Page 45 of A Love So Hard

“Nah, if he can’t talk to me with her there, then I’ll just run her back home and head back.” I took Anna’s hand again and headed for the office. The interaction with PeeWee and Anna didn’t sell with me after the way he’d spoken about Ever. They were both my daughters whether I was properly bonded with them in the same way or not. I knew then that I was going to have a talk with the club about Ever. I just needed to wrap my head around her being here first.

“What’s up, Merc?” I asked as I rounded the door to his office. One of the club whores was sitting on the couch across from his desk with her legs spread wide and her skirt lifted damn near to her pussy. I couldn’t see it from my vantage point, but I had no doubt that Merc could and worse, my daughter was definitely at eye level with that shit. I turned abruptly and covered Anna’s eyes. “PeeWee!” I shouted and he was there in an instant.

“Goddamn it,” he hissed as he realized why I’d called him. “Come on, Princess, let’s go get you a root beer float.

Her eyes grew wide now that I’d moved my hand away since she was turned to face the hallway by then. “Can I, Daddy?”

“Sure, Princess, you be good for Uncle PeeWee. Daddy needs to talk to Uncle Merc for a minute and then we’ll go finish your ride, okay?”

The whore on the couch snickered. “I want to start my ride.” I glared over at Merc who had the presence of mind to actually look ashamed.

“Get the fuck out,” I growled at her. “And you can see yourself out the back fuckin door while you’re at it so you don’t run into my daughter again.”

She poked her bottom lip out and pouted it at Merc, as if he would give her different instructions. “Did a club brother just give you an order?”

“Merc, we were about to…”

“We weren’t about to do shit, Sylvie. You were fishing, once again, and I wasn’t biting.”

“Like you weren’t just stroking your hard on while staring at my pussy like a thirsty man whose been in the desert too long.” Jesus. My Prez just called out by a whore. I knew he and Tiger Lily were having problems again. She’d was still dealing her last miscarriage, and he was threatening to get her therapy, because she wasn’t snapping out of the deep depression she’d fallen into. None of that mattered at the moment though, because Sylvie had just challenged him in front of another brother after disobeying my direct order. Shit was about to hit the fan for her, and she was too stupid to realize.

“You have shit here in one of the rooms?” He asked her as he stood and walked around his desk. She shook her head in the negative then reached out and snatched her arm up. “Good, then this will be real easy. You will get the fuck out – through the back door, like you were told – and you won’t even attempt to come back. You are banned. Disobeying a direct order from a member, and directly disrespecting the Club Prez in front of a brother?” He questioned. “How the fuck stupid can you be?”

“But, you… I thought…” She chewed on her lip a moment before her eyes blazed with something that couldn’t be good. “You know what? I hope your dick falls off from lack of use with that crazy, frigid, bitch of a woman you’re married to. We could have been great together. You’re too stupid to see what’s right in front of you though.”

I heard the crack and just stared in disbelief as I watched Sylvie’s head fly sideways as the flat of Merc’s hand came crashing down on her. “You ever speak of my wife again, come near this club, or even think about trash talking anyone involved with us and I get wind of it, they will never find where your body is buried, you got that?”

I had never seen Merc so fired up. I didn’t wait around for any more drama to unfold either. I snatched the whore by her bicep and yanked her out of the room and then marched her ass down to the backdoor. A prospect was standing nearby, painting the back hall wall. “Escort the bitch off the property. Spread the word, Sylvie is no longer welcome here. Anyone caught bringing her, or allowing her entrance to, any club property will face sanctions. I turned and left her in the care of our prospect and went back to Merc’s office.

“What the fuck were you thinking?” I asked as I moved into the room. He just shook his head and then wiped his hands down his face in a gesture of pure frustration.

“I don’t fuckin’ know. She came in here saying she needed to ask me something just after I talked to you, and next thing I know she’s flashing pussy my way. Fuck, man. I haven’t seen pussy in months. When we thought Lily might have caught we stopped having sex. She didn’t want anything to fuck up the pregnancy, you know? Now, she still won’t have sex with me, let alone smile anymore. I don’t fuckin’ know. Moment of weakness, brother.”

I nodded at him, not entirely understanding. Lucy and I hadn’t even slept in the same bed, let alone had sex since before Ever showed up and there’s no way I could even fathom looking at another woman with desire. It would eat me alive inside. Judging from the wrecked look on my friend’s face, that was exactly what was happening to him now. I didn’t envy carrying that weight. Not that he actually touched, but Lily would still see him being here alone with her, watching her naked pussy, and maybe stroking his dick to it as a major fuckup. She warned him back when she was pregnant with Jason if she ever caught wind of him even thinking about being with another woman they would be through.

“She would kill me,” he finally muttered. “Hell, the way she’s been lately, she might take herself out just to spite me instead.”

“You think she needs to be checked in somewhere to get some help?”

“Don’t know, maybe.”

“I wonder if sending my girls over to hang out with her would help. I’m sure she could use the company and Lucy could probably use a break from Ever.”

Merc snapped his head up. “Which girls are you talking about sending over then?”

I realized what I’d just said and felt just as guilty as Merc looked moments ago. I’d completely left Ever out of the equation as being one of my girls. It just didn’t feel as though she was.

“You better wrap your head around that shit quick. You fuck up and say some shit like that around that girl, you’re gonna fuck her head up for life.”

Well, weren’t we just a pair. Me judging him for his almost infidelity and him judging me for being a shit father to one of my kids. “You called me here for a reason?” I finally asked, thinking that since neither of us ready to deal with our own bullshit I would change the subject.

“I need someone to make a run down to Florida. The boys there need some assistance.” He looked me up and down then. “It’ll be two weeks. I wasn’t sure if you would be looking to get away for a bit, or if you wanted to just help pick the team that goes down there instead while you stay back?”

Well, wasn’t that a hell of an option. If I went, it would be me running from my situation this time. I couldn’t do that. “I need to get shit straightened out with Lucy. No way can I go on a run that long and have things so up in the air.”

“You forgetting something?”

“No, I’ll help pick out the team depending on Tallahassee’s needs.”

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