Knox's Stand

by Jamie Begley

  No sooner had the words left her mouth than the doorway filled with Last Riders trying to get into the bedroom and someone hit the light switch.

  “Diamond!” Knox yelled from the doorway. He stood there, dressed in jeans shirt and boots with his jacket on.

  “What is going on in here?” Viper came to the doorway with no shoes or shirt on. The tribal tattoo he had on his arm and shoulder and the huge one he had on his chest had Sex Piston and her crew pausing to look at the biker despite the turmoil going on in the room. Knox gave Diamond a threatening glare when he saw her eyes linger on Viper’s display of muscular perfection a little longer than he deemed necessary.

  “I thought that Knox was in here.” Diamond reluctantly tore her attention away from Viper, giving Bliss’s hair a final tug before releasing it. Evie and Sex Piston were still fighting despite Rider trying to separate the women when Train got up from the bed, grabbing Sex Piston so that Rider could help Evie get to her feet. Sex Piston’s hand reached behind her back and grabbed Train by his nuts. To Train’s credit, he bellowed, but he didn’t release the bitch.

  “Sex Piston, stop!” Viper yelled.

  She let Train go reluctantly, who fell back onto the bed holding himself. Sex Piston’s top was torn and her hair was a mess from Evie using it to pull away when she had tried to strangle her.

  “What are you doing here, Diamond?” Knox asked.

  “I wanted to talk to you?” The statement came out as more of a question because Diamond felt self-conscious with everyone listening.

  “Did you ever think of just calling me?” Knox asked, looking around at the pandemonium in the room.

  Diamond looked confused. “I did, you never answered. Besides that, I texted and left messages.”

  Knox searched his pockets for his phone. “I’ve been out riding my bike all day then I went for a walk at Cash’s homestead. I must have lost it.”

  “You weren’t ignoring my call?” Diamond asked with a wavering voice.

  “No,” Knox answered, staring deeply into her eyes.

  “You would have answered?”

  “Yeah,” Knox said softly.

  Diamond smiled, walking toward him, this time not worried about making a fool of herself. She walked up to him and circled his waist with her arms.

  “I’ve missed you,” Diamond confessed.

  “I’ve missed you,” Knox said.

  “Well, isn’t that sweet,” Killyama said in a sickeningly sweet voice. “Does that mean we can stay for the party?”

  “No,” everyone answered at once. Diamond laughed into Knox’s chest.

  “We help you out and we can’t even get a beer?” Crazy Bitch asked Diamond.

  Diamond looked up pleadingly at Knox.

  “One beer,” he agreed reluctantly.

  “Knox,” Viper said in warning.

  “One beer then they’ll leave,” Knox promised.

  Sex Piston and her crew nodded their heads in agreement. As Knox and Diamond left the room with everyone following, she noticed Viper turning to go to a bedroom at the end of the hall where Winter stood in the doorway with a sheet covering her body. When she saw Diamond’s eyes on her, she shut the door just as Viper was about to enter. Unable to stop his momentum, he ran into the door.

  Before she could so much as laugh at the spectacle it had created, they reached the top of the steps and saw the front door open and Stud enter with several of the Blue Horseman coming in behind him.

  Cash, who was at the bottom of the steps, turned toward the door. “What in the fuck do you think you’re doing?” he asked Stud.

  “We want our women.”

  “What women?” Cash asked, blocking Stud from coming any further into the clubhouse.

  “Sex Piston, Crazy Bitch and T.A., you can keep Killyama,” Stud said, looking up the steps. Catching sight of the women at the top of the steps with Rider and Train half naked sparked a fury within him that Diamond hadn’t expected the emotionless man capable of.

  “What in the hell are you doing here, Stud?” Sex Piston yelled, leaning over the railing. Her hair messed up and her top torn, she looked down at the President of the Blue Horseman.

  “Which one touched you?” Stud yelled back.

  “What?” Sex Piston asked in confusion.

  “Which mother fucking asshole touched you? Because they’re going to regret touching something that’s mine.”

  “I’m not yours!” she yelled, putting her hands on her hips and glaring back.

