Authors: Jamie Begley
“Wanna bet?” Lucky goaded.
“Hell yes. You going to win the way you won the bet with Moon?”
Lucky didn’t feel guilty about picking the motorcycle he had tried to buy off Rider for the last six months.
“I didn’t cheat.”
“You didn’t cheat, but getting engaged to her made Moon believe you fucked her, and you didn’t tell him any different. It also keeps him from trying to get her in his bed until you’re willing to share … if you do.”
“Willa would have an anxiety attack if I touched her, much less have her take part in one of the club’s parties.”
“Like I said, you don’t know shit about Willa, and you’re too chicken shit to find out.”
“I’m not chicken shit. Willa and I aren’t a couple. You know we’re only engaged to get Flora to leave the kids alone.”
“I keep going back and forth, trying to make up my mind on who’s the dumber fuck: you or Rider.”
“Neither of us. Moon is.” Lucky grinned, unrepentant. The brother deserved to lose the bet for thinking Willa would be an easy conquest.
“So what does the winner get?”
“You have to bring Train back from Ohio. He’s calling me every hour to come back because I told him I would go.”
“Who would go instead?”
“Send Moon back. He’s the one who made the mess in the first place.”
“All right, and if I win, you have to let me out of my promise to you.”
Lucky’s face turned serious. “Pick something else. I’m dealing with Bridge.”
“You’re doing a crap job. He’s watching every move you make.”
“How do you know that?”
“Because I’m watching him.”
“You can watch, just keep your promise.”
“If I win, I want you to tell Willa the truth about the club. It’s only a matter of time before Sissy or someone else tells her, and it will hurt less coming from you.”
Lucky nodded. He had already decided to tell her when she wasn’t surrounded by the children.
“Then we have a bet?”
“It’s a bet.” Lucky repeated, knowing either way, he lost.
The door to King’s restaurant opened, and the women came stumbling outside.
Shade took his cell phone out of his pocket.
“Who are you calling?”
Shade looked up. “Knox. We’re going to need more cars.”
Chapter 14
“Why are we at the church? I don’t feel like asking for forgiveness right now.”
“You will in the morning,” Lucky muttered, unlocking the side entrance that led to the part of the church he had moved back into when he had become pastor again.
When the church had been built, the back portion had been designed for the pastor and his family to live. If you came inside the side entrance, you wouldn’t assume it was attached to the church, but it was a large home.
Willa stumbled in the darkness before he could flip the light switch on. Lucky closed the door with his foot before sweeping Willa into his arms.
She giggled, wrapping her arms around his neck. “It’s too soon to carry me over the threshold. Be careful or you’ll throw your back out.”
“Stop.”
Willa pouted up at him, seeing his stern expression. “Are you mad at me for getting drunk?”
“For getting drunk, no. I get mad when you put yourself down. I’ve told you not to do it in front of me.”
“I’m sorry. Don’t be mad at me.” She laid her head on his shoulder, patting his chest.
The woman was irresistible when she was drunk because her guard was lowered, showing the real Willa. She had cracked jokes and sang as he had driven the bitches back to Jamestown. Stud had met him halfway and Willa had hung out the door, waving good-bye to them and asking Stud if Sex Piston had been a virgin when they were married. Sex Piston had put her own window down, yelling at Willa to shut the fuck up before she got out and whipped her ass. Then Willa had thrown the woman air kisses, reminding her she had promised to cut her hair.
Lucky had driven off while the women were still yelling back and forth to each other. There was no way he was going to make the same mistake Razer and Shade had made and allow Willa to become friends with the biker bitches. He was going to nip that one in the bud.
“Where are we going? I need to get home to the kids.”
“You would wake them up, and I didn’t think you’d want your neighbor to see you in this condition.” Lucky walked down the hallway, easily carrying her weight.
He opened one of the spare bedrooms, placing Willa down on the bed. As she stared up at him in bemusement, Lucky felt his dick getting hard. The woman was cute as hell when she was sober; drunk, she had a seductive look he had never seen on her before. Apparently, being drunk gave Willa a lethal amount of confidence that Lucky was smart enough to know would be hard to resist if he stayed much longer.
