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“What the actual fuck?” he asks.
I almost laugh. “That’s exactly what I said. It’s a cupcake shop now,” I explain. “Well, a bakery.”
“Where are they?” he asks because he thinks I’m the one who would know where my own family is, but he, of all people, should know that I don’t.
Not in the goddamn slightest.
I haven’t seen them in twenty years. At least not intentionally. Living in the small town of Pineville in East Texas, running into people you don’t want to see at the grocery store is inevitable. This is one reason why I try not to walk into a goddamn grocery store if I can help it.
CHAPTER
THREE
KING
Atomic sits behind his desk as Gnaw and I make our way inside. “Well, my mom and stepdad are gone. The bar is a bakery, and we have three kegs that don’t have a home,” I announce as I flop down in the chair across from him.
Gnaw sinks down in the one beside me, not saying a word. Atomic leans back in his chair, his eyes on mine as he lets out a grunt. “Good news is that I was thinking of having a party, and to do that, the club needs three new kegs.”
I start to ask him why he’s having a party, but he continues to speak. “It’s more of an ‘invite the local talent out for an evening’ kind of party. We haven’t done anything like that in a while,” he says.
“Local talent?” I ask. “This party include desserts?” I ask.
Gnaw laughs.
I think about asking him what the fuck this whole party is for, but I don’t because I have a feeling this is all just to keep those three kegs from going completely to waste. And leave a paper trail. Because at the end of the day, the paper trail is all that fucking matters.
“Like from a bakery?” Gnaw asks.
“One downtown,” I reply with a chuckle. “She looked like she could use the business, and swear to fuck, I could have come from that cupcake I ate.”
Atomic lets out a guffaw. “Yeah?” he asks. “That from the cupcake or the cupcake serving it to you?”
“Both,” I say with a grin. “But do tell about new talent?”
Atomic’s lips curve up into a grin. “We’ve had the same clubwhores for a while, right? Don’t you want to recruit some new pussy?” he asks. “I always like to freshen up the place, and it’s been a while.”
I sure as shit fucking want fresh pussy, and it has been a hell of a long time. I’ve memorized all the cunt we have here. Poison is the newest and youngest, but she’s also the one who puts herself out there, and out, the most often. I can’t even count how many times I’ve been inside of her.
“That sounds like a good thing to me,” Gnaw states, standing to his feet, almost jumping to them.
He seems really fucking excited about it, and I can’t blame him. I feel the same way, my heart slamming against my chest at the idea of the fucking party. It’s been a while since we’ve had an open party, but that’s not what has me fucking thrilled. It’s the bakery babe.
Smiling, I jerk my chin. “Order some fucking dessert,” Atomic states. “Bring the kegs in and have the prospects set them up. Party is Friday, and we’ll get the news out to the women in town.”
That’s my cue to leave, and I take it. I walk out of the office, head into the bar, and go straight for the booze. I don’t know what the reason is, the party, the bar that’s gone, or that sweet little thing at the bakery, but I need a goddamn drink.
Guts slides an opened beer across the bar top toward me as soon as I walk up to the warm, scarred wood. Reaching out, I wrap my fingers around the bottle and lift it to my lips to take a pull from the bottle before I turn and scan the room.
There’s a couple fucking in the corner, four guys playing pool together, another playing pinball, four playing poker, and then a clubwhore giving three guys a lap dance. This is my life, my world, and I fucking love it.
I wouldn’t want it any other way.
I cannot imagine anything about my life changing in any way whatsoever.
Brew slides up next to me, lifting his own beer bottle to his lips to take a drink. He clears his throat, then turns to face me. Shifting my focus over to him, I jerk my chin. “What’s up?”
He shrugs a shoulder, then clears his throat. “Got some shit I need some help with tomorrow night. You down?”
