I jumped, twisted at the waist, tearing my eyes from their angry contemplation of the forecourt to see the brunette standing two feet outside the door to the Compound. She was dressed, fortunately, though she didn’t wear a lot of clothes. Unfortunately, seeing her and processing all that was her, not only was she gorgeous in her skanky, slutty way, she also had a great body. Making matters worse, she was standing, one hand on her hitched hip which every woman knew meant she was prepared for our upcoming verbal smackdown. And last, she was also wearing her catty, knowing smile.
I didn’t reply and turned back to the forecourt. Weirdly, my mind conjured up the image of us, two exact opposites standing in front of an MC’s compound, me in my tight skirt, cute but smart blouse and sex kitten heels and her in her cutoff, ragged-edged, very short jean skirt, barely-there, skintight top and platform slut sandals.
And it wasn’t lost on me which one of us didn’t fit.
I heard her heels clicking to me and I kept my eyes glued to the tarmac but I felt and heard her stop close.
“Had ‘em all, ‘cept the recruits. Don’t f**k recruits. They get their cut, that’s when I break ‘em in.”
Something for Roscoe, Tug and Shy to look forward to.
I pulled in breath and kept my eyes on the forecourt.
“Tack’s my favorite,” she whispered and that was when I turned to her.
“He’s also mine.”
Her catty, knowing smile got bigger, cattier and more knowing.
“As you can tell, girl, I don’t mind sharing.”
My hand itched to slap her. No, actually, my hand itched to slap someone else. Her, I wanted to know why she did what she did to the sisterhood but worse, what she did to herself. But instead of asking, I again turned my gaze to the tarmac, willing the cab to show the f**k up already.
“You’re up for it, we can share together. Tack likes it like that. Won’t be the first time I gave it to him like that so I know.”
I took that blow and while I did it took everything else not to react visibly to it.
But inside it burned deep.
He wasn’t a choirboy. He was a biker. But I didn’t need some skanky brunette reminding me of that.
What I needed was a man who knew I didn’t need it and shielding me from it. Not setting me up by sending me into a Compound that contained it to get a mysterious envelope.
My eyes went back to her just in time for her to keep talking.
“You’re his old lady so I’ll let you have his dick. I’ll sit on his face,” she offered her take on our plan of attack to pleasure my man together.
“Maybe it would be a good idea for you to quit talking,” I suggested quietly.
“Right, he’s good with his mouth. I get you want that. I’ll take his dick.”
I held her eyes. She kept smiling at me.
This went on a long time.
Finally, her eyes slid to the side and she murmured, “Cab’s here.”
“FYI,” I started, “that party you invited me to. I’ll take a pass.”
She shrugged then delivered her next blow. “That’s okay. He wants it like that, he knows where to find it.”
I had no retort. None at all. It wasn’t my place to tell her to get gone. It wasn’t my place to tell her I better not see her again. She belonged to Chaos in her way and I did in mine. We accepted our places and the boys called the shots.
Damn.
I had that box Tack talked about over me, closing me in, I couldn’t see clear and Tack was the one who put it there.
No, it was me.