Biker's Baby Girl (9 page)

After what had been done to her I didn’t want her having any bad moments. But she felt good as fuck against me first thing in the morning, the way a day was supposed to begin. I allowed myself a few extra moments to smell her hair and relish the feelings of absolute joy that ran through me. Just one more minute and then I’d let my little innocent go. That’s what I kept telling myself.

In the end I’d decided against that shit, this was me she was never to fear me, never to lump me in with anyone else. And though my heart raced in my chest at the thought of putting any kind of fear in her eyes, I held onto her.

I needn’t have worried. The smile she gave me when she opened her eyes went a long way to convincing me that she was going to be fine. It had taken everything in me not to kiss her smiling lips. I’d settled for a quick peck even though I’d wanted to suck on her tongue for the next week or so.

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Creed

We hit my place just after eight in the morning. I didn’t call ahead because it was way too early when we left, and so when we pulled into my place she got an eyeful. Mattie, one of the more popular hangers on, was just coming out of the clubhouse, still putting herself together.

The look on babygirl’s face was priceless, but I checked my first inclination to shield her. She’s gonna have to learn. She was gonna see a fuck of a lot worse before long I was sure like I said, I’m not in the habit of censoring or curtailing my men’s activities as long as they don’t do any shit to harm women or kids.

With that much leeway some of these fucks run the gamut. I pretty much expect anything and try my best not to react to some of the fuckery they can get up to.

I waved at the other woman when she hailed me but kept it moving. I didn’t want Jessie’s introduction to my world to be one of the sheep, and especially not one I’d fucked in the past.

Shit, was she going to be able to deal with the fact that some of the women here had once shared my bed? Or would she understand that none of those encounters had meant anything more than a quick release?

It wasn’t something I’d given a hell of a lot of thought to, I mean she was just a kid for fuck sake and I’m a grown fucking man. It wasn’t like I could wait around for her to grow up; I’d have gone out my fucking head. ‘Yeah but if she’d have done the same you would’ve flipped your shit.’ Who the fuck asked you?

“Come on let’s get you settled and maybe you can get some more rest.” I took her hand and led her in the opposite direction across the way, to my private residence, while she looked back at the colorful woman who wasn’t too quiet as she left.

Was Mattie always that damn loud in the mornings? I hadn’t noticed. I’m pretty sure she was putting it on for Jessie’s benefit. Then again…I saw two of the guys come out behind her scratching their nuts and grinning.

I just shook my head and hustled my little charge inside before she caught wind of that shit. Fuck me she’d be corrupted in five seconds flat.

I saw her to the guestroom across the hall from the master suite, made sure she was all set and bounced. I had left some shit up in the air when I went after her, might as well get back to it because there was no way I was gonna get any more sleep with her here.

“Creed?”

“Yeah baby?” She called out to me in that half sleep voice that sounded like a cross between lustful sin and innocence. I went back and stood in the doorway not trusting myself to go any farther.

“Where are you going?”

“Just across the way to my office, you’re safe here no one’s gonna bother you. If you need me just call okay.” She nodded and put her head down to sleep.

Even though I knew she was safe and that no one would even think of entering my place without my say-so, I still went around the house securing the place. I wasn’t about to take any more chances with her, and the last few hours had taught me not to take shit for granted.

I knew I could trust most of the men in my crew, but as with all crews there were some unknowns who’d skated by by the skin of their teeth.

Friends of friends or somebody’s fucking cousin. I was going to keep an eye on the unknowns, though I didn’t think any one of them were dumb enough to fuck with me, still to be on the safe side.

When I was sure everything was set I looked in on my baby one last time before heading out the door. Sound asleep already. “My little innocent babygirl.”

The place was just the way I’d left it, like I’d been in the middle of shit and had to bounce in a hurry. I’d probably fucked the deal I was in the middle of but I couldn’t find it in me to give a fuck. I’d do it all again if it meant going after her.

For the first time since getting Law’s call I was able to truly breathe. She was here she was safe I didn’t have to worry anymore. It was a few days early and definitely under the circumstances I’d envisioned, but here nonetheless.

Now I had to figure out what to do about this new pebble in my fucking shoe. Because it involved her, I was going to have to put everything else aside and take care of this shit once and for all.

