All In: ALL IN KNIGHTS OF MAYHEM (11 page)

Taking my hands from hers I turn shaking my head, ‘whatever this thing with us is
, it's temporary at best. So I am going to squash it and let it be.”

“That’s my girl.”
Piper goes to heaping burgers on a serving tray.

We say little as we prepare enough burgers to feed a small army. But the thoughts of
Mavis and Leo run on a continual loop in my head. Her arms around his neck, his lips on hers, I think I have just made myself sick again.

I notice the sounds from the other side of the kitchen have stopped, ‘get out of your head Avery, don’t ruin this by over thinking and running through nine thousand
scenarios of what might have happened.” She crosses and takes my face in her hands, ‘live in the moment, and enjoy the now. Forget about everything else and just revel in the fact you are being taking care of by a sexy as hell man.” Her eyebrows shoot up, ‘okay?”

Nodding my agreement
is the only action I can muster after the impromptu visit by senorita slut.

****

Leo

Dalton’s phone rings pulling his attention away from our impromptu meeting, we fall silent as we let him answer the call from Piper, bec
ause if we didn’t he would fidget in his chair driving us all crazy wanting to check his voice mail.

Ramon lo
oks at me, ‘where is Cowboy?” Nodding his head in the direction the empty chair next to me.

I sit up leaning my elbows on the desk, ‘he had his girl today, I told him he didn’t really need to be here.”

Romans face turns up, ‘oh look at the big man getting all soft, after just one romp in the sack with the infamous Avery.” He laughs and dodges the beer bottle I chucked at him.

“Has nothing to do with it fucktard.” I lean back again and smile inwardly because she has had qui
t an effect on me, in the way Roman thinks but I would never admit it to these ass wipes.

Leaning to pick up the glass, ‘oh I think it does.”

Dalton closes his phone, ‘shit.” He curses as he stands.

“What is it,’ I
lean into the table clinching my fists.

“We have to go and clean house, Mavis was just in the fucking kitchen with Avery.”
Dalton heads for the door

My stomach slightly wrenches, ‘did she say anything?”

Nodding, Dalton continues, ‘no, she was just going off about you and her knowledge of what you like.” He levels his eyes at me.

“Fuck!” I nearly make a hole in the wall with how hard I stand slinging the chair backwards, ‘she is gone for good.” I storm out of the office to come face to face with a smug Mavis leaning up against her car.

When she sees me, she refocuses her attention from her nails onto me, ‘met your new fuck toy,’ pushing off with her hip she stands and slithers over to me, ‘impressive, even for you Leo.”

I shudder when she comes into my personal space, ‘Mavis
, your time around this place has come to an end. Get the fuck out and don’t come back, ever. Do you hear me?”

Her sick tickling laugh grates my nerves as she lays her hand on my chest, ‘oh Leo baby
, you know you will be calling me back when you tire of your little plaything.”

As gently as I can, I take her wrist a
nd remove her hand from my body. I don’t know what I was ever thinking, keeping her around, ‘no Mavis, not this time. You need to leave now or I will make the call.”

She jumps back, ‘you wouldn’t
.” She grimaces in anger.

Laughing deep, ‘oh you have no idea how much I would love to,’ stepping to her only to get my point across, ‘Mavis stay away from her, stay away from me, and I better never see you back here ever.” I step back crossing my arms over my chest as she stews over what I have just threatened her with, ‘so Mavis what is it going to be
, leaving in hand cuffs or what?”

She pokes one of her sick
ly fake nails into my chest, ‘this isn’t over ass wipe, you are not the only one who knows people.”

This peeking my anger to all new realms of pissed off, ‘are you threatening me bitch
because you know it will not end well for you.”

Her gratified laugh
is nauseating, ‘you are so self centered Leo, not everything is about you. Just remember you are the one who let this go.” She steps back and makes a sweep of her body with her hands.

Nearly gagging at the thoughts brought forth, ‘not one bit to fucking soon, should
have done it a long time ago, now leave.”

She snorts as she pushes back, walking to her car, she stops before she gets in, ‘
Remember Leo, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” With her last comment still hanging in the air, she got in her car and left.

