while Crazy Bitch and Killyama merely stood there with their arms crossed over their chests.

“Fuck off,” Crazy Bitch said.

“Back off, bitch,” Killyama snarled.

Stud didn’t argue. “Rock, Blade.”

Two men came up the steps slowly. One took a step forward and grappled with Crazy Bitch before he managed to get her in a tight hold, tossing her over his shoulder then went down the steps with the woman threatening to cut his dick off.

“Blade,” Stud ordered.

“Do I have to?” Stud threw the man a look that had him taking a step forward taking on Killyama. The woman fought the man dirty, ramming his nose with her fist then jerking out the loop in his ear before he managed to get her, still struggling, out of the house to a cheering audience.

“Now which one touched Sex Piston?” Menace filled the hallway.

“None of them did. She came in here and started a fight with our women,” Viper said sharply.

“That true?” Stud asked Diamond.

“Yes,” she answered from behind Knox’s back.

Stud looked at the women in the hallway. Bliss, who had pulled on a robe, had a black eye and Evie, who had put on Train’s shirt, whose hair was a total mess from Sex Piston’s hands.

“I don’t suppose we could switch Killyama with one of these women?” Stud quipped.

“No.” Viper apparently wasn’t in a joking mood, although Diamond wasn’t so sure that Stud had been joking from the look of disappointment on his face.

“I didn’t think so.” Stud turned to go back down the steps. “Sorry about the interruption to your party. That’s two markers we owe your club.”

“Don’t pull this shit again, Stud. Next time you come to our club like this, I’ll take it as a sign of war.” Viper made his position clear.

Stud stopped, turning back. “Next time I hit your club with our women here, war won’t describe what I’ll do,” Stud said, making his own stance equally evident.

Viper nodded. Both Presidents coming to a mutual agreement.

After Stud and his men cleared the club within minutes, Knox moved to the side, letting Diamond free. Everyone stared at her accusingly.

“Sorry.” Diamond felt terrible about the commotion she had caused.

“You two need to get your shit straight,” Viper said, turning back to his bedroom.

Knox took Diamond’s hand, leading her back to the hallway and going into the room across the hall from his.