Chapter Nine
Dani
Zane had told me that he had to go back out to work tonight, so I hung out with him for a few hours following Church. We decided not to revisit how we left things physically, only because we didn’t want to have to rush our first time together.
I decide to spend some time with Anastasia. I feel like we could be good friends. It seems to me that she could use a good friend.
There is something in her eyes that tells me how lonely she is, but no one else seems to notice it.
I grab a bottle of whisky for me, and a bottle of vodka for her. We decide to head into my room for some girl time.
We take a seat on my bed after Anastasia puts the mix down that she grabbed for us.
“I don’t remember the last time I had a girls’ night,” she mutters as we pour our drinks.
“I have a couple of good friends back home with the Vicious Snakes, and girls’ nights were a must when we had so much shit going on. It’s nice to unwind, vent, and even cry with your friends. Whatever you need to do, it always seems to give everyone exactly what they need,” I tell her as we both sit back against the headboard.
“I will have to take your word for it. I never really had friends,” she says softly.
I raise an eyebrow at her. “That’s surprising. You seem pretty genuine and that’s something rare to find.”
She blows out a breath. “Well, I had a best friend growing up, but she tried to seduce Maverick. It wasn’t pretty, but I realised I couldn’t trust her. She was pretty jealous that he was interested in me. She was always the prettier one, and she was much thinner than I was. She couldn’t figure out how he wanted me and not her. All the guys were interested in her growing up, so I had no idea how she really was until a man was finally interested in me instead of her; then I saw her true colors.”
I look over at her in shock. “Wow, that’s a terrible friend. I’m glad you got rid of her.”
She nods her head in agreement. We polish off our first drink pretty quickly and start on our second.
“What about you and Viking? It might not be my business, but I sense something off between you guys,” I mention.
“It has been that way for a while. We were great, but then the honeymoon phase ended and everything seemed to change,” she says, and I see tears welling in her eyes.
“You can talk to me about anything, or not talk. I’m here to be your friend. Also, no offence, but I don’t want Viking. Sure, he’s good looking in that romance novel kind of way, but I only have eyes for Zane,” I say before bumping my shoulder with hers.
She laughs softly. “I guess it started when we tried to get pregnant. It has been a few years and still nothing. Each time my period came, the distance seemed to grow. I have no clue how to get things back to where they were, or if it is even possible. He’s here at the club more often than he’s home. Sometimes he gets so drunk that he doesn’t come home. I should be glad he hasn’t banned me from coming to the club. If he had, I would worry about him making use of the club girls.”
“Do you really think he would do that?” I ask, hating the look of sorrow in her eyes.
“Sometimes I wonder if he wishes he could still have that freedom. Especially when we go so long without sex. When we first started dating, I asked him that if he ever wanted to sleep with anyone else, he would end it with me instead of cheating. Either way, my heart would break; but him breaking it off before cheating would hurt slightly less,” she says.
“I hope you guys can work it out,” I tell her.
“I hope we do too but, right now, I’m not feeling like this is the lasting, be all and end all type of relationship; and I haven’t felt like it was for a long time,” she mutters softly.
“Well, that calls for a shot,” I tell her, and we both take a shot of our alcohol.
“Enough sad stuff, tell me about Rage. How does that work that you want him but don’t want Zeke? They pretty much look the same, except that Zeke has an insane number of tattoos and piercings,” she says with wide eyes.
“He really does. He has even got his cock pierced,” I say with a laugh.
“How would you know that?” she asks in shock but laughs.
“Well, we both ended up getting drunk one night. I don’t know how we got to talking about piercings but, next thing I know, we both decided to get piercings,” I say with a shrug.
“So, he got his cock pierced, and what did you get?” she asks, looking me over like she could see through my clothes.
“I got my nipples pierced,” I tell her with a smile.
“Both of them?” she asks.
I nod my head. “Of course. I wanted them to match,” I say, and she bursts out laughing.
“Can’t have them looking different,” she says through her laughter.
