Devlin (Dirty Aces MC #2) - Lane Hart Page 0,19

we spent together. I swear, memories of the concert with Jetta might be the greatest of my entire life. Well, minus the occasional cringe I get when I remember a certain rock star who likes to intrude into my fantasies.

Every night after work, Fiasco and I head out together on our collection runs for the club. If we get back early enough, we might go out with the gambling boat to help provide security or just to drink and play cards with our boys. Most nights, though, I’m too worn out and tired to enjoy myself. After I turn over the money we collect to Malcolm, I just head home to shower and go to bed.

I tell myself it’s just heat and exhaustion, but deep down I know the truth. Every night my dreams are filled with music and the sights, smells, and feelings of one stunningly beautiful woman. A woman who, as the weeks drag on, I decide I absolutely have to figure out how to see again.

Jetta

Working at the waterpark turns out to be duller than even I had anticipated. Once my training is complete and I’m assigned to my lifeguard station to sit and stare my days away, I realize that all of my down time leaves me way too much time for self-reflection.

I don’t regret what happened with Devlin and Rob Lawrence. In fact, every time my thoughts turn back to that night, I get a pleasant tingle throughout my body. Unfortunately, that pleasant sensation is usually doused by the staring eyes of one of the many middle-aged creeps in the park who spend more time leering at me than watching their own families. After extracting myself from a conversation with one such unpleasant park-goer who insisted I personally show him the way to the bathroom, I run to the employee’s only lounge for my break to make a phone call.

“Jetta!” my best friend Carla answers the phone almost gleefully. “What are you doing calling me in the middle of the day?”

“Hey, girl!” I reply. “I just needed to hear a friendly voice. I’m taking a break over here at the park and wanted to see when we can get together.”

“It’s got to be soon!” Carla exclaims. “I want to hear more about your hot night with Rob Lawrence! I’m still so excited you got to hang out with him. I bet he’s ruined every other guy for you. Speaking of which, how is that going? You meet anybody yet working at that park? Dressing in that suit you showed me every day is bound to turn some heads.”

“Yeah, it’s getting attention, but not the kind I want,” I sigh. “Rob Lawrence was fucking amazing, but to tell you the truth, I would rather see that guy, Devlin. Now, I sort of wish I had thought to get his number.”

“Well, nobody can blame you for being a little dazed and confused after the night you had,” Carla sympathizes. “Look, you know my motto, ‘If it’s meant to be, it will be.’ Who knows, he might even be a fan of waterparks and come shooting down your slide one day!”

“Shooting down my slide?” I snort and giggle at the double entendre.

“Girl, yes, you know what I’m talking about,” Carla laughs back. “Now, look, I’m in traffic and I got to pay attention to this road for a bit. Let me call you tonight, and we’ll try to make a plan to get together soon.”

“Sounds good. Talk to you later,” I reply.

“Love you, girl,” Carla adds before she hangs up.

“If it’s meant to be….” I trail off with a sigh. She’s right, though. The only thing certain for the next few days is boredom and sunburn, both of which I’m going to have in spades.

Chapter Nine

Devlin

“No!” Fiasco groans. “If I have to listen to that fucking “Love in the Fast Lane” song again, I’m going to lose my goddamn mind!” He reaches for the truck’s volume and turns it all the way off.

“Fine. I’ll find something else to play after this next stop,” I promise him. I have to let that damn song go, along with the girl who I’m never going to see again.

“How many more house visits this week?” he asks.

“Three down, seventeen more to go,” I mutter as I look down at Malcolm’s spreadsheet on my phone. It’s constantly being updated to show who owes the Dirty Aces money and exactly how much.

Fiasco and I have been at this for three weeks now in our