Ryder (17 page)

“Aww, baby. Our girl will take good care of him, don’t you worry.” Skeet flips us off and walks Demi towards the water. “You watch her like a hawk Skeet, I’m warning you.” He nods and carries on walking. We spend most of the morning playing at the beach, everyone doting on Demi. The boys take her in the water but never out too deep.

Nix plays sand castles with her, they even dig a huge hole, which I help with and we bury Skeet. Demi stand on top on him and screams, “I’m on top of the world … Well Uncle Skeeter anyways.” Now, that causes everyone to laugh so hard that most of us can’t breathe and have tears streaming down our faces. Lucy told Demi that he likes to be called Skeeter, so she has called him it all day. Beck keeps his distance from everyone except Demi and me. He is finding it hard hurting Trin the way he did and he doesn’t know how to handle it. Demi loves her Uncle Beck, she says he has soft fluffy hair. Lucy makes sure that we take lots of photos to mark the day, which I couldn’t have agreed more. Lucy takes a photo of Letty, Demi and me and I save it as my lock screen on my iPhone.

We leave the beach and head home. Letty takes Demi back to hers to bathe and feed her before Mrs. Dawson comes over to baby sit. I head back to my apartment and get ready for the gig tonight at Max Point. I shower and get dressed in my typical black wife beater with bigger armholes, which doesn’t constrict me when I’m playing. I pull on my black jeans with my black biker boots, tonight I tie a red plaid shirt around my waist and add my ball cap on backwards.

I place my Phoenix band on my wrist and I am set to go. Gunner drives us to Max Point and we get everything set up. I am nervous for some reason tonight and my stomach is in knots, I just have a feeling that something will go down and I can’t place it. I hate thinking about the last time I felt like this.

“Yo bro chill out man, your girl will be here soon enough and maybe she can help relieve some tension that has you all wound up tonight.” This comes from Mr Cool-As-Fuck Reeve.

“Fuck off Rev, I just have a gut feeling, ya know?” He frowns at me but says nothing.

We sit by the bar and have a drink, waiting on the girls. Rafe keep checking his phone every two seconds and he will keep checking until Snowflake arrives. I finish my second drink when the hair on the back of my neck stands up and I turn towards the door. I know my baby is here. I see the girls walk in giggling and then I see Letty and I swear to fucking God that I stop breathing. She looks beautiful, totally gorgeous and all fucking mine. She is wearing a skintight red short skirt that wraps around her thighs perfectly with a black tight spaghetti strap top tucked in with black fuck-me heels. She has a thick gold chain around her neck and a bunch of gold bangles on her wrist.

I don’t take my eyes off her until an asshole steps in her way of getting to me. Fuck off dude, she is mine. I make my way over and hear my girl tell him to screw off; she can stand up for herself. She sees me and a big ass, beautiful smile crosses her face and she steps around the guy.

“Hey baby.” she says, while wrapping her hands around my neck. Even in her shoes she still only comes to my chin. I lower my head and kiss her, placing my hands on her firm ass and giving her a squeeze. She is pulled back slightly and when I look up, the asshole is still here and now has a grip on Letty’s arm.

“Dude, back the fuck off and get your own, I saw her first,” he says. You have got to be fucking kidding me, did he just not hear her call me baby. I pull Letty behind me and the boys step up to me.

“Listen asshole, she is my girlfriend so I suggest you back the fuck off or I will have you removed from the club.” He mutters something before turning and joining his friends at a high table. I turn back to Letty, who has a lustful look in her eyes.

My dick is instantly hard. I grab her hand and pull her towards the back room where we chill before a gig. I can hear the hollering and hooting coming from the boys; I flip them off as I keep dragging Letty behind me. As soon I as I close the door I pin her to it, holding her hands above her head as I take her mouth in a deep hard kiss and she takes it. I slip my hand under her tight skirt and push it up over her hips before I move her panties to the side and slide my finger inside her, only to find her dripping for me.

“Fuck baby you are soaked, does me defending you turn you on, baby?” I add another finger and Letty throws her head back and moans my name, fuck that is hot.

