They were silent for a few moments, and then Tarren exhaled. “So, I have been meaning to tell you—”
“Do I need to be sitting down for this?” Alexis grinned, because she already was, but the tone of Tarren’s voice told her that whatever she was going to say was probably a shocker.
“Funny,” Tarren said in a bland voice. “You remember when I told you I fucked Lucas? Or I guess it was the other way around because all I could do was hang on for that ride.”
Alexis shook her head and started chuckling. “Please, no details.”
Tarren shook her head, too. “No, but, well, I thought it was only going to be that one right, ya know? Anyway it seemed like that since we went our separate ways and all for a while, but then things kind of picked back up.”
“So you’re Lucas’s old lady?”
Tarren held up her hands. “Hold the fuck up now, let’s not get crazy. Being an old lady is serious shit, you know that.”
Alexis nodded. “So then what? You’re like boyfriend and girlfriend then?”
Tarren was quiet for a few moments, and Alexis could tell she was really thinking hard. Her friend wore a hard exterior, tried to play things off like they were nothing, but deep down Alexis knew she kept a lot of shit buried.
“You want to be his old lady, don’t you?” Alexis said more quietly, and when Tarren looked up at her she knew her friend had been trying to play it off like it wasn’t a big deal. “Why don’t you just talk to him? You guys have something between you. I know you do because I can hear it in your voice whenever you’ve talked about him.”
Tarren exhaled loudly and leaned back in her chair. She picked at the hem of her tank top and then rested her head back on the chair. “Yeah, you have always been the one to see through my bullshit,” Tarren said but still stared at the ceiling. “I think I love him, but I think he only wants sex with me. I mean isn’t that all he’s after with any girl he spends a significant amount of time with?” Tarren looked at her then, and there was this vulnerability in her eyes that Alexis had never seen before.
She didn’t want to say that yes, Lucas was like that, as were all the single members of the club. They had a lot of random sex with the club whores, and although Alexis wasn’t all about that and found it pretty disgusting, that was just the lifestyle they chose to lead. “If you care for him as much as you say you do—which I can see on your face that you do—then you need to tell him.” Alexis had no clue how Lucas felt, and yes, he was one of the bigger man-whores in the club, there was no doubt that he could care just as hard and deeply as the other men that had old ladies.
“My biggest fear is spilling my heart, something you know I don’t do, and Lucas just telling me this is nothing more than a sexual relationship.”
“Do you think that is really what he would say?”
Tarren didn’t respond right away, but instead shook her head and sighed heavily. “He acts differently with me, and I’d like to think it’s because I mean more to him than the tramps he fucked before we started going out on what I consider dates, but…” She shrugged and looked at the ground again. “I honestly don’t know what Lucas wants out of life, and if what we are doing would be classified by him as having a good time with a girl that he trusts.”
“I don’t believe that, but what I do know is that if you don’t talk to him all you’re going to do is worry about it, and then you’ll end up having a ruined relationship.”
Tarren nodded and stood. “Thanks for listening to me. I honestly have had no one I trust as much as I do you, Alexis.”
Before Alexis could say anything else Lucas and Nico pulled up on their Harleys, and the sound of their engines was so loud it blocked everything else out.
“Yeah, and that’s my cue to leave because the way I’m feeling I don’t think I could keep my mouth shut.”
They both stared out the office window and saw Nico and Lucas speaking. And then there was that damn Red club whore that had been keeping her distance until right now. She stopped beside Nico, but just before Alexis’s heart rate increased and her anger intensified, Nico moved away from her and toward the office. But Red clearly wasn’t going to give up just because one Landon twin didn’t want to give her the time of day. Red all but pressed her tits against the side of Lucas’s arm, and when he turned to the side, disengaging her from him, she walked over to his bike. It was like watching a train wreck, and neither Alexis nor Tarren could look away. Red moved her hands along the gleaming chrome and leather of Lucas’s bike, and although they couldn’t hear what she was saying, her body language told them she was trying to seduce Lucas.