CODY: Southside Skulls Motorcycle Club (Southside Skulls MC Romance Book 2)

by Jessie Cooke

  “Alright, I’ll let you know after I have a chance to talk to Liam. Where are you and Jimmy?”

  That caught Cody off guard. Dax hadn’t talked to him about Jimmy or Macy at all since the accident. “Um…I guess the same place we were before.”

  “Macy’s staying with Tank. Are the two of you…?”

  “No. I didn’t even know she was staying with Tank until a little bit ago when I saw them in the kitchen. If you want my honest answer, I’d like for the two of us to end up somewhere. But don’t worry, I’m not going to get you or the club involved in my romance problems.”

  “That’s good. I know that you’re still figuring things out, but Jimmy’s been valuable to me in a lot of ways. I’m ready to patch him soon. He doesn’t even know that, but I felt like I should tell you.”

  Cody felt a pang of envy. He always thought he’d be the first to patch into the club, growing up. “Thanks for letting me know. I guess now is as good a time as any to ask you about being a prospect.”

  “That’s what you decided you want to do?”

  “It’s what I’ve always wanted to do, Dax. This club and being a part of it is what I’ve wanted for as long as I can remember.”

  “I guess I was hoping you may have changed your mind about that.”

  Tool cleared his throat and mumbled something about getting a drink. Once he was gone Cody said, “Why? Do you not think I can handle it?”

  “It’s not that. Cody, I watched you grow up. For a while, I was your guardian. I always felt like your other older brother. This club is in my blood and when Doc died I didn’t have much of a choice. I had to take it over, or watch it fall apart. But I guess I’ve always wanted more for you than worrying about walking that line between business and the law. I don’t want to live to see you in prison again, or worse.”

  “So are you telling me you won’t let me be a prospect?”

  “No. I’m telling you my thoughts about it. The decision has to come from you. It’s your life, not mine. Just know if you’re a prospect for my club I’ll expect the same things from you that I do all the other prospects. No free rides.”

  Cody laughed. “I thought you were going to say you’d expect more.”

  Dax smiled. “We’ll see,” he said.

  17

  Macy thought about Cody all day. She went into work at ten and worked until two, wrestling dogs and cats and even one iguana all day, but even with all the distractions, Cody sat there in the forefront of her mind.

  Once she was home and in the shower her thoughts turned from the things they talked about to the memories of their first time together up on the hill. It was her sixteenth birthday. Cody had wanted to “go all the way” a lot sooner than that, but she’d held back. She had always been afraid of becoming her mother, and she had it in her head that the longer she waited to have sex, the less possibility there was of that happening. She remembered that day like it was yesterday and now as she stood under the warm spray, she closed her eyes and called it up.

  Her birthday was in April, so the snow had melted and it was warm out. They’d gotten a lot of rain that year so everything was green and in full bloom. The sun was out that day, and Cody had told her he wanted to take her on a picnic to his favorite spot. It was a place that he and Keller used to go to escape when their father was on a rampage. They’d stay up there sometimes for days, waiting for him to calm down and forget about whatever it was, in hopes that they wouldn’t get beaten. Cody started sharing the spot with her when he came to live on the ranch, and it became their favorite place.

  He had a dirt bike back in those days. Keller told him he’d help him buy his first bike when he got his license. He had an appointment to take the test, but for the time being, he was still traveling on the off-road motorcycle. He came by her house and picked her up with the saddlebags of the bike stuffed full. They drove up to their spot and Cody surprised her by spreading out a blanket and then unloading enough food for an army. He’d brought sourdough bread, salami, two different kinds of cheese, olives, fruit, pickles, chips, and chocolate cake.

  “Where did you get all of this?” she’d asked him. Cody smiled and said:

  “I had a helper in the kitchen.”

  “Dad?” Macy’s father had begun to mellow in his old age and was suddenly taking a slight interest in her, but she was still surprised he’d take the time to help Cody with something like that.

  “Yep. I told him it was to celebrate your birthday and he…” Cody hesitated. Macy rolled her eyes.

  “He forgot it was my birthday and felt guilty?”

  “Yeah, something like that.”

