Devil's Charm (18 page)

Two weeks later Lexie was
cleaning away some dirty clothes when her cell phone rang. Without looking at
the screen she answered the call. Devil was walking downstairs looking sexy as
hell. Her gaze was more focused on his ripped body than anything else. The last
two weeks had been insane. The club was working with all the building work
completed. Devil had a shitload of cash and knew how to get his builders
working fast. Judi was doing much better. She’d been quieter than normal, but
she was slowly coming out of her shell.

Rob was dead. Lexie knew she
had to be a moron to think otherwise. Anyone who crossed Devil would end up in
the ground, dead.

“Lexie, where are you?”
Kayla asked.

Frowning, she pulled the
phone away and looked at the name. “Kayla?”

Devil jerked, looking toward
her. The anger on his face scared her.

With everything that
happened she’d forgotten all about her sister.

“I need to see you. It’s
really important.” Kayla sounded earnest.

“Give me the fucking phone,”
Devil said, taking the device off her in the next second. “Hello, Kayla.”

She didn’t know what was
happening. Scrunching the pair of panties she held between her fists she tried
to discover what was going on. His face didn’t say anything to her at all.

“That’s right. I got to your
sister, and I’ve got to my son. I got the results back as well. Kid is mine.
You also stole from me, bitch. Do you really think I wasn’t going to find you?”
The anger in his voice scared her.

Kayla had crossed him, and
she was about to end up in the ground like Rob.

“Twenty minutes. We settle
this fucking score.” He closed the cell phone, looking her in the eye. “You’re
staying here.”

“No, I’m not staying here.
Not when you’re on your way to kill my sister.” She followed him as he headed
toward the front door. “Devil, you can’t do this.”

“That woman, your fucking
sister, was more than happy for you to be in trouble. She wanted you to take
the fall. If I was anyone else, Lex, you’d be fucking dead.”

She flinched as he threw the
cold harsh truth in her face. “But I’m not dead. Please, you can’t kill her.”

He turned to her, laughing.
“You’re fucking crazy if you don’t think I’m going to deal with this.”

Devil grabbed his jacket on
the way out of the door.

“If you loved me, you’d take
me with you and you’d keep her alive.”

He tensed, turning back to
look at her. “What are you saying?”

“I accept your apology, and
I don’t expect anything else from you. All I ask is you let Kayla live.”

“I can’t
fucking
believe this,” he said, looking up at the ceiling.

“Please, Devil.”

He stared at her for a long
time. “Get Judi to watch Simon and get your fucking ass on the back of my
bike.”

Running upstairs she quickly
handed Simon over to Judi. The young girl smiled and wished her luck.

Within ten minutes she was
on the back of Devil’s bike heading toward an unknown location. She recognized
her apartment block instantly. They passed the building, heading down an alley
on his bike. They came out behind an old factory. She spotted Kayla smoking a
cigarette leaning against the wall.

She looked terrible even at
the distance of a few feet.

Her hand was shaking while
she smoked. “Stay here,” Devil said.

Lexie stayed on the bike.
Her heart pounded as Kayla plastered a smile on her face, running fingers
through her hair.

“What’s happening, baby?”
Kayla asked.

“Not going to work.”

She cried out as Devil
caught Kayla by the hair and started talking to her.

“Devil,
stop.”
He pulled a gun out, pressing it to her head. Lexie realized
in the time they’d known each other, he’d never once pointed a gun at her.
Fucking hell, what kind of world was she living in?

Covering her mouth, she
tried to remain silent as he completed whatever business he had to do.

“You stole my money and tried
to keep my fucking kid from me.” Her face was pressed against the brick. Biting
into her lip, Lexie kept her cries deep inside.

Don’t hurt her. Don’t hurt her.

“I want you to admit to your
sister. The girl who took our kid in without refusing you what you hoped I’d
do,” Devil said, turning Kayla so Lexie saw her.

Kayla looked petrified. “I
thought he’d kill you and be done with it.”

The cold harsh truth was
like a slap to the face.

“I can’t be like her,
Devil.”

“I know, baby.” He threw
Kayla to the ground and pointed his gun at her. A bullet went off, but it
wasn’t anywhere near Kayla. “I was going to kill you. This is your one and only
warning. You get out of town, and you do not speak a word of who you are. If I
so much as hear the name Kayla Howard I will find you and I’ll kill you.” He
lifted her up, grabbing her chin.

Lexie winced at the pain her
sister must be feeling.

“Look at your sister.”

Kayla’s gaze was on her.
Lexie felt under the spotlight.

“That’s my old lady. The
only reason you’re still breathing is because she wants you to be breathing. Otherwise
I’d have killed you the moment I saw you.” He released her. “Kayla Howard is
dead. She died on this day, and she left her young son. Do you understand me?”

She nodded.

“Here’s the ten grand you
took from me. Get the fuck out now.”

He walked back to the bike,
climbed on, and they were out of there. Several miles from the house, he
stopped the bike. His whole body was tense, and Lexie waited for him to speak.

“We will never discuss what
just happened, do you understand?” he asked.

“Yes.”

“All Simon needs to know is
you’re his mother.”

“Okay.” She wasn’t about to
argue with him.

“Do you know what I just
did?” He turned on the bike to look at her.

“You let my sister live.”

“No, I let a person who
crossed me walk away. All of my life I’ve put people like her in the ground. I
went to Fort Wills to settle an old score and put the enemy in the ground.
Kayla is the first and last person I let that happen with. No one else will get
the same kind of treatment.”

