“Ben, anything at this table, free, you got me,” Frank said, shouting for Ben to here.
“I got it.” He held his hand up in a wave, and turned back to her. “Wow, it must be your lucky night.”
“My lucky night?”
“You were asking about the Dentons.”
“No. You were talking, and I just made you keep on talking about them.” She gave him a wink. He finished her tray, and she left him alone to keep on serving. Before she had a chance to move away from the bar, she turned, and was stopped by a very large masculine chest.
Pausing, she glanced up to find Jacob stood in front of her.
“Hello,” she said.
That’s all you can think to say? Hello.
You don’t like him, remember?
Her mind was having one of those brain farts where she didn’t have a clue what to do.
“You work at a strip club. Riley told us you did, but I had to say, I didn’t believe him.”
She glanced toward her brother to see that he was a little drunk.
“What are you doing?”
Fear gripped her as she looked toward the one person she loved more than anything. She had a connection with Riley whereas she didn’t have with the rest of her family. Lou relied on him, cared for him.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.
She never once thought that her brother was in danger, yet looking at Jacob, and then over at her brother, her stomach started to tighten. “Are you going to hurt him?”
Chapter Four
Jacob saw the fear in her eyes, and he looked toward Riley, not understanding what her problem was at first. Then, when he looked at it from an innocent’s pair of eyes, he understood.
“We’re not going to do anything to him.”
“Why are you here with Riley?”
“We decided to take him out, have a drink. Usually we all do it after a fight, but Landon is in trouble, and he’s staying at home.”
Lou laughed, but it wasn’t the natural kind. It was filled with hysteria. “Riley was at the gym tonight.”
“You work in a strip club?”
“As you can see.”
He did see. Her tits were pressed together and almost spilling out of the tight shirt. The pants she wore molded to her curves, and he had to give Frank credit, he knew how to dress a woman.
“You look very nice.” Staring at her all he wanted to do was take her in his arms, and as far away from this place as possible. Instead, he kept remembering his mother’s words. He had to work to earn her trust, her love. She didn’t feel this need that he did.
“Thanks. So, erm, you’re intending to party?” she asked, glancing over once again at her brother. She also bit her lip, and he wanted to bite that lip for her.
“We’re not going to hurt your brother. I have a lot of respect for him.”
“Considering he agreed to fight a kid?”
“My brother is not just any kid.” He was about to rest his hand on his hips but stopped when he remembered the gun strapped to his body. Jacob never went anywhere without being heavily armed. “We’re here to celebrate as we accept Riley into the fold.”
“The fold?”
“He’s going to be working with me as a partner.”
“What do you do?” she asked.
“Stuff.” He never talked about his business. His father was the head of the business, and he took orders from him, from their main business in the center of the city, a casino. It was so fucking cliché, but his father had a head for numbers, and with casinos, they could be built over the country, and even abroad. It’s an easy way to get the feds to look the other way while the real business went down. He did everything his father told him to. Yes, he hurt people, and he’d killed people for his family. Staring at Lou, he just knew she wasn’t ready to deal with that kind of shit. Then he had a horrible feeling. What if she was never ready to deal with that kind of stuff?
“Stuff?”
“I do a lot of stuff.”
“Okay, well my mother always told me not to ask too many questions, and I guess it’s one of those moments. I’ve got work to do.”
She pushed past him, making her way toward the table of businessmen. He didn’t like the way they looked at her.
“What can I get you?” Ben asked. “Do you want me to call the women out to party?”
Jacob returned his attention to the barman. He liked Ben, and this had been the place he and his brothers could let off steam. They all loved fucking, and the women at the strip club were always more than happy to give them what they wanted. If he wanted his dick sucked, all he had to do was pull it out, and suck away she would.
He gave the table order and made his way back to where his brothers were laughing and joking. Jacob took a seat beside Riley, and watched Lou as he did. The businessmen were screaming at the stripper on stage who was giving them all a show of her cunt and ass.