From what little I knew and what Law had told me, Sal was in bed with a very bad group of assholes. The kind who believed that they were above the law and made it their life’s mission to be fucking annoying to the rest of the general population and that’s putting it mildly.

Creed

The first thing I did was call a meeting. I needed all my boys to know who she was and how she was to be treated, not just here but in the county period.

I also needed to give them a heads up in case Sal’s people tried anything. He knew where I lived I was sure, because of his association with Dee, and I wasn’t taking any chances in case he and the other fuck-wipes he hung with decided to pay me a visit.

From what Law had told me these people were heavy into hate and low on sense, a bad fucking combination if you ask me. I never even knew she was around that kind of shit, just one more thing that I’d failed her in.

Dee was gonna get her turn, but I knew her shit was money. I’m just waiting on Jason to take everything she owned so she’d get the picture that it was never too wise to fuck with me and mine.

That little buzz cut was child’s play compared to what the fuck I’d do to them both if they fucked around. She didn’t seem too badly scarred by their shit, but then again it had only been one day, who knows what the fuck she was holding in?

The men came straggling in one by one, which told me what kind of night they’d had while I was gone. At least the fucking place was still standing and the asshole cops weren’t at my door; progress.

I waited until they were all there and looking as attentive as they could be at that time of the morning after a long night. I wanted their full attention because the first one to step outta line was getting FUBARRED and I didn’t want any fucking excuses.

“Listen up, my wife is here.” That woke them the fuck up. Between the eye popping and the what the fuck looks thrown around the room I think all remnants of sleep had disappeared.

“It goes without saying that she is to be respected as my wife any slip-ups on that one you’re out I don’t care if you shared womb time with me and none of you here have. Anyone even look at her with anything but brotherly love will lose a nut.”

I let that shit settle in and watched as they shifted from leg to leg with pained looks on their faces. Good, they were a little more awake, not all the way here yet, but enough.

“I’m gonna need you lot to be on guard for the next little while because of some shit that’s gone down. She’s asleep right now, but I’ll introduce you as soon as she’s up and about.” I threw out the pictures of Sal and Dee that I’d blown up in my office five minutes earlier and made copies of.

“If you see these two anywhere in the vicinity, detain them, but leave them for me to deal with. All you need to know for now is that they are a danger. Any questions?” I’m pretty sure I knew what it was going to be and I wasn’t disappointed. Like I said, not many people knew about her or my attachment.

No doubt they thought it was one of the many women I’d paraded in and out of here over the years. Though why the fuck they’d think that when I hardly ever gave anyone a repeat performance was beyond me. “Yeah boss, when did we get married?”

“A long fucking time ago Jimmy.” Let them make of that what they will. I wasn’t in the habit of explaining myself when it came to personal shit, I’m sure they’ll piece it together eventually.

The others pretty much kept their opinions to themselves for now, but I had a feeling that had more to do with the booze they’d downed the night before than out of any respect for my privacy. I’m pretty sure I’d be bogged down with questions before long.

“One more thing, I’m gonna need y’all to keep the sheep on a leash for the time being. My girl is kind of on the innocent side, I don’t want her seeing certain things.” The fucks looked like they expected me to start censoring, and curtailing their natural proclivities, which I wasn’t about to do. When there was nothing more forthcoming they relaxed again.

“She’s an unknown then?”

“Yes Max, it’s Jessie.” I saw realization dawn in his eyes and the slow smile that started to spread across his lips, nosy fuck. Of course he knew who she was he was my right hand and the closest thing I had to a friend outside of Law.

I dismissed them since they didn’t have anything else to say and took Max aside to fill him in some more. Like I said, he was my right hand man, the only person other than Law and babygirl that I would consider trusting, and as such knew a little more than most.

“I don’t expect to be away from her for any length of time, not now anyway, but I want you to promise me that if anything happens to me, or if I’m not around for whatever reason, you’ll make sure she’s okay.”

“What the fuck Creed? You expecting trouble?” His hackles were already raised and his stance changed automatically to protective mode. That’s one of the reasons he’s allowed so close. You save a man’s life once and he thinks he has to have your back forever and a day.

“Calm down brother, the barbarians aren’t ate the gate, not yet anyway. You know I’ve always done what needed to be done, never thought twice.