Releasing a long breath
, I turn to find Roman and Dalton had come out of the office. Roman was the first to speak, ‘sorry man but hey she is gone now and Avery want let her shit in.”

Rubbing my hand down my face I let out a long breath, ‘man I hope so.”
I need to get back to Avery and make sure the only damage Mavis has done is give Avery a slight hint of the jealousy bug. I can deal with that, I couldn’t come back from Mavis blowing the lid off of everything else.

Dalton slaps my back
trying to reassure me, ‘come on, nothing you can do about it now, let’s go eat.”

I send a silent thank you up to whomever for my brothers and the support they have always given me. I turn to follow them back into the kitchen where Avery is and just the thought of seeing her lightens my mood.

****

Avery

The kitchen door being yanked open again jerks me from my thoughts, ‘is the food ready yet?” Dalton stands in the door frame rubbing his belly when he is pushed from behind by Roman.

“What the
hell man?” Dalton turns and punches Roman's arm which in turn has Roman retaliating by pushing Dalton into the sink. Children, they remind me of two hundred pound children.

After the scuffle is finished by a little chastising from Piper,
Roman looks at me crossing the room encircling me in his arms, ‘the bitch just left and she better never come back, she be nasty.” He smiles raising my hopes as he leans in and kisses my hair.

“Well from what I gather that doesn’t bode well for me or Piper.” I say flatly as I scan the room and my eyes land on Dalton and so does Piper’s.

He was holding a bag of chips shoving a handful into his mouth, ‘What? I don’t know what she did with Leo but she just serviced me once or twice that’s it.” Dalton holds his arms out to the side as he explains to Piper.

“
It is still gross.” Piper is standing in front of him with her hands on her hips tapping her foot.

I can feel him when he hits the door, ‘Roman man I thought we discussed
this shit.” His face is contorted with anger and his hands are fisted at his side.

“No harm man
, I was just comforting her.” Roman drops his arms from around me and moves so Leo can fill the space.

“
If she needs comforting, I will give it to her,’ Leo states in passing, ‘hey babe.” I am once again taken up in the strong arms of a big man but these arms somehow feel different than Roman’s, and I am liking it too much. I have fallen silent and watch as his eyes shift from a hard coal color to a liquid black pool I could drown in.

“She said you sent her in here.” I state to him never diverting my eyes from his.

“Well I didn’t, she is a bitch Avery, who has over stayed her welcome. She will not be back, the guys have orders.” His stern tone leaves little doubt of her returning and it eases my nerves somewhat.

“Okay.”
My reply is sheepish at best.

“Food ready, I am fuckin’ starving
babe.” Leo changes the subject giving my ass a tight squeeze in the process.

“
Yeah, why don’t you three fix your plates first and then I will take the rest out for the crew.” I train my gaze on the plate busting with burgers.

“Hells ya, membership has its privileges.’ Dalton bellows as he grabs the plate Piper is handing him.

Leo reaches and yanks Dalton’s hand free of the empty plate, ‘hells ya man,’ he does his best Dalton surfer dude impersonation, ‘President and woman than Piper then VP than you.” Leo points out the pecking order. I laugh at the dejected look Dalton has on his face. Piper doesn’t help the matter by turning and sticking her tongue out at him as she begins to fix her own plate. Children.

****

Leo leans back in his chair rubbing his belly, ‘ladies, you out did yourselves.” He puts his arm around me and brings me in for a kiss on the temple.

Dalton and Roman are still stuffing their faces with the a
ngel food cake I had picked up for dessert, ‘shit this should become an every Sunday afternoon thing.” Roman spits cake crumbs from his mouth spraying the table in front of him.

Piper laughs, ‘
Eww Roman, gross don’t talk with your mouth full.” I find my face has begun to hurt from the smile I had worn through lunch and I have been laughing so hard my sides are splitting at the antics of these three.

I love seeing this side of Leo, the lighthearted joker he i
s when he is around his friends. I am very thankful the caveman didn’t reappear the moment he stepped foot into the clubhouse. I lean over and innocently place my hand on his thigh. He in turn covers it with his, I rub back and forth as I listen to Roman tell how Dalton vomited somewhere and then fell in it.

