Crossroads (Beautiful Biker MC Romance Series) - DD Prince Page 0,87
that made her trust me.
“Sure, go ahead,” she said. “See you in a drink or two?”
He pulled her close for a kiss. She grabbed his leather as if it was an anchor.
“Until a table opens, I’ll be right here where you can see me,” he told her and smoothed her hair behind her ear.
Sheesh, Jesse was swoony.
“I leave her in your hands,” Jesse said pointedly.
“I’ll try not to corrupt her too badly,” I said with my fingers blatantly crossed and held up for him to see.
Jesse threw his head back with a hearty laugh.
I wiggled my eyebrows and then linked arms with her. She grabbed her drink and followed me to the table.
When we sat down, I caught sight of a lot of eyes aimed at us. I was sure that Deacon’s and Rider’s eyes were somewhere in the crowd, too. Most everyone was here tonight. And things went awkward in the air for a second despite that the band played on, the bassist in dreads doing the Patois parts, Chase doing the lead vocals.
“Hey Gianna,” Ella said. “How the fuck are ya?”
Gianna laughed. “Hey, girl. Good to see you again.”
“Oh my God, your hair is stunning,” Jenna gasped and was immediately touching Gianna’s hair. “I saw you chopped off all that beautiful blonde at the charity car wash and my first instinct was, oh god… people would pay a mint for that hair as extensions. My second thought was, Lordy, that plum long bob is perfect for her.”
Gianna shrugged. “It was time for a change, and I donated my hair to be made into a wig for my aunt. She’s going through chemo. It’s really nice to see my hair on her head, perking her up a little.”
“Awe, man. I hope she’s gonna be okay,” Pippa said with a hand to her chest. “My cousin had a lump a few years ago and it was benign, but we were all petrified for a long minute there.”
“She’s doin’ good so far so fingers and toes crossed,” Gianna replied. “Let’s talk about something happy, though. I’m not here to depress you guys.”
I sipped my drink and then felt a shiver. I glanced over and saw my three brothers standing at the end of the bar together watching us avidly, with concern. If I wasn’t mistaken, they all looked a little pale. Ride whispered something to Spence and Spence physically shuddered.
Deacon crooked his finger at me, summoning me.
Pippa made a comment, but I didn’t catch it. All the girls laughed.
I shook my head, ‘no’ and grabbed my phone and texted him.
“I can’t leave Gianna unattended. I promised. Talk later. xo”
I saw him check his phone. He glared at me before shoving it back into his pocket.
I shrugged and put my phone away to the girls all laughing their heads off. I missed something else.
“Fork is shooting you some evil eye over there, sister,” Gianna asked. “What’s up with that?”
“No idea,” I lied.
She looked at me pointedly. “Wait. Not exactly evil eye, actually. Don’t look now, Jojo, but that man is actually looking at you like he’s ready to give you a spanking.”
“Ew, what the fuck?” Ella shouted.
Not only did she hear that, but she was inebriated. These girls must’ve had a few drinks before they got here tonight because she was well on her way to being Drunk Ella, which was always fun, but I didn’t want this particular topic to be one of discussion with a tipsy Ella. If the girls got wind of something between me and Christian, there was the possibility that it could get back to one or more of my brothers. Not a good idea.
Yet.
Ella, Jenna, and Pippa all looked over to the bar at Christian and his eyes were, in fact, on me.
Uh oh.
“He better not,” Ella announced. And then she stood up and pointed at Christian whose eyes were still on our table. He hadn’t looked away when all our eyes landed on him.
“You better not!” she shouted.
He jerked his chin up at her as if to ask, “What are you talking about?” when suddenly, a slow song came on and Deacon was there grabbing Ella’s hand.
“Hey Kitten. Wanna dance?”
She went all doe-eyed and melty. “As a matter of fact, I do.”
Deacon whisked her away. Away from a confrontation with Fork or because of Gianna? A two-fer? I didn’t know but it didn’t matter because it was perfect timing.
And AbstractED sounded good doing a slightly slower version of I’m with You by Avril Lavigne.