  “Well, your part of the gesture is wonderful. Thank you, Cody. No one has ever done anything like this for me before.”

  “I’m going to get you a present,” he told her, “As soon as I get ahold of some cash.”

  “I don’t want a present.” Back in those days if Cody had cash, it meant he’d been up to something he wasn’t supposed to. She didn’t want him stealing to buy her a present. “This picnic is present enough.”

  They ate their food and drank a half a bottle of wine that he’d probably stolen somewhere, and then they lay back on the blanket and took a nap together in the sun. By the time they woke up, the sun was going down and the moon was already high in the sky. “Wow, that was the best nap I’ve ever had,” Cody said with a smile.

  “Me too. Just think, in a couple of years we can get our own place and we can take naps like that together whenever we want.”

  “Yeah. I’ll bet Dax will give us a house here on the ranch.”

  “Do you really want to stay here?” she asked him as she watched the stars begin to appear as the sky darkened overhead.

  “Of course. I’ve always wanted to be a part of the club. You know that. I want to be president someday.”

  “I know. I guess I was just hoping things might change when we’re older. You know, if we ever want to get married and have kids…”

  He rolled over on his side so he was facing her. “I want to marry you, Macy, and I want to have kids with you. But why couldn’t we do all of that here? Lots of the guys have wives and kids. I’d be faithful to you, if that’s what you’re worried about.”

  Even though Macy had made Cody wait, she’d never been given any reason to believe he’d been with anyone else. She trusted him explicitly. “It’s not that. I guess what I worry about is raising kids that have to see the things we’ve seen. This place is adults first, kids second, Cody. You know that as well as I do.”

  “Yeah, I guess. But, it doesn’t have to be that way. Look, you’re not your mom and I’m not my dad. We’re not going to mess our kids up. This is a beautiful place, and they’ll have acres to roam and play while they’re growing up. We’ll never have to worry about money to pay rent or a mortgage because as long as I work for Dax, he won’t charge us anything. They’ll have a good life here, Macy.” He lifted his hand and touched the side of her face. Back then all it took was a simple touch from him and everything inside of her melted. “I promise you, we’ll all have a good life.” That night before they made love and after, he’d made her another promise…that he’d never, ever leave her alone. He’d broken that promise and she’d messed up their chances for ever having kids. Jimmy wasn’t going anywhere, and as long as they lived on the ranch it was going to be uncomfortable running into him at every turn. But none of that stopped her from wanting him.

  When she got out of the shower she dressed in a pair of black yoga pants and a white tank top. She slipped her running shoes on and jogged over to the clubhouse. It was early yet, not even nine o’clock, but Cody was nowhere to be found. She thought about just going to his room and knocking on the door, but she was so afraid one of the club girls, Lucy in particular, would open it up. She was about to leave when she saw Jimmy. He was sitting at the end of the bar with a pair of crutches propped up next to him. He looked pretty good for a guy that had just totaled his bike the week before. She wasn’t sure i
f he wanted her to acknowledge him or not, but as she started to walk by, he made eye contact with her. She felt obligated to stop then.

  “How are you? How’s the arm and leg?” she asked. He picked up his drink in his left hand. She could see that the right hand’s fingers coming out of the cast were red and swollen.

  “Good.”

  “Are you getting all the help you need?”

  “And then some. Thanks for checking in, Macy, but I’m fine.”

  “Oh…well, I just thought, I mean, I thought that we were friends.”

  His brown eyes rested on her face for a long time before he finally said, “We never really were friends, Mace. You were Cody’s friend and once he was gone you became my lover. We can’t go back to that, so honestly, I don’t think we have anything to go back to. You can stop trying. I know it’s only because you feel guilty.”

  “Don’t say that, Jimmy. I care about you. I really do.”

  “Then leave me alone, Macy, okay?”

  Wow. She was shocked at the tone he was using with her, but the words hurt even more. “Okay. I’m sorry.”

