“At first I thought Evie was in love with me, but she knew I didn’t return her feelings. She was the first woman I was with, Diamond.” Diamond was shocked by his admission. “Picture me as a kid in high school.”
“Oh.” His size alone would have set him apart, and his harsh features wouldn’t have been attractive to a high school girl.
“No one after high school?”
Knox ignored her question. Diamond had already learned that when Knox didn’t want to talk, he didn’t. She thought that he probably had become involved with someone then she must have dumped him. Diamond didn’t blame him for not wanting to discuss a broken relationship.
“It must have been hard when you joined The Last Riders and saw her with the other men,” Diamond probed.
“The first time I saw her with another man I dreaded it because I thought it would bother me, but it didn’t. I just thought about how hot it was. I knew I wasn’t in love with her, but I didn’t know how I would feel about sharing someone I was in a sexual relationship with, then I discovered that I enjoyed it. Then the other women became available to me and I went pussy crazy.
“The feelings Evie had for me died somewhere along the way or they weren’t there to begin with. Now we’re good friends and neither of us want it any other way. For some reason, whenever someone new joins, they picture us as a couple, but we aren’t. We never really were.”
Diamond knew why, but didn’t tell Knox. That was Evie’s secret. The only reason she knew was, God help her, she was beginning to feel the same way for the big man.
“Want to go for a ride?” Knox asked, standing up.
Diamond was aware that she should refuse, go home and put this weekend behind her, but she couldn’t resist a few more hours with him. “Yes.”
They grabbed their jackets and went to his bike. Knox drove them down the mountain roads that were no longer used by the coal trucks. Diamond enjoyed every bit of the ride. It was breathtaking when she looked down and realized exactly how high they were. Diamond enjoyed the scenery and the closeness to Knox. When they returned to the clubhouse she wished they could have stayed out longer.
The clubhouse was quiet when they returned to his room and lay on his bed where they watched television as they explored each other’s bodies until Knox stopped. Diamond whimpered, wanting him to finish what he’d started.
He grinned at her. “Stay here.” He left to go downstairs, returning with a pizza box and beers. “Sundays are always pizza night.” They sat cross-legged on his bed, eating the pizza and drinking the beer.
Knox had every zombie movie ever made, so they ended up watching two of them back to back before Diamond couldn’t take the blood and guts anymore.
“Enough. Put in a comedy,” she demanded.
“How about we just forget the movie.” Knox moved the pizza box and pulled her to him, his hand slid under her sweat pants to find her soft and wet. His finger traced the opening of her pussy and Diamond couldn’t help the small jerk of her hips.
“Sore?”
“A little,” Diamond admitted.
“I have a remedy for that.” Knox got up from the bed and reached down to take her hand, dragging her from the bed. Her mouth watered as she looked at him. He had removed his shirt and his tats made him look like the bad ass biker he was. He was only wearing jeans and was barefoot.
“Where are we going?”
“It’s a surprise.” They left the room and went down the stairs. Diamond began to wonder exactly what remedy he could have. He went to the kitchen where he opened a door at the side, showing steps that led to a basement. “Go ahead.” Diamond went down the steps and found a large room that had a gym set up with different machines. There were even workout mats leaning against the wall.
“Wow.” Diamond admired the workout area.
“We had a pretty good set up before Winter came here after her attack, but when she came here to do her rehab, Viper bought top of the line,” Knox explained.
“I’ve never seen this much equipment outside of a gym.”
There was also a big screen television and entertainment center with a large sectional couch. A huge pole in the middle separated the two parts of the room.
“We just added that. The upstairs can get crowded sometimes when Winter and Beth are here,” Knox said cryptically.
“You guys have a sweet set-up here.”
“We enjoy it. Treepoint doesn’t have much to offer for amusement.”
“No it doesn’t.” It was extremely small. Even Jamestown, just a twenty minute drive away, had more to offer than Treepoint. “You want me to exercise?” Diamond questioned why he had brought her downstairs.
“No, I have something that’s going to help that soreness.” He led her out of the gym through another door that had a hallway. A door to the left stood open. “That’s the bathroom. It also has a shower. That door at the end is Shade’s room. It’s off limits unless invited,” Knox warned.