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“You weren’t worried about eating anything but dick this morning anyway, so no skin off your nose to wait for us to be done,” Bagger informed her before turning to Charmer. “Do not leave your post at her door for any reason other than life or death. That means that bitch doesn’t get room service while she waits.”
Charmer nodded in acknowledgment before he took her naked body in hand and marched toward the rooms where the club girls lived.
“Can’t catch a break, can you?” Bagger asked.
“Guess you heard about that shit last night.”
He laughed. “Man, that’s all anyone is talking about.
“Maybe Nova was right when she said she couldn’t face everyone this morning.”
“Nah, man. They all love your girl. You’re the one that’s gonna catch hell for putting her in that position, though.”
“Fair e-fucking-nough,” I grunted as we made our way to the room we used for church. Scout was sitting right outside in a chair that wasn’t normally situated there. It reminded me of the way Grady guarded Nova’s door last night.
“What’s up, Scout.” Bagger asked, though he eyed her curiously. “You know we’re about to head in for church, right?”
“Yep,” she agreed while staring at me.
“That means you can’t be hangin’ around out here,” he informed her when he didn’t think she caught his hint.
“Prez told me to wait here. That’s what I’m doing.”
Bagger shrugged it off and went inside. I reached out and offered my support as I clamped my hand down on her shoulder and gave her a quick squeeze. She was nervous and for good reason. This meeting would determine her future with the club. To be honest, I wasn’t sure how the vote would go, so she had reason to be nervous.
It worked in her favor that the President and Enforcer of the club were going into this surprise vote vouching for her. What didn’t help was the fact that Kip had caught wind of Church and the fact that no one told him about it, and he showed up anyway.
~*~
The minute I stepped out of church, and grinned at Scout, she knew what her fate was and practically tackled me as she jumped into my arms to celebrate. Scout’s lips met my own before I pushed her away and set her down on her feet.
“What are you doing?” I growled at her.
“Sorry. I was so excited.” She laughed giddily. “I meant to just tag you on the cheek, but…” She shrugged her shoulders as if that explained everything.
“How do you think my woman would feel if she came down that hall and saw your lips all over me?” It wasn’t fair for me to throw it at her like that because Nova had seen what went down between Scout and me the night before. That shitshow had been entirely my fault, not hers. Still, it was so fresh, that I couldn’t believe Scout would chance my girl seeing her jumping into my arms, let alone kissing me on the lips. Not to mention, our club brothers, who just voted her in were seeing her behaving like a whore instead of a patched member – which was one of the worries brought to the table.
“Oh shit! Break, no. I’m sorry. I really wasn’t thinking.”
“That’s something you need to start doing more of. You’re a member now, will be officially by next week anyway. They’re waiving your prospecting period since you already put in more time than any prospect next to Bagger anyhow.” I chuckled at that, because everyone gave Bagger shit about being the only member who had to prospect twice for the club.
“Okay, well, still… I feel like I owe you the biggest thanks because you believed in me, and my skills outside of the bedroom, from the very beginning. You are the best kind of man when you want to be, Breakneck.”
“Don’t go spreading that rumor, Scout.” I moved around her as the rest of the men started filing out of church. “I need to go see to Nova. Congratulations! I hope you know what you asked for when you wanted to become a member. Shit’s going to be different from here on out.”
Scout nodded and stepped aside, her light dimming just a little when Kip burst free from the room with bloody knuckles, a scowl on his face, and nothing more than a dismissive glance her way before he took off.
I couldn’t stay to hold her hand through the pain I knew she must be feeling because Nova wouldn’t look too kindly on that shit. Knowing that I felt that way, or rather that I’d have to think that way to protect Nova, brought up another uphill climb that Scout would face as a member.
The women, the ones attached to the men of the club, weren’t going to be very happy knowing that their men would be so chummy with her. It was a new level of growing pains that the club would have to face, and we’d have to do it with a united front, which didn’t seem possible considering the things said behind closed doors before the vote finally went through.
My plans to get straight to Nova were fucking thwarted by my club brothers. All of them wanted to talk my ear off, either about what happened the night before, or about the fact that I’d been hiding everything Scout had been doing for the club all this time. There were still things I was hiding from them, especially Kip. Despite Scout’s newly elevated status to patched member, they still couldn’t know because there was a chance it might get back to Ash and keep her from being discovered. That couldn’t happen. I’d gladly beg everyone’s forgiveness for the secrecy later. What we were doing was to protect another brother from a lifetime of misery.
Still, it was past quitting time when I finally made it back to Kip’s room to check on Nova. It rankled that she hadn’t come out once to get food, though I could have sworn I saw Charmer head back that way with a bag and drink. Maybe that was Kip’s way of getting back at me for hiding so much about Scout from him. He thought he would be funny by pushing Charmer on my girl.
Not gonna happen.
That reminded me though and I turned right back around to go see Tripp. “The fucking brothers have kept me hemmed up all day with questioning and hen-pecking my every decision,” I complained the minute I walked through his office door.
