Born to Ride_A Clubhouse Collection

chapter Twelve

An hour and a half later, dinner was ready, but it was still keeping warm in the oven while we waited for Talon and Cody. Deanna had turned up and was sitting in front of the television with Maya, watching Charlie and Lola while playing with her Monster High dolls. Mattie was at the table reading the paper while Julian sat beside him reading something on his iPad. I was checking the kitchen floor for any uneven ground as I walked back and forth over it.

That was when we all heard yelling out the front. I looked to the guys at the table as they looked to me. We bolted for the lounge.

“Maya, baby. Come to your room and show me all your Lalaloopsy dolls,” Mattie said.

“Sure, Uncle Mattie.” Maya, none the wiser—at least I hoped not—ran off to her room with Mattie following.

Deanna, Julian, and I were just about to peek out the front curtain when we heard, “I should at least get the chance to meet your new whore before she plays house with my son.”

“Bianca, just f*ckin’ leave. Hell, it’s none of your business who I’m doin’.”

Well, really. He hasn’t even done me yet.

“Holy shit,” Deanna said grinning. I hadn’t had a chance to speak to her...okay I had had a chance, but she ignored those said chances to talk in private.

There was a knock at the front door. “Open up, bitch!”

“Mum.” I heard Cody hiss in a whispered voice.

Oh. My. God. She was acting like this in front of her son. That was just...disgraceful.

I opened the door to witness Talon grab his ex by the arm and pull her roughly away from the door.

“Honey,” I said with a buttery-sweet tone and a smile upon my face. “Don’t go doing that, I would love to meet...Bianca wasn’t it?”

Bianca looked at me from head-to-toe with a sneer on her face. She was beautiful; I could understand why Talon was married to her. She had long blonde hair, light blue eyes, and a slim body that was wrapped up in designer gear.

I was sure I looked a treat, too. “Sorry, if I would of known I was receiving company, I would have spruced up a little. I’ve been cleaning all day.”

“You clean your own house.”

It wasn’t a question; it was more of a disgusted statement.

Deanna stepped forward from behind the door. “No, woman, fairies fly outta her ass and they do it for her.”

Cody laughed, but he quickly hid it behind a cough when his mum glared at him.

“Hey, Cody.” I waved. He smiled. “Why don’cha come on in. Julian will take you to meet Maya.”

“Bye, Mum,” he whispered as he walked past her into the house, only to stop just inside when his mum spoke.

“Now hang on a second, bitch!” She turned to Talon. “I don’t want him stayin’ here with one of your pieces of p-ssy.”

“My time with my boy, I do what I want. And if spending that time is with my woman, it’s f*ckin’ what we’ll do.”

With hands on my hips, I said, “Talon, honey. Check your language in front of the kids.”

Talon looked at me with a smile upon his face. “Right, kitten.”

Bianca gasped.

“Come on, little Thor. Let’s leave these cats to hiss it out,” Julian said, and with a gentle hand on Cody’s shoulder, he ushered him forward and down the hall.

“You are f*cking shitting me!” Bianca screeched.

I stepped out the door with Deanna behind me, and closed it. I’d had enough; I turned to Bianca with a glare.

“I would appreciate it if you would be more civilized around my house. I do not condone bad language when my daughter is present. Now, I am not trying to replace you in any way when it concerns Cody. All I wanted was to meet and get to know my man’s child. I’m sorry if that hurts you in some way; but if this is what Talon wants, then I will stand by him.”

She looked from Talon to me. “You have got to be kidding me. This? That is what you’re f*cking choosing to screw? Some toffee, fat bitch?”

“Watch what you f*ckin say, Bianca.”

“Yeah, right; you won’t do anything about it, ‘cause you know you’d lose Cody.”

Holy heck. She was really going to play that card with him?

“Now that’s just uncalled for,” I said.

She took a step toward me. “I don’t give a f*ck what you have to say or think, bitch.”


Deanna started bouncing up and down on the balls of her feet beside me. “Oh, come on, come on. Let me at her. Talon? Zara? Please.”

Bianca looked to Deanna. “And who the f*ck are you?”

Deanna ignored the question and looked to Talon with pleading eyes. “Please.”

Talon chuckled. “If it’s okay with Zara. Have at it, Hell Mouth.”

Deanna begged me with her eyes. I would have loved to have said my own piece, but I didn’t want the children to overhear. I didn’t want to cause Talon any more damage, and I thought if it didn’t come from me, then the problem wouldn’t escalate. Also, Deanna sure did have a way with words; and when she wanted to get a certain message across; she did, with a firework result.

And who was I to spoil her fun? I nodded my head at Deanna.

She beamed, stepped in front of me, and snarled in Bianca’s face, “Don’t you ever f*ckin’ come here giving shit to my sista and her man. I will f*ckin’ take you down, slut. I’m not a pulling hair, sissy fighta. I claw, bite, and give my all, and there is a lot. And if you even think of holding Cody against Talon, I will rip you and your life apart. You think you got money and you can do or say anything? Well, shit, woman, I got so much money I could use it as toilet paper. So, I have every chance to f*ck you and your husband over. Now back the f*ck up, woman, and leave. Let them have this; if you don’t—I’ll rain down on you faster than you can blink.”

Bianca did indeed blink...and then again. She opened her mouth, shut it, and then stuttered, “B-but—” She shook her head and stood straighter. “Hang on a sec; she just swore.”

I shrugged my shoulders and said, “Yeah, but she was quiet about it. The kids wouldn’t have heard that.”

“What-f*cking-ever.” She turned and went down the steps, then left.

“Honey, your ex is a...not a nice person,” I said as we stared after her.

Deanna sighed. “Zee, she’s a bitch.”

“That she is, Hell Mouth, and so much more. But I think you just scared the f*ck outta her. So, thanks,” Talon said.

“Not a problem, boss man. I enjoyed it.”

Talon took the steps two at a time and was in front of me; then I was in his arms. “Sorry ‘bout that, kitten.”

I wrapped my arms around his waist and grinned up at him. “Don’t apologise for that thing, honey. I just hope we can salvage dinner.”

“What did I do to ever deserve you?” Talon grinned.

“And me,” Deanna said.

Talon chuckled. “Yeah, Hell Mouth, and f*ckin’ you. Let’s go eat, babe.”

Dinner wasn’t too bad; the meat was still tender enough that we didn’t have to carve it with a chainsaw. Maya absolutely adored Cody, and I think the feeling was mutual. Cody didn’t say much while we ate, but he did smile, and of course laughed at Deanna and Julian a lot. Though, who wouldn’t?

After checking with Cody first, we set up a bed in Maya’s room; she was over the moon to have company. I hoped she didn’t talk his ear off. Talon’s only comment was that I needed a bigger house. I laughed and said I liked it the way it was; that was when he informed me that tomorrow we were staying at his house with the kids, because at least then the walls were more soundproof and he could have his wicked way with me. I gulped.

It wasn’t until Julian and Mattie had gone to bed, Deanna had left with Griz, complaining all the way, and Talon and I were in bed and asleep—after fooling around for a bit—that I woke in the middle of the night from having a nightmare about the phone call. If Talon hadn’t been there, it would have advanced into a full-blown panic attack.

“Like I said, kitten,” Talon whispered, “we’re going to my house tomorrow; not for the other reasons, but ‘cause it’s safer. I have an alarm system and cameras. We’ll take everyone if we have to. I’ll keep you safe, babe. Always.”

“Okay, honey,” I said. Because I knew that was true.