Old ghosts gypsy riders.., p.1
Old Ghosts: Gypsy Riders MC, page 1
OLD GHOSTS
Copyright © 2014 HONEY PALOMINO
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This book contains mature content and is intended for adults only.
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OLD GHOSTS DIE HARD, JUST LIKE OLD HABITS DO
“You know what you have to do, Mike,” the woman sitting behind the desk said to me, her red lips snarling into a smile that spread tightly across her face.
She was right. I did. And while it went against my every instinct, I would give her what she wanted - what she demanded - every time. She was holding my balls to the fire, and so far, I hadn’t found a way out of it.
Her bright red hair was pulled into a bun on top of her head, and her green eyes squinted at me as she waited for me to respond.
I stood up slowly, my heart thumping in my chest. Despite my hatred for the woman, my cock betrayed me and it hardened before I even reached it. I opened my jeans, the buttons popping open on my 501’s like a countdown to my own personal nightmare.
Five. Four. Three. Two. One.
Bang.
I’d almost rather be dead than go through with this.
I looked down at her, the object of my disdain. She stood up, and slowly reaching up, she pulled the pin from her hair, releasing a cascade of red curls around her shoulders. It didn’t matter that she was beautiful. She was ugly on the inside, and I hated her.
My disgust with her was even stronger than my disgust at my growing cock. It was like a bad habit that I couldn’t shake. And even if I could, I had no choice in the matter. If I didn’t do what she wanted, she would take away the only thing in the world that really mattered to me. There was nothing I wouldn’t do to avoid that.
Even this.
“Bend over,” I said to her, as I closed the distance between us.
“Once again, you’ve made the wise choice, Mike,” she whispered, as she quickly removed her silky shirt and lacy bra. She turned around and bent over her desk.
I raised her dark blue skirt around her hips to find that once again, she wasn’t wearing any panties. Just like last time. And the time before that. And the time before that.
I wasn’t surprised.
“Condom,” she whispered needlessly. I was already opening the package. She braced herself against the hard, wooden desk. “Make it good this time, big boy.”
After one quick glance at the door of her office to make sure it was locked, I wrapped her red curls around my fist and entered her swiftly, roughly, without any hint of friendliness.
No. This was all business.
But she liked it that way. Her body told me so as it wrapped around me, gripping onto me rhythmically as I thrust into her, my cock betraying me even further as my flesh easily forgot who she was.
It didn’t matter.
As usual, it was a warm body, and in situations like this, my cock seemed to possess a life of its own, inhabiting my body completely with its need for something it never seemed to find.
I was just the idiot trapped in the car as it barreled out of control.
I pulled her hair hard as I thrust into her, harder and faster, the force pushing her violently up against the desk, her breasts smashing into the glass top and leaving imprints of her nipples on it. She bit her hand, suppressing a scream as I pounded into her relentlessly.
Her cheeks flushed as red as her hair, and I knew she was close. I picked up the pace, hammering into her as fast as I could and as soon as I felt the first spasms of her pussy, and her wetness seeping around my shaft, I slammed into her with one, last hard thrust, my cock exploding inside of her.
Quickly, I pulled out, and the shame and disgust flooded over my heart while I pulled off the condom and put my cock back in my pants.
I reminded myself why I was doing this as she stood up and turned around. As she shimmied her skirt back over her curvy hips, she quickly reached up and tried to press her lips to mine.
“Kissing isn’t part of the deal,” I grumbled, turning my head away to avoid her lips, throwing the used condom in her trash can.
“Oh, fucking relax, Mike,” she said. “It’d be real good for you and the club if you were nicer to me, you know.”
“I do what I have to. Don’t fucking push it,” I snarled.
She stood in front of me, still topless, and staring up at me with her hair falling in messy curls around her face. Her beauty was striking, there was no denying that. If she had been anyone else, I would have taken her a second time. Her fingers traced my cut sensuously, and yet it did nothing but make me want to get away from her sooner.
“I gotta go.”
“Okay, okay…,” she turned, and sat back down at her desk as I headed for the door. “Give my love to Rosie, Mike.”
“Fuck you, Detective Jones,” I snarled, without turning around. I couldn’t look at her another second.
“Indeed,” she smirked.
I opened the door of her office to the sound of her soft laughter, and thundered out of the precinct as fast as my boots would take me.
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Have you ever had one of those days where you wake up and you know something important is going to happen? Something exciting, something unexpected, something unpredictable? Like when you get that feeling in your gut that signals anticipation so intense you can’t even begin to think about anything else?
But you have no idea what it is you’re supposed to be looking for, so you go around feeling lost and on edge, waiting for the other shoe to drop? And you spend the day just hoping it lands on the pavement in front of you? That you have time to side-step it somehow, instead of falling victim to its wrath when it finally shows its face?
That’s what this day was like.
I just never for a moment thought its face would turn out to belong to Mike Montgomery.
