All Chapters of Road to Desire: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Danielle“We’re still new. Tiffany’s a bitch, but she’s a smart bitch. She had a fifty-fifty shot of freaking you out enough to mess with your head. I don’t think she was ready for the consequences though.”I glanced up at him. “Thank you for giving her back her clothes.”“Baby, there are kids downstairs.”I leaned back with a frown. “So, if it was adults only, you wouldn’t have given them back?”He smiled. “I’m pleading the fifth on that one.”“Probably a good choice.” I buried my face back in his chest and let him hold me.“So you fucked Tiff,” Annie murmured.“Don’t start,” Austin said.“That’s scrapin’ the very bottom of the barrel big brother. What the hell?”“I was drunk and horny. She was there and willin’.” My body locked and Austin gave me a gentle squeeze. “But we don’t need to go there.”“Ignore her, Dani,” Annie said. “She’s a total skank who seriously has fucked pretty much everyone in the club, other than a couple of the recruits.”“But that’s kind of sad,” I said.“How

DanielleI came awake with a start, mostly because my head felt like an ice-pick was jamming itself into my temple. I opened my eyes… well, kind of… one of them didn’t seem to want to work, and I looked around. I was in a tiny room, tied to a chair, and my memory flooded back to me.I had just stepped out of the house and was halfway up my parents’ driveway when I was grabbed from behind. I fought as best I could, my self-defense training helping, but ultimately, there were two men and each of them outweighed me by at least a hundred pounds.What I did manage to do was piss them off, and I remember pain in my ribs and face before I blacked out.I swallowed and tried to figure out where I was. Austin would come. I knew he would. I didn’t know how I knew; I could just feel it in my gut. I took a deep breath, grimacing at the pain in my ribs. Breathing was probably not a good idea right now.For the moment I was alone, but I didn’t know how long that would last. I heard male voices near

PaytonI STOOD STARING at the copious amounts of wine choices in the downtown Portland Safeway store. My best friend Macey and I had been invited to a Dogs of Fire compound get together tonight by Danielle Carver who was a relatively new friend and married to one of the officers in the club.Funnily enough, she was a kindergarten teacher in the same school district I worked for. Different enough schools where we hadn’t run into each other, but we had quite a bit in common and I loved our occasional ‘solve the problems of the world’ conversations in regard to children.Her husband was not at all who you’d expect Dani to be married to, but when you met him, you also weren’t surprised. Austin ‘Booker’ Carver was gorgeous, sweet, and wholly devoted to his wife. She’d been kidnapped a few months ago, and he’d rained down hell on the people who did it and I liked that.Macey had a man like that and my sister-in-law had my brother, who was totally a man like that, so I figured there was hope for

PaytonUNDER DANI’S DIRECTION, I pulled into the hidden entrance of Big Ernie’s Body Shop at the back, up to the sky-high double gates, where she leaned out of the backseat window and entered a code into a keypad before the gates allowed us entry.“This is only the third or fourth time I’ve come this way,” Dani admitted.“Oh?” I asked. “How do you normally get in?”“The front, like normal people.” She giggled. “But Austin won’t let me go that way without him anymore. Says it’s safer to come this way for whatever reason.”“I can’t imagine many folks know this way even exists,” I said, and pulled into a parking lot filled with trucks and bikes.“Probably not. It’s only for the super secret members,” Dani said, and laughed again. “I’m just waiting to see if they have a handshake I’m going to have to learn.”“Maybe we should make our own up and make them learn it,” Macey retorted.“Chest bump included?” I asked.“And risk every man in the place getting a hard-on,” Dani said. “Probably want to skip

Payton“What the fuck?”I shoved at his chest again. “You heard me. I’d like to go back inside.”“Babe, don’t play hard to get.”I gasped. “Oh my god, Alex, I’m not playing hard to get. I really am hard to get. Let me go!”He released me immediately and stepped back. I turned to go, but he caught my arm again. “This isn’t over Payton.”“I beg to differ.”He chuckled. “You call me Alex, you kiss me like that, and you look the way you do? Babe, I’m puttin’ you on notice. This isn’t fuckin’ over.”I couldn’t stop the shiver that ran up my spine, but I squared my shoulders and pulled away from his touch. “And I’m putting you on notice, Alex James. I’m not some whore that will melt at the sight of your pretty face, or the sound of your sexy voice. I own my own mind and I don’t fold easily. I’m also unlisted and I know for a fact, there isn’t anyone in that room currently who either knows where I live, or would tell you. So good luck with your pursuits, sir, but you’re going to get nowhere pretty da