  “You damn sure are. Get your ass down here now!”

  “We’re not going anywhere, we’re staying for a beer.” Smugly, Sex Piston continued to ignore his order.

  “Yeah?”

  “Yeah!”

  Stud signaled his men at her response. Knox didn’t waste time, he moved Diamond back as Stud charged up the stairway after Sex Piston at the same time that the Blue Horsemen came through the doorway in a mass.

  Sex Piston tried to take off running down the hallway, but ran into Viper who had come back down the hallway when he heard the commotion.

  “Just a minute,” Viper said, preventing Sex Piston from getting away.

  As Stud reached the top of the stairs, seeing Viper holding Sex Piston seemed to piss the biker off even more.

  “Let her go, Viper.”

  “My pleasure.” Viper let Sex Piston’s arm go, and before Sex Piston could move, Stud had her.

  “Let me go,” she said, trying to twist free.

  “Pike.” Stud turned and one of the Blue Horseman came up the steps. “Take her to the truck.” Sex Piston tried to struggle away, but found herself tossed over the big man’s shoulder.

  Stud turned back to the rest of Sex Piston’s crew.

  “Now, you can go with her or be carried away, which is it going to be?”

  T.A. immediately went after Sex Piston, giving Stud a wide berth while Crazy Bitch and Killyama merely stood there with their arms crossed over their chests.

  “Fuck off,” Crazy Bitch said.

  “Back off, bitch,” Killyama snarled.

  Stud didn’t argue. “Rock, Blade.”

  Two men came up the steps slowly. One took a step forward and grappled with Crazy Bitch before he managed to get her in a tight hold, tossing her over his shoulder then went down the steps with the woman threatening to cut his dick off.

  “Blade,” Stud ordered.

  “Do I have to?” Stud threw the man a look that had him taking a step forward taking on Killyama. The woman fought the man dirty, ramming his nose with her fist then jerking out the loop in his ear before he managed to get her, still struggling, out of the house to a cheering audience.

  “Now which one touched Sex Piston?” Menace filled the hallway.

  “None of them did. She came in here and started a fight with our women,” Viper said sharply.

  “That true?” Stud asked Diamond.

  “Yes,” she answered from behind Knox’s back.

  Stud looked at the women in the hallway. Bliss, who had pulled on a robe, had a black eye and Evie, who had put on Train’s shirt, whose hair was a total mess from Sex Piston’s hands.

  “I don’t suppose we could switch Killyama with one of these women?” Stud quipped.

  “No.” Viper apparently wasn’t in a joking mood, although Diamond wasn’t so sure that Stud had been joking from the look of disappointment on his face.

  “I didn’t think so.” Stud turned to go back down the steps. “Sorry about the interruption to your party. That’s two markers we owe your club.”

  “Don’t pull this shit again, Stud. Next time you come to our club like this, I’ll take it as a sign of war.” Viper made his position clear.

  Stud stopped, turning back. “Next time I hit your club with our women here, war won’t describe what I’ll do,” Stud said, making his own stance equally evident.

  Viper nodded. Both Presidents coming to a mutual agreement.

  After Stud and his men cleared the club within
minutes, Knox moved to the side, letting Diamond free. Everyone stared at her accusingly.

  “Sorry.” Diamond felt terrible about the commotion she had caused.

  “You two need to get your shit straight,” Viper said, turning back to his bedroom.

  Knox took Diamond’s hand, leading her back to the hallway and going into the room across the hall from his.

  Chapter Twenty-one

  “Why do you have a different bedroom?” Diamond asked. The room was half the size of his previous room. His blanket that had once lain on a huge, king-sized bed now lay across a full bed. She couldn’t believe he even fit on the bed.

  “I didn’t need the big bed anymore.”

  “You didn’t? Why?” Diamond asked, studying his face.

  Knox didn’t answer, instead he asked a question of his own. “Why all the hurry to see me? It would have been easier to open your door last night. Nothing’s changed, Diamond.”

