Page 17 of My Three S**y Bikers

Playboy walked in, and I couldn’t help but back away from Lucky.

“What were you kids up to?”

Playboy winked as he smiled at us.

“Nothing!” I said as I felt myself grow red. I walked away from him, forgetting what I’d come into the kitchen for in the first place.

“Erin, what are you doing here?” I had a wave of panic as I saw her behind the bar. I thought maybe there was something wrong with Dwayne. She never came here. She said she hated the noise and crowd, so she tended to avoid being here like the plague, which was a strange thing to hate if you are part of an MC.

“Remember I told you today’s a big day? It’s going to be busy, and May said she would come in and cover for me.”

I nodded, thinking she told me about it, and I had completely forgotten.

“Mel. Get behind the bar and help me out.”

“Okay!”

There was so much tension in the air. She wore her gold dress, and I remembered her saying the place would be lively, and we had to give out a party impression.

They’re MCs, which means they know how to drink and party!

“Let’s get this fucking party started!” shouted the guy on the mic, and then the live band started playing. Greyson had hired them for the weekend, and apparently, they were pretty popular on this side of town. I’d never heard of Stones, but judging by the crowd, they were here to hear them play and dance.

There were more guys than usual on the door, because Erin said, at times, they got rough. Getting into fights meant the police might get involved. If they came to the club, they could close it down.

So many thoughts ran through my mind, like what would happen to the club and the house if that did happen? Where would all the club members go? They wouldn’t be part of the circuit, which Lucky had explained was part of their main income.

Without it, they would have to go back to whatever they’d done before, and by the sounds of it, it wasn’t legal or nice.

My thoughts reverted to my job, which was working behind the bar. I felt like Alice in Wonderland as I served and put a smile on my face with my hair up in a bun, wearing jeans and a silver shirt that Erin had leant me. I loved the attention I got, women complimenting me on my shirt and men telling me that I looked pretty tonight.

“Get a drink, darling. You look as if you need one!” A dark-haired guy with matching eyes smiled as he pointed at me.

“Well, it seems as if someone has a fan!” Erin winked as she passed me.

The guy was hot. There was no denying it. Sure, I’d nearly slept with Scar a couple of nights ago, but there was too much emotional baggage between us.

I couldn’t tell him Dwayne was his child, or he would want to be with me for the wrong reasons. Then there was what happened with Lucky earlier. That and him bringing me to the club had been playing on my mind. I felt an attraction between us, but he was my son’s grandfather.

Maybe, this guy, this ‘fan’, would get rid of all the friction.

“I’ll take your drink, but it doesn’t mean that you have me for the night,” I flirted with him.

Drake thought Dwayne wasn’t his and the moment he left town, I’d hooked up with someone else. He didn’t know me at all. The idea of him thinking such a thing really hurt.

“I’ll wait ‘til you have a break, then we can have a dance.” He winked, and even through all the commotion in the bar, things smashing, brawls taking places, and security stepping in, I ignored all that noise and only had one thing on my mind.

My fan.

He was the type of distraction I needed right now. Someone who thought of me as sexy and funny. Not as a mother. Nor as a lost soul who needed saving. Even if it was only for one night.

The night rolled on, and then Ashley came into the bar, too. Good, we had an extra set of hands. There were now four of us with Playboy stepping in behind the bar, which meant that I could take up my fan on his offer.

Erin nodded, telling me, “Only ten minutes!”

Good.

At last, I was going to have some fun. I felt like a girl going to prom. There was no way I could go through the bar to my fan. So, I decided to get to the back and then the front door.

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