KAT: Southside Skulls Motorcycle Club (Southside Skulls MC Romance Book 6)

by Jessie Cooke

  “Kat? Are you okay?”

  She realized she’d been staring at him and not talking for way too long. It took her another long few seconds to get enough moisture in her mouth to form words. “Yeah…” She cleared her throat. “I’m fine. I was just…startled.”

  “I’m sorry.”

  “No. Don’t be sorry. It’s okay for you to be here…I’ll go.”

  “Don’t go.” And there it was…that tickle of hope in her belly that she hadn’t felt for so long. She didn’t want to feel it because she knew it would eventually leave her feeling like she had a knife in her gut that she couldn’t remove. “I’ll go.” And there that was…he didn’t want her to stay so they could talk or cuddle or any of the stupid, romantic things that had flashed through her head. He was going to leave her there…alone.

  “No, really, it’s okay. I was just mad at Dillon, but I should get back before he loses the bar in a bet or some shit.”

  David chuckled. “I haven’t seen Dillon in a few years, but it sounds like he hasn’t changed.”

  “Not a bit, unfortunately. It was good to see you, David…”

  “Kat. “She’d already turned to leave. He had no idea how hard it was for her to look at him and be so close to him. The memories threatened to tear her apart. Turning back around slowly she said:

  “Yeah?”

  “I hope you’ve been taking care of yourself, and I hope you’re happy.”

  What was she supposed to say to that? Should she tell him she left Hollywood because she screwed up a stunt so badly that someone had almost died? Should she tell him that she’d slept with a hundred men in the past five years, but not one of them more than once? Should she tell him that he was the only man she ever loved and there was no way she could ever be happy without him? She’d lost everything that she’d spent her life working toward and she was only twenty-five years old. Maybe she should tell him that sometimes late at night she hated herself so much that she thought about ending it all. Opening her mouth, and not knowing exactly what would come out, she heard herself say:

  “I have been, and I am. You too, okay?” David nodded, but his green eyes looked as sad as she felt. She was halfway to her bike when she realized she hadn’t seen a car anywhere. When she looked back at him, he was still in the same spot with his hands in his pockets, watching her. “Where’s your car?”

  “I rode my bike.”

  “You have a motorcycle now?”

  He laughed. “No. My family might be slightly enmeshed with the MC because of Angel and Dax, but I haven’t gone overboard. It’s a mountain bike, and it’s inside.”

  “It’s dark.”

  He laughed. “I’m a really big boy, Kat, if you haven’t noticed.”

  God yes, she had noticed. Even with all the emotions splintering through her body, her panties were still wet. She would have had to have all her senses turned off not to notice. “I just mean…there could be wild animals out here, or anything.”

  “If it makes you feel better, I’m probably going to just sleep here tonight, if that’s okay with you.”

  “Sure.” His body was pulling hers like a magnet and her head was swimming with things she wanted to say…but couldn’t. Getting her body to turn and her feet to move was like pulling herself out of quicksand. As she climbed on her bike she could see David out of the corner of her eye, still watching her. She wanted to believe that his presence meant he was still trying as hard to get over her as she was him…but then again, she didn’t, because that would be hope again, and fuck that.

  Kat didn’t look back as she fired up the bike and took off. She had to get this shit with Dillon wrapped up and get out of Massachusetts again. At least when she was thousands of miles away…it didn’t hurt quite so badly.

  David stood there on the porch for a long time, even after Kat was out of sight. A part of him wanted her to turn around and come back, and a part of him wished that she’d never come back to Massachusetts. His heart hurt, and his head, and they both had been throbbing since Angel told him Kat was back in town. He’d driven out to the ranch that morning to take Angel some things he’d bought for Susie. They were in the middle of their conversation about Kat coming home when Angel was summoned to the meeting. She asked him to wait at the house, but he’d gotten bored and just about the time he wandered down to the clubhouse, he saw Kat storm through the back door. He smiled a little at that. Hurricane was such an appropriate name for her. She “stormed” in everything she did and she left anyone in her path gasping for breath…and sometimes wondering if they would be able to rebuild after the destruction.