  Diamond stood there, wanting to be the woman that could let him have it while he stood arrogantly with his arms crossed over his chest as if he held all the cards. To be the type that had more respect for herself than to be humiliated in front of a man, however Diamond wanted Knox. If she took a chance, she might win him, and having him meant everything.

  “I’ve decided it doesn’t matter if you care about me or not.”

  “It doesn’t?” Surprised, his arms dropped to his side.

  “No, I was wrong. Just because I care about you, doesn’t mean that you have to return my feelings.”

  “What feelings?” Knox asked, going still.

  “I’m in love with you,” Diamond confessed, staring him straight in the eyes.

  “No, you’re not.”

  Diamond nodded her head. “I am. You know I am, that’s why you left that day. I bet you were relieved that Sex Piston gave you an out.”

  “I didn’t need Sex Piston to give me an out. I was done,” Knox said emotionlessly.

  Diamond’s heart plunged, although there was something that was hiding in his eyes that gave her a spark of hope. It was a tiny spark, but Diamond was going to play the hand of her life and that didn’t mean folding.

  “What were you done with, Knox?” Diamond walked to stand beside the bed. Taking off her top, she managed to unsnap her bra, letting her breasts free. She then sat down on the side of the bed, pulling off the boots before she stood back up, unsnapping the tight jeans she had to wiggle out of. Kicking them away, she remained standing in nothing more than a tiny pair of black panties, which she slowly slipped her finger under the sides of before she slid them off, now naked before him.

  Her eyes went to the front of his jeans where his erection was thrusting against the front of them. Feeling a rise in her confidence, she walked towards him, making sure she put an extra swing into her hips. Her hands went to the bottom of his t-shirt, raising it up his chest. She didn’t try to take it off the man standing as still as a statue. Instead, she leaned toward his chest, taking one of his nipples between her teeth and biting gently before letting her tongue lave the tightening nipple.

  “I’m surprised that, as much as you like piercings, you didn’t pierce your nipples.”

  “I get in too many fights for a nipple piercing. Did you see what Killyama did with that poor bastard’s ear?”

  “Ouch,” Diamond murmured, moving to his other nipple. “I want you so bad, Knox.”

  His hands went to her waist, lifting her up to meet his eyes. “If I fuck you, it doesn’t mean I care about you. It doesn’t mean I’m ever going to care about you. You’re just another pussy to me.” His stern face didn’t soften.

  Tears filled Diamond’s eyes at his harsh words. “Okay.”

  “Dammit to hell.” Knox’s face broke into a tortured mask that made her cry even harder, feeling his conflicting emotions. He dropped her onto the bed, jerking off his t-shirt before he lay down between her legs.

  “You’re too much, Diamond. You’re too sweet, too beautiful and you mean too fucking much to me.” When Knox’s head nuzzled her neck, his body shuddered against her. “Quit crying.”

  “Okay.”

  His lips found hers, giving her everything she wanted and more. The passion they had always shared was still there except now it was heightened because they hadn’t been together. The pain of neither one getting what they needed from the other tore at their emotions.

  “I can’t not love you, Knox. I know you need me to only have sex with you, though; to be just another in a long line. I don’t need the words from you anymore, Knox. That’s what I was calling to tell you. I simply need you.” Her hands looped around his neck, cupping his head to her.

  Knox’s hand went to her breast, lifting it to his mouth. Finding her nipple, he sucked it into his mouth, making Diamond’s hips arch upwards to rub her mound against his hard length behind his jeans. Her hands went to unsnap his jeans then to pull down his zipper at the same time that Knox’s hand went between her thighs. Finding the wet warmth waiting for him, his finger plunged within her.

  “I’ve missed you so much,” Diamond whispered into his neck, her hands sliding upwards to his shaven head, stroking the smooth flesh as he teased her nipple with his tongue ring.

  Knox raised his head to stare into her eyes. Lifting himself slightly away, he maneuvered his cock from his jeans then his hand moved to her thigh to spread her wider. When his cock brushed against her opening, the naked, silky skin had Diamond freezing in place as he pushed himself into her pussy. The unbelievably erotic feel of his flesh without the condom was something Diamond had never experienced before. The piercings on his cock rubbed against her, causing her to shudder.

