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The other women gasped.
Sandi gulped, then whispered. “She hit me first.”
“I asked you a damn question.”
When Sandi didn’t say anything, King wrapped a meaty paw around her neck and lifted her off her feet. Her hands went to his wrist, clawing, trying desperately to remove his hand as his grip tightened. “I can snap your fucking neck in an instant, bitch. I asked you a fucking question. Did you put hands on my woman?”
“Brother, you need to calm down,” Pyro carefully said, standing beside him, “You’ve made your point. No one will touch Venom again.”
“Her name is Bailey,” King seethed. Pyro looked at me, pleading, begging me to do something. Taking a deep breath, I stepped forward and whispered, “Callum, let her go.”
When he didn’t respond until I placed my hand on his arm. “Please. She isn’t worth it. How about you take me to town so we can get one of Beth’s coffees?”
King dropped the woman, and before I could blink, I was in his arms again. “I want that cunt gone before I get back.”
Hawk silently nodded as he hauled Sandi out of the room.
King never let me go as he walked me out of the kitchen and up the stairs. I didn’t know where he was taking me, but when he stopped at the end of the hall and opened a door, I knew it was his room. Following him inside, I shut the door behind me as he paced back and forth like a caged tiger. I could see the tension in his shoulders, his breathing hard and fierce, his motions controlled, yet agile. The man was a ticking time bomb, and I didn’t know why.
“King?”
“Not now Bailey.”
Okay, I thought, taking a seat on his bed as he continued to pace. Looking at my hand, I sighed. Fucking three bones. Useless for the next three weeks. God, just thinking about all the work I was missing was enough to piss me off again, but I digressed. Now was not the time to bring that up again. Besides, I had other things to worry about, like those men who showed up outside my shop.
That, and I was still hungry.
Chapter Ten
King
What the fuck did I just do?
When I brought her back to the club, I had every intention of getting all the information I could out of her and returning her back to town. That was it. I didn’t want to be entangled with her any longer than I had to. My brother’s fucking words kept rattling around in my head.Just be nice to her. Get to the heart of her. Find a way to lower her mask.
Fuck her.
What about me?
Didn’t he see she was getting to me? That somehow, in the short few days I’d been around her, she’d gotten under my skin. I couldn’t be around her. I couldn’t think straight around her. That’s why I pawned her off on the others. Letting them question her because all I wanted to do was sink my cock into her and make her mine forever.
Then I heard that scream.
Never in my life had I ever been so damn scared before, and when I walked into the kitchen, my blood boiled over.
Pacing back and forth in my bedroom, I tried to shake the thoughts from my head. I couldn’t wrap my head around what I had just done and in front of the whole fucking club. Of all the times for me to lose my fucking mind, it had to be within sight of her.
SHIT!
I knew she was fucking trouble from the moment I saw her. Now, I fucked everything up. Instead of keeping my cool, I lost my shit when I saw the marks on her face from when Sandi fought her. I knew that bitch’s claws raked Bailey’s face before I even asked the damn question, but seeing the blood drip onto her shoulder, something inside me snapped.
One minute I was thinking with a clear head, the next I claimed her in front of everyone. Even in front of the fucking club whores! I was fucking forty-two years old. Old enough to be her fucking father. She was a fucking baby compared to me. Had her whole fucking life ahead of her.
I didn’t want a woman, not after Valerie. That cunt soiled all women for me, but there was something different about Bailey. The woman drove me fucking batshit crazy. Seeing her defend herself, pride I hadn’t felt in years rose up, that and a strong desire to protect her, even from those nasty cunts. But when I saw what they did to her.
FUCK!
No. She was too damn young. It wouldn’t work, and I was unwilling to change my ways. She needed someone closer to her own age. Someone who could keep up with her. Someone who would appreciate what she could bring to the table. Knowing the only recourse to me, I turned to find her sleeping on my bed, like a fucking angel. It was at that moment I knew I couldn’t walk away from her. Even if I wanted to, it was impossible.