  He finally went back into the little cabin and lit the lantern he’d brought up with him. He knew the memories would overwhelm him there, but it was the only place he’d wanted to be. He sat down on the floor on top of his sleeping bag and let his mind drift to the past, not to that night…that horrible night that changed all their lives. But instead he lay back, closed his eyes, and thought about the last time he was truly happy and content with his life.

  “So, you never told me what you think of my new swimsuit.” It was a Sunday afternoon. David and Kat had gone to church and had breakfast with his family and then they’d ridden on her bike up to the cabin, to spend the day together. As soon as they got there she went into the other room and returned in a bikini…his mouth had gone dry and his hands shook with the need to touch her. Lust raged in his chest and in his loins as he looked at her. She was the most beautiful creature he’d ever seen, and sometimes he worried that taming her would be almost as devastating to her spirit as a knife to her heart would be to her body. Her long, black hair was disheveled; she hadn’t bothered to brush it after pulling off her helmet. Her wide, almond-shaped eyes sparkled, her cheeks were flushed, and her lips were red…but Jesus, that bikini on that body was more than any man should be able to take. She did a little dance so that he could see the back of it and he actually felt his cock pushing against the front of his shorts, begging to be let at her. The swimsuit was red, and crocheted or knit or something. There was a black lining under the red thread…and it barely covered all the things he loved so much to look at, and touch. Her breasts weren’t big, but they were perfect and he wanted to lick the swell he could see over the top. The skin over her flat belly glistened with suntan oil and the waistline of that little suit’s bottom dipped so far down that he could almost imagine he saw that sexy little mound of hers. Her thighs were fucking spectacular. A lifetime of being a gymnast had made her body hard…but it was still soft in all the right places. He loved her tattoos too. They were the first thing he’d noticed about her two years before and the first thing his family tried to use against her. But something about one of her arms being covered in a sleeve of colorful ink was unbelievably sexy. “David? Don’t you like it?”

  He nearly choked as he tried to speak. “Oh my God,” he sputtered out. “I love it. It’s incredible. You’re incredible. Jesus, Kat, you’re going to kill me.” She giggled and stepped closer, close enough for him to wrap his arm around her waist and pull that incredible body into his.

  “I’m glad you like it. Want to go swimming?”

  “No.”

  She laughed again. “No? What do you want to do?”

  “Bend you over and share space with that bikini.”

  “Hmm…wow, that sounds hot. How would you…?” He didn’t let her finish. He flipped her little body around and pushed her forward over the chair in front of them. Kat moaned, loudly. David didn’t know why, but she loved it rough. He’d been hesitant to try it that way at first, because he was so much bigger than her and he was so afraid of hurting her…but after two years, they had it down pat.

  15

  David’s hands were shaking in anticipation as he hurriedly untied the string on his swim shorts and pushed them down. His cock stood straight out, straining to get to her. He ached to be inside of her and for one fleeting moment he thought about forgetting the condom. He knew she was faithful and he knew he was
clean…but he was too sensible for that. They weren’t ready for the other things that might happen if he did that. He took out the condom he’d slipped into his pocket earlier and used one hand to put it on while the other massaged the cheeks of her mostly exposed ass. Fuck, she was perfect.

  Once he had the condom on he reached for the almost nonexistent crotch of that sexy little bikini, hooked his finger in it, and pulled it to one side. His finger was already soaked, and Kat moaned again, making fireworks explode in his head. With one hand holding the bikini bottom to the side, he used the other then to guide his hot, throbbing cock to that sweet pussy. One push and he was all the way inside of her and she was mewling, like a cat.

  David held himself there inside of her for several minutes, letting his hands roam up her body and underneath the bikini top. Her breasts fit perfectly in his hands and he massaged them while she was filled up with his cock. Kat’s wiggling as he played with her nipples was sending impulses from his cock all the way up to his head and threatening to make him come like a sixteen-year-old on his first date. His mouth was watering to put one of those nipples in his mouth, but he wanted her too badly for that just then. Instead, he moved his hands down to her waist, sliding them slowly along her smooth, sexy sides. Once he had them there he held onto her tightly and slowly pulled back until his cock was almost all the way out. He rotated his hips slightly before pushing back in, this time hard. She squeaked and cried out his name. It wasn’t long before he was pounding her, and the slap of his hips against her sexy little ass was almost as hot as the feeling of her pussy wrapped tightly around his cock.

