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“Cancer took her a few years back. She never bothered to find someone else after my dad died out there. Think she spent so much time waiting on him that she wasn’t willing to wait on anyone else.”
“I can understand that.” I think Breakneck got it because he nodded his head and remained thoughtful as he tucked into the rest of the chili cheese fries. I was saving room for the rest of the food I had yet to try.
Chapter 23
Breakneck
Meg came and set our meals in front of us. “Was Grips around earlier?”
“I was working on something for the club before I picked Nova up. Didn’t see him, but I wasn’t hanging around the clubhouse,” I answered wondering why Meg would be asking about her man. Those two were nearly as solid as Mack and Viv, from what I could tell.
“I tried his phone earlier. Our grill guy for the night couldn’t make it in. I’m testing out one of the prep guys who swears he knows how to cook, but I was hoping Grips could come in as backup just in case Danny can’t make it happen.”
Meg knew she was putting me in a tight spot. I could pull my phone out and message him to see if he answered me. If he did, and was ignoring his wife, not only would Meg know, but it would send the wrong kind of message to Nova about how secretive the club could be.
“Might want to contact Tripp and ask if everything is okay. You know sometimes shit goes down and we’re not able to reach out right away. Grips and I don’t really work together like that often, so no clue what he’s up to today.”
“I’ll do that. He’s not the type to make me worry for no reason.”
I knew that to be true, too. That’s why I was hesitant to make a call or send a message to find out what he was up to. There was no fucking way I was about to ruin my first real date with Nova when it was possible Grips was stepping out on his woman, or just ignoring her for whatever reason.
“How is everything?” Meg asked while obviously resigned to the fact that I wouldn’t help her.
I took a bite of my burger and groaned in appreciation. Once I managed to chew and swallow, I turned to Meg. “The kid who took over in the kitchen make this burger?” She nodded and worried her lip with her teeth. “Fucking hire him for full time if you have it. This shit is good. Don’t know what he did different, but fuck, this is how I want my burger cooked all the time.”
A huge grin spread across Meg’s face. “Thank fuck,” she muttered before running off to the kitchen.
“That was sweet of you.”
“Nah, sweetness, this shit is amazing.” I held my burger out for her to try and she dove on it without hesitation. Something about feeding her made me hard as a damn rock. There was something primal about it. I wanted her in bed, wearing nothing, waiting to be fed by me after being completely sated sexually. I could see her there as is, and with a rounded belly too. Fuck, but she had me daydreaming up all sorts of scenarios where I was the one taking care of her and appreciating everything she had to offer.
“That is really good, but then again, so is this mac-n-cheese.”
“Knew you’d like it.”
“Honestly, of all the things my mom did to hurt me, I think not allowing me to try this kind of food was one of the worst.”
I laughed at that because she wasn’t wrong, but then again, her mother abandoned her at her lowest moment and simply didn’t care to ever check in with her again. That’s some shit I could relate to considering my father was not much better. He at least came back to see that we were still alive from time-to-time.
We both ate the rest of our meal in peace, if you consider the noises of appreciation Nova kept making to be peaceful. The woman was taunting the fuck out of my dick. I wanted nothing more than to take her out and find a quiet corner to bend her over and fuck the shit out of her.
That couldn’t happen because Nova wasn’t ready yet. I might have been a fucking moron when it came to women, but after what she said to me the other night, I knew that one good date wouldn’t erase the fact that she’d just seen me have sex with two other women along with all the wild bullshit drama Connie caused for the second round. It had only been a day and I was starting to realize that Nova deserved more from me.
Talking about my dad and the way he treated my mom was a good reminder. I’d always told my mom that she deserved more. I couldn’t be the bastard that didn’t offer that to the future mother of my children.
After we ate, I took my sweetness home and left her on Kip’s doorstep with a quick kiss. I didn’t want to push that either. Everything had to go right or my daydreams of knocking her up would be gone in the wind quicker than I could blink.
~*~
“You seem a little frustrated,” Connie cooed in my ear as she slid her arm around my shoulder and drew her fingertips down my arm. “Let’s go back to your room and I’ll make you feel better. No one even has to know.”
“I’m good.”
“You don’t look good, honey. Looks to me like that prissy little babysitter is just a tease and she’s leaving you without a happy ending. You can try to play the sweet, understanding boyfriend for her, but we both know that’s not who you are.”
“We also both know that if I was going to do something about lack of sex, it wouldn’t be with you.” I turned and stood with my beer in hand and moved to go check in on the poker game Trench and a couple of the other men were involved in. Things looked a little heated and that usually meant there would be a distracting fight to take my mind off the fact that I was trying to be the man Nova deserved, even if that meant not fucking her right away like I wanted to.
I’d stared at Nova’s lips during dinner the night before and every time she put her fucking fork in her mouth all I could think about was what it would be like with my cock there instead. Her beautiful lips would feel so good sliding up and down my length as she stared at me through those innocent eyes of hers.
