Mason_ Inked Reapers MC(1)(43)

“Kerri was an old friend. She was just being nice, giving me a place to crash. She couldn’t have known.” I shook my head. Warding off even the idea that she had anything to do with the mess I ended up in.



“When she left here she didn’t even wake you up, she snuck out the back, leaving you behind. Why do you think that was?” His voice got lower, more menacing, as he continued to lay out the doubt for me.



I had wondered the same thing at the time she ran away. She’d left me, hadn’t even told me she was leaving. But when they found her body the next day, I was too scared and shocked to wonder about that. “Are you saying she knew Jayson would want me for himself? That doesn’t make any sense. He didn’t want me. He handed me off to anyone who would pay him enough money,” I pointed out.



Lucas laughed and shook his head. “How many members actually came in here for a fuck?”



His crude question would have made me blush months ago, now, it merely came with my day to day conversations. “How many, Lucy?” he pushed on.



I thought back. “Only a handful. Most of them just wanted…” I waved my hand, hoping he’d just fill in the blank. I may have been turned into a whore over the past several months, but I still hadn’t gotten my head to wrap itself around the idea.



“Exactly. If Jayson wanted you to be the club whore, he would have thrown your ass out back with the other girls. He didn’t. He let only a select few use what he thought was his.” The entire conversation made my stomach turn.



“Why? To break me in?” I scoffed.



“No. To break you down. Think about it. Except for Mason, he’s never let anyone come in here twice except for a blowjob. He just wanted you to come down a bit, lower yourself to his standards, and then he’d snatch you up. But you want out. You’ve been trying to actually pay him back this make believe debt.”



“Make believe?” I stared at him with a new dawning. Everything I’d been doing for the past months were for nothing. Jayson was never going to let me go. “She brought me here as payment for something?”



Lucas ran the back of his hand along his jaw. “Possible recruit, I think. She was supposed to bring him a new girl for the house out back. Next thing I knew, you were here. Jayson must have taken a liking to you, though. He gave you a room in the club, made nice for a while.”



I had called an old friend for help, and she sold me to the MC? If Jayson hadn’t liked what he saw the night I walked in, what would have happened? I would be living out back with the other girls, fucking in stalls and sucking dick behind a screen? “Why kill Kerri?”



Lucas looked behind him again then shook his head. “I’m not going there with you. I have a life I’d like to keep, too. But understand this. Some women don’t get that club business stays club business. Sometimes they shoot their mouth off when they see their old man getting his dick sucked by some other girl and start making threats to open their traps to the wrong people.”



My face chilled at his words. Kerri knew something about the club and was going to expose them. “Those girls out back…” I said more to myself than to him. “Most of them…they didn’t show up looking for work, did they?” I put a hand up in the air between us. “No. Don’t answer that. I don’t need you to.”



“Stay away from Mason. He’s just like any other biker out there. He’ll take you in, fuck you till he’s bored, then he’ll stash you away and move on. In the meantime, you’ll have Jayson chasing you down. Because he doesn’t know what you do or don’t know, and he won’t take your rejection lightly.”



I didn’t answer him, just nodded numbly. It didn't seem to matter which way I turned, another roadblock popped up. “So what, I just stay with him forever? I don’t love him, Lucas. I can barely stand him. When he touches me, I literally have to keep myself from puking.”



Lucas’s forehead tightened, his eyes wrinkled around the edges. He understood but was helpless to do anything about it. “I know, but for now, it’s all you can do.”



“Is there an out?”



“Not yet,” Lucas admitted. “Give him what he wants, maybe he’ll get bored with you. You are a little more straight-laced than he likes.”



I laughed a short laugh. “What normally bores guys about me is exotic to him?”



“For now. It will probably pass.”



“Then what? He throws me in the back?”



“I don't think he would. I think he’d just toss you out. Unless you piss him off,” he pointed out. “Just lay low, Lucy. And stay the fuck away from the Reapers.”