“I need you inside me now, baby please. I need to feel you, Ry.” With one hand I open my jeans and pull my rock hard dick out and slam home in one thrust, fuck she feels amazing. Better than normal. My heart stops and so does my body.

“Sunshine I don’t have a condom, we need to stop” She shakes her head back and forth.

“I’m on the pill, keep going, we’re fine. Fuck harder Ryder, harder.” I slam into her over and over again until I feel her orgasm take over. I thrust three more times and join her over the edge. I bury my head in her neck and lick the skin there; she tastes like strawberries tonight. I lower Letty back to the floor and kiss her neck whispering, “I love you, Letty.”

I help Letty get cleaned up before we join everyone out front. I get a round of drinks in and we all chill out, waiting for our set to start. I sit with the boys and watch Letty dance with the girls.

She is grinding on Quinn and I watch Skeet watch Quinn. Reeve is chatting to Izzy behind the bar and not paying Quinn any attention at all. I get hard again just watching my girl dancing, feeling the freedom of the music; it seeps into her body and she finds the rhythm. They are dancing to Usher featuring Pitbull's ‘DJ got us fallin in love.’ I love the way she sways her hips to the music, you can tell she dances the way her body just takes over. I adjust my dick in my jeans and stand up and make my way over to my girl. I come up behind her and wrap my arms around her waist, pulling her tight to me. I know she can feel my hard-on pressing into her ass; she doesn’t even flinch when I touch her, which makes my heart swell. She knows it’s me, she can sense me just like I sense her.

The song changes to Ne-Yo's ‘Closer’ and Letty’s body comes alive as she grinds harder on me. She drops to the floor and rubs her ass against me. As she stands up again, I spin her to face me and place one leg in between hers and she rubs her heated core against my thigh, which by the way I fucking love. I have said it before, I love girls touching my thighs; weird, I know. I put my hands on her ass and pull her tightly against me, my dick is fucking hard in my jeans and the friction we are causing turning me into a fourteen-year-old boy under the bleachers in high school. I whisper in her ear.

“Baby we need to stop. I am aching to be inside you again but if we don’t stop I’m going to come in my damn jeans.” The cheeky minx grinds on me harder, biting her lip and then pulls away. She crooks her finger at me to follow her, which I do. What man wouldn’t follow this sexy woman in front of me? She backs up against the wall and I crush my body against hers pinning her there.

“Let me take that ache away baby, we can’t have you going on stage with a raging hard-on.” Fuck yeah.

Before she can do anything, Nix comes up and taps me on the shoulder “It’s time, Ry.” He walks away; I rest my forehead against Letty’s and breathe her in.

“Baby, I’m so sorry. We will finish this later, ok?” I kiss her and lead her back to the girls who are sitting by the bar. I kiss her one last time and I follow the boys to the side of the stage. We huddle in and pay respect to our father.

“Taking it to the stage, Pop. Always remember,” Reeve says.

“Following our Inside Noise, Pop. Never forget,” Rafe chimes in.

“Making our Inside Noise grow. Getting bigger every day. We miss and love you, Dad.” We hit the stage and the crowd goes wild. Fuck I love saying that too.

“Good evening everyone, how is everyone tonight?” Reeve shouts into the microphone. I start a slow steady beat and Rafe joins in with his bass. “We are Inside Noise, not that any of you need to be told that, but I just thought I should let you know anyway. So, I am thinking we should find out who is the better Phoenix tonight. What do you say ladies?” They scream again and I do believe that a few glasses break from the sound.

“Ok, so on bass we have the one and the only Rafe Phoenix, show some love ladies.” Rafe does a little bass rift and they scream and I see Lucy go crazy and the girls scream and laugh with her. I start a sensual beat on my kit and wait to be introduced.

“Next, we the have the best drummer in the world, I give you Ryder Phoenix ladies.” I pick up the beat and look at my girl she winks at me and screams the roof off this joint. I wink back and she blows me a kiss.

“And then you have me, the best of the best, the one, the only Reeve Phoenix. Give it to me ladies.” And by fuck they do. I am sorry to say, but even with Letty and Lucy screaming for us Reeve wins hands down.