Mike Montgomery, little Rosie’s dad. Mike Montgomery, rough and tumble president of the Gypsy Riders Motorcycle Club. Mike Montgomery, a rugged package of deliciousness all rolled up into one mysterious, leather-clad man.
Rosie was seven years old and my student at George Peabody Elementary School. And her dad, Mike, or Big Mike - as Rosie told me he was called as we sat on the curb that first day of school waiting for him - was indeed the president of the Gypsy Riders.
Rosie’s mom had died during childbirth, and Mike had raised her on his own. These important facts I had been told by the principal of the school on my first day at my new job. It was a week before classes were starting and Ms. Johnson was telling me various details about my new students.
The story she told me about Rosie was sadder than almost anything I had heard, and I decided right then and there that I was going to take Rosie under my wing before I even met her. My own mom died when I was a young girl, and I couldn’t help but feel protective toward Rosie.
“Mike Montgomery is a good man. He’s a good dad that’s been dealt a bad hand, but he’s always taken the best care of Rosie. For the last seven years, I get the impression he’s had to make some difficult choices, but he and Rosie have a good relationship. Maybe someday he’ll settle down and find another mom for Rosie, but ever since her mother, Rose, died, he’s been devoted entirely to Rosie. I’ve known him since he was a boy in this very school. He was in my class when I was a teacher here.” Ms. Johnson said. She had been at Peabody Elementary for over thirty years. She had neglected to tell me Rosie’s dad was a biker, but Rosie was quick to tell me that herself. She seemed proud of her dad and his club, and she talked about him all day.
Today was the first day of school, and when I finally met Rosie that morning, it was clear she would be a pleasure to have in class. She was smart as a whip and sweet as candy, with a small side of sass. She told me all about her dad’s club, and her friends named Reaper, Demon and Sandman. I was tempted to disregard her stories as figments of a child’s imagination, but as her stories grew richer, I couldn’t help but believe her.
By the end of the day, I had forgotten all about that feeling I had woken up with. I had spent the school day trying to put faces to names and wrangle the kids that needed wrangling and doing my best to draw out the shy kids at the same time.
Being a second grade teacher was best described as a juggling act, and yet as daunting as it could be, I was excited to be there.
I was excited to start a new school year, with a new set of kids, at a new school, in a new town. I was excited to start a new life.
My old life was over and I was doing my best to bury it as deep as I could in the farthest reaches of my mind, and yet all the while staying prepared for the worst possible scenario.
So, when the day ended and all my students had been picked up except Rosie, I wasn’t thinking about my morning premonition. I wasn’t thinking that the next few minutes had the possibility to change my life. I never imagined that everything I had planned, all my dreams, all my desires, every aspect of my brand new, well-thought out, organized life could change in an instant.
But it did. And once I realized what was happening, it was so far in motion there was no stopping it.
S o, those first moments? Those moments I first stared into Mike Montgomery’s chocolate brown eyes? I had no idea what was happening.
I had no idea those eyes would put a spell on me so intense that with just one gaze, I would lose complete control of myself.
That’s why, after thirty minutes of sitting and talking with Rosie, when he finally roared up on his bike - a tornado of leather, long black hair, tattooed muscles and grit - I felt no trepidation.
I felt a whole lot of other things, though. In fact, I felt as if I was slammed with every emotion under the sun when he took off his helmet and sauntered across the parking lot to where we sat.
Rosie ran down the sidewalk to greet him, and when I watched him pick her up and spin her around, my breath caught in my chest.
I never expected him to look like that, to be that strong, to be that fit, to be that fucking handsome. When Rosie said he was a biker, I had imagined the complete opposite.
I expected nothing like this masterpiece of a man that easily lifted Rosie to his shoulders and walked over to me. I stood up and when his eyes met mine, something clicked into place deep inside of me.
“You must be Rosie’s new teacher,” he said, extending the biggest hand I had ever seen. Numbly, I shook it, his warmth enveloping me and shaking my hand rigorously.
“Yes. I’m Ms. Sinclair. Daisy Sinclair.” I pulled away as quickly as I could, but as hard as I tried, I couldn’t tear my eyes from his.
“Nice to meet you, Daisy. I mean, um…Ms. Sinclair. I’m so sorry I’m late. I was held up and I got here as fast as I could. Thank you so much for keeping an eye on Rosie like that,” he said. His smile spread across his face, and I wondered to myself how many women fell to their knees under the charm of that smile each week.
Gently, he removed a wiggling Rosie from his shoulders.
“Go put your helmet on, Rosie, I’ll be right there,” he said. Rosie turned and gave me a quick hug before she ran to the shiny, black Harley.
“I’m Mike, by the way. Mike Montgomery,” he said, his smile still charming me.
“Yes, Big Mike, right?” He raised his dark eyebrows and cocked his head to the side. “Rosie told me.”
“Oh, of course. Yes, but you can call me Mike,” he said, winking at me. He reached behind him and pulled his wallet from his back pocket. He pulled out a huge wad of cash, and pushed it towards me.
“Is this enough for your trouble?” he asked.