  Staring up at him, she opened her heart and soul to a man who’d had his ripped out time and time again until he had nothing left for her. Diamond took the only thing he had left to give, his body. In return, she gave him everything she was without regret or recriminations, letting her love surround them until she felt as if she’d touched his soul.

  Knox’s head dropped to her shoulder as his hips thrust into her, burying his cock over and over into her silky pussy that grasped him tightly.

  “This is what I want from you, Diamond.”

  “It’s yours, Knox. Take me.” Her words lit a storm within him that had his strokes becoming rougher as his control began to loosen at the feel of her surrounding him.

  “If I take you the way I want to, you’ll be sore tomorrow,” Knox warned.

  “There’s always the hot tub,” Diamond tempted as her hand went to his back, scoring him with her fingernails.

  At those words, Knox lost his restraint to the point that his strokes became hard enough to send the bed slamming against the wall. Diamond’s hips thrust back against his, coming as his piercing found a spot that had her screaming. Knox’s cock jerked within her as he climaxed at the same time, finally bringing both of them down from the torturous need that had been driving them.

  When he moved to her side, pulling her onto him, Diamond lay relaxed and drained on his chest. His hands stroked her hair, straightening the tangled mess. The calming movement made her drowsy since she hadn’t slept well last night.

  Diamond woke sometime later when Knox rolled her to the side, getting out of bed. Lifting her, he carried her into the bathroom before turning on the shower. Opening the shower door, he pulled her inside under the warm water where his hands picked up the soap and washed her slick body.

  “Open your legs.” Knox gently commanded.

  When Knox rose, Diamond took the soap, putting a generous amount on the palm of her hand. She began washing him. The muscled smoothness had Diamond grinning up at him. “I think you’ve lost a little weight.”

  Knox looked disgruntled. “Maybe a few pounds.”

  “You need to eat more.”

  “My appetite may be coming back. Let’s go raid the kitchen.”

  “Sounds good to me.” The thought that she might have been the reason he had lost a few pounds had her stomach doing fl
ips.

  They dried off and Knox put on a pair of sweats before giving her a large t-shirt that fell to her knees. Searching through his drawers, he then managed to find a robe that fell to her feet.

  “I didn’t think you would own a robe,” Diamond joked.

  Knox grinned back. “It was a Christmas present last year from Beth. She gave all the brothers one.” Diamond laughed.

  She had expected the party to be over, but there were still several members and hanger-ons downstairs.

  Heading towards the kitchen, Rider gave her a sideways grin when he saw how she was dressed. Blushing, she went into the kitchen to see Evie and Cash sitting at the table eating a sandwich.

  “Take a seat, I’ll fix us something,” Knox said.

  As Diamond took a seat next to Evie, the silence at the table was uncomfortable. “I’m sorry, Evie. I lost my temper when I went in the bedroom and thought Knox was there, which is no excuse, but I’m sorry.”

  “Your sister is a bitch,” Evie retorted, not ready to accept her apology.

  “I know, but to be fair, she was going to walk away. I’m the one that egged it on.” Diamond accepted full responsibility for the fiasco upstairs.

  “You did?”

  Diamond nodded. “I didn’t know I could get that angry,” she confessed.

  “That kind of happens when you care about someone, don’t you think?” Evie probed.

  “Yes, but I still had no right. Knox hasn’t made any promises and I was wrong to take it out on the women. I should have just kicked his ass.”

  Cash and Evie both shared a glance. Evie started to say something, but was cut off by Knox setting a sandwich down in front of Diamond then sitting down with a plate for himself.

  They obviously didn’t want to continue the conversation with Knox there, so the topic switched to a big order The Last Riders had going out next week and how much the new employees hired from Treepoint helped with the grueling schedule.

  “When did the Blue Horsemen start caring about what Sex Piston and her crazy assed friends did?” Cash asked, changing the subject again.

  “The Destructors became a charter of the Blue Horsemen. I think Sex Piston and her crew are going to be in trouble for helping me get in to see Knox. Stud didn’t look too happy with them.”