I shake my head and scoff. “I am most definitelynotfucking Iris.”
 
 I’m pissed he asked the question that way. Because while I’m not sure what Iris and I are beyond a clusterfuck waiting to happen, I hate the idea that all we could be is boiled down to a four-letter expletive. But it gave me the opportunity to answer truthfully. I don’t want to lie to my prez, but I will if I have to.
 
 King holds my gaze for a minute, scanning for any hint of deceit, but he isn’t going to find any, because I didn’t lie.
 
 I haven’t fucked Iris.
 
 Yet.
 
 Shit. No, maybe not ever. Who the fuck knows.
 
 I clearly need a long ride. Like a couple of days.
 
 “I’m gonna ride on after we’re done tonight. Clear my head.”
 
 King nods. “Sounds like a good idea. Don’t go so far you can’t get back if I need you. And be back within a week.”
 
 An hour later, King, Saint, a prospect called Kieran, and I are on the road; two hours after that, we’re parked up in Bethlehem leaving Kieran with our bikes.
 
 Thankful for the cool October weather, I tug my hair up underneath my beanie.
 
 We’re south of the Lehigh River, on the boundary of Fountain Hill and Sayre Park, where the properties have a little more land. The neighborhood looks nice enough.
 
 “Which one is the truck registered to?” I whisper
 
 “Number forty-eight.” King tips his chin up the hill. In the dark, it’s hard to see too far ahead. Leaving the bikes was a good idea. It’s so fucking quiet here that I hear the occasional drone of a TV playing as I walk by the houses.
 
 When we finally find the truck, the house appears empty. Lights are off, no TV or anything playing inside. Saint and King creep around back while I get busy placing the tracking device in the wheel arch, just above the rim—the second one I placed tonight. Once I’m confident it’s secured, I head around back.
 
 King shakes his head. “Nothing to see, but no way in. The house is almost too secure for a neighborhood like this.”
 
 He points to the back door. It has a reinforced wrought iron gate locked across it. And there are bars on the lower windows.
 
 Not usually the sign of a friendly homeowner.
 
 I hoped to be able to break in.
 
 Saint walks across the lawn from an outbuilding. “Nothing,” he says.
 
 “We should get out of here,” King says.
 
 I consider bailing on my plans. I think about driving back to Asbury Park to see Iris, but I need to prove to myself I’m cool not being around her, because I don’t want to have to choose between her and my club. I take one look at my bike and know I need to head out.
 
 King notices. “Ride well, brother.”
 
 I nod, climb on my bike, and tear away.
 
 I head north. It’s already late. After midnight. Around four in the morning, when my eyes are starting to burn with the effort of staying awake, I find a motel and grab a room on the ground floor where I can lock my bike up just beneath the window of my room.
 
 I’m too tired to do much beyond strip and fall into bed.
 
 But even as I close my eyes. I think of Iris.
 
 I think of that pretty dress with the deep V she wore to have breakfast with her friend, the way the hem skimmed her thighs and showed off the narrowest part of her waist. I never realized I have a kink for dominating someone so much smaller than me, but it’s all I can think about. How narrow her waist will feel in my hands and how her breasts won’t fill my palms. I wonder how tight her pussy will be around my dick.
 
 Within minutes, I’m hard.
 
 I know I won’t sleep comfortably until I take care of it. After sliding my hand beneath the covers, I grip my dick and close my eyes. I start to think about Iris naked, but I keep losing the image. Instead of the sexy visual of her crawling up my torso, sitting up, and lowering herself onto my dick, the image shifts.