“Go to sleep.” Lucky gritted his teeth, heading for the door. He was getting sick and tired of protecting her from himself. Hell, he had never pretended to be a saint.
“Night.”
He made the mistake of turning around at her slurred parting and saw that she was still lying in the same position he had laid her down in. Her legs were half off the bed, and she was lying sideways.
“Dammit!” Lucky turned back, bending down next to the bed. He took off her shoes then lifted her again and laid her back down until her head lay on a pillow.
“Thank you.”
Lucky straightened, his aching balls killing him. “Do you have to be so polite all the time?”
Willa’s drunken stare became angry. “You’re a mean asshole; do you know that?”
Lucky burst out laughing, which made Willa even angrier. She rose up into a sitting position and threw her pillow at him.
“It’s the truth!”
Lucky didn’t try to dodge the pillow, letting it fall to the floor. “Is that so?”
“Hell yes! You’re as mean as Curt Dawkins, and I hate him. He’s always trying to touch me when no one is around.”
Lucky didn’t know what made him more pissed: that Curt was touching Willa or being compared to the man Jo had accused of raping her in high school.
“Rider’s much nicer to me. He makes me feel pretty. Even that new biker at your club is nice to me. He bought me a cup of coffee the other day when I dropped my delivery off at the diner.”
“Did he?”
Willa nodded. “He’s very nice.”
The backstabbing brother was going to get his boot up his ass the next time he saw him.
“And you know what? He’s better-looking than you. You know why?”
“Why don’t you tell me,” Lucky answered, his voice going lethally quiet. However, Willa was too drunk to notice the warning signs that would have sent the other brothers running.
Lucky almost never lost control of his temper, but when he did, no one ever forgot. He had only really lost his temper twice in his life, and both men were dead.
Willa unwisely nodded her head vehemently. “His grey eyes make you think he’s undressing you.” Willa sighed.
“He’s a horn-dog.”
“Really?” The interest in Willa’s eyes deepened.
“You need to lie down and go to sleep. Now.”
“Quit ordering me around.”
Before Lucky could move, Willa’s feet came off the bed, kicking him in the stomach. Lucky took the unexpected punch in his gut, releasing his breath in a whoosh of air.
Willa began laughing, and Lucky lost what restraint he had been holding onto. Before Willa could understand what was happening, Lucky lifted her up, flipping her over his knees. Then his hand came down on her jean-covered ass.
“You can’t spank me!” Willa screeched.
“Watch me!” Lucky said, his hand swatting her ass again.
Despite himself, he couldn’t help letting his hand linger on her luscious ass, but a sudden pain in his thigh had him nearly dropping her on the floor.
“Stop biting me, you little hellcat.” Lucky hastily tossed her back onto the bed before she could bite him again.
“Moon would never spank me!”
“Here’s something else that son of a bitch isn’t going to do.”
Before she could open her mouth and make him even madder, Lucky trapped her mouth under his, his tongue taking advantage and slipping inside her warm mouth before she could react.
Being smarter this time, his hand held her face, making sure she wouldn’t use those vicious teeth on him again. He didn’t need to be worried, though. Willa melted underneath him, opening her mouth wider as her arms slipped around his waist.
Lucky broke the kiss.
“Damn, woman, what did you drink?”
“I just had some lemonade.”
“You don’t taste like lemonade.”
“What do I taste like?”
“Fire. You taste like fire.” Lucky groaned, lowering his mouth to catch hers again.
Every promise he had made himself dissolved with his will power. Willa’s kiss drove all the other kisses he had ever experienced out of his mind, replacing them with only hers. The soft lips under his trembled as they returned the pressure of his shyly until he took control, showing her what he wanted.
“Like this, siren.” Lucky’s tongue traced her bottom lip.
Tentatively, Willa licked his before entering his mouth to search his. Her timid efforts had his hand going behind her knee, lifting her thigh so he could notch his dick against her pussy. The jeans separating them were the only thing that kept him from sinking his cock into her.
He groaned when she lifted her hips, grinding her pussy on him.
“Did I hurt you?” Willa whispered.
