Ashes

It was just my rotten luck. I found a woman who intrigued me more than any I had ever had, and not one but two of my brothers, my best friends, no less, were interested in her, too. Christ, what the hell were the odds of that? I wanted Dragon and Vicious to back off, but short of going into details on how she was affecting me, which I wasn't ready to do, I had no choice but to accept the one-week pact.

After leaving V's trailer, I said goodnight to Dragon and then went to mine. I saw him enter his place. Ours were all in a line in the first row of trailers that faced the back of the clubhouse. Mine was on the end, followed by V's, then Dragon's, and then two empty ones. On the backside was a second row of five.

I sat with my soda and thought over my reactions in the hours since laying eyes on her. God Almighty, when I saw her following Daredevil, I felt like I'd swallowed my tongue. She was stunning. She was sexy and beautiful from head to toe. I wanted to strip her bare and feast on her. It wasn't the best way to feel when your brother was coming toward you. I had to fight to hide my erection.

When our hands touched, and this awareness or something raced through me, I was even more mesmerized by her. Noting the way Dragon had acted, it was all I could do not to punch him right there. The warning looks and growls from Daredevil hadn't been enough to scare me away. I wasn't sure if anything was capable of doing that. Back at the clubhouse, I'd been so caught up in watching her meet everyone that I never gave Vicious a second thought. It was a mistake. If Dragon and I, along with that shit, Cullen, found her attractive, then why not Vicious and Colton? Speaking of the other prospect, if he was interested, he was better at hiding it than we were. Colton had been friendly but not overly. He'd better keep his distance. I had no compunction ordering two prospects to back the fuck off.

Seeing how V reacted to her had made me bristle, which was why when the Torres family left, and he went to his trailer, by unspoken agreement, Dragon and I followed him. The deal we came to wasn't what I wanted, but they had a point. All of us thought she had the potential to be so much more than a good time, and we all deserved to find out. It was the adult thing to do, but the caveman in me wanted to grab her and just say she was mine, then tie her to the bed until she saw it from my perspective.

I wasn't conceited, thinking most women wouldn't say no to being with me. It was a fact. I wasn't ugly, and then you add a fit body, the fact I was a biker, and the fascination factor women seemed to have with all of that, and it was pretty much a given. My only concern wasn't if she found me attractive. I knew she did. But was it more than physical desire? Unfortunately, my competition wasn't ugly bastards, either.

As I thought about it all, a wayward thought came to mind. What would we do if two or all three of us concluded we wanted to pursue a real relationship with her? How would it work? She'd have the final say, of course, but how would it leave the relationship between the brothers? Losing out with the prior old ladies wasn't a big deal because it was plain that the men they ended up with were the right ones. No broken hearts or hurt feelings there. But what if that wasn't always the case? Shit, I couldn't think about that right now. Only put positive juju out there, Ashes , I lectured myself. Sinking back on the couch, I closed my eyes and imagined the following week was done, and I was the one for her.