Why was he holding himself back? It no longer made any sense to him. If he left Penny any longer, she was going to end up with someone else. He loved beating the shit out of guys, but he didn’t want to risk his shot with her by hurting someone she might care about.
“Do you have a thing for Pea?”
“What?” she asked, scrunching up her face. “Ew, no. He’s my brother-in-law.”
“That doesn’t make you related.”
“I don’t care. He’s the brother I never wanted. No, I don’t want to date him. I don’t even have a crush on him, and I can’t be sure if I even like him half the time. He’s a total ass, and he cheats. There’s no way I’d ever fall for a guy who cheated on me.”
“You want someone to love you?”
“Yeah. I want a guy who will love and respect me, for me. No one at the club will ever be capable of that.”
Rage gritted his teeth. “What the fuck does that mean?”
“It means I’m not like my sister. I’m never going to marry a club member.”
He was just getting pissed off more and more. “You’re going to treat us like we’re all Pea.”
“Come on, Rage, I’ve seen the way you all are. None of you have any respect for women. You screw around on your wives, and don’t care if you hurt them.”
“You’re fucking wrong.”
She pulled up outside of the club, but Rage wasn’t ready to leave just yet.
“I’m not going to argue with you about this.”
“Too late. We’re already arguing. I don’t have a woman so I can fuck whoever I want to fuck, and so do most of the men. Pea, he’s different, but as you heard, he’s got a thing going with Melissa that neither of us will understand.”
“I don’t believe for a second you could be monogamous, and I don’t care. You’ve got club people, and I’m not part of that.” She pulled up the hand brake and waited. “You can leave now.”
He didn’t want to leave. He wanted her to drive right back to her nice little apartment above Dirty Deeds, and show her exactly how wrong she was. Penny didn’t have a clue what he’d done for her. She was a spoilt little bitch. The apartment she’d gotten a good price on was in fact his apartment. He’d moved out, taken all of his shit, and put it up for rent. Sarah and Elena, who ran Dirty Deeds, had been told what to do with the apartment. He’d made sure Penny knew all about the place.
Rage was done with holding back from Penny. He was talking to Saint, and he was going to put an end to this shit. Penny was club property. She was his property, and he was going to take her whether she fucking liked it or not.
****
One week later
Penny canceled Melissa’s call for the fourth time that day. It had been a week since her sister had revealed she fake cried to get her to do stuff. Penny hadn’t visited the club, nor had she visited her sister. She hadn’t left her apartment either, and she was more than happy about that. Penny expected half of the town to be laughing at her right now. She was the dumb sister who didn’t realize she was being played.
Letting out a sigh, she ran fingers through her hair and stared at the blank screen. She’d been writing an MC romance, taking everything she knew about the club Saints and Sinners MC, and using it within her story. She was changing it up a little, well, a lot. There was a lot more fun going on in her club, a lot more sex, and adventure. There wasn’t a lot of adventure in Saint’s club. He didn’t exactly broadcast what he did behind closed doors, but Penny couldn’t imagine the men on drug and gun runs.
I could be wrong.
The main character was being a little brutish, a little too alpha for her tastes, and it was just blah.
Closing her laptop, she headed downstairs to go see Sarah and Elena. They were the shop owners who’d given her a good rent deal on the apartment, and she was friends with them. Entering the shop, she saw it was actually closed, and both women were going through boxes of merchandise.
“Hey,” she said.
Both women had told her she could visit the shop at any time when they were there. Penny didn’t have the key to the shop, so she didn’t sneak down at night. She did have a life, and it wasn’t about crime.
“Hey, Penny, you okay?” Sarah asked. She was a nice woman with long, purple hair, which was pulled back into a ponytail. Her arms were covered in beautiful ink, and she was currently dating the local deputy in town, known as Ralf.
“I’m good. What about you?” Penny folded her arms underneath her breasts, and couldn’t help the feeling of loneliness that surrounded her.
“There has been a rumor at the club that you’ve not been around all that much,” Elena said.