“Compound?” she squeaked again. “I thought you said you weren’t taking me to biker jail?”
Unable to hold it in this time, I threw my head back and howled with laughter. She turned her head to glance up at me, and her lips were tipped down in a little pout. I shook my head and muttered under my breath. “Too fucking cute.” I showed her where to put her hands to hold on and gave her instructions about how to ride a motorcycle as a passenger. Then I kicked up the stand and started the bike.
Lucy trembled a little as I pulled out of the parking lot and plastered herself back against me, which put her sexy little ass right up against my hard on, making me stifle a groan. But as soon as we hit the open road, her fearful tension turned to vibrations of excitement. She sat forward and lifted her face to the wind. Her hair blew back, and I inhaled deeply, enjoying its sweet vanilla scent.
I made a sharp turn to the left, and Lucy’s laughter floated back to me on the wind, making me smile. I’d worried a little about how she would handle riding such a powerful machine, especially being so tiny, but it quickly became clear she was made to ride.
Twenty minutes later, I waved to Breaker, one of the other enforcers, who was manning the gate. He gave me a chin lift in return, then seemed to do a double take when he realized I had a passenger. Instead of opening the gate and letting me ride through, he just stood there and grinned as he waited for me to come to a stop in front of him.
“What the fuck, brother?” I grumbled.
Breaker leaned in a little closer, and when he got a good look at Lucy, his grin morphed into a smug smile that stretched across his face. “You alright, ma’am?” he asked her with a little too much glee in his tone. “Did this bastard bring you here against your will?”
Lucy stiffened, and I slipped an arm around her waist, holding her tight to me as I scowled at Breaker, silently promising to cut off his balls and feed them to the coyotes. “Open the fucking gate,” I growled.
Breaker shook his head. “Not until I hear this little lady tell me—”
My arm shot out, and I punched the asshole in the shoulder so hard it knocked him off balance. “Open. The. Fucking. Gate.” My tone was deadly, and Breaker’s smirk wavered. After a second, he just shrugged and chuckled as he returned to the guard shack to give us entrance to the compound.
A few minutes later, I pulled into one of the stalls in the private garage behind the clubhouse and put down the kickstand. I shut off the bike, then dismounted and faced Lucy who was sitting still, looking lost in thought. Damn, she was gorgeous. We had some shit to resolve, but I was having a hard time focusing on anything except her ripe body and how badly I wanted her under me.
Her head suddenly twisted toward me, and she breathed, “That was incredible. I’ve always been afraid of motorcycles, but…wow.” I would have smiled at her innocent wonder, but it was making me so hard I could barely see straight.
Instead, I silently grabbed her around the waist and hoisted her off the bike. Once her feet were on the ground, I took her hand and muttered, “Let’s go.” Then I practically dragged her to the back entrance of the clubhouse.
We didn’t pass many people on the way to my room, but the ones we did went hurrying away once they clocked my expression. We headed to a bank of rooms on the first floor at the back of the house and stopped at the fourth door on the left. Keeping a tight hold on her hand, I dug my keys out of the inner pocket on my cut and unlocked the door. Then I quickly ushered her in and slammed it shut before turning the lock.
When I pivoted back around, I glanced at her face and almost winced at how uneasy she looked. Some of her fear had returned, and I wanted to beat the shit out of myself for letting that happen. I softened my expression and canted my head toward the small couch situated against the wall across from the bed.
I glanced around and frowned at what I saw. My room was neat and tidy, but it wasn’t big. It hadn’t been an issue before because I’d never had a woman in here. I hadn’t really been interested in women for a long time. I wanted a family, but it was more of an idea than something I was actually working toward. Now that I’d found Lucy, I knew it was because I’d been waiting for her.