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  Now, I was going to take the chance. It was right in front of me, and there was no way in Hell I was going to just let it go by. I grabbed her, pulling her toward me and meeting her mouth with mine. She let out a gasp, which turned into a moan as she kissed me with the same passion she had when we were back in the pharmacy.

  My hands were all over her, satisfaction sweeping through me when I realized she was just as wet now as she had been earlier in the day.

  “I see you didn’t forget about me,” I breathed.

  “How could I?” she asked. “You’ve been the only thing on my mind since you were in.”

  “Good,” I said. “Spread your legs for me.”

  She hardly had time to obey before I had her pressed against the wall once more.

  I was rock hard already, and had my cock out of my pants in a flash. Our mouths met, and I ran my hands over her. She gasped, letting me lift her off the floor. My cock was pressed against her, but I wasn’t letting her be the one to take me and guide me into place.

  I was the one in control over this situation, and though I could see she wasn’t used to someone else taking charge like that, it only fueled my desire to have her. To take her. To make the most of her. I wanted more of her. I had to have more of her.

  When I couldn’t take it any longer – after I had teased her just long enough – I pushed my cock deep inside her pussy, letting her gasp and spread herself as wide as she could to take me. She was tight, much tighter than most of the girls I’d slept with, and it was an effort for me to push myself all the way in.

  But, she was wet, and she was eager to take me. So, I didn’t stop. I pushed until I had disappeared inside her fully, then I thrust in and out. I knew what I was doing with a woman. I knew my way around her. Jade gasped, taking me fully before letting out her breath as I drew myself out of here.

  Then, I pushed myself inside her again. In and out, in and out, I was making the most of the moment, taking her with a passion and giving her all that I had. I wanted more of her; I couldn’t get enough of her. I wanted it to last long, and as she came for the first time, I pressed her hard against the wall and thrust into her as fast and hard as I could.

  She let out a cry of pleasure mixed with surprise and pain. She was so taken in the moment, the heat rising from our bodies and the wetness of our coupling running down her legs. She came hard, and as I pushed into her once again, I filled her with my load.

  I held her tight against the wall, emptying myself inside her fully, giving her all that I had and making her mine. She was out of breath and gasping, but then, so was I. It was the most intense orgasm I had had in a while, but then, there wasn’t another woman who had turned me on to such an extent in a long time, either.

  There was something about Jade that really made me want to fuck her. I wanted to do it again and again, and before the night was out, I had taken her on the couch, then on the bed. I did doggy-style, I fucked her in the shower, I had her ride me, and then I had her reverse cowgirl.

  By the time I was done with her, she could barely stand. She clearly had enjoyed the night, but she was out of breath, unable to steady herself very well on the way to the door.

  “I need to get going,” she said in a soft tone.

  “Are you sure?” I asked. “If you stay, you’ll have another ride of your life in the morning.”

  “It’s tempting,” she said with a sigh. I could see in her face she was torn, clearly wanting to stay, but with something else on the back of her mind. “But I’ve got to get back to my house. I need to take care of my father and get some sleep before work tomorrow.”

  “How are you going to be getting there?” I asked. Her car was still back at the pharmacy, and she didn’t look like she’d be able to drive herself very well.

  “I’ll get a ride,” she said quickly. “I just really need to get going.”

  “Are you sure?” I asked again, but she nodded.

  “Really, I’ve got to,” she said.

  “Alright,” I replied. “Five minutes.”

  I got dressed and took her back out to my bike, struck with the fact that I wanted her to spend the rest of the night with me. It wasn’t like me to enjoy the company of someone enough to want them to keep staying with me after we had slept together, but there was something different about this girl, and it was hard to just let her go.

  But, I certainly didn’t have feelings for her, and I didn’t want her to get the wrong idea about this. I had gotten what I wanted from her, and she had evidently done the same with me; now it was time for life to go back to normal.

  At least, that’s what I was going to tell myself. That’s how I wanted to do things. And, that’s how I would. After all, that’s how I had done things up until now, and my life was going great. I didn’t need to do anything that would fuck that up, and that included repeating this with a beautiful woman.

  I’d take her to her house, and that would be the end of that.

  That’s what I would insist. That’s what I would believe, and life would go on.

  It really was quite simple.

  Chapter 7

  Jade

  Three days after the wild night I spent with Draven, the memory felt like little more than a dream I’d had. Or even a dream of a dream. It had been so out of character for me to do anything even remotely like that, to think that I had gone through with it was crazy.

  I hadn’t told Dad about it, and I wasn’t going to, either. He supported me having a life of my own, and he hated how much of my time I devoted to taking care of him, but if he knew the kind of night I’d had with the kind of guy I’d had it with, there was no way he was going to be happy about it.

  I’d let it go…only to get the worst news of my life the next day.

  I knew things were bad with the insurance company. I knew I was behind on payments. But, I didn’t know they were going to drop us altogether – and stick us with the bill from Dad’s last appointment. I argued with them, promising I was going to be able to pay soon, but they weren’t listening.

