Phantom Riders MC - Hawk (23 page)

I stood up. “Put it together, brother. No reason we can’t leave day after tomorrow. This is a pleasure trip, so if they want to bring their women, they can.”

“What about sweetbutts?”

“Only if they come with an unattached brother. I don’t want any fucking trouble on the road.”

Some of the brothers weren’t faithful to their women, especially those who hadn’t put a ring on it yet. Sweetbutts knew which ones they could fuck and which ones to stay away from when the members’ women were around, but nothing was sacred when there was partying going on. Booze and pot had a way of lowering inhibitions and creating trouble.

I went out front to see how the repairs were going to the public bar. The windows and most of the damaged furniture had been replaced. Walls had been plastered and were now being painted. The decision to close the bar for a couple of days had come from Snake. I hadn’t liked it, but since I’d given him full control over the clean-up, I couldn’t say anything. The restaurant hadn’t been affected, thank fuck. I spied Snake coming from the direction of the kitchen.

“What’s up?”

“Just keeping our return customers happy,” he grinned.  “We’ve been sending our usual bar hoppers over there for a free appetizer when they show up here, knocks their pissed-off attitudes for coming all the way out here right off their faces.”

I nodded. “Good call, brother. Insurance giving us any trouble for the repairs?”

“Not now.” I raised a brow, encouraging him to explain. “They started to, especially when I told them we wanted to replace the windows with bullet-proof glass. Said it wasn’t covered.  I had to remind them how high our fucking premiums are.”

Yeah, we were probably paying the same premiums any business owner did, but we paid under the table for extra coverage with no questions asked. “Sounds like you have it all under control,” I said, satisfied. “Let Rosie know I’ll be in for dinner tonight.”

“Just you?” Snake was being nosey.

“Fuck, no. If I wanted to eat alone I could do it at home or up in my room.” I was going to take Audra home so she could clean up and put on that fucking sexy dress, and then bring her back for a good meal.

There’d been speculation in the beginning that opening up a biker bar and nice restaurant side-by-side would never work, but we’d made it work, mostly because the people who frequented both places didn’t mix, and it helped that they were at opposite ends of the huge house with the kitchen and storage areas separating them. A lot of money and renovation had gone into making that work. The so-called law abiding citizens of Solon and surrounding towns came for a good, inexpensive meal while the bar pulled in biker-types and partiers, who just wanted to drink, watch the girls grind the poles, and hang out.

Fuck those who said a biker club couldn’t run a legal business and make it work. We’d gone to extremes to show that we weren’t all about trouble and breaking the law. It had cost us a lot of green to open up some eyes, mainly those of the town hall officials, and all because we wore leather with a 1% patch, rode motorcycles, and liked to live hard.

Biased pricks.

“You almost ready, baby?” I hollered up to Audra. I was down in my kitchen, waiting for her to make an appearance.

It hadn’t taken me long to shower and change into clean jeans and a Phantom Riders MC t-shirt, biker boots and my cut. I’d borrowed some shit from one of the club girls and told Audra to do whatever it was women did to knock em dead and then come down. Not that she wasn’t fucking beautiful just the way she was, but I knew that having make-up and hair done right was important to women when they went out. I also knew that if I hadn’t come down when I had that we would never have left. No, I’d be buried balls deep inside her sweet pussy and wouldn’t have come out until morning.

I thrummed my fingers against the cold granite of the island countertop separating the kitchen from the living room. A noise drew my gaze upwards, and I nearly swallowed my fucking tongue. I stopped thrumming and breathing at the same time. In an instant I was hard. I couldn’t take my eyes off Audra and the way she looked in that fucking black dress. It was skin tight, loving her luscious curves like it had a fucking right to. It was short, showing off her shapely thighs enough to tell me that if it were a couple of inches higher I would have full access to her juicy pussy. Not even the bandage on her thigh took away from her sex appeal.

Other than lip gloss, which I was going to chew off those soft, full lips, she’d left off the makeup. I was glad, I didn’t like the taste of that shit anyway, and I planned on doing a lot of face kissing and jaw nibbling. She’d piled that wild hair of hers up, but enough of the fiery curls had rebelled and were resting like little cork screws against her neck. I was going to enjoy losing my hands in that soft mass later. Shit, I wanted to eat her up now.