  Kat bobbed her butt up and down while he ravaged her from behind; at one point he reached up and took a handful of her hair in his fist. That made her growl with lust, so he pulled harder and used the other hand to lightly slap her ass each time he pulled out of her. She was part woman, part child, and part wild animal, and the last part came out in full force as she white-knuckled the chair in front of her and begged him for more…harder…faster… David complied, and it wasn’t long before she was howling out in an orgasm and he felt her warm fluids rush out. That was all he needed to be pushed to the point of no return, and his orgasm rocked him to his very core. He had barely caught his breath when Kat moved, causing him to fall out of her. She turned to face him and slipped the condom off him, causing his body to convulse just from the light touches of her fingers against his overstimulated organ. She tossed the condom into the little wastebasket under the table next to the chair and then slid her arms up around his neck and pulled him down into a hot, passionate kiss that was almost as fulfilling as the sex they’d just had was. She kissed him for a long time and he was almost light-headed when she broke it. Then taking his hand she said, “Let’s go for a walk.”

  David’s head was still spinning, but he looked down at himself, completely naked and half hard again and said, “Um…okay, let me grab my shorts.”

  Kat laughed as she took his hand and pulled him so that the shorts were out of his reach. “You won’t need them,” she said. Confused but intrigued, he let her pull him toward and then through the door. The sun was high in the sky and warm on their skin as they trekked hand in hand along the narrow path that led through the forest that surrounded them. Kat led him to the edge of a creek and David almost shivered at the thought of how cold the water in the creek would be. He thought she wanted to skinny dip, but it turned out she had other ideas.

  She leaned back against a tree and once again pulled him down so that their lips met. They started kissing again and David’s hands found her breasts once more. That time he couldn’t control the urge to put them in his mouth. He broke the kiss and let his mouth slide all the way down to her chest. He sucked one nipple into his mouth and with the other hand he pinched and twisted the other. He sucked hard, taking half her breast into his mouth and enjoying the hell out of the way she was expressing her own delight.

  David devoured her breasts, first one and then the other. He had tasting her sweet pussy on his mind, but before he could make his way down to it, she dropped to her knees and took his now rock-hard cock in her hand. With her lips closed, she stroked him. He could feel the tip of it strike her soft, full lips each time. She was teasing him, but that was okay because he knew that she’d never leave him wanting. He finally felt her lips open and she took in the head of his cock, licking all the way around it and sucking on it before dipping her head back and sucking him in hard…all the way to the back of her throat. David groaned loudly and flexed his hips into her, grinding his pelvis against her face. She had him in her throat and he could feel her throat muscles working around his shaft. He didn’t know where she’d learned this stuff. He’d asked her once and she told him that when she wanted to be good at something, she “did a lot of studying.” He didn’t know if she was watching porn or reading it and he didn’t care. He was grateful to whatever it was.

  David closed his eyes and let her control what was happening as she sucked, licked, and stroked and took him to heaven without a word. He felt his second orgasm working its way up from his toes and he reached down and tried to get a hold on her and pull her up. She had her lips clamped tightly around him and she refused to let go.

  “Baby, I’m gonna come…” Kat still didn’t let go. Instead, she nodded her head and when David realized she was willing to let him come in her mouth, he lost control again. He held her by her hair and fucked her mouth, hard, only speaking again to warn her just before his orgasm rushed out and coated the inside of her mouth and the back of her throat. By the time she finished, there wasn’t a drop left, and he was so light-headed that he had to pull back and drop to his knees to keep from falling. When he was face to face with her she smiled and her pulled her into his chest. “Where the hell did you come from?” he said, breathlessly.

  He felt her smile against his hot skin and say, “The eye of the hurricane.”

  That was the last time they made love. A week later David would get that phone call from Angel that changed his life…horribly. She’d asked him to meet her at the police station because Kyle wanted to be there too.

