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“Connie raked her claws right down your girl’s face. Grady cleaned and patched her up after your girl cunt-punched Connie and doubled her over where she stood.”
Trench laughed at the memory, but I needed to know my woman was okay and to reassure her that what she saw with Scout wasn’t at all what it looked like.
“Where is she?” I asked again before taking off for my room, since he and Mitzi both pointed down the hallway.
My door was closed when I got there, but that wasn’t what halted my progress. That was the fact that Grady fucking Beckworth was sitting in a chair that had been pulled up just outside of Kip’s room and the old fucker had a gun in his hand aimed right at me.
“What the fuck?”
“Should be asking you exactly that,” the old man said in a quiet voice, as if trying to keep whoever was on the other side of that door from hearing our conversation. Tripp moved up beside me right around the same time.
“Mind telling me why you have a gun aimed at our enforcer, Grady?”
Grady chuckled and pointed the gun at the floor before he drew his eyes back up to mine and what I saw there chilled me to the bone. I’d known him all my life, but never once had that icy stare been directed at me.
“You wined and dined that girl for days and we all thought you were serious, then you fucked her and left the poor thing by herself with no fucking aftercare. Don’t take a genius to realize that poor thing was a virgin, and we’ve all seen you fuck, so I know you’re not a small man.” His eyes dropped down to where my dick was, and I got his drift. I’d hurt Nova more than just the sting of losing her virginity.
“That girl came out looking for a drink and some pain killers only to find you hugging and kissing on another woman,” Grady informed me.
“Hugging and kissing?” Tripp asked as he turned toward me. “Mitzi said you were loved up on Scout, but I assumed she meant when you took her hand and dragged her to my office.”
I shook my head. “She thought I was coming to get in her pants and was angry because Scout had already told me that would never happen while I was with Nova.” Tripp nodded his head and waited for me to continue. “I pounced on her from behind. She was sitting at the poker table, and I wrapped my arms around her, so she wouldn’t run and then I whispered into her ear that it was time to go see you and asked if she was ready for that.” I growled in frustration, because I knew exactly what I did next and how it would have looked to Nova. “I kissed her neck and stood up and offered her my hand.”
“Well, imagine how that looked through the eyes of the woman whose virginity you just took. You left her alone, in pain, and probably a little confused only to have to walk in and see you and Scout like that in front of the whole club. Then, Connie started her shit.”
“Fuck, I know what happened. Trench and Mitzi filled me in. The shit with Scout was club business.”
“Your girl didn’t know that.”
“No shit, old man. That’s why I’m trying to find her to explain.”
“You ain’t goin’ in there tonight.”
“The fuck you say?”
“You heard me, boy.”
“Now, Grady,” Tripp started, but the old man shook his head and raised his pistol up once more.
“I said, you ain’t goin’ in there tonight and I mean it. She done cried herself to sleep and she don’t need to be disturbed at this point. Don’t care if I have to shoot every fucker in this club to keep you from getting’ to her either. That girl deserved more than what you gave her tonight.
“She’s bent over backwards for this club, put up with Kip’s psycho wife, worked more hours as that baby’s parent than either of his parents. No offense to Kip because I know he’s working the garage and club shit. He should have been able to count on his baby’s mother to be there for him, but instead he got Nova. She’s never let anyone in the club down. Every motherfucker who stood by and watched the shitshow that went down while you two had your meeting with Scout let that girl down though. They didn’t even step in when Connie started running her mouth. Only sat there and watched the show.”
“Yeah? What were you doing?”
“I was about to shoot the cunt,” he admitted and chuckled as he remembered something. “Then Nova punched her right in the cooch and I damn near pissed myself. Had to holster my pistol before I shot my own foot off.”
I couldn’t’ keep the grin from my face, despite the seriousness of the conversation. There was a part of me that wished I could have seen my girl handing Connie exactly what she deserved. Instead, I turned to Tripp. “We need to discuss the club girls who have gotten a little too comfortable with causing trouble around here. Connie isn’t the only one who thought she’d start shit tonight.”
“Yep, already informed Prez about Liz, but he was in a bit of a hurry when I did.” Grady told me.
“Church tomorrow probably won’t be the best time to discuss it, considering what else is on the docket,” Tripp mused.
Scout was a club girl, too. He was right. If we brought up Connie and Liz’s behavior, it would inadvertently paint the same light on Scout and defeat the vote to bring her in as a member.
“Soon then,” I agreed. Tripp nodded, tipped his head toward Grady, and then Kip’s door.
“You need to give her the night. Apologies can wait until morning, and Breakneck, if you’re serious about her, you need to make that apology serious, too. You might not have done much wrong outside of being an inconsiderate shit to the woman who you deflowered, but she doesn’t know that. Keep it in mind when you have that talk.”
