“I’m telling you, I don’t care.”
“If you want to test me, write it down. Don’t tell me you don’t care about me and to go fuck another woman. I’ll fail, Rachel, every time.”
Chapter 25
Rachel stood on the porch, watching the taillights of Cash’s truck disappear. She had let her mouth get away from her again. She refused to let herself regret what she had done, however.
She could tell from the onset of the night that she wasn’t Cash’s type; she never would be. You couldn’t fit a square peg into a round hole no matter how hard you worked at it. The truth was, she was a country bumpkin while Cash played games that were more experienced than she was capable of handling. They would end up fighting over her possessiveness and hating each other. She couldn’t go through another heartbreak over Cash; she had already spent too many wasted years mooning over him.
She went into the house, changed into her nightgown, and climbed into her bed. She desperately needed the warmth of her mother’s arms, yearning for the reassurance she had done the right thing.
Rachel spent the rest of the night wondering if he had gone back to King’s place or to the clubhouse. She didn’t know why it mattered; each held his choice of women.
*
Cash sat at the bar of The Last Riders’ clubhouse, nursing his drink while watching Train play with Bliss’s nipple. Her lace vest left nothing to the imagination; you could see her daisy-chain tat on her bared breast.
“I need to go talk to Nickel for a minute. When I come back, you going to suck my dick for me?” Train questioned, pinching her nipple even tighter.
“I’ll be waiting.” Bliss ran her hand over Train’s dick before he slid from the stool. “Hurry back.”
“Give me five.” Train patted her butt before moving away.
When he left, Bliss leaned forward, running her tongue over Cash’s bottom lip. Her hands curled into his t-shirt, pulling him closer.
“What about you, Cash? Want me to suck your dick, or do you want to fuck me while I suck him off?” Her tongue laved his bottom lip suggestively.
Cash saw the greedy excitement in her eyes; Bliss loved doing two men at once.
“No, thanks. I’m good.” Cash tilted his head to the side, taking his mouth away from hers only to see Lily’s furious eyes as she came into the room from the kitchen, Shade hot on her tail.
Lily stormed up to him, ignoring Bliss. The fire shooting out of her purple eyes showed exactly why Shade had fallen for her.
“Beth told me you were over here when she came home. I can’t believe you took Rachel out then came back here to get… get…”
“Laid?” Shade said helpfully. His wife threw him a quelling look, which he responded to with a raised brow. Lily took a step away from Shade, giving him her back.
“After everything she did for you, I thought you were smarter.” Lily suddenly lost her fury, her expression changing to something Cash couldn’t explain. “Beth and I owe a debt of gratitude to you, Cash. If you hadn’t sent Shade’s father here to Treepoint, then we may never have met Razer and Shade. You showed compassion and concern for Beth when you saw she was being mistreated at church. I just don’t understand how the same man could treat Rachel the way you have.”
“Lily, I wasn’t—” Cash began.
“She sat beside your bedside from the moment she heard you were hurt. Did you even know that?”
“No.” Cash got to his feet, something telling him he needed to brace himself for what he was about to hear.
“Well, she did,” Lily said empathically. “The doctors didn’t think you were going to make it. She had already tried to help you the way she does her clients, but it hadn’t worked. She told Shade her gift wasn’t powerful enough to help you. I think whatever she does comes from inside her. I can’t explain it. The times she helped me, it’s like a part of her went inside of me to give me strength. When she touches you, you feel the strength of her love and caring. I think, when you and her brothers hurt her at the party, it damaged that part of her. After the doctor told us all that you weren’t going to make it, I went back to your room to talk to her because I could tell she was upset by what the doctor had told us.”
Lily paused, taking a shuddering breath. “She didn’t even know I was in the room. God, I don’t even know what I witnessed, Cash. What I saw was a man dying, but then she touched you. When she started touching your body, I could feel a presence in the room. I saw you gradually begin to move, and then she passed out.