  David had asked a lot of questions, but Angel had just told him she’d explain when he got there. Kyle and Angel were in the little office the detectives used for privacy and when he stepped in, Kyle closed the door. They were both acting so strangely that he was afraid something had happened to their dad, who was a detective at the time too.

  “Okay, guys, what’s up with the cloak and dagger routine?” Angel finally looked up at him. She had a black eye…or at least the makings of one. Her lip was split and fat and it looked like her nose might have been bleeding recently. “Jesus, Angel, what happened to you?”

  She didn’t answer him. She looked to Kyle, like Angel had a habit of doing when she needed strength. Kyle answered for her: “Your girlfriend did that to her.”

  “What? Kat? No way.”

  “Yes, David, she did,” Angel said. “But don’t worry, I got in a few good licks too before I put the cuffs on her.”

  “Cuffs? What the hell are you talking about? Someone tell me what the fuck is going on!”

  “Calm down,” Kyle said to him. He didn’t want to calm down; they were pissing him off.

  “Tell me what’s going on or I’ll go ask Kat.”

  “You’ll have to sign in to see her, she’s in a holding cell downstairs.”

  David had jumped to his feet then. “What? You’ve both lost your minds.” He reached for the door handle and Angel said:

  “David, I’m sorry. I just don’t know how to tell you, so I’m going to just say it. I saw her coming out of the abortion clinic in Dorchester today.”

  David felt his insides begin to shake. “Okay…maybe she had a research paper to do or…”

  “She had an abortion, David. She admitted it to Angel,” Kyle said.

  His chest hurt and he felt like he couldn’t breathe. He still didn’t believe them, but why would they say that about her? “I want to talk
to her,” he said.

  In a shaky voice Angel said, “I confronted her, David, and she admitted it. I was angry so I put my hands on her and she fought back.”

  “So you arrested her? You were the one that started it.”

  “Don’t you understand that’s not the point?” He did, but he couldn’t think about the other…that might make it real. “She killed your baby, David.”

  “Maybe it wasn’t his baby,” Kyle said. For some reason, that was what pushed David over the edge. He grabbed his brother, pushing him into the wall and drawing back his fist. Kyle didn’t raise his own hands or try to get away. He looked at him with those intense and sometimes creepy eyes of his and said, “I know you’re hurting, bro. If it’s going to make you feel better to hit me, go ahead. And then go deal with her. Don’t let her tears fool you, though. She’s pure evil. She made a baby, with you or someone else and then she went and killed it. Let that sink in, David. She’s evil.”

  David felt the blood rush out of his head as he let go of his brother. He turned to look at Angel. She had tears in her eyes. “We love you, David. I would never in a million years make something like this up…I wasn’t even sure I could tell you, that’s why I came to Kyle first. It’s true and if it was your baby…you had a right to be in on the decision.”

  Kat wasn’t Catholic, but she knew how devoted the Bradys were to their church and their beliefs. If she wanted an abortion, she would have never come to David. She would have just gone off and done it on her own…and that was when he began to believe his brother and sister. That was how Kat made most decisions, but most of the time he agreed with her. God…how could she do this?

  He didn’t say another word to either of his siblings. He left them there and headed down to booking. The sergeant at the desk knew him well and as soon as he saw him, his eyes went to the cage they had Katrina held in. She was lying on a bench and as he approached the holding cage he noticed how pale her skin was. When he got closer he realized there was blood all over the front of the shorts she was wearing. He started yelling at the sergeant to open the cage. Once he got to her he realized she was unconscious. He scooped her up in his arms and by that time Angel and Kyle had made it downstairs. Angel took one look at her and said, “My patrol car is right outside.” They took her, lights and sirens blaring, to the hospital and for a while, David didn’t know if she was going to live or die. That was when he realized just how much he loved her. He sat in the chapel and talked to God and begged him to spare her no matter what she had done. He told God that he would forgive her. He’d have to walk away, but he'd do it without any yelling or name-calling and he’d forgive her for what she’d done. And sadly, he wouldn’t stop loving her either.