Crossroads (Beautiful Biker MC Romance Series) - DD Prince Page 0,7

happened all the time.

Sharon chuckled. “Is it against company policy to ogle the boss?”

“Not at all.” Dad winked. “Just keep your hands to yourself. I’m taken.”

“A day late and a dollar short. As usual,” Sharon grumbled.

Dad snickered and kissed her on the cheek and then headed out into the bar. She watched him walk away, staring at his butt. Ugh. Story of my life. Women swooning over members of my family.

I saw Dad stop at Spency’s table and talk to them for a minute.

“Damn, that’s a whole lotta man. Woo.” Sharon wiped her brow and gave Leanne and I a meaningful look.

“Deke’s a DILF,” Leanne agreed and headed to the door with her order. “I’ve been only too happy to call that man Daddy a coupla times, if you know what I’m sayin’.” She winked.

“Hate your guts,” Sharon grumbled.

Sharon was an employee. Leanne had the distinction of being an employee and a biker bunny. We were cautious about employing them; she could keep things separate and professional, so she was a rare exception. Well… her bragging about her exploits notwithstanding. I could actually get her in shit for what she’d just done, but she was a cool girl and hadn’t done it in front of my dad’s woman. I considered her a friend, so I let it go, but not without shuddering with disgust.

Leanne went for the over-thirty-five guys in our club. She obviously had a Daddy thing. I wasn’t a kink-shamer, but in my head I’d been thinking yuck.

“Sadly though, he took himself off the market,” Leanne added.

Yep. Truth. Dad was now official with an old flame that got reignited. Laura, a local waitress that had dated my dad just before my parents got married was The Shit. I didn’t know a lot about their story, but I did know it was over when it was getting good. Sad, because they were getting serious when Shelly showed up preggers with Deacon from a one-nighter with my dad at a rally. Laura stepped aside, heartbroken, and Dad and Mom got married after my brother was born, looking like my father’s infant double. It was my understanding that Laura’d had a rough go of it for a few years and it was absolutely amazing to watch my father try to make those rough years up to her. He told me she was The One. The one that got away and I knew, by the look in his eyes, that he was absolutely over the moon about having her back.

“I love her,” Dad said looking me right in the eye when I’d gotten a bit bitchy about him spending so much time at her apartment. “Carried that torch for twenty-eight years, punkin. She’s the one. She’s the one I think about when I lie awake at night wishin’ I’d never set eyes on your mother. You know I love you and your brothers more than my right arm, but you gotta know that I never was in love with your mother. Woman drove me up the fuckin wall. I tried; God knows I did. She fucked with my head most of the time, used you kids as pawns, tried to lead me around by the dick, and I tolerated her most of the time.”

I’d been shocked at that declaration and went to Deacon about it. My brother Deacon had been there the day Dad set eyes on Laura after not seeing her for twenty odd years and the way my brother told it, our dad was not about to let her get away again.

My father was a smart man, but I’d always thought he was stupid about my mother. This was the first time he admitted to me that he didn’t love her. I let Laura in with me right away. And immediately I saw why Dad carried that torch. She was great.

I lingered in the kitchen, chewing my thumbnail and watching Christian, Spency, and the others through the window, seeing them shooting the shit, laughing.

I was all about broody-hot Christian Forker (in my mind, anyway), but seeing him laughing, carefree-looking? It was like having your favorite dessert and then someone handing you a big box of kittens and a ball of yarn.

I wiped down the front of the dishwashers and scraped off a few freshly dropped-off plates and continued to keep busy by power-rinsing the next load of drinking glasses when I saw that the order for Spency’s table was ready.

I dried my hands, grabbed it, then headed out to put