  “Yeah,” he said, downing the drink in his hand. “Me too.” He got up then and used his crutches to move away from her as quickly as he could. He made it as far as the pool tables. Macy watched him for a few minutes as he flirted with the waitress and two of the bartenders. Then instead of heading for the front door as she’d intended, she went over to the stairs. She took them two at a time. She missed Cody and all she wanted at that moment was to bury her face in his hard chest and let him hold her.

  She was able to slip up the stairs without anyone seeing her…at least obviously. When she made it to his room, she almost changed her mind. She raised her hand to knock and before her knuckles even hit the door, it was pulled open. “Hi—ESP?” she asked with a smile.

  “Yep. No. I was going down to get a beer.”

  “Oh…okay, well, don’t let me keep you.”

  “Did you need something?” Macy tried to think of an excuse, but when she opened her mouth the plain truth came out:

  “Just you.” She didn’t wait for his response then either. She launched herself at him and covered his mouth with hers. Cody stumbled back slightly, but put one of his feet out to kick the bedroom door closed. Then he lifted her up off her feet and held her as they continued the kiss. When he finally had to take a breath, he sat her down and looked down at her flushed face and said, “What’s going on?”

  “I can’t stop thinking about you,” she said, breathlessly. “I can’t stop thinking about us, and all the promises we made to each other. I was holding back because of Jimmy and the loyalty I felt toward him…but Jimmy’s out of my life. I want you, Cody…if you still want me.”

  He smiled at her and moved a lock of hair out of her face. He lowered his down so that his lips hovered right above hers and snaked one arm around her waist and pulled her back up against him, tightly. His hard body felt so good pressed up against hers, and the feel of his warm breath against her lips was sending little shock waves through her body. She pushed up on her toes and pressed her lips back into his, and he picked her up and carried her over to the bed as they kissed. He dropped her down on it and without a word, he began stripping off his clothes. Macy didn’t need him to say the words to know he still wanted her. She took his cue and started getting undressed herself.

  When he was naked, he leaned down over her and kissed her again. He wasn’t going softly, or tentatively. His kiss was demanding and passionate, and she kissed him back with the same vigor. He pushed her back further to the center of the bed and climbed up over her. That night at the bar had been quick, to satisfy a need. She looked up into his hazel eyes as he pulled out of the kiss and she could see that today he intended to take his time. She could feel his erection growing against her as he pressed his body into hers. He didn’t put his weight into her, but he let their skin rub together, the hard against the soft. Her nipples puckered and hardened against his chest and he moved the kiss from her lips to the soft, sensitive skin of her neck. He kissed it softly first, and then he pulled a piece of it in between his lips and sucked on it, and then he began to bite her, softly. The way he took little nibbles across the front of her throat was erotic and it made her tingle all over.

  He let one of his hands work its way up her side until it was covering a breast and then as he sucked on her neck, he massaged and tweaked and pinched and pulled while she writhed underneath him and moaned. At one point, she breathed out his name into his ear and felt him shiver and heard him groan. She loved that he wanted her so badly. She made up her mind at that moment that they were meant to be together just like she’d always known they were…and she wasn’t going to feel guilty about that any longer.

  18

  Cody wasn’t sure what had brought on the about-face with Macy, but he had her naked body in his bed, so he wasn’t going to question it now. He sucked along her neck and down across her collarbones. She was arching her back with each tweak of her nipples, and he remembered how much she loved to have them sucked when they were younger. It was one of the things she let him do before they ever went all the way and he used to love to do it. Of course he’d spent many hours over the years with a calloused hand, thanks to all the jerking off he had to do afterwards.

  He brought his mouth down to her chest and for a second let it hover there over her nipples while he looked at them. God, they were beautiful. She was beautiful. She was perfect and she made him not want to be with anyone else but her. He let his tongue trace the outline of one of her large, dark areolas and delighted in the sounds that she made. Then he sucked the nipple in slowly between his lips and sucked it gently, rolling it around on his tongue. He didn’t have much hair for her to hold onto any longer, like he did when they were kids. But now she grabbed the back of his head and pressed him into her. She was urging him to go harder, suck faster, take more, without saying a word…and he obliged. He began to suck hard on one while using his hand to pleasure the other. He used the sides of his teeth to scrape her nipple, which caused her to cry out, and then he’d bite down gently, which caused her to make a noise that he didn’t recognize, but he decided it was his new, favorite sound.