I walked to the foot of the stairs, my gaze eating her up as she descended like fucking Cinderella arriving at the ball. She halted when she was eye level with me. The slightest trembling smile on her mouth and the knowledge in her eyes revealed that she knew what she was doing to me. She enjoyed bringing me to my fucking knees. As I inhaled her tantalizing scent, I wrapped an arm around her waist and jerked her to me. She gasped, her hands coming up to rest against my chest.

“Fuck, you’re beautiful,” I growled, kissing her. My libido went into full fucking alert.

“You’ve been fighting this for so long,” Audra whispered against my mouth when we parted slightly.

“And now I can’t get enough.” My hands dropped to her waist. She was so tiny, and yet all woman. If I’d wanted to I could easily have crushed her.

“Where have you been all my life?” she asked, looking deeply into my eyes. “I’ve been attracted to you from the start. This whole thing is so weird, Hawk.”

“Yeah, it is babe. Just take it one day at a time.”

She smiled as if she knew a secret that I didn’t. “Is that what you’re going to do?”

“The way I live my life, I take it one minute at a time. Things have a way of not working out the way you expect them to. People have a way of disappointing you.” We’d both gone through that particular hell. “You ready to go?”

“Is this a date?” Audra asked teasingly.

“Fuck, no, I don’t date.”

“Then what is it?”

“Whatever you want it to be, babe. After the shit that’s gone down, I think you deserve a quiet evening and nice dinner.”

“And then what?”

She batted those fucking long lashes at me and I found myself grinning. “What do you think happens?”

“I want to hear you say the words, Hawk.” Her husky tone affected me but not nearly as much as the feel of her hand cupping my dick over my jeans. I found myself thrusting into her. She squeezed. I clenched my teeth and groaned.

When I couldn’t stand it anymore I reached down and grabbed her around the wrist. Instead of pulling her away I pressed her hand tight, moving it up and down and relieving some of the ache in my dick. “Baby, there’s nothing I’d like more than to strip you down and fuck you raw.” I pulled her bottom lip between my teeth and chewed on it a little. “I’ll leave it up to you what you want to do first.” I wanted to make it clear that either way, she was getting fucked.

As if on cue her belly rolled with sounds of emptiness. We both laughed and pulled apart. “Maybe you should feed me first. I have a feeling I’ll need my strength.”

“Let’s go then.” I took her by the hand.

Chapter 24

Audra

I glanced down at my empty plate, surprised that I’d eaten the whole steak. Granted, it was a small filet mignon, but I wasn’t a big red meat eater. It had been cooked to perfection and was too tasty to waste. I did, however, leave half my baked potato, which Hawk wasted no time in helping himself to. When he noticed it going ignored he simply reached over with his fork, speared it, and dropped it onto his empty plate.

The atmosphere of the brightly lit restaurant was quiet and almost intimate. When we’d first arrived there we’d been taken to a table in the corner which allowed us to observe the whole room. I couldn’t help but notice that Hawk was very observant of what was going on, but that was usual for him. The man was always on guard, ready to react if he needed to.

We ate our meal in silence, giving each other an occasional glance. Hawk’s looks were dark and intense, as if he was looking into my soul for answers. Every time I caught him looking at me I grew warm inside, squeezing my legs together to relieve the constant itch there. It was amazing how fast and hard my body responded to him. All those years of thinking Dane was what I wanted paled with what I felt from just one look from Hawk.

Great. I saw our waitress walking over, a young twenty something woman wearing a uniform that was two sizes too small and showing too much cleavage, in my opinion, anyway. She’d found every reason that she could think of to keep returning to our table. What she wanted was clear in the brown lust-filled eyes that ate Hawk up. Her nipples looked like tiny headlights and were directed right at him. I rolled my eyes, glancing at Hawk and catching his smirk. The man knew what he did to women, and as far as I was concerned, his acceptance of her flirting only encouraged her.

“Would anyone like dessert?” she reached our table and asked.

Hawk’s gaze never left mine. “My dessert is sitting right across from me.”

Well, at least that was something. I caught my breath, glancing up in time to see the waitress’s expression go from intense interest in him to confused perusal of me. I wanted to laugh. It was obvious she was looking for a reason that he might prefer me over her. Was she one of his ex’s?

“Nothing for me, thanks.”

Her goo-goo eyes moved back to Hawk. “Sure I can’t tempt you with something?” Her voice was dripping with obvious innuendo, and when she licked her lips I lost my cool.

