into Brack’s life.”
She swallowed hard when he took another step. She wasn’t scared of any of the men in the MC, but there were times she felt intimidated because they could read people so easily.
“You can’t hide much, especially from me. The few times I’ve seen you around Torque there has been that look in your eye.”
She shifted on her feet and tightened her grip on her covered dish. “I don’t have any look in my eye when he’s around.” Delilah didn’t take shit from anyone, and could hold her own, and that was thanks to the environment she had grown up in, but this was something she was about to back down from. No way was she going to talk about what she really wanted from Torque. It was bad enough that she had never had a real boyfriend. Growing up, the guys who dated her tended to be leery of even holding her hand when they were forced to pick her up at the clubhouse so the guys could “introduce” themselves. To say her sex life was lacking was the understatement of the century. Being a virgin at twenty-two wasn’t horrible, but hell, when sex was all around her, and it was those guys banging anything with a vagina, it made them look like hypocrites for thinking she shouldn’t have sex herself until she was married and as old as they were.
“I’m not talking about any of this with you, Vain.” She tried to sound like this conversation wasn’t getting to her, but she knew nothing got past Vain.
He stared at her for a moment, as if appraising what she was thinking, and then shrugged. “Delilah, I’m not your old man, not going to try and father you or give you advice. None of us have any right to harp on you and the choices you want to make in your adult life, but we will continue to protect you.” He took another long inhale from his cigarette. “All I’m saying is be careful. Be very careful, because you haven’t seen the way Torque looks at you when he thinks no one is watching.”
Her heart started to race at Vain’s words. Torque looked at her a certain way? A way that made Vain point it out to her like a warning.
“And I also want you to remember how you felt when you saw that pussy all over him all those years ago. It hurt you, baby girl, he hurt you, and he will again. It’s in his nature. A Nomad don’t want anything good and right to settle down with. They want easy and fast, and then they can move on to the next thing. You feel me?”
“Yeah, I understand you, but I’m an adult, Vain. And I know what I should and shouldn’t do.”
He nodded slowly, and it annoyed her that he wasn’t saying anything.
“Nothing is going to happen, ever,” she said with a stronger voice and straightened.
He flicked the butt away but didn’t say anything for several long seconds. “Good, baby girl, because you know what happens to a member that touches the prez’s daughter.” He didn’t phrase it like a question.
Yeah, she knew what happened, or at least the tip of the iceberg. A beat-down was a given, most likely from her father, but she didn’t rule out the other members joining in. She didn’t think they would strip him of his patch, but her being Brack’s daughter made her forbidden, especially to members of the MC. Delilah had never wanted to be with a member, had never wanted her life to be that deep. And that was what would happen if she were an Old Lady.
“Now, why don’t you just head back home and I’ll tell Brack you came by?”
She nodded, because that would have been the smart thing to do. Is that what she did? Hell no. “I’m fine, Vain, and in fact will just set the dip down inside for the guys and their beer munchies, grab some files that I can do at home, and then get the hell out of here.” She didn’t wait for Vain to respond, just walked past him. Instead of going to the front doors she had the brains to go in through the back, away from the party and hopefully not seeing a lot of ass, dick, and tits. The back door was locked, but she
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