What did he want me to do, chase her ass down? I told her not to go. Did he want me to beg for her to stay and give me what I wanted, what I needed? Not gonna happen. I didn’t beg. Not even for pixie’s who wrapped themselves all around my heart and ripped out my soul. Not even then.
“Day!” Marcus bellowed from the doorway. “Mason!” I dropped my fists and faced him, sweat rolled down my nose, off my chin. “You’ve been pounding that thing for two days.” What I really wanted to pound was his face, but Tick wouldn’t let me near him.
“What do you want, Prez?” I grabbed a towel from the bench and wiped down my face.
“Julio wants a sit down. Him, Lucas and me.”
“What about Jayson?” Tick called from the corner.
“Haven’t seen his ugly mug in a days. No one in his club has. Lucas took the chair last night, club vote.” I looked over at Tick. Presidents didn’t just disappear, and a club sure as fuck didn’t vote away his chair after only two days.
“Lucas just took over? Just like that?”
Marcus spit on the ground. “Not our circus. I need you both to ride with me and Charlie to meet Lucas.”
“Once this meeting’s over, we’re done.” Tick pointed a finger at Marcus.
“You’ll get your vote. How’s that girl of yours?” His lips twisted to the side of his face when he smiled.
“Doing just fine.” Tick had set her up in his ma’s house. The girls’ weekend ended quickly when he called her to ask her to stay with Massy. Massy didn’t take very kindly to having a babysitter, but in the end she stayed put. Tick knew Massy could handle her own, and would be fine at their house, but he also knew she had an itch to go find Lucy and drag her home. He couldn’t risk having her out playing hero.
“And your short haired girl?” He waggled his eyebrows. I ignored the question and swung at the bag again, cursing at the tenderness starting to settle into my knuckles. “Ah, that good. Pussy dried up, did it?” We heard his laugh as he walked away. Tick jumped on my back, stopping me from charging that prick down.
“Knock it off. Just another day.”
“Then what?” I shook his ass off me.
“Then we go up north, start that bike shop.”
“Right, just us two.” I tore off the wrap covering my hand, blood soaked the wrap on my right hand.
“No, us four. I told you, I saw the bus she got her ticket for. Once this is done, we go get her ass.”
“She made her choice,” I said. After he dropped her at the bus station he went on and on about this bike shop he saw up near Massy’s grandma’s place for sale. I was with him about his plan for the bike shop, that made good sense for guys like us, but then he started in on first swinging by Lucy.
Massy had jumped all over me when I wouldn’t hear him out, telling me Lucy loved me and was just scared. When I turned my glare on her, she finally backed down, but didn’t count herself out. Tick started up where she left off until I flicked him off and went to bed.
Not that I slept. Fuck, not a blink of sleep hit me since that pixie got on that bus.
“Right.” Tick followed me out into the clubhouse. I needed a shower, and the one in my room would do just fine. “So if that’s the case, how about I send Brandy to your room. She’s been licking her lips since you walked in this morning, just waiting to get your cock in her mouth.”
I stopped short, looking over at the girl he was referring to. A new girl. Long red curly hair, and a pretty hot body. Her eyes roamed over my sweaty body, and sure enough, her tongue darted out licking her lips.
“How’s about it? She’ll be waiting for you when you get out of your shower.” Tick started to walk over to her. I knew it was bluff, knew he was testing me.
“Fuck off,” I growled, and stormed off. No longer feeling like a run, I slammed the door behind me and locked it. I didn’t need any surprise visitors creeping in while I washed my sweaty ass.
***
Riding into Disciples territory made me uneasy. Having Marcus being the one leading us only made it worse. I reminded myself this was the last thing I had to do, then I’d be free. Whatever that meant now. Before, it meant free to make a life with Lucy. Now, I just wanted to crawl into a cave and forget the world outside even existed.
Fuck. Pretty soon I’ll be eating ice cream out of the carton and crying to Hallmark commercials.
We were brought to the back room. Passing the bar where I first saw Lucy soured my mood even further. Everywhere I looked in that clubhouse I saw her, felt her presence. I should have gotten her out of there faster.