Page 40 of JoJo

Chapter 12

The party at the clubhouse was so wild that I ended up falling asleep on one of the couches before Steel picked me up and took me to the room he had there. I knew it was happening at the time, but I honestly didn’t care. I was exhausted, and obviously not the life of anyone’s party.

Waking in the morning in an unfamiliar place wasn’t exactly fun, even if I did remember Steel taking me to his clubhouse room. Waking to a half naked woman storming into the room was another thing altogether. “Baby, are you here to play today?” The woman called out. I didn’t recognize her, but I knew for a fact she was trying to pull some shit, because Steel hadn’t spent a single night in the clubhouse since we’d married.

It just so happened that my man walked out of the bathroom with a towel around his waist and shaving cream on his head after hearing the announcement. “Who the fuck are you, and why are you in my room?”

“Aw, come on baby, you know I won’t tell,” she cooed from across the room before taking a step further inside and pretending to finally notice that I was there in the bed. “Oops,” she called out with a fake gasp and wide-eyes.

“Seriously?” I asked, while yawning. Her faux surprised look suddenly turned a little hostile.

“What does that mean?” She asked, clearly as stupid as she looked.

“It means… Are you seriously trying this shit right now? You do know what’s going to happen, right?”

The woman narrowed her eyes on me. “Yeah, you get the picture that you aren’t the only woman around here,” she seethed. I was actually stunned that she was going to keep up this charade with Steel standing there gawking at her. I glanced in his direction momentarily, and he just gave me a lopsided grin as he leaned back on the wall ready to enjoy the show.

“Okay, I guess we’re going to play this game then. When was the last time you were with my man, sweetie?” I asked in a super sugary tone.

She smirked at me. “I’m with him a couple nights a week,” she explained in her best effort at a sultry voice.

“I see,” I managed to choke out before turning to Steel and busting out laughing. I heard the woman harrumph from the other side of the room, but couldn’t make myself pay her any more attention.

“Bunny? What the fuck are you doing in there?” I heard one of the men yelling from down the hall.

“Bunny?” I questioned. “Oh hell, just when I thought it couldn’t get any better. There it is. Bunny is the one that came hopping in here with some bullshit story in an attempt to get rid of me.” Steel just shook his head and kept grinning at me.

Chief, one of the new local guys, came to an abrupt stop outside the door. “Sorry, I’ll get her out of your way,” he quickly tossed out.

“She your responsibility last night?” Steel asked the man.

“Fuck no! JD brought her in, says he went to high school with her. She’s been hanging around a bit, waiting to get on as a club girl.”

“I’m not waiting,” she informed him.

“No, you’re not,” I told her as I pulled the sheets up tighter around my chest since we were starting to draw an audience from the hallway. “Here’s what you didn’t think through. First, if you’re going to try to play these games, you need to know your mark. Steel is home in bed with me every night. He hasn’t missed a single one since we got married.” Her face paled. Obviously, she sincerely thought he spent nights here which made me question who had been using his room and if the sheets were clean. Ugh.

“Then there’s the issue of you lying about a club brother to his face, to his woman, and doing it in his clubhouse.” I smiled sweetly at her. “In my club we have a saying, ‘no loyalty, no patch’. I’m pretty sure the guys have something similar, because I know for a fact they don’t tolerate this type of drama from any of their club bitches.”

Steel finally peeled himself off of the spot he’d been leaning on the wall. He addressed Chief first. “Find JD and tell him I want to see him.”

“You want me to,” he pointed to the miserable looking woman still standing there trying to put two and two together. It seemed like she was coming up with 53 instead of 4, because she didn’t realize the shit storm she was about to bring down on herself.

“No, I’m going to deal with that myself,” Spike answered from just behind where Chief had been standing. “Honey, you aren’t too bright, are you?”

“It’s Bunny,” she corrected him.

“Like I said,” he returned causing me to laugh, because she seriously didn’t get it, but that shit was funny.

“You can’t fix stupid,” I offered up with a shrug, still barely managing to contain my amusement.

“No, and in this case there’s not enough pretty to make up for it either,” Spike concurred.

“What did you just say?” the woman asked, clearly finally catching on to what was being said.

“No need to worry about it, honey. You need to come with me so I can explain a few things.” He grabbed her elbow and started to pull her from the room before turning and addressing Steel. “When JD gets here, keep him here. I’m going to need to have a few words with him too.”

Steel nodded then came over to me after shutting the door. He leaned in and gave me a kiss before straightening and pointing to his messy head. “I’m gonna get this taken care of before someone else knocks on the door – or doesn’t.”

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