The kind of life we live, the shit we do, there’s always going to be some asshole gunning for us. No, let’s leave that for now. Let’s focus on this shit. I just need to know that if anything goes down that everything is hers. I already have it in writing, but I’m telling you, and I’m asking you to watch out for her.”

I hated like fuck to have this conversation, but it was something that needed to be done. I didn’t fool myself that everything was fucking roses. No I wasn’t expecting to give up the ghost anytime soon, but after leaving her like a fucking candle in the wind for the past nine years when I thought she was protected, I wasn’t about to take that chance again.

“You knew a little about her because I needed you to just in case something went south while I was in the army, and because I needed someone other than me to be aware of her and that she was to be taken care of. You and Law are pretty much the only ones who really know anything about her, now you know a little more than you did.”

“I think you should know the aunt was a bitch and the man she’s shacked up with a piece a shit wanna be rapist…”

“He didn’t…” My boy posed up like a rooster; that was just the response I was looking for. “No he didn’t or I wouldn’t be standing here talking to you right now. But he did enough that I wrung his dick off as in I disconnected the shit from his scrotum.

I’m pretty sure there ain’t a doctor this side of heaven can fix his shit. He would’ve probably been better off if I’d have cut him, then they would’ve been able to sew it back together, this way he’s totally fucked.”

“Damn boss, remind me never to get on your bad side.” He cupped himself like an ass. “Don’t get on my bad side.” I said that shit with a straight face because he knew I meant it.

After the betrayal of her aunt I wasn’t in the mood to deal with anyone else’s bullshit, and there’s nothing worse than someone close to you fucking with you like that. I did acknowledge that part of that stemmed from my insane jealousy of anything male being around her.

“So the aunt? Wasn’t what you thought? That sucks. Are we paying her a visit or nah?” He would understand, he knew a little of what I’d been doing over the years.

He hadn’t been with me as long as Law has, but we go back enough and like I said, I’d saved his life once and he took that shit seriously for some fucked up reason and won’t leave my shadow from that day to this.

“I ever tell you I’m glad as fuck I saved you from that gang of cutthroats in that alley?” I clapped him on the shoulder before heading over to the bank of windows that looked towards the house. I didn’t feel as heavy anymore with that shit out of the way.

We went over some security measures, shit I needed to put in place because I wasn’t going to have eyes on her twenty-four seven as much as I’d want to, so I needed others to pick up the slack. At least until I knew the danger had passed.

I delegated some other shit we had coming up because I wasn’t about to leave her for a while after I took her virginity. Every girl needs a honeymoon period or some shit, or so I’d heard.

As to an actual wedding that was something she was gonna have to put together on her own. I knew fuck all about that shit and the sheep weren’t given to such things, not that I would ask them, I’m not that fucking clueless.

“That run we were supposed to make, I’m gonna need you and the boys to take point on that, shouldn’t be too much trouble, I’m sure you can handle it just fine without me.”

“The cartel?” Or so they like to call themselves. What they were are a bunch of lowlifes who’d watched fucking Scarface once too often and thought they were fucking gangsters.

They were a motley crew of fuck-ups made up mostly of ex-criminals who thought they got a bad rap, not because they were innocent but because they’d been caught.

This band of misfits had made the monumental cluster fuck decision to run meth in my backyard, no fucking way. I did the grid ratio on my little town and there were more fucking kids per square mile than livestock, and in this neck of the woods that’s saying a lot.

Okay that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but there were a fuckload of kids. No way were they peddling that shit here. Not to the kids, and not to the parents.

“Don’t insult the Italians I don’t think those fucks would appreciate it. Anyway as I was saying, pick a crew and go do as we planned. Don’t leave a brick standing. These fucking meth labs crop up like weeds so make sure you destroy the root and get their asses out of our town, let them go fuck up somebody else’s shit.

Try not to kill anyone, it’s not that big a job and the fucks are just stupid not inherently evil okay.” He grinned the bloodthirsty fuck he is and saluted me. “As you say boss. Ahem, about the sheep, uh, you do know that some of them thought or at least were hoping…”

“I give a fuck what they were hoping, all I care about is what was said and I never said one fuck. Keep an eye and an ear out, any of them get out of line where she’s concerned I wanna know.” Yeah, I wanna handle that shit personally so they know the decision, whatever it may be, is final.

With everything squared away to my satisfaction, I let him go and headed back to my office to kill some time until she woke up from her nap.

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