“Am I invisible?” I snapped. She dragged her gaze away from Hawk, showing surprise at my bitchy outburst. “Or are you that stupid? Can’t you see that we’re−” I motioned from Hawk to me and back again, “Together? You can stand there all you want and make a fool of yourself, but I’m the only pussy he’s getting into tonight.”

The girl’s brows lifted, her eyes grew round, and her face turned beet red. She could only blink and stare at me like an idiot. Maybe I
had
been invisible up to that point. As she was clearly at a loss for words, I turned my glare on Hawk. The whole thing was his fault. The amusement in his eyes pissed me off and I kicked him beneath the table, which only made his grin bigger. Finally, the waitress walked off with less of a swing in her step.

“Is she one of your ex’s?”

“A wanna be ex.”

“Nice. Maybe you can move on to her when you’re done with me.”

His expression sobered. “She’ll be old and gray by then.” His comment took the fire right out of me. “Come here.”

I blinked, wondering what he’d do if I ignored him, scooting over anyway because it was exactly where I wanted to be. “Okay, now what?” I asked, locking eyes with him.

“We need to talk.”

It was what I’d been expecting. My gaze fell to his smooth lips, wishing that he’d kiss me. “And we couldn’t do that with me over there?”

“I wanted you close in case you need persuading,” he explained with a sexy grin.

The glimmer in his eye held me spellbound. I was used to seeing them dark and cold. “Is this about our, ah situation?” He nodded. “I know you’ve said that I belong to you, but I’m not sure what that means. Is it just something you said in the heat of the moment, or−”

“Right up until the moment you picked out Dominick’s face I was going to turn your ass loose. I couldn’t
wait
to get you the fuck out of my life. I didn’t like what you were doing to me. I wanted you too fast, too hard, all the fucking time. Sonya had cured me of letting my emotions get involved with my dick. It was easier fucking without all that other shit, sticking to the kind of women who expected me to be a bastard.”

“I’m not like those other women, Hawk,” I reminded him softly.

“You think I didn’t fucking know that the moment I laid eyes on you? Yet still I wanted you, so fucking bad that I just took you. I treated you like the women I was used to.””

“I didn’t complain.”

“Yeah.  I noticed.”

“You got to me, too,” I said, meaning it. “Tell me what it means to be owned by you.”

“It’s simple, babe. You’re mine and I’m yours. I claim you in front of my brothers, so they all know you’re not to be messed with. I take care of you. As my woman you’ll gain the respect of the club and be protected.”

“Is that what an old lady is?” He nodded, and I knew he was watching my reaction carefully. “Why? You don’t love me.”

“I want you, babe. I don’t know what I feel for you exactly, but I want you with me. You have to decide what you want to do. Nothing is guaranteed. If you want to leave I’ll help you get to where you want to go.”

“You’d miss me,” I teased, a little sad that he’d let me go if I wanted to leave.

“Yeah, I fucking would. Look, you’ve seen what kind of life we live. It’s full of danger and chaos, but it’s what we thrive on. We don’t live by the same rules and laws that you’re used to. Most of us have businesses and homes outside the club, but some of the shit we do isn’t legal, and things can get ugly fast. If you decide to stay you’d become part of that life, and there’s no going back, Audra. If you’re in, you’re in all the fucking way.”

I thought about what Hawk was saying. I wanted to stay with him. The difference between us was that my heart was involved, while it was only physical for him. Either that or he just couldn’t bring himself to admit how he really felt. Sonya had hurt him so badly that maybe he was beyond repair. No, that sad thought left my mind right away. He’d finally kissed me, hadn’t he?

“You don’t have to decide now. In a couple days we’re going to Last Hope. There’s a place there were biker clubs meet up to reconnect and do a little recreational fighting. It will give you a chance to see more of what MCs are all about.”

“You mean besides killing?” His eyes darkened, and I knew that I’d said the wrong thing. I quickly made amends by saying, “I’d like that, Hawk.”

“Good. You ready to go home?”

Home. Yes, I acknowledged with a slight nod. Before I could move away, Hawk slid his hand around the back of my neck and pulled me in for a hard kiss. I opened my mouth so our tongues could connect, tasting his heat and wanting more. His touch, his kiss, fired me up faster than I could keep up with. I knew what awaited me when we got home, and I was eager to get to it. My insides were turning to liquid fire as he made love to my mouth with his, ending the kiss by drawing my bottom lip into his mouth and sucking on it.