I hear someone shout ‘Fix’ in the crowd and laugh when I see the girls point to Maisey. We play our set and the sweat of pouring off me. I head for the back room and give myself a wipe down before heading out to the bar. I find everyone at the bar except Letty and Quinn.

“Where has Letty gone to?” I ask Rafe and Lucy.

“Quinn had a bit too much to drink so she took her outside for some fresh air, she will be back soon” I nod and order a drink with Izzy. I down my first bottle and order another. I take a pull from the bottle and look at the door to see if Letty is coming back in, only to come face to face with someone I never wanted to see again.

“Hi Ryder.”

“What the fuck are you doing here, Laurie?” I ask, looking around for her husband. I know I heard that they split up, but you never know. After the beating I took off her husband I never saw any of them again until now.

“I was in town and saw that you boys were playing tonight, so I thought I would drop by and say hi. I know that I shouldn’t but I had to see you, even if it was just to say sorry. I never meant to lead you on Ryder, I had every intension of telling you about Kevin but the timing was never right.” She bites her bottom but it doesn’t have the desired effect it does when Letty does it. Fuck, Letty.

“I don’t give a royal fuck about timing, Laurie. You fucked me for nearly two months and didn’t tell me you were fucking married.”

“Ryder” My heart drops as I turn to see Letty staring at me with tears in her eyes.

“You slept with my sister?”

Chapter 19

Letty

“I don’t give a royal fuck about timing, Laurie. You fucked me for nearly two months and didn’t tell me you were fucking married.”

“Ryder” He turns with such horror on his face.

“You slept with my sister?” Tears roll down my face; my world is falling apart in front of me and there is nothing I can do to stop it. Oh my God, Demi. How the hell will I tell her, her world will crumble without Ryder.

“Your sister, wait, what? Are you telling me that Laurie is your sister?” I nod and Ryder’s face pales. Laurie goes to hug me but I step back.

“Don’t, Laur. Don’t you fucking touch me” My mind is spinning and I can’t seem to focus, Ryder goes to touch me but I can’t stop my hand from connecting with his face. He takes the slap and just stares at me with unshed tears in his eyes.

“I need to leave and for the love of God you had better not follow me, either of you. I am fucking done with all this fucked up shit. What was I Ry, just another conquest? Fuck the older sister so you have to give the baby sister a ride also?” I am fucking livid right now; I am way past hurt. I never want to see either of these two again. I turn to walk away but Ryder grips my elbow, almost to the point of it being painful.

“Baby, I didn’t know she was your fucking sister, ok? I met Laurie a while back. We got into a causal relationship but she never told me she was married. As soon as I found out, I broke things off with her”

OH MY GOD

“Kevin was the guy who beat you up, wasn’t he?” I look to Laurie. “Did you know that your ex-fucking-husband put Ryder in the hospital after you royally fucked up. You are nothing but a whore, Laurie Shaw. Stay the fuck away from me.” I look at Ryder, who has pain and confusion written across his face “And you stay the fuck away from me and my daughter.” He goes to speak but I stop him. “No, Ry. I fucking knew something would happen and now my four year old daughter will suffer because of this, because I followed my heart, which was a fucking huge mistake.”

I walk away and past everyone who had been watching out interaction. I angrily wipe the tears away as I walk past Lucy and Rafe. I can’t look them in the eyes, it fucking hurts too much. I make it outside and flag a taxi down and jump in. I give him my address and sit back, thinking how the fuck this day has ended. It’s just one ginormous cluster-fuck.

I pay the driver once we pull up outside my apartment and climb up to my front door, taking a deep breath. I open the door and walk towards Mrs. Dawson who is sitting on the couch watching some reality TV show. I try to smile at her but the fucking dam breaks and the tears fall hard and heavy. Mrs. Dawson is at my side in seconds, she moves fast for her age.

“Oh you poor girl, what the hell happened to get you in this state? C’mon on let me make you some tea.” She helps me to sit on the couch and wraps my blanket around me. I stare into space and don’t realize that Mrs. Dawson is back at my side until she lays a frail hand on my arm. “Drink up, dear. This will help calm you down.” I take a sip and let the warm tea sink to my stomach, warming my body.