“Obviously. Do you want to see them?” I ask.
“What? Wouldn’t that be weird?” she asks curiously.
“Well, we are friends. I’ve never been shy about showing my friends. People are more curious than they want to voice,” I tell her.
“Alright. Let’s see them,” she says, gesturing to me.
I laugh, get up off the bed, and turn so that my back is facing the door.
I pull my shirt up and push my bra down to show her.
Unfortunately, this happens to be when the door opens. “What the fuck?” a voice snarls.
I cover myself before turning around to see Viking standing there glaring at me.
“Oh, hey Viking,” I say with a little wave like I wasn’t just showing his woman my tits.
“Why the fuck are you showing your tits to my wife?” he growls while walking into the room. His voice carries loudly, causing more people to walk to the doorway and see what the noise is about.
“I was showing her my nipples,” I tell him, causing Anastasia to laugh.
She must be a light weight because she’s already looking a little drunk.
“Why?” he asks, sounding like he’s losing his patience.
“I wanted to see her piercings,” Anastasia says.
“Why did you need to see her fucking piercings?” Viking snaps.
“I never saw anyone’s nipples pierced. So, it seemed obvious to want to see,” she says with a shrug.
“It’s not like I’m putting the moves on your woman,” I say with a laugh, causing him to growl. His response incites laughter from around him.
“Well, if I swung that way, I would totally put the moves on her. She’s a hot piece but, unfortunately, I like cock more,” I say, and give Anastasia a wink.
“Aww thanks. If I was into chicks, I would totally seduce you too,” she says before blowing me a kiss.
“This is like all my fantasies come to life,” a voice from the doorway whispers.
I look over to the brothers who are at the door and laugh when I see them all nod in agreement.
“Come on, woman. I think I need to remind you about who you belong to,” Viking says before picking Anastasia up off the bed and throwing her over his shoulder.
“Well, he just stole my drinking buddy,” I say with a pout.
“He came home early. He wasn’t supposed to be back until morning, but finished up and came straight here. When Tiny told him that you and Ana were getting drunk in the room, he stormed over here since she doesn’t handle liquor very well,” Rock says.
“I’ll drink with you in the main room. I wouldn’t want Rage to come back and find us drunk in your room. I don’t feel like getting my ass kicked today,” Rock says.
“Alright,” I say cheerfully and grab both bottles.
“Grab the mix,” I say over my shoulder.
“Yes princess,” a voice says.
“Oh, I like that. I may need you to address me like that more,” I say with a laugh.
My father is in the main room when I walk in. He’s grinning at something a prospect says.
“Dad! We are doing shots!” I shout.
“Alright,” he says while looking at me with amusement.
Looks like I have a few drinking buddies tonight.
Zane
It’s late when I get back; almost one in the morning. I’m thinking about crawling into bed with Dani since I want to feel her in my arms while I sleep but, when I walk to the clubhouse, she’s not sleeping. She’s dancing in the middle of the main room and clearly drunk off her ass.
“What’s going on?” I ask, laughing when Dani squeals and runs into my arms.
“Just having fun with my new drinking buddies,” she says while gesturing to most of the brothers who weren’t working tonight.
“Sounds like fun,” I say before moving to the bar to grab a beer for myself.
“Well, I was drinking with Anastasia, but she got taken away from me,” she says with a pout, and follows me to sit on my lap when I find a seat.
“Who took her?” I ask, surprised. Ana doesn’t drink very often since she’s a light weight, so I would imagine that she would have passed out after a few drinks anyway.
“Viking came home early and threw her over his shoulder like a cave man saying she needed to remember who she belonged to,” she slurs.
I raise an eyebrow and look to my brothers. They all fill me in on what they walked in on. Dani was showing Ana her nipple piercings and Viking happened to walk in at the perfect moment. Her back was to the door, so no one saw her tits but Ana, which is a relief because I would hate to have to cut out my brothers’ eyes for seeing that shit. I don’t care if Ana sees them. Women do random shit like that all the time.