“Every time I look at you,” Lucky confessed as his trembling hand turned her face so her mouth came back to his.
All the desire he had hidden from Willa escaped him in a moment of weakness. In the photo booth, he had stormed her defenses, not giving her a chance to respond. Now, he took his time, teaching her how to kiss.
Her hands glided underneath his T-shirt, exploring the skin of his back in small, fluttering touches as if it was the first time she had touched a man, and his defenses against her crumbled even more. He unbuttoned the blue blouse, letting it fall to her sides. Then his hands unclasped the blue, lacy bra, and it sprung open, displaying her breasts. Lucky would never forget the first time he saw her body. It was golden in the lamplight, her large breasts the size men fantasized about and women had breast implants to achieve.
His hand squeezed the soft flesh, lifting the rosy nipple to his lips. Tenderly, he brushed his mouth over the nipple.
“I’ve died and gone to Heaven.” Willa’s pussy ground harder against him.
Lucky pressed down harder, rocking his cock against the seam of her jeans. His mouth then lazily wandered to her other breast, sucking the nipple into his mouth and twirling his tongue across the hardening tip.
Willa clutched his back harder, her nails digging in like small daggers. He shuddered, barely able to hold back from coming, and Willa tautened under him. Less experienced than him, she wasn’t able to hold back the climax he had barely managed to avoid.
“Dean!”
Lucky stiffened over her, his name returning him to reason. Tearing himself away from her, he stood next to the bed, trying to catch his breath.
“Lucky? What’s wrong?” Willa’s eyes were filled with confusion, making Lucky feel even worse for starting what he knew would lead them both down a path there would be no returning from.
“I need to get the hell out of here.” Unfilled desire made his voice unintentionally harsh.
“Did I do something wrong?”
Lucky stopped with his back to her. “I can’t do this, Willa.” He couldn’t place her in anymore danger than she was already in with their fake engagement.
“Okay. I understand.” The unshed tears in her voice had him rushing from the bedroom, slamming the door behind him as he went into his room.
Pacing his floor, he ran his hands through his shortened hair, trying to get control of his rampaging desire. He knew he could call one of the numerous women he had fucked the last few months and have one underneath him in less than five minutes. Instead, he threw his cell phone against the wall, shattering it into as many pieces as he had Willa’s heart.
No matter how much she hurt, he had to keep his distance from now on. Bridge wasn’t bluffing. Before he had left the Navy Seals, Bridge had been considered one of the best. Deadly and relentless when he hunted for his prey, his job had been reconnaissance, hunting for the target that had been given to him. Once found, they would send in Shade. Bridge was the hunter, Shade the assassin.
Only two men were living who had the skill to kill Bridge. Shade was held back because of the promise he had given, and the other was held back because his honor refused to let him kill a man who deserved his vengeance.
Lucky went to the window, parting the curtain to stare out at the town. If he wasn’t tied to the church again, he would be on his bike, roaring down the street and enjoying his freedom. He had lost count of the times he had stood here when he had been a pastor before.
He expected the same feelings of being caged and bound he had felt in the past. However, those weren’t the emotions assailing him tonight. He felt as if he were home. It wasn’t because he was back in the church, though. It was because of … Willa.
Chapter 15
Willa rolled over in the bed, trying to escape the bright sunlight. She wanted to go to the bathroom, but she was too scared to move for fear of throwing up. She was afraid to even open her eyes since they hurt so badly.
She whimpered, her hands holding the side of the bed as she scooted her butt to the edge of the mattress. She cautiously opened her eyes, feeling her stomach roll.
“I’m never going to eat or drink anything Penni makes again.” Willa whimpered in pain as she tried to stand. She was halfway across the bedroom before she realized it wasn’t her bedroom.
“What?” She stared around the room for a second, trying to remember the night before. The last thing she remembered was seeing Lucky’s shocked expression when she had left King’s restaurant.
As images from the night finally penetrated her foggy mind, her hands flew to her cheeks.
“Just let me die,” Willa mumbled, praying the door she was headed for was a bathroom. Opening it slowly, she found a small bathroom with an old-fashioned tub.