The whole table erupts in laughter except for
Leo, who has his eyes trained on me. Taking my hand up from his thigh he stands hauling me up with him, ‘now it is time to go work it off.” He announces to the table garnering a few whoops and hollers. I bury my face in his back, out of sheer embarrassment.

Leo leads me through the back door and down the same hall as we
had during the party, except this time I am a willing follower because I know what is coming, and that would be me and I hope it is several times.

Going through
the door I am pleasantly surprised the place is now clean, ‘cleaning lady come by?” I ask as I notice the several piles of dirty clothes and the random beer bottles were gone.

“I paid to have it cleaned yesterday, I didn’t want you in here again
the way it was.” His voice is deep and husky, his eyes are dark and scorching my skin with his heated gaze. We stand toe to toe just staring as if it is the first time we have seen each other.

“Enough talking.” He declared right before he crushed
my mouth with his. He pulled me to him and turned so he could lay me back on the bed. Laying me down slowly he never broke the contact of the hot kiss he was giving me. I felt the softness of the covers on the bed and the smell of fresh laundered linens filled my nose. I felt the pressure of his hands on either side of my head as he lowered himself to his elbows so the full weight of his torso was on me and it was divine.

I moan into his mouth and roll my hips against him, ‘I want you Leo.”

He takes his nose and knocks my chin with it signaling for me to lift my head, in doing so I am met with his soft lips touching the skin as his thumb makes tiny circles on my temples. I wrap my leg around his firm ass and pull him into me, he rolls his hips rubbing my sweet spot. I run my fingers through his luscious hair tugging it lightly garnering a groan of satisfaction from him.

He lifts from me and reaches down to my feet to take off my shoes dropping them to the floor. I lean up on my elbows and watch as he unbuttons and tugs down my blue jeans leaving me only in my tank top and panties. He begins kissing up my thigh as I
lie back closing my eyes and begin to feel the all too familiar strings of my pleasure being plucked by his lips.

When he reaches the crease of my leg he gives the same treatment to the other leg, I roll and moan from the sheer exquisite attention he is paying to me. I tug at his shirt he lifts only long enough for me to pull it over his broad inked shoulders and then goes back to his task. I scrape my fingernails over the skin on his back only making him seem more desperate.

I feel a jerk and hear an audible pop and realize he has torn my underwear from me, again. But at the moment I don’t care and my fingers find their way back into his hair, ‘Oh Leo.” I mumble as his tongue as found my sex and if twisting me into knots.

He slings each knee over his shoulders and makes quick work of getting right to the point. His tongue work
s its way inside of my folds and is followed by his finger pushing deep into me making my back bow and my breath rush from my lungs.

“Oh Leo I am close.” I pant as my body is responding to his mouth in ways I didn’t think would be possible again. My body begins to vibrate
and my muscles have gone rigid. I feel the radiating lava throughout my body with each lick Leo is providing. His one finger has grown to two and they plunge into me with each pass of his tongue. Then the tendrils of sheer bliss begin to pull back on the lava bringing it all back to my sex and Leo’s mouth.

He makes
two more passes, ‘oh Leo.” I come squeezing my knees into his head but he doesn’t stop his assault as he wrings every last bit of pleasure from me he can get.

“Stop Leo stop.” I beg as his mouth has still not stopped its mission.

Finally, after having to beg, he lifts his head and looks up at me through hooded lashes, ‘shit you almost made me come baby.” He pushes up taking my legs off his shoulders and gently laying them to either side of his hips. He is still in his jeans and on his knees between my legs. I see an opportunity but before I sit up I take him in, to explore his body with my hands.

His lean body and thick arms, the top button on his jeans is lose exposing the small dusting of hair I think is so sexy disappearing
under the waist band of his worn jeans, and all that fucking ink, yum. My finger traces the numerous lines defining the scene played out on his torso.

“
What do they all mean?” I ask as I study them. His stomach is covered with one large intricate scene where one thing rolls into another. They are mostly black with a splash of color thrown in for detail.