  The more she squirmed as he licked and sucked, the harder his cock grew and the more it throbbed. He rubbed it into her leg as he continued to drive her crazy, sucking and licking her chest. She brought her thigh up off the bed and rubbed it back into his cock and he groaned around her flesh. It felt so fucking good that it was almost painful. He wasn’t sure if that made sense, but he’d never be able to put it into words anyways. He finally slid the hand that was on one of her breasts down slowly across her abdomen until it reached her mound. She squirmed harder underneath him, trying to catch his fingers in her wet slit as he played along the inner parts of her thighs, teasing her. Finally, he slid one finger slowly from the tip of her swollen clit all the way down to her ass. She was soaking wet and when he pressed back into her clit, he could feel it throb. He suddenly had to taste her.

  Cody slithered down the rest of Macy’s body like a snake until he reached the top of her mound. Her hands were already on the back of his head, urging him on, and her ass was arched up off the bed. He began by licking the sweet and salty juices off her inner thighs as she whimpered and moaned, and then without warning he shoved his tongue in between her lips, probed into the tight walls of her slick pussy and then slid it up until he reached her clit and sucked that into his mouth. She was panting and mumbling incoherent things as he went to town then, sucking his first pussy ever, the way he’d seen it done a thousand times in the porn magazines and on the videos he’d watched. She tasted as good as he always knew she would, and judging by her reaction to the way he sucked and nibbled on her clit, she was enjoying it. He continued to pleasure her swollen nub while using one hand to slide a finger into her hole. She brought her hips up all the way off the bed as he moved his hand so that the finger slid in and out of her. She met each thrust of
his fist with her hips, and after a few seconds he slipped in a second finger and she cried out his name as he began to finger-fuck her faster and harder. It didn’t take her long until she was in the throes of a full-blown, over-the-top, screaming-probably-too-loud orgasm. Cody kept moving his hand and licking her clit until her body went limp and her legs began to shake.

  He pulled his fingers out of her then and moved back up to her face. She reached up with her hands and pulled his face down to her and began to lick and suck her own juices off his face and lips. Breathlessly she said, “I taste good on you.”

  He grinned. “Hell yeah, you do.”

  She slid her hand down his body then and grabbed his throbbing cock in her hand. She wrapped a fist around it and began to stroke. Cody groaned. “Oh, baby, you can’t do that unless you want me to shoot all over our bellies in like five seconds.” She gave it a few more, lighter strokes before bringing the tip of it to her wet pussy lips and letting it slide up and down against them. They were both moaning as she pressed it against her opening and Cody pushed just the head of it up into her. She let go of him then and brought both of her hands up around behind him. Grabbing a handful of each one of his hard butt cheeks, she brought her hips up and pushed. Cody plunged forward and suddenly his cock was buried as deeply up inside of that tight, wet pussy as it could get. For a long time, he just held it there, moving his hips slowly in tight circles and just enjoying the way she felt like she was made to fit him. It was when she slid her fingers along the crack of his ass and down to his ball sac that he couldn’t stay still any longer. She was using them to massage his balls from behind. It was a fucking incredible feeling, and he thought he might implode from the inside out if she kept that up. He pushed up onto his hands and he began to fuck her then. He pushed into her hard each time and pulled out nearly all the way…and then did it again. He reached underneath her and used his hand to hold her hips up off the bed while he fucked her, helping her come in tighter each time so that their hips slapped together. She was clawing at his back and sucking on his neck when she finally cried out that she was coming again. Her sexy, supple body went rigid in his arms and she wrapped her legs tightly around him and used them as leverage to lift herself up and down as she rocked into him and came for the second time. Cody was gentle with her until she was finished again and then as soon as she came down from her high, he flipped her over onto her stomach and entered her from behind. She pressed her face into the pillow, arched her back, and pointed that delicious ass at the ceiling and Cody fucked her, hard. It was the most incredible experience of his life and if he lived to be a hundred he’d never forget it. This would be their new first time, and he could only imagine how much better it was going to get from there.