Jackal stiffened. “Doing your men?”
“My men haven’t touched her.”
“Then why keep her prisoner?”
“I need to ride with her to the Spring Rally.”
Hennessy wasn’t stupid. He wouldn’t jeopardize his men’s lives unless he had no choice.
“Talk.”
Jackal could see Hennessy was weighing his options.
“Core?”
A man walked from behind his back when Hennessy called his name. “I’ve heard of The Last Riders. The Road Kingz won’t win against them.”
“I’d take your enforcer’s advice. I wouldn’t have warned you had it been anyone else. When you saved my life and took me to Gert to patch me up, I told you then I pay my debts. But, brother, you’re making it hard for me.
“I found out about The Last Riders because of King. Before then, I thought he was the meanest son of a bitch I had ever met. He wasn’t. The Last Riders are filled with them. They’ll kill for each other, and what makes them even more dangerous is they’ll fucking die for each other.
“Shade is their enforcer. He is the one you will not escape from. He is the reason the Road Kingz or even the Predators can’t defeat them. I thought of taking on Shade, and King laughed at me. Fucking laughed at me!”
“And King would drag The Last Riders into a war with us?”
Jackal shook his head. “King wouldn’t, but Shade would. Shade is Penni’s brother.”
6
Penni walked back and forth across the small room. When she heard the door open, it took everything she had not to attack.
She stumbled over her own feet when she recognized Jackal.
When he closed the door behind him, fury and fear had her throwing her body against his.
“You bastard!” She tore a chunk of his hair out as she used his hair to slam his head against the wall.
“Are you fucking nuts!” Jackal twisted her hands behind her back.
Undeterred, Penni kicked then bit him on the shoulder. Struggling against him, she found herself thrown backward onto the bed. Then she found herself pinned underneath Jackal’s weight as she tried to rise from the bed.
“I hate you! When I get away, I’m going to kill you!” Penni glared up into his imperturbable expression.
“I’m here to try to save your ass.” He turned his face to the side when she attempted to rake her nails down his cheek.
“I don’t believe in turning the other cheek.”
Penni found herself lifted up like a rag doll, tossed head first over Jackal’s lap. Then a series of harsh spanks pounded down on her unprotected bottom.
“You big ape!” Penni bit down on Jackal’s thigh as she tried to throw herself down to the floor.
“I wouldn’t put up with that spoiled bitch behavior from any other woman. Quit biting me, or I’ll pull your jeans down and carry you down to the front room and let them take turns turning that ass you’re so proud of red.”
Penni stopped biting. The thought of the bikers witnessing the aftereffects of the spanking was incentive enough, but she still struggled. And the more she struggled, the harder his hand struck her bottom.
“Did you think it was funny leaving me waiting? I was nearly stung to death. I had to jump over your wall into your neighbor’s yard, and they had fucking German Shepherds. You think this hurts? One of those sons of a bitches nearly bit off my balls.”
Penni raised her head as Jackal furiously ranted and spanked her again. What was he talking about …?
She pressed her hand to her mouth as he described having to jump into her neighbor’s pool then maneuvering through piles of dog shit as he ran from the dogs.
“I bet you laughed your ass off!”
“I forgot, Jackal! I swear!” Penni wiped away the tears that fell from her eyes. It took all her will not to laugh out loud at Jackal’s injured pride.
She looked up at him to see him frowning down at her. Jackal jerked her up to sit on his lap. Wincing, Penni shifted so the globes of her butt bore her weight. The bastard knew how to give a spanking, placing most of his smacks on the tender flesh between the top of her thighs and the bottom curve of her ass.
“I waited for you for over an hour.”
Penni bit her bottom lip. “I’m sorry. I forgot. I swear, Jackal, I was going to tell you I couldn’t make it, but Grace called me, and I forgot.” She saw no need to confess that she had originally planned to leave him to face the bee’s alone.
Jackal wasn’t buying her bull and dropped her unceremoniously on the bed.
Penni watched as he straightened his T-shirt making the tan skin of his waist was visible. An irritating quiver of excitement held her still as Jackal regained his temper. Without realizing it, she had raised her hand, letting another thing go.