“What? Oh, no…gosh, no. No payment necessary, really. It was my pleasure and it gave me a chance to get to know Rosie a little.” I was still smiling up at him, inhaling his leathery scent, drinking in the pure masculinity of this man and that’s the moment the world seemed to fall away completely.
Sure, I knew where I was. I could see Rosie watching us from his bike behind him. There was even a bee buzzing around us. I was aware of these things, but anything in the world that existed outside of that parking lot? As far as I was concerned, that was all in another dimension, and had no impact on this moment - this monumental moment that I would never forget in my entire lifetime - and everything fell away into insignificant oblivion.
God, it was pure bliss.
“You’re sure?” he asked.
“Absolutely, Mike,” I replied quietly.
It was then, as he stopped talking, as he did nothing but stare at me silently and smile, that I remembered my prediction for the day. It whispered in the back of my mind - this is it! - the seed of something important, and yet, even then I still didn’t completely put it together.
Mike’s wad of cash disappeared back in his wallet, and I felt a flush come over me as I watched his gaze fall to my feet, and then trail up my body slowly. When his eyes met mine again, his brown eyes darkened with unmistakable desire, and I felt all the air leave my lungs.
My heart pounded loudly as I struggled to breathe again and my brain searched desperately for something to say. The silence screamed - an excruciatingly delicious, wordless conversation that passed between us.
“You seem nice,” he said finally, after what seemed like hours. Such a simple statement, and yet I knew he meant something entirely different than ‘nice’.
“Nice? I…,” I wanted desperately to say something witty, something cute, something smart, but my brain was racing with inappropriate thoughts. “Sure,” I finally squeaked out. Sure? Really? I couldn’t very well tell him that he was the hottest thing I had seen in Los Angeles and that I wished it was me about to climb on the back of his bike, could I?
“That’s good,” he said, his perfect lips sliding against his white teeth. “I can tell Rosie likes you.
I swear if he didn’t stop smiling at me like that, then I was going to melt right there on the sidewalk. The school janitor would hate me, and I would forever be known as the scary teacher that melted on the sidewalk on the first day of school. The kids would tell tall tales while embellishing the truth wildly, and claim I haunted the hallways on cold, winter nights. What a legacy I would leave behind. All because of Mike Montgomery’s smoldering smile.
“I like Rosie, too,” I replied, overtaken by an urgent need to be alone and screaming into my pillow.
“Good,” he whispered in my ear. He leaned in so close I could smell the heat coming off the leather vest he was wearing. “I look forward to getting to know you, Daisy.”
He winked again, then turned without waiting for a response. As he walked back to his bike, my eyes memorized every inch of him. From his black leather boots to the tight Levi’s that wrapped around his muscular ass, all the way past his broad shoulders and his long, black hair that trailed in the wind behind him - I committed every detail to memory. I didn’t even struggle to look away. I drank him in like I had never seen a real man before.
And a man like Mike Montgomery? A man that oozed masculinity like that? I don’t think I ever had seen a man like him before, not before that moment, that one life-changing moment outside of George Peabody Elementary School. Hell, if I had previously met a man like that, I’d have already done my damnedest to have him tied to my bed.
But Mike Montgomery? Well, he wasn’t the type of man you tied up. He was strong. He was all man. And he was sexy as fuck.
He was almost sexier walking away from me than he was walking towards me.
I watched them drive off in a roar, Rosie’s arms wrapped tightly around her father. It was then that that feeling I had in the morning came back with a vengeance.
I didn’t know how, but I knew Mike Montgomery was going to be a force to be reckoned with in my life.
And no matter how he made me feel when he bore those chocolate brown eyes into mine, no matter how lonely I was in this new town, no matter how desperately I wanted to feel those big, rugged hands sliding over my skin — the last thing I needed in my life was a man.
Especially a man like Mike Montgomery.
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“Rosie, do you have any homework tonight?” I asked Rosie as soon as we returned to the clubhouse and took off our helmets.
“I have a few math worksheets. Ms. Daisy said she didn’t want to give us too much on the first day of school,” she replied, in her sweet voice that I adored so much.
“Ms. Daisy? I thought her name was Ms. Sinclair?”
“She said we could call her Ms. Daisy. I don’t know,” she replied, as she slipped her tiny hand in mine as we walked into the clubhouse. “I guess you can call her whatever you want!”
I can think of quite a few things to call her, I thought to myself. Pretty. Sexy. Blonde. Hot as hell.
“Well, hello, Rosie! How was the first day of school, darlin’?” A deep voice bellowed from the corner of the room as we walked in, our eyes adjusting to the stark darkness.
Rosie let go of my hand, ran right to the corner and jumped up into Reaper’s lap. As soon as she landed, our five year-old bulldog, lil’ Mike, scrambled on top of both of them. Rosie squealed, hugged him, and then scratched his floppy ears as she talked to Reaper.
“It was awesome, Reaper! My teacher is super nice and she’s really pretty, too,” she said to the enormous man who was smiling a crooked smile at her and listening to her intently.
