Page 30 of No Mercy

I guess my silent glare got the message across, because her smile disappeared and she moved on down the bar to another customer. Maybe I should just disappear in the back, where the club was, but I hadn’t wanted to answer any fucking questions. Sometimes my brothers were worse than gossiping old ladies.

I didn’t want to think about why I was there and not home fucking the hell out of Allie.

Christ, how fucking stupid could I get, giving her an easy out like that? Doing the opposite of what I wanted? I shook my head with disgust and released a low breath. I should never have touched her back in Cedar Key, because now that was all I thought about, her hot, fleshy curves beneath me as I pounded my dick into her tight, wet cunt.

“What are you doing back here, brother?”

I didn’t have to look up into the mirror in front of me to know that it was Hawk. “Fucking women,” was all I said.

He laughed heartedly. “You need to give it some time,” he advised.

I turned to look his way. “That what you did?” I wondered if he’d be honest. Audra had put him through hell because he’d been determined not to let her get to him.

“Fuck no, I put my foot down.” He made a show of looking around. “Don’t tell Audra I said that,” he joked.

We both laughed, and I downed my drink. Hawk was full of shit. Oh, he’d laid down the law with Audra, but he wasn’t afraid of her. Now that they were a family he let her get away with a lot of shit, but I had no doubt that he wore the pants.

“Bring me a beer,” he shouted out because Marnie and the bartender, Snake, were at the other end of the bar talking.

Marnie rushed down to serve him. “You want another whisky, Rock?” she asked while filling a frosty mug with the beer on tap.

I just gave her a nod.

“She’s giving you the eye, brother,” Hawk grinned.

“Yeah, I know. Haven’t tapped her ass in a while.”

Hawk laughed, taking a long drink. “What’s stopping you?” His tone told me that he thought he already knew the answer to that.

I didn’t answer him because I knew it would make me look like a pussy. He above anyone else should know how I felt right then. Once Audra had come on the scene he hadn’t touched another woman. But then, he’d taken what he wanted from Audra, and she hadn’t seemed to mind, either. Maybe I was handling Allie all wrong, giving her too much say when I should just tell her how shit was going to be.

It had worked in Cedar Key when I’d told her how it was going to be with Sam. She hadn’t fought me too hard on that. Maybe coming with me was what she’d wanted all along. Christ, I thought back to seven years before, when she’d been so fucking innocent. She’d liked me taking charge. We’d fought a lot, but hell, the make-up sex had more than made up for it. Allie was a firecracker in the sack when we fucked in anger.

I reached down to adjust my dick, which had turned hard as fucking stone from thoughts of fucking Allie into a purring, satisfied kitten.

“Need help with that, baby?” Shit, Marnie had seen me rearranging my dick. I could sense Hawk’s amusement next to me. If he weren’t the prez I’d have told him to fuck off. “We could go to the back.” She ran her tongue over her lips. I could tell she was turned-on. Her nipples were poking through her shirt.

Yeah, that wasn’t going to happen. But then, I thought, why the hell not? She was willing and I needed relief. It wouldn’t take me long to get off in that talented mouth of hers. I stared at her through an alcohol-induced blur. I threw back my whisky, slammed the glass down, and swung around on the stool. “Why the fuck not? Come on.”

“Don’t do anything you’ll regret, brother,” Hawk called after me.

I waved him off and met Marnie at the end of the bar. Her smile went from ear to ear and I could already see the glaze of lust filling her eyes. She led the way to the back, opening a door that led to the liquor storage room.

“I’ve missed you, baby. Missed your big, fat cock.”

“No talking,” I snarled, leaning against a rack of Jim Beam. Her hand went immediately to my dick, giving it a rough rub through my jeans. I closed my eyes. Fuck, that felt good. I thrust my hips out, bowing my dick even more. As I felt her fingers begin to tug my zipper down I made the mistake of opening my eyes and glancing down. Marnie was smiling up at me, not Allie, and it hit me like a shit ton of bricks that Allie’s mouth and hands were the only ones I wanted touching me. Not some club girl who gave it up to any brother who wanted her.

Fuck!

“Get your hands off me!” I snarled, pulling away from her and doing up my pants.

Marnie jumped to her feet, a look of shock and disbelief on her pretty face. “But−what did I do wrong?” I got the feeling that she wasn’t just asking about now. “It’s been so long, Rock. You used to touch me all the time. Fuck me all the time. I miss that, I miss you.”

I frowned, realizing that she was hurt. Fuck, were those tears filling her eyes? No, fuck, no! Club girls knew better than to let their feelings go beyond the physical needs they provided to the brothers. Marnie had been around a long time, and I wasn’t the only brother who’d fucked her. She went to reach for me and I grabbed her around the wrist to stop her from touching me.

“You know better,” I said roughly, pulling her gaze to mine. “Pull yourself together and go back to the bar.” I turned and left the room, a slow rage building inside me.

Hawk was still sitting at the bar. Our gazes met as I made my way back to my stool. I could see the question in his eyes, and shook my head as I moved around him and planted my ass down. I motioned for Snake to fill my glass.

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