  It was plain and simple. I had to reapply for health coverage, and even then, I wasn’t going to end up with anything that would really help my dad in the long run. No, I was just going to have to deal with it. It was crushing.

  Realizing I was losing my dad shattered me, and I wasn’t at all prepared to see Draven when he came back into the pharmacy.

  He walked up and handed me the normal prescriptions, but I barely glanced at them before setting to filling them. I even forgot to ask him for his ID.

  “What? Just because you and I have a romp in the sheets you can forget about the rules and assume you know who I am now?”

  “Sorry,” I muttered. “Can I see your ID?”

  “You still thinking about all this?” He gave me a smirk as he glanced down at himself, and I fought to keep from bursting into tears. He was talking dirty, being himself, but I felt like an entirely different person from the one he had been with just a couple days before.

  I shook, the tears forming in my eyes then running down my cheeks. He jumped over the counter, ignoring the fact he wasn’t allowed to be back there and taking me in his arms as he did so.

  “What’s wrong?” he asked. “What happened?”

  I shook my head, unable to get the words out. “I’m sorry.”

  “What’s going on with you?” he demanded, but I just shook my head again. I didn’t want to dump all my problems on him, and though he wanted to know, I wasn’t going to just break down and tell him everything. It wasn’t his job to worry about me like that, and I wasn’t going to ask him to do it, either.

  “I’m not leaving until you tell me what’s going on with you,” Draven announced. Drew was out on an errand, and I hoped he didn’t come back and find Draven on the wrong side of the counter. I knew he didn’t care for Draven, anyway, and that wasn’t going to help my cause.

  Not to mention, I’d been trying to get a raise, and if he caught me with men on the wrong side of the coun
ter, I could be looking at getting fired. So, I quickly explained to him what was going on.

  “My dad’s sick,” I said. “Dying. I don’t know what to do. The insurance company just dropped us, and there’s no way I can afford his medication on my own. I couldn’t even afford it with the insurance, but now there’s no way in Hell I’m going to make this happen. He’s going to die, and I don’t know what to do.”

  With the words spilling out of me, there was no way for me to keep myself together. The tears ran down my cheeks, and my voice caught in my throat. I was sobbing so hard, I could hardly breathe, fighting to keep control over myself and praying to God no one would come into the pharmacy and find me like that.

  Draven, however, flipped when he heard the news. He wasn’t going to just let me sit there and sob like that. He wasn’t going to leave me with the bad news, either. Just like the other day when he took control over me, he did the same thing now.

  “You’re taking the rest of the day off,” he announced.

  “What?” I can’t,” I said. “There’s a lot of work I still have to do, and I need the money. It’s going to be hard enough to make ends meet with the money I’m getting on this paycheck. I need all the hours I can get.”

  “You’re not going to be able to safely fill prescriptions with your mind so distracted. I wouldn’t want to risk my life taking meds that weren’t meant for me because my pharmacist was distracted while she was trying to fill them,” he said.

  “I can do my job!” I tried to argue, but he didn’t listen.

  “You’re taking the rest of the day off, and that’s final. I’ll be on my bike. Meet me in ten minutes. I’m going to tell you where you can get money, and we’ll take care of your dad,” Draven said.

  I was going to argue with him further, but hearing that he might be able to help my dad stopped me. “How?”

  “The MC can do some pretty amazing things, but you’re going to have to trust me, starting now. Here comes your boss, let him know you’re going to take the rest of the day off and meet me,” he said.

  Before I could say anything else, Draven was gone. I sighed, watching him go. I knew I could get the rest of the day off looking like I was, but I still hated to do so. Not with the need for a raise. But, if he was telling me the truth, then he would be able to get me more money and this would be okay.

  I just hoped Drew would take it that way.

  Drew was walking into the pharmacy just as Draven was leaving, and I took a deep breath. I had already taken a risk with Draven once, and it had worked out okay. My life couldn’t get much worse than it already was, so maybe it was worth the risk.

  Maybe.

  I could just hope for the best.

  “A bar?” I asked.

  “Trust me, you’re going to be okay,” Draven said.

  I wasn’t anticipating him bringing me to Echo Mori, and I hoped word wasn’t going to get back to my boss. I had to figure out how to help my dad, and this didn’t seem to be the place to make that happen. But, Draven was already walking inside, and he seemed to have something in mind.

  He introduced me to a group of men, but with my mind spinning, it was hard for me to remember anything he said. I found them all to be intimidating, but they were all kind, and they listened to my situation with compassion.

  “And, what do you want us to do about it?” Jett, the only name I could remember from the group, asked Draven.

  “Well, I’ve been thinking a lot about what you said about the drugs, and I think you’re right. Except for the fact we all took a massive hit financially when we quit dealing cocaine,” Draven said.

  “And?” Jett prompted.

  “I’m thinking we need to up our game. We’d get more money for pills than we would for the coke, anyway, and with someone as sweet and innocent as Jade here running the fake prescriptions, there’s no way anyone is going to question what she’s doing or suspect anything. We’ll get the pills from her, sell them on the street, then boom! Take home the massive paycheck.” He crossed his arms, and I could see the agreement run through the faces of those who were gathered at the table.