“You’re not mad?” Dani asks when Rock is finished talking.
“For showing Ana your tits?” I ask, raising an eyebrow at her.
“Well yeah,” she says with a shrug.
“No, I’m disappointed she got to see them before I did, but I don’t think you want to fuck her. If you were showing one of my brothers, then that would be another story,” I tell her.
“No, it’s a woman thing. And, well, Zeke has seen them,” she says with a shrug.
My fists clench at her words. “What the fuck do you mean he has seen them?”
“Oh, it was a drunken pact. He got his cock pierced and I got my nipples, so we showed each other; but that was it; a one-time proof of the pact,” she states.
Well now I need to see them if my brother has. “Tomorrow when you are sober, I’m going to take my turn,” I whisper in her ear. I love the way she shivers when I say it.
“Alright,” she whispers back.
We sit up for a couple more hours and, when it looks like Dani is ready to fall asleep, I carry her back to my bed.
She barely stays awake when I take her pants off. She does some maneuver to take her bra off under her shirt before rolling over to fall asleep.
I grab a bottle of water and some pain killers and put them beside the bed for the morning.
It makes me glad she’s getting along and seems to fit in with everyone else. I have hope that she will want to stay and be a part of this life, so that I won’t have to let her go.
I wrap my arms tightly around her. A feeling of right comes over me. She belongs here.
I know I have been waiting for her my entire life.
~
The next morning, I wake up to Dani leaning over the bed and throwing up. I get up quickly and see she has my garbage can under her. Thank fuck she was able to grab that. The smell would have been a bitch to get out of the carpet.
I pull her hair back as she pukes. “Remind me never to go shot for shot with Tiny ever again,” she rasps, causing me to laugh.
“He’s a small fucking dude, but he can put the shots away. I don’t think anyone has ever beaten him,” I tell her.
“I got pretty cocky last night,” she admits.
“Let’s get you cleaned up,” I tell her.
She has a shower, and I grab her some clothes from her room. As I walk back to my room with her clothes, I consider just moving everything of hers into my room.
She gets out of the shower wrapped in a towel, and I hand her the clothes.
“Thanks,” she says, and heads back into the bathroom to change.
When she’s done, I have a quick shower before we head to the kitchen to get her something greasy to eat.
Ana is there with Viking, and he narrows his eyes at Dani. “No more,” he growls at her.
“Why? Are you afraid she likes my nipples more than yours?” Dani says with a wink.
“Fuck no,” Viking snarls.
“They were nice nipples,” Ana says with a chuckle.
Viking growls. “Fine. I will hold myself back from showing your woman my nipples. It will be tough, but I think I can do it,” Dani says with a long sigh.
“Good,” he says before getting back to his coffee.
“It’s pretty unfair she got to see them before I did,” I say, causing Ana to smirk.
“Maybe I just have more game than you,” she says with a shrug.
“Fuck that,” I snap, causing everyone to laugh.
“Well, I mean, I hung out with her for only a couple hours and got to see her tits, but you have been hanging out with her for days and still haven’t seen them. Who appears to have the most game?” Ana asks, causing me to laugh.
“Alright, I’ll give you that one. But I agree with Viking, no more,” I say while pointing a finger at her and then Dani.
“You guys are trying to kill all my fun,” Dani says with a sigh.
“You can have as much fun as you want, but with me,” I tell her with a kiss.
“Maybe later when I don’t feel like I’m going to puke all over you,” she says with a wince.
“Feeling it, are ya?” Tiny asks while walking into the room. He doesn’t look like he was doing shots last night. The fucker rarely gets hungover.
“One of these days, someone is going to beat you,” Dani says.
“But that person isn’t you,” Tiny says with a smirk.
She gives him the finger as Mama hands her a plate with bacon and eggs.
“Thank you,” Dani says and immediately starts eating.
I wait for my plate but wrap my arm around Dani’s shoulder.
She’s definitely becoming one of us.