Taking my hand from his stomach, ‘that is a conversation for a different time.”
Bringing my hand up to his lips he kisses each finger. I see the pain in his eyes quickly morph into lust as he takes the hem of my top and pulls it over my head.

I lay back as his eyes
take in my body, ‘a blank canvas.” He leans into my stomach and his lips lightly brush the skin. I didn’t even have a body piercing, so yes I am a blank canvas.

He looks at me, ‘I haven’t been with a vanilla since high school.” His lips go back to my skin.

“Vanilla?” I tug his hair up so that I can see his eyes.

“No ink, no rings.”
He clarifies his comment for me.

“Yeah I am so rocking the non—
hep b threat.” I breathe deep as he looks at me like a virginal buffet.

His gruff laugh vibrates the whole bed making me laugh too, ‘Avery there are places that are really clean.”

“You know you can’t give blood if you have a tat?” The nurse in me sees no reason as to why you would expose yourself to such things.

“Never crossed my mind but I do know what I have in mind to do to you now.” He growls as he buries his face down in my neck.
A loud knocking at the door pulls him away with a sharp curse, ‘Fuck, you better be dead or bleeding,” he exits the bed, ‘take the sheet and cover up babe.” He is standing at the door when another desperate knock comes through the door, ‘hold the fuck on.” He shouts as I scramble to get under the covers.

I just barely get under the sheet when Leo yanks open the door, ‘what the fuck dude?” He asked a very unnerved Beeker. His bare back is to me and I
once again face to face with the angel of death, creepy but sexy because it is covering Leo’s back. A little shiver runs through my body.

“
What Beek?” Leo’s sounds frustrated as he prompts the boy to explain why he interrupted us.

“Um he showed up about five minutes ago, what do you want me to do?” Leo ducks his head and runs a rough hand through his hair and releases and aggravated breath.

He threw his head back and cursed at the ceiling, ‘mother fucker.” I glance over at the clock and see it is around nine at night and wonder who would be coming to a Motorcycle clubhouse at this time of night on a Sunday.

“Leo I can go and see you later this week, I have to work in the morning.” I sit up holding the sheet
statically so Beeker can’t see anything of importance.

“Fuck no you are staying right where you are, I wi
ll be back in a minute.” He growled as he turned to pick up his shirt to pull it over his head.

“Leo it is okay really, I don’t mind to leave.” I start to survey the array of clothing
lying scattered over the floor.

The bed dips from his weight as he climbs on giving me a face to face, ‘did you just hear what I said? Stay the fuck put
Avery, I mean it, I will be right back.” He kisses my nose as my mouth hangs open, and there he is the bad ass biker boy and his bossy streak.

“Damnit Leo,’ I argue as I have gone up to my knees taking the sheet with me.

“Enough said Avery, I am locking the door.” He warns over his shoulder as he walks out and I hear the familiar tumblers of the lock falling into place from the outside.

I slam myself back into the bed, ‘
Awww asshole!” I scream at the ceiling as I lay there and stomp my foot into the bed. I jump up and throw my feet off the bed dragging the sheet with me and wrapping it around me toga style. I find the panties he had torn off me dropping the skimp of fabric back to the floor knowing they are a helpless cause. I go over to the chest and begin to pull open the drawers not necessarily snooping but if something interesting falls out, I will look. But for now I will settle for a tee shirt.

After I
find an over abundance of the short I choose a logoed, Knights of Mayhem, it is large and smells of Leo’s cologne. Pulling it over my head I return the sheet and straighten the bed. I go to the door placing a hesitant hand on the knob and test it gently, yep true to his word locked from the outside.

When this strategy fails I pr
ess my ear to the door to see if I can hear anything interesting going on or find out the identity of the mystery man. I hear muffled male voices one happening to be the strongest in the crowd belongs to Leo, the rest are indiscernible. Leo shouts and I hear a man stumble back seemingly trying to calm Leo down.

I wonder where Piper went and if Dalton tucked her away in his little room away from home, if he has one. For all I know this is where they all live, there has never been any mention of them staying anywhere.
I take out my phone and call her.