Page 19 of A Love So Hard

“Well, I fucked this all to hell,” he admitted about the same time I burst out laughing. “You’re laughing?”

I nodded my head as I got myself under control again. “Well, if nothing else this date has been educational. I have to say I’ve never seen something like that in person before.” A low growl came from the man before he closed in on me.

“You telling me you liked what you saw?” His eyes were narrowed on me.

“I’m telling you that it was interesting to see, but not something I could ever picture myself doing. So, if they’re wrong, and that is what you’re into we can stop this right now.”

“I don’t share, Lucy,” he barked out.

“I don’t share either, CJ!” With that out of the way he pulled me to him and brought his mouth down hard on mine for a punishing kiss before he slid his hand up my dress and brushed his knuckles across the gusset of my panties.

“You enjoyed watching though, didn’t you babe?”

I couldn’t deny that since he was feeling the evidence of my enjoyment. Instead I attacked his mouth this time, and every inch of it tasted divine. Before long he was pulling back though. “Darlin’, as crazy as this might sound there’s no way I’m about to take you for our first time together in the middle of my office in a strip club that was just used for a threesome by my damn brothers.”

“Well, that’s good because I wouldn’t want my first time to go down like that,” I retorted, and he did not miss the change in my wording. It wouldn’t just be our first time together. It would be my first time. Period. I felt like maybe I needed to explain, but he groaned and moved away from me toward his desk, getting ready to sit down in his chair before he glanced at the desk and thought better of it.

“I need to get someone in here to clean. I was going to show you a little of what I do here so you could get a feel for it and be okay with everything, but…” He waved his hand at the desk that had been so recently violated by Tag’s ass and I laughed again.

“I think your point was actually made even if it didn’t go down how you thought it would,” I reassured him. “You want to stay for some reason, or can we move on to a different part of our date? I’m pretty sure you said something about a movie or dancing.” He grinned at me.

“That I did, pretty girl. Let’s go.” He took my hand and guided me back out of the club that had filled up a bit with more men now sitting closer to the stage. Of course, that might have had something to do with the change of dancer. The new one actually looked like she was there to work, and earn her tips. I didn’t get to see much of her routine though, because CJ had me out the front door faster than he’d brought me through it to begin with. I guess now that he knew I didn’t seem to have a problem with where he worked there wasn’t such a rush to get it all out in the open.

Chapter 8

(Lucy – age 20, Double-D – age 23)

Our last date had nearly been ruined by my own stupidity. What the fuck ever possessed me to take her to one of the strip clubs we owned to show her where I worked? That had been, hands down, one of the most idiotic things I’d ever done. It was just that when I told her about what I did I saw the worry in her eyes. I figured if she saw that I sat in the back room in a little office that saw no action at all she’d be more comfortable with the idea. Little did my dumb ass know… My office was used to seeing more action than I’d seen in years. At least it didn’t turn out to be a complete disaster with her leaving me there to call a taxi to come get her. No, she rolled with the punches, and we probably got on better footing as a result. Still, that was accomplished through sheer luck, never mind my idiocy.

I hadn’t wanted to push things since we were just getting to know one another better so our date had ended with a chaste kiss on her doorstep and a promise of seeing her in a couple of days. Those couple days turned into a whole week after I was tapped to go on a run to our club in Tallahassee. They needed a hand down there with something and so I went. What a fuckin’ shithole that place was. They were basically hanging out in a rented space in a strip mall. It was nothing like what the mother chapter in West Virginia had and certainly wasn’t anywhere near what we had going for us in Charleston either. Tallahassee was struggling, and trying to find their footing still, but they’d just had a change in leadership and that’s why we had been asked to go. They needed some help throwing out the garbage. The last president had gotten greedy and while his club floundered in the squalor he’d left them in, he had been living the high life down in the Florida Keys with his new woman – one of their previous club whores – and damn near all the chapter’s money.

They now had new leadership, one less problem, and most of their money back in their coffers. Normally, I would have stuck around to hang out with my brothers there, but I had another date with Lucy to get home to. I was also thankful she said yes after I explained about having to go to Florida to help out with club business. I’d been afraid she would be mad at me. Instead, she just took in stride the same way she had the trip to the strip club we’d taken. If that was how she would handle club life, I couldn’t have chosen better for an old lady and she was definitely making the waiting I’d done for her worthwhile.

I was hoping that this time I would actually woo her without the drama bombs of strippers, live action threesomes on my desk, and the worry that I both lived and worked in a crazy sexed-up place. Hell, after the story Stiff had told her to get rid of me before, I figured she’d be running scared from how our first date turned out. When I called her after I got back from the run to make sure she was okay the crazy girl had asked when we were going to do it again.

I knocked on her door even though I felt like a fuck of a fool standing there with flowers in my hands. Her father answered. Not exactly the person I wanted to see. He called out to Lucy and slammed the door in my face. That fucker was testing my patience. I could even hear him on the other side of the door.

“Why him?” He asked.

“Because I enjoy my time with him,” she answered.

“Lucy, I’m begging you, don’t do this. He’s not the one for you.”

“How would you know who is or isn’t the one for me? Mom picked out Johnny for me. Did you not see how well that went? Maybe, you guys don’t know everything. Actually, considering how the two of you go at each other, I’m thinking you’re not the best people to tell me what kind of relationship I should or should not get into.” With that the door opened and she came bounding out while blowing a rogue strip of golden hair out of her face. She had most of it pulled back in a little clip on the side of her head that made her look absolutely fuckin’ adorable. I grinned at her when she noticed me, and then my grin transformed into a full blown smile as I watched her eyes light up and that smile of hers kick into full bloom when she noticed the flowers in my hand. “They’re beautiful,” she whispered as if speaking louder would somehow disturb the damn things.

I shoved them forward so she could take them, and yeah, my tongue was tied and words wouldn’t come to me. I was awestruck by her beauty and her appreciation of the simple gesture I’d debated over while in the store earlier. After seeing her reaction, I felt like a tool for ever having debated it in the first place. The woman deserved flowers and if she would smile at me like that, I would see to it that she got flowers all the fuckin’ time.

“Lucy, you look stunning,” I commented finally. A blush stole across her cheeks as she glanced down at herself. She was wearing a pair of tight dark wash blue jeans and a red halter style top that was both conservative in cut and tantalizing at the same time. The whores in the clubhouse who showed as much skin as possible could never get my motor running as hot as Lucy was at that moment in a classy, sassy, sexy looking ensemble that left plenty to the imagination while hinting at all the delicious things I might be able to discover underneath. Jesus. As soon as she turned to put the flowers inside I adjusted my cock in my pants so the fact that she was making me hard wouldn’t be as noticeable. Of course, that was about the same time her father poked his head back out the door and turned red in the face with anger.

Whatever he’d been about to say died on his thinned out lips as he slammed the door in my face once more. “Daddy!” I heard Lucy hiss at him.

“What?” he asked her in a grumpy voice.

I heard her growl in frustration before she came to the door and pulled it open once more. “I’m so sorry about that,” she insisted, but I blew it off.

“Don’t even apologize for that, Luce. One day, we may have a daughter too and if some asshole showed up drooling over her on my doorstep I’d probably do the same damn thing.” I could have sworn I heard a chuckle from inside as Lucy shut the door and beamed at me.

“We might have a daughter?” She chewed nervously on her bottom lip and glanced up at me shyly from under her lashes as she asked. I just grinned back at her.

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