He paused. “You want me to meet your parents?”
“I want you to meet my parents and my brother, if you don’t mind.” She bit her lip.
“Why?”
“Well, they’re always worried about me. They don’t think it’s good for me to be alone, and when they find out that Lydia has done another disappearing act, they’ll be pissed.”
“What’s Lydia got to do with it?”
“We’ve been friends along time. My parents preferred me moving to Piston County so long as I had a friend here.”
“They don’t know about her regular disappearing acts?”
“I’m a twenty-nine-year-old woman. I don’t tell them everything.”
He let out a sigh. “I’m there to show you’re protected?”
“Just a little. They think anything can happen at any time. They believe the worst things. Honestly, it’s very strange how protective they can be.” She smiled.
Folding his arms over his chest, he stared back at her.
“Please, pretty please.”
“Meeting the parents?”
“Yes.” She touched his arm. “I’ll give you anything you want.”
Raising his brow, he nodded his head. He’d gladly meet her parents and put their minds at ease. “What do I get out of it?”
“What would you like?” she asked.
Wrapping an arm around her waist, he pulled her toward him, stroking through the crease of her ass. “This is what I want.”
She let out a sigh. “That’s it? Out of everything I can give you that’s all you want?”
“What more is there?”
Jessica chuckled. “First, we’ve got a deal, and you can’t back out now.”
“I’m fine with that.”
“You could have asked for a sex slave for the day? You, me, and a day where I give you everything, your every fantasy?”
The smile he had seconds before disappeared. He’d not even considered that.
“What?”
“Maybe next time you’ll think about what you can have next time.” She pulled away. “I’ll see you after work?”
“Yes, I’ll pick you up.”
She wrapped her arms around him, dropping a kiss to his lips. “I’ll see you soon.”
He slapped her ass, watching her disappear back through the doors. It was still cold out, but it was no longer covered in snow and ice. It wouldn’t be long before spring hit and they’d all be baking in the heat of the summer.
“So that’s a real thing,” Dime said, walking up to him.
“You better keep your dirty hands to yourself,” Snake said, glaring at him.
“Don’t worry. These hands are full of club whores begging for dick.”
“They better be.”
He watched Judi and Ripper leave in the car. The Chaos Bleeds crew started to file out one by one.
“Are you helping with the selection at the strip club?”
“Yeah, we’ve got to start arranging for the talent.”
“Does she know?”
He looked toward the hospital, shaking his head. “No, she doesn’t.” He wasn’t interested in any of the women who were going to be working in the strip club.
“Devil wants us to start this weekend.”
“Advertisements for the job have already gone out.” Snake opened his car door, ready to head back to the strip club. “I’m going now if you want to jump in. I’ve got to make sure the decorators are doing their job.”
“Devil doesn’t want Lexie anywhere near this.”
Naked Fantasies was the strip club’s original name. They hadn’t settled on a new one, but Lexie first met Devil while working in the strip club. Lexie’s sister, Kayla, had given her Simon after a few weeks of him being born. In order to support him, Lexie didn’t have a choice but to strip to earn a living.
“None of the old ladies are invited to the club.” Snake turned the ignition over. “Dime, can I ask you a serious question?”
“Sure thing.”
“Meeting the parents, that’s a big thing right?”
“Depends. If the girl wants to dump you and to do it through her parents, then it’s not a big deal. If she doesn’t want to dump you but take things to the next level, then yeah, it’s a big deal.”
Snake frowned.
“Do you want to go to the next step with the nurse?”
He didn’t say anything.
“Brother, you’ve got to be able to answer some of these questions. You either want her, love her, or just want to fuck her. What’s it going to be?”
Pulling out of the driving lot, he drove toward the strip club. The outside of the building held far more class than the original. It looked like a fancy bar and hotel rather than a strip club. When Devil and Vincent first set this bar up over ten years ago on the first trip into Piston County, they’d not given a lot of thought to what it was going to be like.