  But, the thought of helping these men obtain drugs to sell made me sick to my stomach, and I immediately shook my head, putting my foot down on the idea.

  “There’s no way in Hell I’m going to do that!” I said. “Forget it! I need my job, and this is illegal and immoral! I don’t need to be going to jail over this!”

  “You’re not going to,” Draven said. “Trust me. We’ve been doing this for a long time, and you aren’t going to get caught. All you need to do is what you’ve been doing, and you’re going to get a massive paycheck at the end of it. Think about what this is going to do for your dad.”

  I hesitated. I hated that he brought my dad into this – and I hated even more that he did have a point. If I were to do this, then there was a good chance I would be able to afford the medication for my father. Still, the thought of being a drug dealer made me sick to my stomach.

  I didn’t care if I could write off the prescriptions myself. There was still a chance I would get caught, and it would get me in a lot of trouble. I didn’t even want to consider what it could mean for me, or what it would do to my dad, if that were to happen. It would kill him to know that I had done something like that, and it would just make it worse for him if he knew that I did it for his sake.

  As if he could see that I wasn’t bending, Draven put his arm around me. “Come on, you need to take a few minutes and calm down. Let me buy you a drink and you can relax, calm your nerves, and let me talk to the rest of the guys. Believe me, this is going to work and you’re going to be okay. It’s what you want, remember that.”

  I let him steer me to the bar, but I was having a hard time focusing on what he was saying. I wanted to believe that my father was going to be okay, and I knew if he got the medication, then he would be.

  I couldn’t afford the medication, however, and this was a solution to that problem. But, I hated the idea of breaking the law, and I hated knowing what was going to happen to me if I did.

  This whole situation made me feel ill, and I wasn’t sure how I was going to turn him down. I just knew I had to figure out something, and fast. Or I might actually give in and do this.

  I might actually be convinced that this was a good idea and go through with it. I might let Draven turn me into someone I never thought I would be. But, was it really a bad thing if I did it with the right motive?

  This was for my father, right?

  I would do anything for him. Just like he would do anything for me. We were all the other had. I might have to break a few rules, but then, this might be the worst idea I’d ever had. I wasn’t sure. I didn’t know what to think, and I certainly didn’t know what to do.

  All knew was that I could really use that drink. I didn’t care what time it was or who saw me drinking when I should be at work. I just wanted to be numb, take the edge off my feelings – and I was more than a little grateful when the glass was set in front of me.

  Chapter 8

  Draven

  “She’s not going to do it,” Jett said as soon as I got back to the table. I’d spent a few minutes over at the bar with Jade, making sure she was actually going to drink what I bought her and trying to convince her to stick around long enough for me to go back and talk to the boys for a minute.

  I had a feeling I would get her to agree to this faster than any of them thought possible. I just had to say the right things and convince her it was the best thing to do. It was for her father, after all. I knew she would do anything for him.

  I knew it was a lot to ask of someone, and I knew it was likely going to make her feel uncomfortable at first. But, Jade was smart. I could see it in her. I could sense she had what it took when we were together, and I knew with the right push in the right direction, she would be able to pull this off.

  It was just a matter of time.

  But, in order to pull this off entirely, I was going to need to have t
he MC on board with the idea, too, and that was going to take a bit of convincing on their end. Not that I was concerned about that. I knew it wasn’t going to take much to get them to see things from my point of view, but, I wanted to get the plan laid out for them so we could put it to a vote as soon as possible.

  “She’ll do it,” I said assuredly as I took a seat with the others. “She just needs to be pushed in the right direction, that’s all.”

  “But that’s my problem with it,” Jett said. “You push her in the right direction now, and what happens when she gets cold feet later on and doesn’t want to do it anymore? The whole thing could unravel, and where would we be then?”

  “We’re going to make sure it’s foolproof,” I told him. “Let’s lay it down in a way she’s not going to be able to back out of it. If we make her have some form of liability in this, she’s not going to run to the cops if she gets spooked. We can deal with it.”

  “And, what’s the plan? We get these pills from her and just hope that we make enough in the sales that she’s going to be happy with her cut of the pay? I don’t know if I trust her enough to make that a comfortable bet,” Blade said.

  As the vice president of the MC, he was the one who often voiced his opinions when it came to the things that could go wrong. Of course, Jett was right there with him on a lot of it, he just didn’t publicly point out as much to him. But, I was ready for the questions.

  “That’s not what’s going to happen,” I said. “Because she’s going to have the money she needs up front, then she’s going to work to pay us back.”

  “I’m not following,” Jett said.

  “I’m thinking we’re going to do this in the form of a loan,” I explained. “I crunched the numbers the other night, and it’s more than feasible to think that we would be able to give her a loan for the money she needs for her sick dad. Then, we’re going to take the pills from her and sell it at a profit. Of course, with all the pills coming from her directly, anything we sell is going to be profit.”