“I understand, and I won’t
ask you again.” She rested her head on his back, knowing she needed to keep
quiet or he was going to give her a headache with his ranting.

“Good, I want some food, and
then I want some sex.”

She laughed, holding onto
him tighter. “Then get me home.”

When Kayla had first arrived
in Piston County to hand over her newborn son, Lexie had wondered how she was
going to survive with a young boy. Now, she was wondering how she was going to
last without him.

Holding on tight to her man,
she inhaled his masculine scent combined with the leather of his cut. Devil had
struck her from the very beginning. There was something about him that she
couldn’t deny. He was dangerous, and yet for the first time in her life, she
looked forward to the future.

****

Two years later

“You got fucking twins.”
Devil smiled down at the ground where
Tiny’s
two
children were playing with his son and daughter. Lexie was already pregnant
with his third child, and glancing toward the pool, he got hard from looking at
her. Her stomach was nicely rounded but not too large. Come nighttime he was
going to spend several hours loving her body, before he fucked her.

“You fucking start with me
and I’m going to kick your ass. I promised to come here for the barbeque ‘
cause
you said you were going to be nice,” Tiny said,
sipping a bottle of beer. His backyard was full of Skulls and Chaos Bleeds
crew. Smiling, Devil felt like the world was his oyster, and all he needed to
do was pluck what he wanted.

Angel and Lash were talking
with Judi. She held a boy on her hip, looking beautiful. It was funny. When he’d
been in Fort Wills he’d wanted her badly. Now, looking at his woman and then at
Angel, he wasn’t interested.

Judi was back from college.
She stood beside Ripper, flipping burgers as his man read one of her course
books to her. The woman was studying to be a fucking social worker or some
shit. He still couldn’t believe it, but he believed in the bills he was paying
for.

Every time he signed a check
to the school it made him laugh. Nash looked troubled as his daughter sat in
the group.

“He got a girl as well?”
Devil asked. His life had been chaotic since the last run-in with The Skulls.
He didn’t want to fight with Tiny and his crew. Devil wanted both clubs to unite
as friends, not join forces but be known as friends.

Jerry and his woman were
eating and enjoying the party. Lexie was walking out of the pool with Eva. He
stopped talking to admire the full beauty of his woman.

“She’s really something,”
Tiny said.

“You better not be looking
at my woman.”

“I’m not looking at your
woman. I’m more interested in mine.”

Eva walked into
Tiny’s
arms smiling between the two men. “It makes a change
for you two to be in the same place without bashing heads together.”

“I know. It sucks, and it’s
boring.”

Lexie picked up their little
girl, Elizabeth. “It’s feeding time,
sweety
.” She
went on her toes, kissing his lips. “Keep everyone company. I’ll be back soon.”

He watched her leave,
knowing he wasn’t going to miss watching her feed their daughter. Simon was
playing nicely with his toys.

“Will you keep an eye on
everything?” Devil asked.

“You’re a horn dog. Leave
the woman to feed,” Tiny said.

“Go, we’ll take care of your
boy. Have fun,” Eva said, nodding at him.

It was rude, and Lexie would
give him shit but watching her nurse his daughter would be well worth it. He
found her sat in the nursery with a breast feeding pillow around her waist. His
daughter was slowly being weaned off the breast as she was only a year old.

Devil found he loved to sit
and watch. He found himself loving Lexie even more as she cared for their
little girl.

“You’re turning into a
slut,” she said, looking up.

He hadn’t made a sound, but
she clearly knew he was there.

“No, not
a slut.
I just love watching my woman.” He took a seat
finding the action so sweet. Reaching out, he stroked the baby’s head as she
took from the nipple. Any chance to see Lexie naked was a joy to him. Her
finger held his ring, and her body held his name. She’d gotten the name “Devil”
tattooed up her side. The words stood out against her pale skin but filled him
with joy every time he saw them.

“We have a wonderful life,”
she said, smiling at him. “It’s why I can never hate Kayla.”

“She been in touch?” he
asked, tense.

“No, she hasn’t been in
touch at all. Just think, Devil, without her, we wouldn’t be here now.” He got
up from his seat, cupped her cheek, and tilted her head back. “We’d have gotten
here, baby. It would have taken time.” Lowering his head toward her, he covered
her mouth with his.

She whimpered, opening her
lips and giving him more as he kissed her deeply.

“You’re going to be the
death of me, woman,” he said, moaning.

“What can I say? I can’t
fight the devil’s charm.” She chuckled, reaching around his head to deepen the
kiss.

Devil felt
all of his
love spill out. Lexie was his heart and soul.
He’d started out his life with nothing to lose. No one could hurt him as there
was nothing in his life to hurt him with. She gave him a reason to love. Lexie
and his two children gave him something to live for that meant for more to him
than anything else.

“I love you, Lex.”

“I love you, too.” She
sighed, and that sigh went straight to his cock.

A couple of hours were all
he needed to wait for and he could be buried to the hilt inside her. The night
time suddenly felt too far away.

Epilogue

Ripper entered the club
house with only one thing on his mind, to find a woman to fuck. The barbeque
had been great, but watching all the men with women of their own had grown fucking
boring. None of the pussy was there. Devil didn’t allow all the bitches around
his house. There was a place for the women and a place for the keepers.

Shaking his head, he walked
to the bar, grabbed the whiskey bottle and sat down. It wasn’t long before one
of the women joined him. He sat back watching her dance as his cock hardened at
the sight. She only wore a mini skirt and a vest top.