Penni couldn’t remember where she had left her cell phone.
“Thanks.” She bounded up the steps two at a time as Shade moved away from the door.
Avoiding his eyes, she walked by him, pacing her steps, not wanting Shade to think she was running away.
“Coming?” she asked him.
“No, I usually hide out when they show up.”
Penni hesitated, worried that Shade and Jackal would have a confrontation. Jackal wouldn’t back down from a confrontation with her brother in the angry mood he was in.
“Go on. Lily’s waiting.”
Penni escaped. Jackal was on his own. She had her own problems, trying to push away the image of when he had climaxed.
She had never intended to go so far with Jackal, yet one touch of his slick flesh had her wanting more. It had become a compulsion, driving her to do something she had never performed on another man.
She wasn’t escaping because she had been embarrassed. Shade had been at the door and hadn’t seen anything. She had felt uncomfortable facing Jackal after the sexually-charged atmosphere had heightened, reaching a point that, if she had stayed there much longer, there was no doubt she wouldn’t have left the basement a virgin.
Train might not be attracted to her, but Jackal was.
Penni consoled herself. It wasn’t like she had any feelings for the man other than his body that she couldn’t keep from watching or the way he kissed that was like a shot to her needy libido. She was a red-blooded woman and had only hormones to blame.
“Damn.” The way he had looked when he had climaxed had aroused her never before she felt kitten instincts that had made her want to purr. The idea of Jackal being a scratching post had her gigging. A girl knew she was in trouble when she began seeing a man as catnip.
24
What the fuck just happened?
Jackal stood, closing his jeans and wanting to smash the workout machine against the wall. He’d had every intention of fucking Penni. When she had told him that she would know if Train was her soul mate when she made love to him, Jackal had known the only way to get her to care about him was in the bedroom.
That was why none of the men she had dated had lasted. A man could only handle so much of staring at her mouth and tight, little body before it drove him to lose reason.
Jackal wasn’t a betting man, but he would bet many of her dates had ended with the men having cold showers or in another woman’s pussy.
“Viper wants to talk to you and Hennessy in his bedroom. Hennessy is already there.”
When Shade’s face remained stoic, Jackal’s frustration got the best of him.
“You have something to get off your chest?” Jackal snapped.
“What should I say?”
“I know that camera at the door outside saw Penni and me fooling around.” Jackal had scoped out the clubhouse when he had arrived. There were cameras and alarms at every entrance, and the door to the outside of the basement was equipped with an alarm. That was how The Last Riders had kept Hennessy from escaping. Cruz and the other men would have been able to pack Hennessy downstairs, but Shade and Razer would have easily intercepted anyone who happened to make it through the door’s alarms. Viper had made sure the members were both protected and prepared.
“If you saw the camera, then you could see Viper turned it down toward the door.”
“That’s all you’re going to say?”
“What do you want me to say? Penni’s an adult; she’s always kept her head on shoulders when it comes to men.”
“Because she’s got her sight on Train, and it wouldn’t help anything to jeopardize your friendship.”
“Is that what you think? You don’t know shit about Train. If he wanted Penni, our friendship wouldn’t matter. He’s flown countless missions, some which he fought on the ground after his helicopter crashed. If Train wanted Penni, I would be honored to accept him into my family.”
“Even though one of those crashes was his fault and killed six members in his crew?”
“If the government believed he was responsible for that crash, why would they hire him for a job overseas?”
“Train’s going overseas?”
“He leaves in two weeks.”
“Does Penni know?”
“No, it’s on a need to know basis. I’m sure you’ll tell her now.”
“You cold-blooded bastard, you should have told her. You know how she feels about him.”
“I’d think you would be happy Train is leaving.”
He was, and he wasn’t. He wanted Penni alone without her constantly looking for Train. He wanted her to choose him because she wanted him.
“So you want me to do your dirty work for you?”
“Other than being worried about Train being safe, why should she care? Why would she be so upset since you are together now?”
Shade was nobody’s fool.
“Does someone ever get over their first love?”