Without warning I felt his hand between my legs. “What are you doing?” I gasped.

“Just checking to see if you’re wet for me.” 

The tickle of his fingers caused me to open my legs more as he inched his way toward my pussy. “I’ve been wet for you all evening.”

“Fuck, babe—” His finger moved aside the thin strip covering my mound and slipped inside with ease.

“I told you.” I closed my eyes and moaned, before reminding myself that we were in a public restaurant and sitting at a table with no table cloth. My eyes snapped open to see who might be witnessing our actions. “I thought we were going home.” I shuddered when he flicked across my clit. “Hawk—”

He growled, took my hand and pulled me with him out of the booth. The fact that he didn’t pay the bill didn’t surprise me since his club owned the restaurant, and no one stopped us as we made our way out the door. Hawk led me to his bike in fast strides, and I smiled, recognizing that he was a man on a mission. Once he got me settled on his bike, him on the seat with me facing him in the front, I realized we weren’t going to make it home.

“I can’t believe we’re going to do this here.”

“Believe it. When I want you Audra, I don’t wait. It doesn’t matter where or when.” He ripped the tiny scrap of my panties away and once again his finger was sinking into my pussy. “Your cunt is fucking ready for my dick.”

It was always ready for his dick, but I wasn’t going to tell him that. I watched him, speechless, as he quickly undid his jeans and took his cock out. My gaze moved around the parking lot with nervous anticipation, praying that no one appeared to witness my undoing, because I knew that I would be undone by the time Hawk finished with me. Then, without warning, without hesitation, Hawk grabbed my upper thighs and pulled me onto his ready shaft.

“Ooohh!” I cried out, and then bit down on my bottom lip to stop any further sounds from escaping. I threw my head back and thrust my hips forward, needing more. Hawk tilted my hips until he was bottomed out and I could feel him everywhere. His deep growl sounded like a wounded animal, and like an animal claiming his mate, he sank his teeth into my neck.

He didn’t waste any time in moving, shoving into my body with steady thrusts designed for only one pleasurable outcome. It was going to be fast and uncontrolled, and I could already feel my orgasm climbing. Every time Hawk plunged into my body he hit all the right angles until a tiny explosion blossomed in my core into one, earth-shattering climax. I came undone. Almost immediately I felt him follow.

He slammed his mouth down on mine as we peaked, released, and convulsed against each other helplessly. It wasn’t long before I was filled with his seed and slipping on the bike as it dribbled out of me. I tore my mouth from Hawk’s to catch my breath, clinging to him so that I wouldn’t fall to the ground. His breathing was harsh against my ear. Eventually our breathing calmed, and we relaxed.

“I was never going to make it home with your fucking cunt snug against my ass.” I moved back to meet his eyes, wondering how many other women he’d fucked on his bike. “The only other woman I’ve fucked on my bike was Sonya,” he said, reading my mind.

I’d had a feeling. “Will you tell me about her?” He leaned his forehead against mine, a deep sigh passing through his lips. “I need to know what I’m up against, Hawk.”

“Sonya is the past.”

“And she’s—”

He put a finger against my lips.  “Not here and not now.”

I was disappointed, but I had to respect Hawk’s wishes to keep that part of his life private. Maybe as time passed and he began to realize that he could trust me, he’d tell me. That is, if I decided to stay with him. If it were a question of just being with Hawk, it would have been a no brainer, but he came with a club, and what that entailed was a different matter. I wasn’t sure I had what it takes to live in his world.

He effortlessly swung around onto the seat. I wrapped my arms around his middle and snuggled against his backside. The ride home went uneventfully. No vans following us, there weren’t any shoot outs, just a peaceful ride beneath a star-studded sky on a quiet, winding road. Being underdressed, I was thankful for Hawk’s bulk protecting me from the cool air. My hands and arms, however, were frozen by the time we pulled up to his home.

He reached back and helped me off his bike. “I won’t be long, babe.” He handed me a key. “Head on inside while I put my bike away.”

I leaned forward and brushed my lips across his in a tender kiss. “Okay.” His smile warmed me as I turned and headed for the door. My hand was on the doorknob when I heard the sound of his bike take off. I fumbled with the key.